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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFounder Is an Attitude, CEO Is a Craft: Jonathan Lowenhar on Failure Modes, Magic Box Exits and HiringGuest Jonathan Lowenhar · Host Lenny RachitskyEnjoy The Work's Jonathan Lowenhar lays out the skills founders must learn to become CEOs, from avoiding common failure modes to selling a company, hiring, go-to-market and trusting intuition.
1:24:58ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFewer PMs, More Reps: Whatnot's CPO on Why Senior Product People Should Go Back to Doing the WorkHost Lenny RachitskyTom Verrilli explains why Whatnot built its product team on the premise that it regrets product management exists, and what that means for hiring, AI tooling and the shape of the role.
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Lex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersYann LeCun on Benchmarks, Interactive Environments, and Why Human Intelligence Is Not GeneralGuest Yann Lecun · Host Lex FridmanIn a 2019 clip, LeCun defends benchmarks as a test of AI claims, explains why interactive environments break the usual train-test protocol, and argues that "general intelligence" is a misnomer.
1:24:43ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Sparse Coding to GANs: A Tour of Unsupervised Deep Learning in 2016Host Lex FridmanRuslan Salakhutdinov walks through autoencoders, Boltzmann machines, variational autoencoders and adversarial networks at the Deep Learning School, with candid notes on what did and did not work.
1:17:38ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersBrains Are Body Regulators: Lisa Feldman Barrett on Why Emotions Are Constructed, Not DetectedGuest Lisa Feldman Barrett · Host Lex FridmanIn a guest talk for MIT's AGI course, neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett explains why faces don't display emotions, why brains exist to run bodies, and what that means for building human-like AI.
1:22:36ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersStop Chasing AI News: Chip Huyen on What Actually Makes AI Products BetterGuest Chip Huyen · Host Lenny RachitskyAuthor of AI Engineering walks through pre-training, post-training, RL, evals and RAG, then explains what separates companies that get value from AI from those that stall.
2:35:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersSilence, Sharpies and Support Tickets: Jeff Weinstein's Product Playbook from StripeGuest Jeff Weinstein · Host Lenny RachitskyThe former Stripe payments and Atlas product lead explains how he finds burning customer problems, picks metrics that matter, keeps quality high, and gets new products shipped inside a big company.
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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.
48:02ENLenny'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.
58:46ENLex 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.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,488