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Lenny's PodcastPodcastWhy Anthropic's Ben Mann Thinks the Exponential Hasn't Slowed, and Why He Still Worries About SafetyHost Lenny RachitskyThe Anthropic co-founder on the AI talent war, scaling laws, the economic Turing test, jobs, leaving OpenAI, constitutional AI and how he forecasts the risk of superintelligence.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersContracts, Not Chips, Are the Collateral: How the AI Compute Buildout Gets FinancedHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilMagnetar's Neil Tiwari explains the debt structures behind GPU clouds, why power and steel now limit the buildout, and why he thinks the selloff in software is overdone.
1:24:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDistraction Is an Emotion Problem, Not a Technology Problem: Nir Eyal's Playbook for Becoming IndistractableGuest Nir Eyal · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Hooked and Indistractable explains why most distraction starts within us, and walks through a dozen tactics for focus, scheduling, pacts and workplace culture.
1:47:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStrategy Is Not a Gift: A Five-Phase Playbook You Can Run in 8–12 WeeksGuest Chandra Janakiraman · Host Lenny RachitskyChandra Janakiraman, CPO of VRChat, walks through an operator's recipe for building product strategy, from leadership interviews to a three-pillar rollout, plus a longer "big S" process for aspirational futures.
1:24:01ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Sandwich Math to Expert Data: Scale AI's CEO on What Actually Makes Models SmarterHost Lenny RachitskyJason Droege explains what really happened with Meta's investment in Scale AI, how data labeling turned into expert work, and what Uber Eats taught him about building businesses.
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Lex FridmanPodcastAlphaFold 2 and the Protein-Folding Breakthrough: Why Lex Fridman Calls It a Landmark for AI and BiologyHost Lex FridmanA quick explainer on DeepMind's CASP14 result, how protein folding works, how AlphaFold 1 and 2 likely differ, and what the advance could unlock.
1:18:05ENLenny's PodcastPodcastAllow the Fear: J.M. Nickels on Conscious Leadership, Strategy, and Choosing Your Life's Objective FunctionHost Lenny RachitskyA product leader who built Uber Pool and led commercialization at Waymo explains how inner work, first-principles futures, and an explicit life objective function make better leaders and better products.
53:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersA Roadmap Is a Prototype of Your Strategy: Janna Bastow on Now, Next, LaterGuest Janna Bastow · Host Lenny RachitskyThe inventor of the Now/Next/Later roadmap explains why timelines mislead, how to launch without fixed dates, and what she learned from building Mind the Product and ProdPad.
26:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcastGet to the Punchline: How Figma's Slides Team Won Trust Instead of Just a Green LightHost Lenny RachitskyFigma's Mika and Yuki explain why the standard PM playbook for product reviews backfires — and the tactics they used instead to get Figma Slides built, funded and launched.
1:28:28ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFish Where the Fish Are: Andrew Wilkinson on Boring Businesses, AI Agents and Why Money Didn't Make Him HappyGuest Andrew Wilkinson · Host Lenny RachitskyThe co-founder of Tiny, the "Berkshire Hathaway of the internet", explains how to pick a startup idea, how he runs his life on AI agents, and what actually changed his happiness.
42:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Product Discipline Behind a Driverless RideHost Lenny RachitskyShweta Shrivastava of Waymo explains how autonomous-driving products earn trust, measure safety, and sustain long-term investment.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastVirtual Biopsies in One Second: How a Seven-Year-Old CycleGAN Is Beating Newer Models in the ClinicHost Nathan LabenzTanishq Mathew Abraham explains how deep learning turns label-free 3D tissue images into virtual H&E stains fast enough to guide tumor surgery.
1:17:46ENLenny's PodcastPodcastShopify’s Anti-Playbook: Optimize for Churn, Hold Experiments for Years, and Ban KPIsHost Lenny RachitskyArchie Abrams explains how Shopify grows by lowering barriers, measuring cohort GMV, running multi-year holdouts, and letting a 100-year vision guide core product.
1:44:26ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFind the Must-Have Users First: Sean Ellis on Product-Market Fit and Sustainable GrowthGuest Sean Ellis · Host Lenny RachitskyThe creator of the Sean Ellis test and the ICE framework explains how to measure product-market fit, learn from the users who love you, and then grow in the right order.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastOscar Health's AI Playbook: Translate the Bureaucracy First, Then Reinvent CareHost Jacob EffronMario, Oscar Health's CTO and co-founder, explains how a regulated insurer deploys LLMs today and what stands between healthcare and AI doctors.
23:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWrite Your Last Roadmap: Claire Vo on Building When Code Is CheapHost Lenny RachitskyIn a talk at the Lenny and Friends Summit, Claire Vo argues that cheap AI execution has made feature roadmaps dangerous and that teams should plan around convictions and evidence instead.
1:26:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCare Personally, Challenge Directly: Kim Scott on Making Feedback a Team SuperpowerGuest Kim Scott · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Radical Candor explains the framework, the mistakes most managers make, and a step-by-step routine for asking for, giving and rewarding feedback.
12:16ENLex FridmanPodcastRule 30 and Richard Feynman: Stephen Wolfram on Intuition Versus Computational ExperimentHost Lex FridmanWolfram recalls working with Feynman at Thinking Machines, why Feynman hid his calculations, and how building a computer language changed his approach to science.
45:16ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSeth Godin on Taste, Tension, and the Four Choices That Shape StrategyHost Lenny RachitskySeth Godin explains how product leaders can build taste, make and keep a brand promise, choose the right customers and distribution, and design remarkable products that spread.
1:12:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersOne Wish From a Genie: A Stanford Professor's Method for Getting Off AutopilotGuest Graham Weaver · Host Lenny RachitskyGraham Weaver, a Stanford GSB lecturer and founder of Alpine Investors, shares practical exercises for working out what you actually want to do with your life and staying with it long enough to succeed.
1:31:26ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersMake Individual Contributors Love You First: Inside Figma's Bottom-Up Growth PlaybookGuest Claire Butler · Host Lenny RachitskyClaire Butler, Figma's 10th employee and first marketer, explains the two-step go-to-market motion behind Figma's growth: win over individual contributors, then help them spread the product through their companies.
20:45ENLenny's PodcastPodcast17 Interview Questions That Reveal How Candidates ThinkHost Lenny RachitskyLenny distills favorite interview questions from more than 100 podcast guests into a practical guide for hiring and being hired.
23:54ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersBeyond GPT-7: The Customization Toolkit, Meta's Open Source Bet and the Return of Consumer AIHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn a host-only episode, the No Priors hosts map the six levers for 10x to 100x better AI, explain fine-tuning, RAG and AI feedback, and ask why consumer social is suddenly interesting again.
1:41:33ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTwo Days to a Founding Hypothesis: Inside the Foundation SprintHost Lenny RachitskyDesign Sprint creators Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky walk through a scripted 10-hour process that pins down customer, differentiation and approach before a startup builds anything.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,491