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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersScripts for the Hard Stuff: How an Executive Coach Handles Feedback, Firing and Founder FightsGuest Alisa Cohn · Host Lenny RachitskyAlisa Cohn walks through word-for-word scripts for difficult workplace conversations, a three-question meeting close, and a founder "prenup" of questions to settle before you start a company.
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Lex FridmanPodcastGrandpa Lex Visits Night City: A Rusty Gamer's First Hours in Cyberpunk 2077Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman plays the opening stretch of Cyberpunk 2077 on release day, narrating character creation, shaky driving, tutorials, cyberware surgery and his verdict.
1:07:35ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy AI Will Never Be Perfect: Lex Fridman's Case for Keeping Humans in the LoopHost Lex FridmanIn MIT 6.S093's opening lecture, Lex Fridman lays out five research areas of human-centered AI, from machine teaching to arguing machines that flag their own uncertainty.
1:38:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Physics of Viral Consumer Apps: Nikita Bier on Latent Demand, Teen Networks, and Fighting a HoaxHost Lenny RachitskyNikita Bier traces his path from Politify to tbh and Gas, extracting repeatable tactics for consumer app growth, product design, and surviving breakout chaos.
1:30:52ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersBuilding Minds from Unified Theories: Nate Derbinsky on Cognitive Architectures, Soar, and the Case for ForgettingGuest MIT AGI · Host Lex FridmanA guest lecture in MIT's AGI course on how cognitive architectures try to assemble human-level intelligence, and how studying human memory made the Soar architecture faster and better.
1:07:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow Notion Built a Community That Sold Its Product for ItGuest Camille Ricketts · Host Lenny RachitskyCamille Ricketts, Notion's first marketing hire, explains how community-led growth and content marketing actually work in practice.
11:41ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersTeaching Machines Humility: Stuart Russell on Escaping the King Midas ProblemGuest Stuart Russell · Host Lex FridmanIn a short clip from a 2018 conversation, Berkeley's Stuart Russell explains why fixed objectives make superintelligent AI dangerous and why uncertainty about our goals is the fix.
1:11:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFear Gives Bad Advice: An Executive Coach's Playbook for Firing, Layoffs and FocusGuest Matt Mochary · Host Lenny RachitskyExecutive coach Matt Mochary tells Lenny Rachitsky how he helps CEOs act through fear, let people go humanely, run layoffs, innovate inside big companies and audit their energy.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastFrom Email Client to AI Agent: How Shortwave Rebuilt Itself for the Tidal WaveHost Nathan LabenzShortwave CEO Andrew Lee explains the agent architecture, caching economics and tiny-team culture behind the company's hockey-stick growth.
1:05:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom Arctic Code Vault to Autocomplete: How GitHub Copilot Went From Moonshot to ProductGuest Ryan J. Salva · Host Lenny RachitskyGitHub VP of product Ryan J. Salva explains how a small research team's experiment became Copilot, and what it took to scale it responsibly.
45:34ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Four Questions Shreyas Doshi Wishes He Had Asked Himself SoonerHost Lenny RachitskyA live conversation about scope, strategy, taste, and listening as the hidden drivers of product leadership.
1:37:19ENLenny's PodcastPodcastImpact, Inquiry and Letting Fires Burn: Vlad Loktev's Playbook from a Decade Inside AirbnbHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Airbnb homes GM and new Index Ventures partner Vlad Loktev tells Lenny Rachitsky how he prioritizes, disagrees, scales teams and keeps his balance in hypergrowth.
1:22:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcastWhy You Won't Know a Great Name When You See It: Inside Lexicon's Naming ProcessHost Lenny RachitskyDavid Placek of Lexicon Branding explains how his team names brands like Sonos, Azure, Windsurf and Vercel, and how founders can do it on a budget.
1:09:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersKill Your Own Project, Diversify Your Growth: Noam Lovinsky's Lessons from YouTube, Thumbtack, Facebook and GrammarlyGuest Noam Lovinsky · Host Lenny RachitskyGrammarly's chief product officer walks through four very different chapters of his career and the principles each one taught him.
1:27:45ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFast Beats Right: Claire Vo on the CPTO Role, Moving Like a Startup and What AI Will Take From PMsGuest Claire Vo · Host Lenny RachitskyLaunchDarkly's chief product officer and ChatPRD creator shares career advice, her playbook for pace and standards, and a view on which product skills AI will replace.
1:16:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow Ramp Reached $100M in Revenue with 50 People: Velocity, Single-Threaded Teams and Context Over ControlGuest Geoff Charles · Host Lenny RachitskyRamp's VP of Product Geoff Charles explains to Lenny Rachitsky how a culture of velocity, tiny focused teams and radically empowered engineers drove one of the fastest SaaS growth runs on record.
1:12:52ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFrom 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.
1:24:24ENLenny's PodcastPodcastIntelligence 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.
1:36:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSmiling 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.
1:42:21ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCommunication 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.
1:13:18ENLex FridmanPodcastHuman-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.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe 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.
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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersReid 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.
1:12:15ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,490