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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 15, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Defenders' Window: Greg Brockman on AI-Generated Knowledge, Drug Discovery, and the New Physics of CybersecurityHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOpenAI's president explains why solving open math problems is a proof point for science, how proactive agents change product form, and why security spending must exceed software spending.
46:08ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 13, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersComputers Beat Humans at Chess 30 Years Ago. Chess.com Still Has 250 Million PlayersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilChess.com CEO Erik Allebest tells Sarah Guo how a $56,000 domain became a $200 million business, and why superhuman AI made chess more popular, not obsolete.
49:20ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 23, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersHalf of Ask DoorDash Orders Hit a New Restaurant. In Ten Years There Will Be More Dashers, Not Fewer.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilCo-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang tell Sarah Guo how a conversational ordering interface moved DoorDash's hardest metric, why they built a 300-pound delivery robot in-house, and why autonomy means more human riders, not less.
41:05ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 9, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThere is no moat: Booking’s CEO on a $1 stock, agentic travel, and why AI still doesn’t move the numbersHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGlenn Fogel cashed his 1999 bonus, joined Priceline in February 2000, and watched the Nasdaq peak a week later — then spent 25 years turning a near-delisting into a thousand-fold ride he now wants to spend on AI travel agents.
42:27ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 4, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersEvery Company Can Operate at the Frontier — If It Owns the EvalsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAt Microsoft Build, Satya Nadella tells No Priors and Latent Space why AI is an ecosystem game, why private evals beat public benchmarks, and why the Azure networking team now asks for tokens instead of headcount.
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Lex Fridman· Feb 11, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThe Voice Note His Bot Couldn't Handle — and the Agent That Built Itself AnywayGuest OpenClaw · Host Lex FridmanPeter Steinberger tells Lex Fridman how a one-hour WhatsApp toy became GitHub's fastest-growing project, and what it cost him to keep it open.
44:17ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersHarvey’s bet: make every law firm AI-first, don’t become oneHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilOn the day Harvey got GPT-4 access, co-founder Winston locked himself in a room for 14 hours and rebuilt his associate workflow by hand.
42:11ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Nov 6, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersSnowflake's CEO Tells Customers to Spend AI a Thousand Dollars at a TimeHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSridhar Ramaswamy talks with Sarah Guo about Snowflake Intelligence, shutting down a homegrown model, and why defensibility is built every day, not planned.
27:19ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 23, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe Turing Test Passed. Warp's CEO Says Nobody Seemed to CareHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilZach Lloyd on distilling intelligence without consciousness, why a 40-year-old terminal is the front door for coding agents, and why senior engineers just got more expensive.
4:34:10ENLex Fridman· Sep 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersPavel Durov Built Telegram for a Billion People. He Still Won't Carry a Phone.Guest Pavel Durov · Host Lex FridmanIn a four-and-a-half-hour conversation with Lex Fridman, the Telegram founder traces freedom from a childhood move out of the Soviet Union to a French jail cell, a poisoning, and a 40-person engineering team.
1:01:49ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 25, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersTwo 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.
44:49ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersHow OpenEvidence Became the Clinical OS for 40% of U.S. DoctorsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounder Daniel Nadler tells No Priors how a free search tool for physicians, not an answer engine for patients, took high-stakes clinical knowledge in 18 months.
44:44ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jul 10, 2025Podcast · 2 speakers$1 of R&D, 35x the return: why Parker Conrad says platforms beat point solutionsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Rippling CEO on Zenefits, founder psychology, and why shared underlying capabilities—not narrow focus—win in enterprise software.
2:12:04ENLex Fridman· Jun 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFrom a Five-Year Phone Queue to 480 Trillion Tokens a MonthGuest Sundar Pichai · Host Lex FridmanSundar Pichai talks with Lex Fridman about Chennai, the AI package, Search, Chrome, Waymo, and why he stayed calm when the headlines said Google was finished.
31:34ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 15, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersOne Company Now Holds as Many Documents as the Entire Early WebHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilGlean CEO Arvind Jain tells No Priors why enterprise search was a graveyard, how transformers finally made it work, and why a product that searches too well can be too dangerous to sell.
32:15ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 8, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe 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.
4:25:19ENLex Fridman· Apr 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA shareware text editor, a 30-hour binge, and a five-year war with AppleGuest Tim Sweeney · Host Lex FridmanTim Sweeney traces Unreal Engine’s thirty-year climb, the four-week birth of Fortnite Battle Royale, a new language for the metaverse, and why he thinks Apple is on the wrong side of computing history.
50:35ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 13, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersCopilot Already Writes Half the Code. GitHub's CEO Says Agents Still Have Four Gates to ClearHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThomas Dohmke on agent mode, why median developers are not going anywhere, and how AI is repricing the tools that write software.
40:33ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 27, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersModerna was only company 18. The real product is the company factoryHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilNoubar Afeyan tells No Priors how Flagship Pioneering turned starting companies into a profession, underwrites scientific uncertainty, and wants AI to run discovery the way Waymo drives.
49:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Feb 14, 2025Podcast · 2 speakers86 Out of 100: Harvey's Playbook for Selling AI Into LawHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilWinston Weinberg on a Reddit blind test, expanding-and-collapsing product design, and why Harvey started with century-old firms instead of the mid-market.
31:18ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 19, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersElias Torres sold a billion-dollar company and called it a failure. Agency is the redo.Host Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Drift founder wants $1 billion in revenue with 100 people, one email address, and software that works like a text to someone who actually shows up.
38:05ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Dec 5, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFrom Zero to $20M ARR in Two Months: Bolt's Moat Lives in the BrowserHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilStackBlitz CEO Eric Simons tells No Priors how a five-year WebContainers bet, an open-sourced prompt, and a community of non-coders turned Bolt.new into an overnight full-stack generator.
29:29ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Oct 17, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Week AI Won Its First Nobels, Two Investors Listed Who Is Most at RiskHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilSarah Guo and Elad Gil talk NotebookLM, intelligent NPCs, artificial wombs, OpenAI’s o1, and which businesses look AI-durable.
31:29ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Sep 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRippling skipped the chatbot and stamped employees after 90 days of workHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilCOO Matt MacInnis tells No Priors how Talent Signal reads source code, tickets, and customer conversations, then gives managers one calibrated label: high potential, typical, or pay attention.Load moreShowing 24 of 206