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2:23:43ENHe Bought an Android, Two SIMs, and Left Claude Watching His InboxHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz asked a dozen friends how to visit China and got two irreconcilable answers.
40:22ENBuilding Gets Easier Near AGI. Knowing What to Build Does Not.Listen Labs CEO Alfred Wahlforss on AI interview agents, a 30-million-person audience, and why transcripts beat credit-card data when you need to predict customers.
1:23:53ENCreators Cheer Filler-Word Removal and Boo Generative VideoHost Nathan LabenzDescript CEO Laura Burkhauser maps the same customers' three-speed reaction to AI: deterministic buttons they love, an agentic co-editor they want but scold, and generative video they actively hate.
1:37:50ENGranola Added More Customers Than Almost Anyone by Being Surprisingly UnambitiousHost Nathan LabenzCo-founder Sam Stephenson tells Nathan Labenz how a calm notes app for frazzled meeting days, one Slack-sharing loop, and a refusal to promise the burning-fire work built a $1.5 billion company.
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.
1:50:53ENShe asked to stop being Mimi, so he started shopping for a workstationHost Nathan LabenzThe star and director of Smiles and Kisses You on Replika, identity, and a life Christopher Stokes refuses to recommend.
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.
39:06ENHe Couldn't Ask His Grandfather What to Do, So He Built a Digital MindOn Sequoia's Training Data, Delphi founder Dara Ladjevardian explains how authorized digital minds turn people into conversational media without replacing them.
1:19:46ENSuspended from Columbia, He Raised $15 Million to Cheat on EverythingHost Nathan LabenzRoy Lee, founder of Cluely, argues that an undetectable desktop overlay, AI maximalism, and a post-AGI life of 800-year spans are the same bet.
59:38ENElevenLabs Was Supposed to Be RoadkillCo-founder Mati Staniszewski on dirty audio data, prosumer virality, and why voice should become the default interface for technology.
1:22:31ENTwo Hours a Day, 99th Percentile: How Alpha School Made 2-Sigma RealHost Nathan LabenzMacKenzie Price explains how Alpha School uses adaptive apps—not chatbots—to finish core academics in two hours a day and still beat the growth models.
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.
51:19ENSal Khan's $15 Tutor Hit 1.4 Million Users. Making Kids Actually Use It Is the ProductHost Jacob EffronThe Khan Academy founder tells Redpoint why an AI tutor still cannot teach most students alone, and why districts are paying $15 a year after an $86 billion tutoring hangover.
1:41:29ENFiverr’s CEO Sent a Wake-Up Memo: AI Won’t Take Your Job. A Peer Who Uses It Will.Host Nathan LabenzMicha Kaufman tells Nathan Labenz how a 15-year freelance marketplace is trying to give creators their own models instead of letting public AI eat their work for free.
1:05:11ENThe Fake Five-Second Hold: Voice AI Is Already Negotiating With TruckersHost Nathan Labenza16z partners Olivia Moore and Anish Acharya walk Nathan Labenz through what is working in voice AI — call centers, coaches, companions — and what still is not.
51:16ENGoogle Labs Pops Champagne at 10,000 Weekly UsersJosh Woodward on fifty-day sprints, fading paragraph prompts, and why a number Search would never notice is the point of an AI incubator.
54:47ENNinety Thousand Games a Day: Roblox's Bet That AI Should Wash the DishesStef Corazza, head of generative AI at Roblox, tells Sequoia how a free Studio assistant, a community data bargain, and a 3D foundation model are meant to teach AI game development.
38:48ENWho Wants to Chat With an Expense Report?Ramp CEO Eric Glyman tells Sequoia why the chatbot gold rush missed the point, and why the better analogy for company finance is a Waymo: self-driving money.
1:24:48ENCanva's AI Features Have Been Used 10 Billion Times. The Playbook Is Not a Chat BoxHost Nathan LabenzJohn Milinovich, Canva's generative-AI product lead, walks Nathan Labenz through automation versus augmentation, concept-level interfaces, evals without a design arena, and why application-layer companies still have a decade of room.
55:16ENGemini’s API Grew 14× in Six Months. Google’s PMs Explain the Catch-Up.Host Nathan LabenzLogan Kilpatrick and Shrestha Basu Mallick walk through search grounding, Gemini Flash’s price-latency quadrant, and why a near-tied leaderboard still leaves Google third in most developers’ queues.
32:07ENA 10-Person Team, One Click, and Two Years of Fake DeadlinesNotebookLM’s product and design leads explain how a source-grounded research tool became a viral two-host podcast generator—and what they refuse to add next.
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.
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