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2:04:07ENSleepwalking Into an AI Arms Race: The Case for a Different China StrategyHost Nathan LabenzRobert Wright and Nathan Labenz question the China-hawk consensus in AI circles, from the chip war and Taiwan to a 2027 war game and the search for a better plan.
1:25:16ENFrom Hand-Built Features to ResNets: Andrej Karpathy's Crash Course in Convolutional NetworksHost Lex FridmanA 2016 Deep Learning School talk covering how convnets work, how the ImageNet winners evolved, and how to apply them without being a hero.
56:15ENPredictably Irrational: How Behavioral Science Reshapes Product DesignGuest Kristen Berman · Host Lenny RachitskyKristen Berman of Irrational Labs explains her three-B framework and the experiments behind TikTok, One Medical and a failed budgeting feature.
25:06ENLiving Inside the Brain's Story: Joscha Bach on Simulation, Self and ConsciousnessHost Lex FridmanIn a clip from his conversation with Lex Fridman, Joscha Bach argues that consciousness, identity and even God are software-like patterns, and that we exist inside a narrative our brain generates.
1:31:56ENGive Away Your Legos: Molly Graham's Handbook for Leading Through HypergrowthHost Lenny RachitskyMolly Graham walks through the frameworks she built at Google, Facebook, Quip and CZI, from giving away your Legos and the J-curve to the waterline model and six rules for goals.
1:32:09ENImpact First: How Product Teams Escape the Low-Impact Death SpiralGuest Matt LeMay · Host Lenny RachitskyMatt LeMay explains why product teams must tie their work directly to business-critical outcomes, and the three steps for doing it whatever their company looks like.
1:41:43ENPumping Heat Into the Infinite Game: Tobi Lütke on First Principles and Human PotentialHost Lenny RachitskyShopify's founder explains how dissatisfaction with the status quo, long time horizons, and unquantifiable taste drive better products and companies.
1:21:25ENStrategy Before Goals: Ravi Mehta's Product Strategy Stack, Tinder Lessons and Selective MicromanagementGuest Ravi Mehta · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Tinder CPO Ravi Mehta on how startups differ from big companies, how to layer mission, strategy, roadmap and goals, and how product leaders can grow.
55:51ENHumble, Customer-Obsessed and Relentless: Inside DoorDash's CultureGuest Keith Yandell · Host Lenny RachitskyDoorDash executive Keith Yandell explains how the company hires for culture, leads through crises, and manages people, from WeDash deliveries to a "how to work with me" document.
1:33:50ENEvals Are the New PRDs: Inside Anthropic's Research Product TeamHost Lenny RachitskyDianne Penn, Anthropic's head of product for research and Labs, explains how the company found its identity, how her team turns user feedback into evals, and why human judgment still matters.
1:24:50ENDelight Is Not Confetti: A Practical Framework for Emotional Product DesignHost Lenny RachitskyFormer Spotify, Chrome and Google Meet product manager Nesrine Changuel explains how to make products that serve emotional and functional needs at once.
57:19ENMarc Benioff on Beginner's Mind, Agentforce and Staying a Startup After 25 YearsGuest Marc Benioff · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Salesforce co-founder talks Steve Jobs, a legendary launch stunt, what an AI agent actually is, and how he leads through reinvention.
1:21:48ENSeeing Like a Designer: Jessica Hische on Logos, Brands and Knowing When Good Enough Is EnoughGuest Jessica Hische · Host Lenny RachitskyLettering artist Jessica Hische walks through her refresh of Lenny's logo and explains how founders can read type, time a rebrand and avoid overspending on brand.
1:06:40ENWhat Product Ops Really Does: Pendo's Christine Itwaru on a Role Built to Free Up PMsGuest Christine Itwaru · Host Lenny RachitskyA long-time product ops leader at Pendo explains the job, how it differs from PM, program management and product marketing, when to hire for it, and how to move into it.
1:39:47ENPaint the Destination: Ebi Atawodi on Crafting and Selling a Product VisionGuest Ebi Atawodi · Host Lenny RachitskyYouTube's director of product for creator experience shares concrete formats, workshops and habits for building a vision, plus what she learned about culture at Uber, Netflix and Google.
1:12:07ENSystems Thinkers Over Specialists: Netflix CPTO Elizabeth Stone on Talent, AI and Excellence as an Operating SystemHost Lenny RachitskyNetflix's chief product and technology officer explains why blurred roles are still a storming phase, what skills she is hiring for, and how the company keeps a high bar as AI changes how work gets done.
46:51ENInvest Profits, Not People: What Mixpanel Learned from Spreading Too Thin and Refocusing on Its CoreGuest Vijay Iyengar · Host Lenny RachitskyMixpanel's head of product Vijay Iyengar on cutting back to one analytics product, how his team plans and prioritizes, and why you should track events from your servers.
1:21:01ENMake It Explicit: Annie Duke on Deciding Better and Quitting SoonerGuest Annie Duke · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer poker champion Annie Duke explains how independent input, shorter feedback loops, pre-mortems with kill criteria and a willingness to quit improve decisions at companies and in life.
1:31:41ENThe Worst Model You'll Ever Use: Kevin Weil on Building Products at OpenAI's PaceGuest Kevin Weil · Host Lenny RachitskyOpenAI's chief product officer explains how evals, light planning, fine-tuned model ensembles and a small PM team shape the way the company ships.
1:36:49ENMission, Retention and an Owl With Attitude: How Duolingo Grew From 3 Million to 200 Million Users Without Paid AdsGuest Gina Gotthilf · Host Lenny RachitskyFormer Duolingo growth lead Gina Gotthilf on organic growth, brand voice, her career B-sides, and why she is betting on Latin American startups.
19:13ENJudgment Is the Craft: Robby Stein's Three-Chapter Playbook for Product Managers in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyGoogle Search's Robby Stein says a PM's core skill is decision making, and walks through how to understand people, diagnose root causes and polish the craft, with AI helping at each step.
1:38:14ENThe Conductor's Playbook: Naomi Gleit on Growth, Clarity, and Building at MetaHost Lenny RachitskyMeta's head of product explains how she created her own luck, built the early growth playbook, and runs complex product teams with extreme clarity.
54:33ENVision or Lidar, Human or Machine: Lex Fridman's 2019 Map of the Self-Driving RaceGuest Self-Driving Cars · Host Lex FridmanThe opening lecture of MIT's 6.S094 course surveys 2018's milestones, the industry's optimistic predictions, and the beliefs about driving and humans that will decide who wins.
1:14:40ENTwin Turbines: How Product and Operations Built Uber and OpendoorGuest Brian Tolkin · Host Lenny RachitskyOpendoor's head of product and design, Brian Tolkin, on what an ops-first career teaches about building products, running reviews and staying calm.
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