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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersA Tutor for Every Child: Sal Khan on How AI Could Transform EducationHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilKhan Academy's founder traces his path from tutoring his cousins to building Khanmigo, and explains how GPT-4, classroom change, universities and future skills fit together.
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Lex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Donald Knuth Thinks P = NP and Why It Might Not MatterGuest Donald Knuth · Host Lex FridmanKnuth explains how an algorithm can provably exist without anyone being able to write it down, and why that shapes his view of P versus NP.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDesign Is Clear Thinking Made Visible: Bob Baxley on Culture, Tenets and Software as a MediumGuest Bob Baxley · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Apple, Pinterest and ThoughtSpot design leader Bob Baxley explains how design culture works, why teams should delay drawing the first picture, and why building good software is a moral obligation.
1:26:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersIntuition Is a Hypothesis Generator: Dylan Field on Taste, Simplicity and Shipping FastGuest Dylan Field · Host Lenny RachitskyFigma's CEO talks with Lenny Rachitsky, live at Config, about how he builds product taste, why simplicity is everyone's job, and what the early years of Figma taught him.
1:27:45ENLenny's PodcastPodcastCoding Is Solved, Says the Creator of Claude Code: Boris Cherny on What Comes NextHost Lenny RachitskyBoris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, on the tool's origin, the principle of latent demand, and how work changes when engineers stop writing code by hand.
1:18:48ENLex FridmanPodcastData Movement, Not Math: How to Make Deep Learning Fit on Robots and PhonesHost Lex FridmanMIT professor Vivienne Sze explains why moving data dominates the energy cost of neural networks and how co-designing hardware and algorithms can cut it by orders of magnitude.
1:14:59ENLenny'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.
36:05ENNo 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.
16:41ENLex 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,491