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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 10, 2026Podcast · 2 speakers76% of Agentic Commerce Is Under 30 Cents — So Coinbase Is Banking the AIsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilBrian Armstrong tells Elad Gil how Coinbase became an everything exchange, why card networks cannot price agent-to-agent payments, and what his longevity company is taking into the clinic.
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20VC with Harry Stebbings· Jun 27, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersfomo CEO Paul Erlanger on Social Trading, Fundraising and Product GrowthGuest Paul Erlanger · Host Harry StebbingsErlanger discusses building a trading app, raising from angels and venture firms, and combining social features with financial products.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 25, 2026PodcastMost Caffeine users have no idea they are on a blockchainHost Nathan LabenzDFINITY's Dominic Williams tells Nathan Labenz why a tamper-proof, unstoppable cloud is the right backend for AI that writes software from a chat box.
1:32:47ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 13, 2025PodcastA transformer co-author wants a $160 million model no company ownsHost Nathan LabenzIllia Polosukhin tells Nathan Labenz how NEAR turned a payments headache into a stack for private inference, shared-revenue training, and AI agents that still answer to a court.
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Lex Fridman· Dec 8, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Ten-Billion-Dollar Error Bar on Other People's MoneyGuest Coffeezilla · Host Lex FridmanYouTube investigator Coffeezilla walks Lex Fridman through how Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX turned a low-risk story into a customer-asset casino.
2:56:02ENLex Fridman· Nov 22, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe FBI Never Cracked a Password the Day They Took Silk RoadGuest Chris Tarbell · Host Lex FridmanFormer agent Chris Tarbell tells Lex Fridman how a timezone setting, a Gmail address, and an undercover admin brought down Ross Ulbricht — and why the best hackers are still out there.
7:47:52ENLex Fridman· Oct 20, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersYou Cannot Peacefully Start a New Government. Balaji Thinks That Is the Bug.Guest Balaji Srinivasan · Host Lex FridmanIn a seven-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, Balaji Srinivasan traces a single thread from the prime-number maze to network states, Wikipedia, the FDA, and crypto property rights.
2:29:24ENLex Fridman· Jul 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Hundred Users Signed Up and Never Came BackGuest Brian Armstrong · Host Lex FridmanCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on the buy button that found product-market fit, why he wants customers to leave his platform, and a company that refuses to be a political square.
4:14:40ENLex Fridman· May 11, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersHard Money Is the Control Knob of CivilizationGuest Saifedean Ammous · Host Lex FridmanSaifedean Ammous tells Lex Fridman why the hardness of money sets a society’s time preference, and why he thinks Bitcoin is the hardest money yet invented.
3:56:54ENLex Fridman· Apr 14, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersWhen You Inflate Money at 7% and Call It 2%, You Are Bleeding the PatientGuest Michael Saylor · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor argues that inflation is a vector, economics deserves a failing grade, and Bitcoin is the first ethical block of digital energy.
3:47:25ENLex Fridman· Mar 27, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersThe Original Internet Godfather Built Trust Among CybercriminalsGuest Brett Johnson · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Brett Johnson about ShadowCrew, social engineering, prison, and why most attacks still use holes everyone already knows about.
1:32:38ENLex Fridman· Dec 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersRay Dalio’s Big Cycle: Empires Fall When They Get Rich, Indebted, and at War With ThemselvesGuest Ray Dalio · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio about the 500-year rise and fall of reserve-currency empires, the U.S.–China contest, and the personal recipes that outlast any cycle.
2:15:27ENLex Fridman· Nov 20, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersHe Took People Down in 53 of 55 MMA Rounds. Then Two Clips Defined Him.Guest Ben Askren · Host Lex FridmanBen Askren talks with Lex Fridman about scoring fights, chasing hard matches, building a wrestling robot, and why he says he never proved he was the best.
2:39:51ENLex Fridman· Nov 11, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersChemical Rockets Are an Accident of HistoryGuest Neal Stephenson · Host Lex FridmanNeal Stephenson talks with Lex Fridman about WWII’s leftover launchers, why the stars need a religion, AR baby goats, and why fun is a better goal than greatness.
2:41:13ENLex Fridman· Nov 8, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Minefield Used to Be the Point: Niall Ferguson on Universities, Money, and 1914Guest Niall Ferguson · Host Lex FridmanThe historian tells Lex Fridman why he is founding a university in Austin, why money is a technology of trust, and which cabinet decision turned a European war into the twentieth century.
2:33:37ENLex Fridman· Oct 16, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersNumber Go Up Hides Freedom Go Up: Alex Gladstein on Bitcoin, Dictators, and Human RightsGuest Alex Gladstein · Host Lex FridmanThe Human Rights Foundation’s chief strategist argues that money was missing from the human-rights conversation, and that Bitcoin is a Trojan horse that turns greed into a tool for individual sovereignty.
1:52:29ENLex Fridman· Sep 6, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Valuable Moment in VR Is Taking Off the HeadsetGuest Jaron Lanier · Host Lex FridmanJaron Lanier on why virtual reality's gift is a refreshed real world, why he refuses to call algorithms creatures, and how data dignity could replace the lizard-brain economy of social media.
4:57:51ENLex Fridman· Jun 16, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersCharles Hoskinson Entered Crypto Expecting PrisonGuest Charles Hoskinson · Host Lex FridmanThe Cardano founder talks with Lex Fridman about proof of stake, formal methods, and why a blockchain should behave like a law of physics.
3:02:00ENLex Fridman· Jun 3, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersVitalik Buterin Walked Away From Billions of Dog Coins — Then Mapped Ethereum's Next DecadeGuest Vitalik Buterin · Host Lex FridmanIn a three-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Ethereum co-founder explains the Shiba Inu dump, proof of stake, rollups, and why he thinks most evil comes from fear.
2:59:57ENLex Fridman· May 1, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Farmer With a $50 Phone: Sergey Nazarov on Oracles, Trust, and Hybrid Smart ContractsGuest Sergey Nazarov · Host Lex FridmanThe Chainlink co-founder tells Lex Fridman how definitive truth, oracle networks, and cryptographically guaranteed contracts could leapfrog banks, insurers, and marble-column confidence.
4:03:49ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersMoney Is an Extension of the Mind: Robert Breedlove on Bitcoin from First PrinciplesGuest Robert Breedlove · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman and Robert Breedlove start from sovereignty and property, then follow money, inflation, and Bitcoin down to first principles of human action.
2:09:58ENLex Fridman· Apr 10, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersA 700-year clock and a trembling hand: Tyler Cowen’s war on mediocrityGuest Tyler Cowen · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast, the George Mason economist treats nuclear war as a Poisson process, then spends two hours arguing that growth is back, weirdos built America, and rank-20 universities are the real police of conformity.
2:31:59ENLex Fridman· Mar 31, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBitcoin Is an Island of Sturdiness: Nic Carter on Money That Cannot Be TunedGuest Nic Carter · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Castle Island Ventures partner Nic Carter about Bitcoin’s embedded values, the block size war, layered scaling, and why Satoshi’s exit still matters.
3:02:16ENLex Fridman· Mar 25, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersBitcoin Holders Don't Want the Price to RiseGuest Anthony Pompliano · Host Lex FridmanAnthony Pompliano talks with Lex Fridman about war, sound money, and why more than 95 percent of his net worth sits in Bitcoin.Load moreShowing 24 of 30