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1:12:52ENFrom Google+ to the Tabbed Inbox: How to Build Products on Evidence, Not OpinionGuest Itamar Gilad · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Google product manager Itamar Gilad contrasts a failed social network with a hit Gmail feature and walks through the GIST framework from his book Evidence-Guided.
1:24:24ENIntelligence for Heavy Machines: Qasar Younis on Why Physical AI Will Change Farms, Mines and Roads FirstHost Lenny RachitskyThe Applied Intuition co-founder explains why the biggest near-term AI impact is in vehicles and industrial machines, and shares the values, reading habits and management philosophy behind a quiet $15 billion company.
1:36:29ENSmiling Exhaustion: Inside the Tech Worker Sentiment Survey as AI's Honeymoon FadesHost Lenny RachitskyNoam Segal and Lenny Rachitsky walk through the second annual Tech Worker Sentiment Survey, which captured about 6,000 people in tech and found a workforce split down the middle by AI.
1:42:21ENCommunication Is the Job: Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth on 18 Years from Facebook's Early Days to Reality LabsGuest Andrew "Boz" Bosworth · Host Lenny RachitskyBosworth recounts the unglamorous early days of Facebook, the building of News Feed, and the leadership lessons he drew from managing up, communicating clearly and learning to be curious instead of defensive.
1:13:18ENHuman-Centered or Fully Autonomous? Lex Fridman's Case for Collaboration Between Driver and MachineHost Lex FridmanLecture 2 of MIT's 2018 course on deep learning for self-driving cars covers the two paths to autonomy, how sensors compare, who is building what, and where deep learning can help.
40:00ENThe Winds of Change: How Mistral Plans to Win the Open-Model EraHost Jacob EffronArthur Mensch explains Mistral's open-source strategy, enterprise distribution, model research, and views on AI regulation and sovereignty.
47:13ENReid Hoffman's Case Against Doomerism: AI as the Steam Engine of the MindHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe LinkedIn and PayPal co-founder explains why he sees AI as a human amplifier, what white-collar workers should do now, how Inflection's Pi was conceived, and why you can't regulate before you innovate.
1:12:15ENThe Open-Model Vibe Check: China, Containment, and the Data MoatHost Jacob EffronJacob Effron and guests debate Chinese open-weight models, distillation, containment policy, the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, and Cursor's data advantage.
1:28:32ENInside Duolingo's Streak: What 600+ Experiments Taught One Retention TeamGuest Jackson Shuttleworth · Host Lenny RachitskyDuolingo group product manager Jackson Shuttleworth walks through the history, wins, wrong turns and operating habits behind the single feature he calls the company's biggest growth lever.
1:26:32ENThe Achiever's Trap: A Growth Leader on Burnout, Healing and Letting the Old Self GoGuest Andy Johns · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Facebook, Twitter and Wealthfront growth leader Andy Johns explains how achievement became his survival strategy, why it broke down, and the four steps he sees in deep personal change.
1:00:10ENThe Long Leash and the Narrow Fences: Eric Ries and Jeremy Howard on Building AI’s Edison LabHost Jacob EffronEric Ries and Jeremy Howard discuss Lean Startup discipline in AI, Answer.AI’s for-profit R&D lab model, efficient fine-tuning, language-heavy applications, and AI safety regulation.
1:17:24ENDon't Plan Your Career, Follow the Best People: Tamar Yehoshua on Product Leadership in the AI EraGuest Tamar Yehoshua · Host Lenny RachitskyGlean's president of product and technology on career choices, what she learned from Bezos, Butterfield and Benioff, working with engineering partners, and how AI will change product work.
1:25:36ENMake Things People Want: What 600 YC Startups Taught Gustaf AlströmerGuest Gustaf Alstromer · Host Lenny RachitskyA Y Combinator group partner and early Airbnb growth lead explains why startups fail, what successful founders share, and why climate tech has become a real business.
17:22ENDon't Become a Software Factory: Why Context Is the Real ProductHost Lenny RachitskyLinear CEO Karri Saarinen argues that as AI automates execution, product teams must protect the learning that makes great products possible.
1:04:48ENSkills Over Titles: How LinkedIn's Hari Srinivasan Rewired Hiring Around What People Can DoGuest Hari Srinivasan · Host Lenny RachitskyLinkedIn's VP of product for Talent Solutions explains skills-first hiring, running a web of interlocking marketplaces, and how to get hired as a product manager.
28:53ENTake Back MIT: Eric Weinstein on Broken Institutions and the Scientists Who Should Reclaim ThemHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from their longer conversation, Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman argue over whether MIT can be won back from its administrators, and what it means to be betrayed by the institutions we trust.
19:31ENBuild the Factory, Not Just the Product: How Ramp Chases Bottlenecks Across the Whole Development LoopHost Lenny RachitskyRamp CPO Geoff Charles walks through the AI agents his team built for every stage of product development, and what they mean for the PM's role.
1:42:00ENThe Operating Lessons Brian Balfour Keeps Returning ToHost Lenny RachitskyReforge’s founder and CEO shares hard-won lessons on hiring, planning, growth systems, and defining who you are not for.
1:16:53ENEngineering Leadership After ZIRP: Strategy, Systems and AccountabilityGuest Will Larson · Host Lenny RachitskyCarta CTO Will Larson on how engineering management changed after the zero-interest-rate era, and the habits he relies on now: systems models, written strategy, shared incentives and honest values.
1:55:10ENSEO After AI Overviews: Treat Search as a Product, Not a Keyword GameGuest Eli Schwartz · Host Lenny RachitskyGrowth advisor Eli Schwartz explains how AI answers are swallowing top-of-funnel search, and why the winners will be the teams that build for the buyer's journey.
1:11:50ENData Is Everything: Teaching Self-Driving Cars to Understand the Human Behind the WheelHost Lex FridmanIn an MIT lecture, Lex Fridman shows how deep learning can sense pedestrians, driver posture, gaze, emotion and cognitive load, and why that matters for human-centered autonomy.
1:09:01EN"We Might Be Wrong, But We Are Not Confused": How LinkedIn's Tomer Cohen Rebuilt the Feed Around AIGuest Tomer Cohen · Host Lenny RachitskyLinkedIn's chief product officer explains the clarity-first mantra behind the feed turnaround, his AI-first approach to product, and the conviction-driven career path that took him to the top.
17:10ENBitcoin’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.
1:38:45ENWhen 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.
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