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Lex FridmanPodcastBitcoin’s puzzle is a Byzantine agreement machineHost Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin explains how proof of work turns a fault-tolerance thought experiment into a shared ledger, and why a 50 percent attack and quantum mining are less simple than they sound.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastWhen Coding Stops Being the Bottleneck: Inside Anthropic's Claude Code and Cowork TeamsHost Lenny RachitskyFiona Fung, who leads the teams behind Claude Code and Cowork, describes how an engineering org that ships roughly eight times more code manages quality, hiring, metrics and culture.
1:24:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSelling the Opportunity: How Founders Take Enterprise Sales From $1M to $10M ARRGuest Jen Abel · Host Lenny RachitskyJen Abel explains why startups should chase tier-one logos, price near $100K, hire salespeople who can "cosplay a founder", and sell vision instead of problems.
1:31:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFive Habits of Thought for Better Product Work: Shreyas Doshi on Pre-Mortems, LNO, and Opportunity CostGuest Shreyas Doshi · Host Lenny RachitskyProduct leader Shreyas Doshi walks through the ideas that changed how he works, from imagining failure in advance to choosing the best use of your time rather than a merely good one.
1:15:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Intern to VP of Design: Julie Zhuo on Imposter Syndrome, Writing and Building Product SenseGuest Julie Zhuo · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Facebook head of design Julie Zhuo talks with Lenny Rachitsky about growing through discomfort, writing as a thinking tool, running product reviews, giving design feedback, becoming a manager and hiring designers.
1:24:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Wrong Maths of Marketing: Rory Sutherland on Why Great Products Need Psychology, Timing, and FameHost Lenny RachitskyOgilvy's Rory Sutherland explains why rational product logic fails, how idiosyncrasy and timing shape adoption, and why brand fame compounds non-linearly.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Meeting Is the Moat: Fireflies.ai’s Path to 16 Million UsersHost Jacob EffronKrish Ramani explains how Fireflies.ai turned AI note-taking into a meeting chief of staff, why he avoids fine-tuning, and how a startup competes with Microsoft, Zoom, and Google.
10:16ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersReasoning Without Logic: Yann LeCun on Teaching Neural Networks to ThinkGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanYann LeCun explains why he believes neural networks can reason, and what memory, recurrence and continuous representations would need to look like.
30:30ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Bitcoin Magazine to Ethereum 2.0: Vitalik Buterin on Building a World ComputerHost Lex FridmanVitalik Buterin traces Ethereum's origin in the Bitcoin community, the governance fights that followed, and the proof-of-stake and sharding upgrades still to come.
58:19ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastRunway's Chris Valenzuela on Why Taste Beats Tools in Generative MediaHost Jacob EffronChris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway, explains why generative media is still early, how taste and iteration shape the work, and what has to change before AI media becomes a new art form.
1:40:44ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersEvery Dysfunctional Team Looks Alike, Every Great One Looks Different: Lessons from John Cutler's Years Inside Hundreds of Product TeamsGuest John Cutler · Host Lenny RachitskyAfter four years as Amplitude's product evangelist, John Cutler explains what really separates high-performing product teams, why online frameworks need context, and how to keep learning loops turning in messy companies.
1:36:57ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastDo the Dumb Thing First: A CTO's Playbook for Building an AI Coding AssistantHost Jacob EffronSourcegraph CTO Beyang Liu on which AI coding features actually earn daily use, how new models get shipped and evaluated, and why retrieval is still a search problem.
1:25:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersClimbing the Next Hill: How Slack's Product Chief Keeps a Mature Product InnovatingGuest Noah Weiss · Host Lenny RachitskySlack CPO Noah Weiss on working with product-minded founders, incubating new bets, reviving self-service growth and what great PMs actually do.
1:29:52ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersTurning Ambiguity into Clarity: Coda CPO Lane Shackleton on the Principles and Rituals of Great Product TeamsGuest Lane Shackleton · Host Lenny RachitskyFrom Alaskan mountain guide and AdWords ad reviewer to Chief Product Officer, Lane Shackleton shares the principles, meeting rituals and career habits he has collected from studying great product people.
1:08:07ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersContext Is All You Need: Inside OpenAI with Logan KilpatrickGuest Logan Kilpatrick · Host Lenny RachitskyOpenAI's head of developer relations on GPTs, prompting, how the company ships fast, and where startups can build without being steamrolled.
1:20:12ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe 10X Growth Advisor: Impact, Hiring, SEO and the End of Search as We Know ItGuest Luc Levesque · Host Lenny RachitskyShopify's chief growth officer Luc Levesque explains how to hire and use growth advisors, why SEO can define a company, and what AI answers mean for search traffic.
26:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSeeing the Matrix as a Product Leader: Scott Belsky’s Cardinal Rules for Products People LoveHost Lenny RachitskyScott Belsky distills hard-won lessons on simplicity, defaults, empathy, talent and taste in the age of AI.
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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.
11:19ENLex 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.
1:41:59ENLenny'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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,489