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Lenny's PodcastPodcastUnderstaff on Purpose, Never Be Chill: Matt MacInnis on Leading Rippling Through EntropyHost Lenny RachitskyRippling's chief product officer and longtime COO explains why extraordinary outcomes demand extraordinary effort, and the frameworks he uses to hire, set process and keep intensity high.
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Lex FridmanPodcastTheano in an Hour: Symbolic Graphs, Automatic Gradients and a Compiler That Rewrites Your MathHost Lex FridmanPascal Lamblin of MILA walks through how Theano builds, differentiates, optimizes and runs computation graphs, then trains logistic regression, a convnet and an LSTM.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Rivian Threw Out Its First Self-Driving Stack and Built Its Own BrainHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilRivian founder RJ Scaringe explains the neural-net reset, in-house chips, software-defined architecture and the mass-market R2 bet.
10:24ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersConcepts: How C++ Finally Got Compile-Time Constraints on TemplatesGuest Bjarne Stroustrup · Host Lex FridmanBjarne Stroustrup explains what C++ concepts are, why they are real and shippable today, and why it took decades to get them right.
53:47ENLex FridmanPodcastLex Fridman Meets the Narrator: A Playthrough of The Stanley Parable as Existential CrisisHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman plays The Stanley Parable and riffs on free will, the simulation, reincarnation, mind control and mortality as the narrator rewrites his choices.
1:51:30ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersNever Search Alone: Why a Job Search Council Beats Going It SoloGuest Phyl Terry · Host Lenny RachitskyPhyl Terry explains how job seekers can borrow product-management methods and a small peer group to find work they actually want, even in a down market.
11:11ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersFilling the Empty Quadrants: Jim Gates on Supersymmetry and the Beauty of Broken SymmetryGuest Jim Gates · Host Lex FridmanTheoretical physicist Jim Gates explains supersymmetry with a four-slice pie, recalls how he chose it for his thesis in the 1970s, and connects it to the way physics moves from mathematics to experiment.
1:08:06ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersDeep Learning in One Lecture: From Perceptrons to AutoML and the Limits of LearningGuest Deep Learning Basics · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman's opening lecture for MIT's 6.S094 course surveys why deep learning took off, how neural networks learn, and where the technique still falls short.
1:08:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStorytelling, Customer Proximity and Community: How Figma's CPO Thinks About Building Great ProductGuest Yuhki Yamashita · Host Lenny RachitskyYuhki Yamashita on product storytelling, owning the why, staying close to customers, rethinking OKRs, hiring, and community-led growth at Figma.
1:11:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTwo Engines, One Price: Madhavan Ramanujam on Monetizing AI Products from Day OneHost Lenny RachitskyPricing expert Madhavan Ramanujam walks through the ideas in his book Scaling Innovation, from negotiation tactics and proof-of-concept design to a 2x2 for choosing an AI pricing model.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastFrom RAG to Reasoning: Why the Future of AI Is a System, Not a ModelHost Jacob EffronDouwe Kiela explains what OpenAI's o1 reveals about test-time compute, why enterprise AI must be specialized, and where post-training and evaluations are heading.
1:03:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBring the Insight: How a Young Product Leader Earns Trust at AsanaGuest Paige Costello · Host Lenny RachitskyAsana's Paige Costello on planning, the Double Diamond process, coaching PMs, and what holds new product managers back.
1:18:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCuriosity Loops: Ada Chen Rekhi's Method for Better Decisions and a Career You Won't RegretGuest Ada Chen Rekhi · Host Lenny RachitskyAn executive coach and Notejoy co-founder on structured advice-gathering, values exercises, explore-and-exploit careers, coaching and co-founding with a spouse.
50:23ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastOpenAI’s Platform Bet: Where AI Value Accrues, Why Open Source Trails, and When Superintelligence ArrivesHost Jacob EffronPeter Welinder explains OpenAI’s platform strategy, the case for proprietary frontier models over open source, the enterprise hallucination problem, and his speculative timeline for AGI and superintelligence.
1:21:17ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersScaling People: Claire Hughes Johnson on Building the Company Behind the ProductGuest Claire Hughes Johnson · Host Lenny RachitskyStripe's former COO explains why operating structure, self-awareness and plain-spoken management matter as much as product-market fit.
13:58ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep Reinforcement Learning, Explained by the Researcher Behind AlphaGoHost Lex FridmanDavid Silver of DeepMind walks through what reinforcement learning is, how its building blocks fit together, and why deep neural networks keep surprising even the experts.
1:21:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcastBehind the Wheel: How Uber's Product Chief Dogfoods His Way to Better ProductsHost Lenny RachitskySachin Kansal on extreme dogfooding, shipping fast, Uber's hybrid autonomy strategy and making gut calls against the data.
1:11:26ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersManage Your Career Like a Product: Deb Liu on Resilience, Introversion and Big SwingsGuest Deb Liu · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Facebook VP and current Ancestry CEO explains how to keep learning, bounce back from failure, build new businesses inside large companies, and plan a career with intention.
1:21:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Opposite of Play Is Fear: How Jira's Head of Product Builds Safe, Fast-Moving TeamsGuest Megan Cook · Host Lenny RachitskyMegan Cook of Atlassian on psychological safety, remote work habits, winning buy-in, and how a 12,000-person company keeps launching new products.
57:55ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Q-Tables to AlphaGo Zero: A Self-Driving Car Lecture on Deep Reinforcement LearningHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture walks from the AI pipeline and Q-learning to deep Q-networks, AlphaGo Zero and the DeepTraffic competition.
37:23ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Chat to Always-On Agents: OpenAI's Tibo Sottiaux on Dots, Open Ecosystems and What Comes NextHost Lenny RachitskyThe head of ChatGPT and Codex, speaking hours after a DevDay launch of more than 20 products, explains the vision for a personal agent that works around the clock.
1:35:27ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSacred Cows Are Your Roadmap: Kayvon Beykpour on Reviving Twitter's Product CultureGuest Kayvon Beykpour · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former head of product at Twitter on meeting Elon Musk, being fired during paternity leave, shipping through a risk-averse culture, and the lessons of Periscope.
1:00:25ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCan Machines Think? A Guided Tour of Turing's Test, Its Critics and Its SuccessorsGuest Turing Test · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman walks through Alan Turing's 1950 paper, the objections to it, and the benchmarks that have tried to replace or extend the imitation game.
51:55ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Search Engine Under AI Apps: Why Bigger Context Windows Aren't EnoughHost Jacob EffronTurbopuffer CEO Simon on object-storage databases, vector-search trade-offs, and the AI features that will become SaaS table stakes.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,494