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Lex FridmanPodcastDeep Learning From the Ground Up: Hugo Larochelle's One-Hour Tour of Neural Network FoundationsHost Lex FridmanA fast, equation-level walk through feed-forward networks, backpropagation, practical training tricks, dropout and batch normalization, from the 2016 Deep Learning School.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastFrom Autocomplete to Alien Optimizer: Riley Goodside on Three Eras of PromptingHost Nathan LabenzScale AI's first staff prompt engineer traces how language models went from pure text prediction to instruction following to RLHF, and what that means for building with them.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastSkip the Funnel of Doom: Cursor's Playbook for Hiring the Top 50Host Lenny RachitskyAdam Ward, Cursor's head of talent, explains how to scope, map and relentlessly pursue the best people instead of hiring whoever survives a recruiting funnel.
1:45:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"PodcastTrust at Scale: Elicit's Founders on Reasoning Languages, World Models and Automating the CompanyHost Nathan LabenzAndreas Stuhlmüller and Jungwon Byun explain how Elicit keeps frontier models checkable for high-stakes science, and where they think AI reasoning is heading.
1:07:29ENLex FridmanPodcastDeep Reinforcement Learning from First Principles: Rewards, Q-Learning, Policy Gradients and AlphaZeroHost Lex FridmanLex Fridman's MIT 6.S091 opening lecture walks from the basic RL framework through DQN, actor-critic methods and AlphaZero to the unsolved problem of moving from simulation to the real world.
1:42:04ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersPaid Growth, Step by Step: Shopify's Performance Marketing Lead on Tests, Signal and Team DesignGuest Timothy Davis · Host Lenny RachitskyTimothy Davis walks through when to start paid, how to run signs-of-life tests, which platforms to try, what to measure and who to hire first.
1:21:44ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFrom Rowing to Steering: Inside OpenAI's Push Toward Persistent AI CoworkersHost Lenny RachitskyTara Seshan, who leads product for Codex and ChatGPT Work at OpenAI, explains how PM work changes when agents do the rowing and people do the steering.
1:01:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersControl Over Attention: How Substack Builds Product for Writers and ReadersGuest Sachin Monga · Host Lenny RachitskySubstack's head of product, Sachin Monga, explains the principle behind the company's roadmap, the story of the Recommendations feature, and what he thinks the next era of writing on the internet looks like.
1:26:22ENLenny's PodcastPodcastStart Small, Earn Autonomy: What 50+ AI Product Deployments Taught Two BuildersHost Lenny RachitskyAishwarya Naresh Reganti and Kiriti Badam explain why AI products need a different build process, and how to grow agent autonomy step by step without losing customer trust.
1:25:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcastCodex Is Not Just a Coding Tool: OpenAI's Plan for an Agent That Behaves Like a TeammateHost Lenny RachitskyCodex product lead Alexander Embiricos explains the 20x growth, why every useful agent may need to write code, and why human review speed is the real bottleneck.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastA Three-Month Window: The AI 2027 Authors on Superhuman Coders, Faked Alignment and Who Ends Up in ControlHost Jacob EffronDaniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen walk through their AI 2027 scenario, where they disagree on timelines and alignment, and what they think governments and the public should do.
1:15:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcastThe Zero-Day Marketing Exploits Behind Breakout StartupsHost Lenny RachitskyAlistair Croll explains how founders can find unfair distribution advantages by subverting platforms, norms, and regulations—without actually being evil.
24:22ENLex FridmanPodcast · 2 speakersCraftsmanship, First Principles and the Road to Self-Driving: Jim Keller on Working with Elon MuskGuest Jim Keller · Host Lex FridmanThe veteran chip architect explains why he thinks autonomous driving is a tractable engineering problem, how Tesla's cost constraints shaped its hardware, and what he took from Musk's way of thinking.
1:27:23ENLenny's PodcastPodcastGoing All In on AI at Cisco: Jeetu Patel on Platforms, Packet Loss and Telling People the TruthHost Lenny RachitskyCisco's president and chief product officer explains how a 90,000-person company went AI-first, what Cisco does in the AI infrastructure stack, and the leadership and career lessons behind it.
1:27:13ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersFour Levels of Product-Market Fit: First Round's Playbook for B2B FoundersGuest Todd Jackson · Host Lenny RachitskyTodd Jackson of First Round Capital walks through a staged framework for finding product-market fit, the benchmarks for each stage, and the four Ps you can change when you're stuck.
1:21:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersLook Outside the Building: Shaun Clowes on Why Most PMs Fall Short and How AI Changes the JobGuest Shaun Clowes · Host Lenny RachitskyConfluent's chief product officer explains how to become a far better product manager, why data matters more than models, and what AI will and won't do to SaaS.
1:35:11ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersDon't Chase the Fake Rabbit: A Meta Product Leader's Guide to a 60-Year PM CareerGuest Nikhyl Singhal · Host Lenny RachitskyNikhyl Singhal walks through early, mid and late career for product managers, from avoiding ex-growth companies to finding a North Star for "act three".
1:08:29ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTaste, Authenticity and Small Pods: Instagram's Adam Mosseri on Building Products in an AI WorldHost Lenny RachitskyThe head of Instagram explains how Meta's product teams are shrinking, why human judgment and creator identity matter more as AI content grows, and what he learned from his biggest failures.
48:08ENLenny's PodcastPodcastDylan Field on Taste, Simplicity, and Designing Through the AI HypeHost Lenny RachitskyFigma's CEO explains how intuition, feedback, and relentless simplification shape products—and why craft matters more as AI generates more software.
1:04:53ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersThe Pathless Path: Stepping Off the Default Script for Work and LifeGuest Paul Millerd · Host Lenny RachitskyAuthor Paul Millerd explains how to question the default career script, create space to explore, and live with the fears that come with choosing your own work.
1:00:51ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInflict Pain, But Do It With a Smile: Julia Schottenstein on dbt's Rise and the Art of Getting AcquiredGuest Julia Schottenstein · Host Lenny RachitskyA former NEA investor turned dbt Cloud product leader explains why dbt won, how to approach M&A and pricing, and how venture habits make her a better PM.
1:22:03ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersWin Where Rivals Say "Life's Too Short": Roger Martin on the Five Questions of StrategyGuest Roger Martin · Host Lenny RachitskyThe Playing to Win author walks through his strategy choice cascade, explains why differentiation or low cost is non-negotiable, and shows how to start fixing strategy one gap at a time.
1:10:40ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersInside the New York Times' Plan to Build the Essential SubscriptionGuest Alex Hardiman · Host Lenny RachitskyChief Product Officer Alex Hardiman on bundling news, games, cooking and sports, working alongside journalists, and measuring impact against a mission.
2:14:15ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersEric Ries on the Lean Startup After 12 Years: What MVPs Really Mean, When to Pivot, and Building Companies for Human FlourishingGuest Eric Ries · Host Lenny RachitskyThe author of The Lean Startup revisits misconceptions about MVPs and pivots, offers advice for stuck founders, and argues that governance, not just product, decides whether companies do good.Load moreShowing 24 of 4,485