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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & StartupsPodcast · 2 speakersProducts Get Replaced, Platforms Stick: MongoDB's CEO on the SaaS Bear ThesisHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCJ Desai tells Sarah Guo why he thinks fears about AI erasing the value of enterprise software are overblown, and what he says really protects a software company.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Do AI for AI's Sake: Marily Nika's Starter Guide to AI Product ManagementGuest Marily Nika · Host Lenny RachitskyMeta product lead Marily Nika explains what a model is, when AI is worth building, how PMs can learn, and what working with research scientists is really like.
1:28:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersBret Taylor on Failing Forward: From Google Local to Google Maps to Sierra's AgentsGuest Bret Taylor · Host Lenny RachitskyThe co-creator of Google Maps and FriendFeed's like button on career mindset, the future of coding, where AI startups should build, and why agents will bring outcome-based pricing.
1:19:25ENLenny's PodcastPodcastInside Mercado Libre: How 18,000 Engineers Ship 30,000 Changes a Day Without an Army of PMsHost Lenny RachitskySebastian Barrios, formerly head of product and engineering at Mercado Libre and now SVP of Engineering at Roblox, explains how a Latin American giant runs engineering and product as one team.
1:26:31ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSelling in a Downturn: Bravado CEO Sahil Mansuri on Forecasts, Comp Plans, Retention and Warm IntrosGuest Sahil Mansuri · Host Lenny RachitskySahil Mansuri, founder of the sales community Bravado, lays out how B2B founders should change quotas, compensation, customer focus and deal-closing tactics when the market turns.
1:54:54ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSlow Down, Ask Questions, Sell the Vacation: An Executive Negotiator's PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyJacob Warwick explains how senior operators win bigger offers by treating a job search like an enterprise sale and negotiating collaboratively rather than confrontationally.
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Lex FridmanPodcastCaging the Neural Network: How Aptiv Thinks About Safe Self-DrivingHost Lex FridmanAptiv Autonomous Mobility's Karl Iagnemma and Oscar Beijbom explain why end-to-end learning is hard to trust in cars, and show how PointPillars and nuScenes push lidar perception forward.
1:05:10ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersYou Can't Do Homework to Become a Great PM: Fareed Mosavat on Reps, Sponsors and the Leadership CanyonGuest Fareed Mosavat · Host Lenny RachitskyReforge's Fareed Mosavat explains why product management can only be learned on real products, and what trips people up when they move from IC to leader.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastInside Notion AI: Prototypes That Annoy Everyone, Evals Built In-House, and Models Rented from PartnersHost Jacob EffronNotion AI engineer Linus Lee explains how a dozen-person team went from a hotel-room hackathon to Writer, Autofill and workspace Q&A.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastHuman-Level but Not Human-Like: A GPT-4 Red Teamer on What He Saw Behind the MaskHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz recounts two months of full-time testing of an early GPT-4, from the AI doctor of his dreams to a model that would plan assassinations on request.
14:49ENLex FridmanPodcastElon Musk Rates Memes and Ends Up Defending Nuclear Power, the British Museum and the CheeseburgerHost Lex FridmanIn a lighthearted excerpt from his conversation with Lex Fridman, Elon Musk scores a stack of printed memes on a one-to-eleven scale and gives serious answers whenever a joke touches a real topic.
21:50ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSharpen the Knife: Why Simplicity Wins in Product, Story, and LifeHost Lenny RachitskyA product leader’s case for building the one indispensable thing, using familiar patterns, and telling the story customers already know.
1:23:18ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastFrom GPT-2 to GPT-3 Moments in Robotics: Six DeepMind Papers on Bridging Robots and the InternetHost Nathan LabenzKeerthana Gopalakrishnan and Ted Xiao walk through RT-2, RT-X, RT-Trajectory, AutoRT, Learning to Learn Faster and PIVOT, and say what is still missing for general-purpose robots.
1:03:42ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Hamster Wheel and the Patron of the Arts: Inside Spotify's Push to Monetize FandomGuest Camille Hearst · Host Lenny RachitskySpotify's head of fan monetization, Camille Hearst, on why creators struggle to charge, how platforms and marketplaces really work, and what she learned from Patreon, selling her startup and a first day at Apple.
1:21:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSpeed Is a Symptom of Competence: How Linear Builds Beloved B2B SoftwareHost Lenny RachitskyNan Yu explains Linear’s operating principles for fast iteration, resisting bloat, discovering emotional customer pain, and making product management a go-to-market discipline.
1:10:14ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersProgress Beats Pep Talks: Jason Shah on Leading Product Teams Through Web3's Ups and DownsGuest Jason Shah · Host Lenny RachitskyAlchemy's Jason Shah talks with Lenny Rachitsky about Web3 product management, working backwards, leadership habits, pushing back on a CEO, career paths and hiring.
21:55ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersQuantum Computing Without the Hype: Amplitudes, Interference and the Long Road to Error CorrectionGuest Scott Aaronson · Host Lex FridmanScott Aaronson explains what a quantum computer really is, why it is not just trying every answer at once, and why noise is the field's central obstacle.
1:15:59ENLex FridmanPodcastSteering Through Time: How Recurrent Networks and LSTMs Learn from SequencesHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S094 lecture walks from backpropagation basics to LSTMs and the way they are used to predict steering in self-driving cars.
1:09:31ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Staircase to an AI Tutor: Connor Wick on Speak, Moats, and Voice-First LearningHost Jacob EffronHow Speak's CEO is building a fluency product one model-capability step at a time, from specialized speech models to evals, pricing, and the future of education.
1:11:06ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastReplit's Amjad Masad on Building Your Own Model, Latency, and the Next Billion Software CreatorsHost Jacob EffronThe Replit founder explains why AI should be native to the product, why he trained a small in-house model, and why he thinks software engineering is about to split in two.
1:11:57ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersKeeping Commerce Human: Etsy's Tim Holley on Ten Years of Marketplace GrowthGuest Tim Holley · Host Lenny RachitskyEtsy's VP of product on the 2017 culture reset, the face-mask surge, balancing buyers and sellers, and how his product teams are built.
1:34:55ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside $3.5 Billion of Paid Growth: Creative Testing, Attribution Humility and Channel DiversificationGuest Jonathan Becker · Host Lenny RachitskyJonathan Becker of Thrive Digital explains how performance marketing really works after the privacy shifts, and where creative, measurement and AI fit in.
1:22:43ENLenny's PodcastPodcastA Colleague With Its Own Computer: How a Small Team Built Grok Bot in a MonthHost Lenny RachitskyRoman Ugarte of SpaceXAI explains the decisions, hand-held onboarding and product philosophy behind Grok Bot, and what Cursor's culture taught him about staying ahead.
1:40:04ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersCompanies Are Equations: Tom Conrad on Pandora, Quibi and the Math Behind Product SuccessGuest Tom Conrad · Host Lenny RachitskyA veteran of Apple, Pandora, Snap, Pets.com and Quibi explains what hits and disasters taught him about choosing teams, business-model math, burnout and why not everyone should found a company.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,487