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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersGrowth in the Physics of a Market: Lessons from Gojek, Kumu and Southeast Asia's Super AppsGuest Crystal Widjaja · Host Lenny RachitskyCrystal Widjaja, who built Gojek's growth team and now leads product at Kumu, shares scrappy experiments, retention benchmarks, analytics pitfalls and hiring advice.
1:23:46ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSurviving the Next Crisis: Waze Co-Founder Uri Levine on Cash Shocks, Lost Product-Market Fit and Never Giving UpGuest Uri Levine · Host Lenny RachitskyUri Levine explains how founders should diagnose a startup crisis, act within days, keep their teams on board and decide whether to pivot or shut down.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastBuilding a World Model of Life: Biohub's Alex Rives on Why Better Measurement Must Come Before Virtual CellsHost Nathan LabenzBiohub's head of science explains why today's virtual cell models fall short, how a $1.8 billion data push aims to fix it, and what a five-year information-level model of the cell could unlock.
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Lex FridmanPodcastPave Your Own Path: Lex Fridman on Impostor Syndrome, Envy and GratitudeHost Lex FridmanIn an Ask Me Anything episode, Lex Fridman answers listeners' questions about self-doubt by arguing against comparison, for finding your own passion, and for pairing self-criticism with gratitude.
18:45ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersWhy Sean Carroll Thinks Many-Worlds Is the Cleanest Version of Quantum MechanicsGuest Sean Carroll · Host Lex FridmanThe Caltech physicist explains how Everett's idea works, answers the energy-conservation objection, and compares it with its rivals.
1:13:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersOKRs Are a Vitamin, Not a Medicine: Christina Wodtke on Making Goals Actually WorkGuest Christina Wodtke · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Stanford lecturer and author of Radical Focus explains what OKRs are really for, why they fail, and how to run a healthy weekly cadence.
1:53:14ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastWorth Thousands, Priced at $20: Zvi Mowshowitz on OpenAI's Flurry, Gemini Bets, Deepfakes and a Compute CapHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz and Nathan Labenz survey OpenAI's launch spree, AI pricing and bundling, data pollution, deepfakes, the reversal curse, calls to cap training compute, and Amazon's Anthropic deal.
1:17:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStick With It: Chris Hutchins on Big Product Bets and Building a Top Business PodcastGuest Chris Hutchins · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Wealthfront product lead behind All the Hacks explains how to run bold bets inside a company and how to launch, grow and sustain a podcast.
1:21:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSearch Isn't Dying, It's Expanding: Robby Stein on Google's AI Mode and Building Products RelentlesslyGuest Robby Stein · Host Lenny RachitskyGoogle Search's VP of Product explains how AI Overviews, Lens and AI Mode fit together, and the product principles he carried from Instagram Stories to Google.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastWhy Sora Bet on People, Not Just PixelsHost Jacob EffronThe Sora team explains how a video model became a social creation network, what cameos revealed about human creativity, and why the next frontier is world simulation.
1:30:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Make Me Think: Stewart Butterfield on Utility Curves, Taste and the Case Against Removing FrictionGuest Stewart Butterfield · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Flickr and Slack co-founder explains how he judged features, why comprehension matters more than click counts, and how large organizations drift into busywork.
1:52:49ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInside Anthropic's Growth Team: Big Bets, Automated Experiments and Firefighting SuccessHost Lenny RachitskyAmol Avasare, Anthropic's Head of Growth, explains how a roughly 40-person team handles hypergrowth, automates experimentation with Claude, and rethinks the PM and engineer ratio.
1:07:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersIf the Model Is the Product, the Eval Is the PRD: Inside Mercor's RiseGuest Brendan Foody · Host Lenny RachitskyMercor CEO Brendan Foody explains why AI labs will pay almost anything for expert-written evals, how his company grew from $1 million to a $400 million run rate in 16 months, and what that means for jobs and founders.
1:33:55ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersGetting Startup Press Without a Rolodex: A Practical PR PlaybookGuest Emilie Gerber · Host Lenny RachitskyPR agency founder Emilie Gerber walks through which outlets to target, how to write a three-sentence pitch, and how to judge whether press is worth the effort.
51:30ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastLess Email, Better Thinking: Grammarly’s CEO on AI That Augments CommunicationHost Jacob EffronGrammarly CEO Rahul explains how the company is moving from grammar checks to end-to-end communication assistance—and why evals, user data, and measurable outcomes matter.
29:54ENLex FridmanPodcastSeven Levels of a Pandemic: Pain, Challenge and Hope From Biology to PhilosophyHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman maps the coronavirus onto seven levels of attack on society and proposes a response and a reason for hope at each one.
10:17ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy Great Robots Fail as Businesses, and What iRobot Got RightHost Lex FridmaniRobot co-founder Colin Angle explains why so many robotics companies collapse and how cost, vision and a clear user need shaped the Roomba.
1:35:38ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside ChatGPT: How a Hackathon Project Became the World's Most Used AI ProductGuest Nick Turley · Host Lenny RachitskyNick Turley, head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, explains how the product was built, why shipping fast beats polishing first, and where it goes next.
1:04:25ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastInside 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.
1:11:56ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHow 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.
1:19:13ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastAlien 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.
18:46ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep 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.
1:05:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe 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.
1:23:15ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCamille 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,488