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No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 6, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersThree 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.
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Lex Fridman· Jul 28, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersIf 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.
3:51:47ENLex Fridman· Jun 30, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersForty-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.
45:00ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jun 18, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersLip-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.
30:34ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· May 21, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersCerebras 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.
5:10:12ENLex Fridman· Mar 11, 2026Podcast · 2 speakersYou 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.
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.
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.
4:30:02ENLex Fridman· Jul 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersGenghis Khan Never Fought a Battle He Thought He Could LoseGuest Jack Weatherford · Host Lex FridmanAnthropologist Jack Weatherford tells Lex Fridman how an abandoned boy on the Mongolian steppe built the largest contiguous empire in history—and why conquest is only part of the story.
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.
3:24:36ENLex Fridman· May 24, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersA tank man came home and could not stayGuest James Holland · Host Lex FridmanHistorian James Holland tells Lex Fridman why World War II was an ideological war of factories, letters, and logistics — and why Germany could not win it.
3:29:02ENLex Fridman· Apr 17, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersRobert Rodriguez: Sift the Ashes, Keep the Pipe Open, Don't BlinkGuest Robert Rodriguez · Host Lex FridmanThe director of El Mariachi, Desperado, Sin City, and Alita: Battle Angel tells Lex Fridman how limitation, failure, sound, and identity became his method.
3:09:05ENLex Fridman· Mar 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersFrom a Ukrainian Dugout, Douglas Murray Refuses to Forget the ObviousGuest Douglas Murray · Host Lex FridmanWatching the Oval Office blowup from an eastern-front bunker, the author of *On Democracies and Death Cults* talks Putin, Zelenskyy, Hamas, Netanyahu, and the people who say they love death more than life.
3:17:34ENLex Fridman· Mar 16, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersIndia will see eye to eye: Narendra Modi on fasting, democracy, and peaceGuest Narendra Modi · Host Lex FridmanAfter forty-five hours on water, Lex Fridman sits down with India's prime minister for a three-hour conversation on poverty, faith, war, and what holds a civilization together.
27:12ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 30, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersWhy Rick Caruso's Palisades Village Stood While Two Manhattans BurnedHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Los Angeles developer and former mayoral candidate on empty hydrants, 40 years of uncut brush, and rebuilding in a year instead of a decade.
3:06:39ENLex Fridman· Jan 5, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersZelenskyy Refused to Speak Russian. Then He Explained Why a Pause Is Not PeaceGuest Volodymyr Zelenskyy · Host Lex FridmanUkraine's president tells Lex Fridman why language, NATO, and leverage all come back to a ceasefire that already failed.
3:35:06ENLex Fridman· Dec 8, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe 18-year-old who cannot remember America without TrumpGuest Saagar Enjeti · Host Lex FridmanSaagar Enjeti tells Lex Fridman why 2024 realigned the country along a college degree, and why MAGA is a rejection of cultural elitism rather than a policy program.
1:57:09ENLex Fridman· Nov 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThe Difference Between a Madman and a Genius Is SuccessGuest Javier Milei · Host Lex FridmanArgentina's president tells Lex Fridman how a libertarian economist tried to stop hyperinflation without becoming, in his words, a liberal fool.
2:40:25ENLex Fridman· Sep 25, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersThree Out of Four Federal Bureaucrats Should Go Home, Vivek Ramaswamy SaysGuest Vivek Ramaswamy · Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman's podcast, the biotech founder and former Republican presidential candidate argues for a 75 percent cut in the federal workforce, a creedal American identity, and a Ukraine deal aimed at peeling Russia away from China.
3:42:21ENLex Fridman· Sep 12, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersRome Always Raised Another ArmyGuest Gregory Aldrete · Host Lex FridmanHistorian Gregory Aldrete tells Lex Fridman how a city of mud huts absorbed the Mediterranean, survived Hannibal, and then tore itself apart over the spoils.
2:12:04ENLex Fridman· Aug 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersCraig Jones Drove a Bag of Cash to Rogan — Then Put $2 Million on a Jiu-Jitsu MatGuest Craig Jones · Host Lex FridmanThe Australian grappler tells Lex Fridman how a Kazakhstan horse pit led to Ukraine, FPV drones, coral-belt trolling, and a tournament scheduled against ADCC.
3:04:08ENLex Fridman· Jul 2, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersWalk the Rooms: Ivanka Trump on Building, Politics, and the Cost of Hitting SendGuest Ivanka Trump · Host Lex FridmanIn 1960s Czechoslovakia, a 14-year-old ski racer came home from Austria and reported first to the local police — enough detail to be believed, not enough to look like a flight risk.
2:27:51ENLex Fridman· Apr 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersNeil Adams Still Wakes in a Sweat From an Olympic Final He Cannot ReachGuest Neil Adams · Host Lex FridmanThe judo world champion and two-time Olympic silver medalist talks with Lex Fridman about Moscow, Los Angeles, the luxury of danger, and why a real champion is the one who does the right thing when they lose.Load moreShowing 24 of 197