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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 31, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersNetic's Agents Answer the Phone When the Heat BreaksHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder Melisa Tokmak tells Elad Gil how a two-year-old platform became the AI operations layer for HVAC, roofing, pet care, and other essential services.
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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 6, 2026PodcastCreators 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.
1:37:50ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 8, 2026PodcastGranola 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.
41:38ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 11, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersElevenLabs Hit $300 Million ARR by Building Voice Before Anyone Believed It Was the InterfaceHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn Poland, watching a foreign film is a special kind of pain: one narrator, every character, a flat delivery from start to finish.
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Sequoia Capital· Oct 14, 2025PodcastThe Last Mile Is Where Contact-Center AI Gets RealCresta CEO Ping Wu and Sequoia's Doug Leone on why 17 to 20 million agents, legacy systems, and last-mile integration will decide who wins customer experience.
59:38ENSequoia Capital· Jul 1, 2025PodcastElevenLabs Was Supposed to Be RoadkillCo-founder Mati Staniszewski on dirty audio data, prosumer virality, and why voice should become the default interface for technology.
38:43ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 27, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTwo in Five Doctors Want Out. An On-Call Cardiologist Built the Note That Lets Them StayHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAbridge CEO Shiv Rao on treating the doctor-patient conversation as healthcare's source of truth, and why the company ran straight at the hardest health systems.
1:05:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 19, 2025PodcastThe 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.
30:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 16, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersBilt Saved 65 Support Seats. Decagon's Founder Says Most Agent Ideas Still Won't SellHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilJesse Zhang on why customer support is the golden agent use case, why instruction following beats o1-style reasoning, and the two filters that kill most agent startups.
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Unsupervised Learning: With Jacob Effron· Oct 29, 2024PodcastDeepL Beat Google at Translation by Refusing to Be a General ModelHost Jacob EffronOnly 18 percent of the world speaks English—and a Cologne startup turned that fact into a $2 billion language-AI company.
32:07ENSequoia Capital· Oct 15, 2024PodcastA 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.
34:09ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 27, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFive Independent Teams Found the Same 10-to-1 Mix That Beats TransformersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe authors of S4 and Mamba argue that mostly state-space layers plus a dash of attention is the architecture that actually works—and they are shipping it first as real-time speech.
1:45:11ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 19, 2024PodcastAI already beats doctors at empathy. Catastrophe is still not the defaultHost Nathan LabenzNathan Labenz tells Sarah Hastings Woodhouse why he is an adoption accelerationist and a hyperscaling pauser, and lists eight reasons he will not join the hardcore doomers.
1:22:43ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 9, 2024PodcastFive billion minutes of calls: why Dialpad trained its own business LLMHost Nathan LabenzDan O’Connell on real-time speech, verticalizing the stack, and why he and Nathan Labenz disagree about when AI employees show up.
1:17:20ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Dec 9, 2023PodcastHume wants well-being in the objective function, measured 53 emotions at a timeHost Nathan LabenzAlan Cowen tells Nathan Labenz how Hume AI reads face, voice, and language, sells custom models at $1.66 an hour, and wants long-horizon well-being to override every other AI goal.
1:20:55ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Mar 24, 2023PodcastA Custom Voice Used to Cost $10,000. Ten Minutes of Audio Now Clones It.Host Nathan LabenzPlay.ht CEO Mahmoud Felfel tells Nathan Labenz how text-to-speech jumped from robotic cloud APIs to director-level voice generation — and why the company is racing to put brakes on abuse.
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Lex Fridman· Jan 4, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Speech Company That Gets Paid to Label Its Own Training DataGuest Dan Kokotov · Host Lex FridmanRev VP of engineering Dan Kokotov tells Lex Fridman why a $1.25-a-minute human transcript, a 14% machine word-error rate, and a two-sided freelancer market are the same flywheel.
1:45:58ENLex Fridman· Dec 14, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersNine of ten colleagues said far-field speech was impossibleGuest Rohit Prasad · Host Lex FridmanRohit Prasad, Amazon’s vice president and head scientist for Alexa, talks with Lex Fridman about conversational AI, the Alexa Prize, trust, and why a 20-minute chat is still years away.
1:09:31ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Staircase to an AI Tutor: Connor Wick on Speak, Moats, and Voice-First LearningHost Jacob EffronHow Speak's CEO is building a fluency product one model-capability step at a time, from specialized speech models to evals, pricing, and the future of education.
1:09:00ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastThe Meeting Is the Moat: Fireflies.ai’s Path to 16 Million UsersHost Jacob EffronKrish Ramani explains how Fireflies.ai turned AI note-taking into a meeting chief of staff, why he avoids fine-tuning, and how a startup competes with Microsoft, Zoom, and Google.
45:46ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastGiving AI a Nervous System: Voice, Touch, and the Post-Keyboard InterfaceHost Jacob EffronLiveKit's Russ explains how voice AI, multimodal chat, cloud browsers, and on-device models are reshaping how humans work with machines.
51:45ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastCameras Optional: HeyGen's Joshua Xu on Avatars, Orchestration and Building Ahead of the ModelsHost Jacob EffronHeyGen co-founder and CEO Joshua Xu explains how AI avatars are replacing the camera for business video, and how the company handles quality, trust and safety, and capital.
1:04:27ENUnsupervised Learning: With Jacob EffronPodcastPeter Deng on Why AI Pricing, Evals and Voice Are Still MisunderstoodHost Jacob EffronA product leader's guide to pricing AI around work, making evals the spec, and why voice and proactive agents are underrated