Results
421 articlesSort
1:56:28ENWill Larson: The Revised Rules of Engineering ManagementGuest Will Larson · Host Gergely OroszThe 2010s taught engineering managers never to make a technical decision again. Will Larson, CTO of Imprint and author of Staff Engineer, argues that era is over: managers who cannot get back into the work are in a career trap.
1:59:52ENDavid Qian on Succession, Robotics, and Finding His Own AmbitionGuest David Qian (Qian Cheng) · Host 张小珺Ecovacs CEO David Qian reflects on inheriting a founder-built company, learning to lead through mistakes, and choosing a patient path in robotics. His account treats succession as an ongoing effort to build the company for a new era, not a finish line.
1:19:50ENSameer Dholakia on AI Investing, Bessemer's Growth Strategy and Company CultureGuest Sameer Dholakia · Host Harry StebbingsThe Bessemer partner explains his approach to pricing fast-growing AI companies, backing founders and building teams, while discussing the risks behind his optimistic forecasts.
56:49ENAlfred Lin on Building in the AI Era: The Diffusion Gap, Founder Conviction, and Fire and IceAlfred Lin, Jason Zhang, Tanvir Bhathal · Sequoia CapitalAt Stanford AI Club, Sequoia’s Alfred Lin explains where he sees opportunity in AI and why learning, human understanding, and operating discipline still shape enduring companies.
58:54ENMike Cannon-Brookes on AI Agents, Enterprise Context and the Future of InterfacesGuest Mike Cannon-Brookes · Host Harry StebbingsAtlassian's CEO argues that agents make product design more important, explains the trade-offs in enterprise AI, and makes the case for slower thinking.
1:12:06ENMax Freeman on Building Ramp’s Sales MachineGuest Max Freeman · Host Harry StebbingsRamp’s sales leader explains how he hires, trains and equips sellers, from early outbound experiments to enterprise forecasting and AI-assisted research.
1:11:14ENVenky Ganesan on AI Venture Investing, Ownership and the Cost of Missing OutGuest Venky Ganesan · Host Harry StebbingsMenlo Ventures' partner discusses seed bets, concentrated follow-ons, market cycles, investor liquidity and the discipline needed when AI valuations accelerate.
1:15:42ENAlex Mashrabov on Higgsfield's AI Video Business, Model Costs and GrowthGuest Alex Mashrabov · Host Harry StebbingsHiggsfield's founder explains the search for product-market fit, how he calculates annualized revenue and why creative workflows matter more than chasing model benchmarks.
1:16:29ENDavid Morehead on Endowment Liquidity, Venture Returns and Portfolio ConstructionGuest David Morehead · Host Harry StebbingsBaylor University’s chief investment officer explains how his team balances private assets, public markets and spending needs, and why time matters as much as a return multiple.
1:21:52ENMatteo Franceschetti on Eight Sleep, AI Teams and the Cost of AmbitionGuest Matteo Franceschetti · Host Harry StebbingsEight Sleep's CEO discusses customer acquisition, hardware economics, AI-assisted operations and the personal trade-offs behind building a company.
1:29:22ENEno Reyes on AI Model Economics, Enterprise Control and Factory's StrategyGuest Eno Reyes · Host Harry StebbingsFactory's CTO discusses cost per outcome, model routing, open models, enterprise hiring and his expectations for the AI market.
1:09:44ENAndrew Macdonald on Uber’s Membership Strategy, Autonomy and AIGuest Andrew Macdonald · Host Harry StebbingsUber’s president and COO discusses marketplace incentives, autonomous vehicles, the company’s China exit and the challenge of measuring AI’s value.
39:30ENThree Trillion-Dollar Companies in Five Years. Elad Gil Would Not Bet on a Fleet of Them NextHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn a host-only episode of No Priors, Sarah Guo and Elad Gil separate market size from speed, argue that the best new founders are getting too meek, and treat token budgets as the next corporate power law.
3:46:18ENIf You Take Slavery Out of the Picture, There Is No Civil WarGuest Gary Gallagher · Host Lex FridmanIn 1860, enslaved people were worth more than every railroad and factory in the United States combined.
3:51:47ENForty-Six Percent of Emperors Were Overthrown. The Empire Lasted AnywayGuest Anthony Kaldellis · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Anthony Kaldellis walks Lex Fridman through 2,200 years of Roman history and argues that what we call Byzantium was Rome itself.
1:06:10ENK. R. Sridhar on Distributed Power, AI Demand and Energy AccessGuest K. R. Sridhar · Host Harry StebbingsBloom Energy’s CEO discusses data-center power, manufacturing, natural gas and his vision for broader electricity access.
1:16:37ENNikesh Arora on Enterprise AI, Cybersecurity and Model EconomicsGuest Nikesh Arora · Host Harry StebbingsPalo Alto Networks’ CEO discusses model depth, token costs, security and how leaders can adapt large organizations.
1:20:59ENFlexport CEO Ryan Petersen on Logistics, AI and FundraisingGuest Ryan Petersen · Host Harry StebbingsPetersen discusses the economics of global freight, automating operational work, venture financing and the lessons he has taken from building Flexport.
45:00ENLip-Bu Tan took the hardest job in chips to save IntelHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Cadence veteran and semiconductor investor tells No Priors how he is rebuilding Intel's culture, balance sheet, and foundry, and why he still wants a 10x from here.
41:20ENA $4 Million Cabinet and a Trillion-Dollar Year: Jensen Huang Turns the AI Factory Into a Manufacturing StoryOn Sequoia's Training Data stage, NVIDIA's CEO walks a sixty-country audience from ChatGPT's parlor tricks to agentic work, a five-layer industrial cake, and why radiology hiring went up.
56:10ENReid Hoffman Pledged a Billion to Free DeepMind. Hassabis Never Played the CardHost Jacob EffronSebastian Mallaby's biography of Demis Hassabis, discussed with Jacob Effron, is a story of a founder who tried to stop the AI race and then became one of its central players.
56:55ENNico Laqua on Corgi’s Work Culture, Fundraising and AIGuest Nico Laqua · Host Harry StebbingsCorgi’s co-founder describes a seven-day work culture, the company’s cafe and equity practices, and his approach to investors and AI.
30:34ENCerebras Waited Ten Years for a Market That Finally Needed SpeedHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder and CEO Andrew Feldman walks No Priors through wafer-scale chips, a $20 billion OpenAI deal, and why a dinner-plate processor only mattered once AI became an everyday tool.
1:08:23ENShiv Rao on Building Abridge, Clinical Workflows and AIGuest Shiv Rao · Host Harry StebbingsThe Abridge co-founder discusses years of market development, model choices, data trust and the limits of automating clinical work.
Load moreShowing 24 of 421









