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1:04:25ENInside GitHub's Copilot Bet: Agents, Open Source, and Why the Developer Job EnduresHost Jacob EffronGitHub CEO Thomas explains how Copilot went from a research bet to 1.3 million developers, and what agents, fine-tuning and a multi-model world mean for the next five years of software.
1:11:56ENHow to Get ChatGPT to Recommend Your Product: A Practical Guide to Answer Engine OptimizationGuest Ethan Smith · Host Lenny RachitskyGraphite CEO Ethan Smith explains how AEO differs from SEO, which levers move the needle, and how to measure and test what works.
1:19:13ENAlien Intelligence, Radical Upside: Nathan Labenz on Why AI Is the Next Industrial RevolutionHost Nathan LabenzIn the second episode of The Cognitive Revolution, Nathan Labenz tells Erik Torenberg how he went from asteroid-watching AI skeptic to full-time AI scout, and lays out the upside and downside cases.
18:46ENDeep Learning Plus One Idea: Ilya Sutskever on Building AGIHost Lex FridmanIn a May 2020 conversation, Sutskever discusses self-play, simulation, bodies and consciousness, tests of intelligence, and how an AGI might be governed and aligned.
1:05:39ENThe Positioning Fix: Why Great B2B Products Still Need a Story Buyers Can RepeatHost Lenny RachitskyApril Dunford explains how to diagnose weak positioning, build differentiated value, and turn it into a sales narrative that wins B2B deals.
1:23:15ENCamille Fournier on Rewrites, One-on-Ones and Building Platform TeamsGuest Camille Fournier · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of The Manager's Path explains what annoys engineers about PMs, why rewrites are a trap, how to move into management, and what makes platform teams work.
22:59ENPenrose on Why Consciousness Can't Be a ComputationHost Lex FridmanRoger Penrose explains how a dissatisfaction with AI optimism, a tip about microtubules and a rethink of quantum mechanics led him to Orch OR.
1:08:08ENCastle or Shack? Hamilton Helmer on Which Business Advantages Actually LastGuest Hamilton Helmer · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of 7 Powers explains how to tell real, durable competitive power from things that merely feel like an advantage, and when founders should start looking for it.
1:23:08ENMost Ideas Fail: Ronny Kohavi on Running A/B Tests You Can TrustGuest Ronny Kohavi · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments explains failure rates, overall evaluation criteria, sample ratio mismatch, Twyman's law and how to build an experimentation culture.
1:49:13ENThe Unfair Fight: How Breakthrough Startups Escape the PresentHost Lenny RachitskyMike Maples Jr. explains how breakthrough startups combine inflections, non-consensus insights, and founder-future fit, then act through movements, storytelling, and disagreeableness.
1:24:56ENThe Social Radar: How Jessica Livingston Read Founders in Ten-Minute InterviewsGuest Jessica Livingston · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Y Combinator co-founder explains what she looked for in early-stage founders, the Airbnb interview she never forgot, and why she started her own podcast.
37:00ENInside the YouTube Algorithm: Related Graphs, Satisfaction Surveys and the Viewers Who Are Part of the CodeHost Lex FridmanYouTube's head of search and discovery, Cristos Goodrow, explains to Lex Fridman how search and recommendations work, which signals matter, and how the team measures whether viewers are better off.
59:50ENThe Nature of Product: Why Feature Factories Lose to Empowered TeamsHost Lenny RachitskyMarty Cagan explains why feature teams and real product teams are different animals, how companies lose product mojo as they scale, and what product managers must protect to do the job well.
1:10:54ENFuel and Engine: A Practical Playbook for Hiring Your First B2B MarketerGuest Emily Kramer · Host Lenny RachitskyMarketing leader and investor Emily Kramer explains how to diagnose what your startup's marketing needs, who to hire, and how product and marketing teams can work well together.
1:34:01ENQuality Is Growth: Stripe's Katie Dill on Beauty, Walking the Store and Building Design TeamsGuest Katie Dill · Host Lenny RachitskyStripe's head of design explains why beauty and function work together, how Stripe operationalises quality across 15 critical user journeys, and what she has learned leading design at Airbnb, Lyft and Stripe.
15:41ENAbolishing Involuntary Death: Ben Goertzel on Immortality, Pain and the Meaning of LifeHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from Lex Fridman's podcast, AI researcher Ben Goertzel argues that death and pain should be optional, and sketches what it would take to fund a serious attack on aging.
58:12ENProduct Management in a Newsroom: Equanimity, Dress Rehearsals and Journalists as CustomersGuest Upasna Gautam · Host Lenny RachitskyCNN product manager Upasna Gautam explains how her team builds a content management system for journalists amid constant breaking news, and how mindfulness shapes the way she leads.
1:07:32ENMinimal Lovable Products, the Airbnb Plus Post-Mortem, and the Trust Bank: Product Lessons from Jiaona ZhangHost Lenny RachitskyWebflow's SVP of Product on the mistakes new PMs make, why Airbnb Plus never had a path, roadmap-as-story, OKRs that stretch instead of sandbag, surviving WeWork, and how to spend your first 90 days.
1:32:32ENDevin's Scott Wu on Building an AI Software Engineer and Turning Coders into ArchitectsGuest Scott Wu · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Cognition co-founder explains how his 15-person team uses fleets of Devins to build Devin, what the product can and can't do, and why he expects more engineers, not fewer.
55:48ENWhen to Invent a Category, and How Miro Rebranded Itself into OneGuest Barbra Gago · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Miro CMO Barbra Gago explains how category creation, a rushed rebrand and opinionated software work in practice.
1:31:52ENFrom Phonemes to CTC: How Deep Learning Rebuilt Speech RecognitionHost Lex FridmanBaidu's Adam Coates walks through the traditional speech pipeline, the CTC-based end-to-end engine that replaced much of it, and what it takes to scale and deploy it.
1:25:11ENInside Miro's Product Machine: Empathy, Competition and a Biweekly Demo Party That Saved Three MonthsGuest Varun Parmar · Host Lenny RachitskyMiro chief product officer Varun Parmar walks Lenny Rachitsky through the company's product values, org design, competitive philosophy, planning cadence and growth model.
1:31:29ENLovable's Growth Playbook: Give It Away, Ship Daily and Recapture Product-Market Fit Every Three MonthsGuest Elena Verna · Host Lenny RachitskyElena Verna, head of growth at Lovable, explains why most of her 15-20 years of growth experience no longer applies to a company that passed $200 million ARR in under a year.
57:08ENShipping Finn: Intercom's Product Playbook for the ChatGPT EraHost Jacob EffronDes Traynor explains how Intercom pivoted to AI, shipped Finn, built guardrails, and turned customer support into a product lab for LLMs.
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