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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.
1:06:17EN20VC with Harry Stebbings· Mar 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersChris Dixon on Venture Strategy and the Future of BlockchainGuest Chris Dixon · Host Harry StebbingsThe a16z crypto leader discusses investment discipline, founder partnerships and his case for community-built internet services.
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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.Load moreShowing 24 of 31