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1:05:44ENMarvin Schwaibold on AI-Powered Design, Interactive Prototypes and Better WebsitesAaron Epstein, Marvin Schwaibold · Y CombinatorShopify’s product design studio lead shows how he uses AI to build and refine interactions, then reviews six websites with Aaron Epstein.
44:28ENTibo on Coding Agents, Faster AI and OpenAI’s Product DirectionMatthew Berman, Thibault Sottiaux · Forward FutureOpenAI’s Tibo discusses agent interfaces, usage resets, model efficiency and the trade-offs behind faster inference.
5:10:12ENYou Don't Need a CFO to Make World of WarcraftGuest Jeff Kaplan · Host Lex FridmanJeff Kaplan traces the line from 6,000 hours of EverQuest to Overwatch's six-week origin, Titan's collapse, and a 34-person studio that refuses to hand the golden goose over.
2:45:26ENDan Houser on Fake Worlds You Want to Live InGuest Dan Houser · Host Lex FridmanThe Rockstar co-founder talks with Lex Fridman about GTA, Red Dead Redemption, character craft, leaving the company, and why language models will not write the last five percent.
1:01:49ENTwo Academic Hours a Day, and 96 Percent of Kids Say They Love SchoolHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilTrilogy founder Joe Liemandt, now principal of Alpha School, tells No Priors how an AI tutor, a two-hour bargain with fifth graders, and a sports-coach ethos are meant to scale to a billion children.
1:50:28ENThe 87-Kilobyte Program Two Billion People Open Every MonthGuest Dave Plummer · Host Lex FridmanDave Plummer talks Lex Fridman through Task Manager, old-school Microsoft, and how an autistic mind actually works.
1:09:11ZH → EnglishGuang Mi on the Diverging Paths of Large Models, AI Products, and the Startup WindowGuest 广密 · Host 张小珺Guang Mi reviews how model companies are splitting into different strategies, the brand moat around ChatGPT, and new opportunities opened by products such as Claude Code. He believes the window for AI startups is shrinking, but great product experiences, sound team judgment, and non-consensus innovation can still create room to win.
47:05ENLogan Kilpatrick on AI Developers, Interfaces, and the Future of ModelsMatthew Berman, Logan Kilpatrick · Forward FutureIn a July 2025 conversation, Google’s Logan Kilpatrick discusses Windsurf, agent interfaces, coding skills, Veo, and the shifting boundary between models and application scaffolding.
32:15ENThe Hardest Part of Learning Is Getting Yourself to StartHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilDuolingo CEO Luis von Ahn tells Sarah Guo how two-minute lessons, streaks, an 83 percent accuracy target, and large language models turned language study into a consumer product.
3:43:34ENAt 27, Pieter Levels Stared at a Hotel Ceiling. Then He Shipped Twelve Startups in a YearGuest Pieter Levels · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the indie hacker behind Photo AI, Nomad List, and Remote OK about viral AI products, digital-nomad loneliness, and why he still deploys PHP to production from a sofa.
1:03:36ENErin Murphy on Designing Tools for Expert UsersYaron Minsky, Erin Murphy · Jane StreetFrom NASA scientists to Jane Street engineers, a UX designer explains how observation, drawing and collaboration reveal what complex tools need to do.
36:31ENFigma's One-Way Door Swung Open — With a Billion-Dollar ConsolationHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAfter regulators killed the Adobe deal, Dylan Field tells No Priors how Figma kept building, where AI belongs in design, and why the company was never meant to be only a design tool.
38:48ENShopify Built a Copilot, Not an Autopilot, for Every MerchantHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilShopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates on collapsing duplicate engines, shipping AI that proposes but never commits, and teaching storefront search to understand a sweater.
47:42ENSal Khan Thinks Every Child Can Finally Have a TutorHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Khan Academy founder tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how a family tutoring side project became an AI teaching assistant, and why he believes education is on the cusp of its biggest positive shift.
1:59:13ENSimone Giertz Spent Two and a Half Years on a Coat HangerGuest Simone Giertz · Host Lex FridmanThe inventor formerly known as the Queen of Shitty Robots talks with Lex Fridman about everyday objects, spectacular failure, a brain tumor, and why enthusiasm beats duty.
35:36ENAGI as a side effect: Noam Shazeer on Transformers, Character.AI, and two-hour chatsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn April 2023, the Transformer co-author told No Priors how a 22-person startup turned open-ended chat into a consumer product — and treated AGI as a byproduct of making the model smarter.
39:10ENNever Cite More Than Five Links: Perplexity's Bet on Answer EnginesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounded in August 2022, Perplexity was barely seven months old when its CEO and CTO sat down with No Priors to explain how an answer engine takes on Google.
2:17:46ENOne Great Video Beats a Hundred Mediocre OnesGuest MrBeast · Host Lex FridmanMrBeast tells Lex Fridman why evergreen hits outlast volume, why YouTube comments are a disgrace, and why an AI clone of himself would drain every video of meaning.
2:44:52ENDon't Try to Pen Them In: Todd Howard on Skyrim, Starfield, and Accidental DoorsGuest Todd Howard · Host Lex FridmanThe Bethesda Game Studios director on saying yes to players, leaving a test cell full of every weapon, and why Starfield's empty planets are the point.
3:03:33ENA Robot Is Whatever Still Has MagicGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanKate Darling tells Lex Fridman why grocery-store Marty is a real-life Clippy, why animal history is a better guide than humanoid fantasy, and what the Epstein scandal revealed about MIT.
2:46:26ENApple Was a $5 Billion Company in Debt When Tony Fadell Built the iPodGuest Tony Fadell · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Thermostat, about the decisions, fights, and luck behind those products.
2:44:38ENPosting a photo of this moment was not a product category yetGuest Kevin Systrom · Host Lex FridmanKevin Systrom tells Lex Fridman how Instagram began as a failed check-in app, hid a slow upload behind a caption screen, and later sold a thirteen-person company to Facebook for a billion dollars.
1:00:04ENTy Overby on Bonsai and Building Functional User InterfacesYaron Minsky, Ty Overby · Jane StreetWhy Jane Street built a composable OCaml UI framework, and what its design reveals about incremental computation, browsers, and visual programming.
1:52:29ENThe 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.
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