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Lenny's PodcastPodcastRust-Proofing a Company: Eric Ries on Why Success Corrupts and Governance ProtectsHost Lenny RachitskyThe author of The Lean Startup explains why good companies go bad, and the charters, trusts and habits that keep a mission intact.
1:07:20ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersRiding the Lightning: What Hypergrowth Companies Share, According to Atlassian's Former Marketing ChiefGuest Carilu Dietrich · Host Lenny RachitskyCarilu Dietrich draws on her years at Atlassian and her advisory work with fast-growing B2B companies to explain how to build a career, a brand and a growth engine.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersThe Agent State: How AI Flattened the Adversary Pyramid and Why Defenders Need Their Own Frontier ModelsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz explains how low-skill attackers now wield nation-state tradecraft through AI agents, and how CrowdStrike and Nvidia are training security-specific models to fight back.
1:22:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersRadical Self-Inquiry: Jerry Colonna on Growing Up Without Feeling Like CrapGuest Jerry Colonna · Host Lenny RachitskyExecutive coach Jerry Colonna explains why leadership and resilience come from honest inner work, not just practical skills, and how unexamined childhood patterns quietly shape our teams and companies.
1:25:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShip Weekly, Cut Scope, and Keep a Secret Roadmap: How Captions Builds in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyGaurav Misra explains how a modern AI startup turns constant model progress into weekly shipped products, technical debt as leverage, and talking-video tools for non-professionals.
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Lex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersMining the Computational Universe: Stephen Wolfram on What AI Can and Can't Be Told to DoGuest Stephen Wolfram · Host Lex FridmanIn a talk for MIT's AGI course, Stephen Wolfram connects Wolfram Alpha, simple programs, computational irreducibility and the problem of telling machines what humans want.
1:09:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWhen Anyone Can Build Anything, Taste Becomes the Product JobHost Lenny RachitskyCodex desktop lead Andrew Ambrosino on how AI has inverted product development, why roles are blurring but shouldn't vanish, and where Codex and ChatGPT are headed.
1:19:21ENLex FridmanPodcastVapnik's Case for Learning by Predicates, Not Just by More DataHost Lex FridmanIn an MIT lecture, Vladimir Vapnik argues that complete statistical learning needs two mechanisms, data and invariants, and that choosing smart predicates is where intelligence lives.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastWhen the Model Learns to Look Around: Apollo Research on Testing o1 for SchemingHost Nathan LabenzApollo Research founder Marius Hobbhahn explains how his team probed OpenAI's o1 for deception, what it found, and why the trajectory worries him more than the model itself.
1:36:17ENLenny'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.
1:03:25ENLex 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.
31:46ENNo 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,492