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Cognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Sep 25, 2026PodcastAI Safety's Real Shortage Is Founders, Not IdeasHost Nathan LabenzHalcyon's Mike McCormick on launching about 30 AI safety, cyber, and biosecurity organizations in three years — and why experienced leaders, not more Google Docs, are the bottleneck.
1:25:13ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Aug 16, 2026PodcastA $500 Lamp Cut TB Transmission 90 Percent. Almost Nobody Buys OneHost Nathan LabenzAerolamp's Misha Gurevich and Vivian Belenky walk Patrick McKenzie through far-UVC at 222 nanometers: the lab science, the safety case, and why the bottleneck is awareness rather than physics.
1:56:16ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jul 22, 2025PodcastSB 813 Would Hand AI Safety Checks to Licensed Private Firms — If Government Can Watch the WatchersHost Nathan LabenzGillian Hadfield and Andrew Freedman want California to set AI safety outcomes, license competing certifiers, and give companies a rebuttable presumption in court if they pass.
1:22:31ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jun 25, 2025PodcastTwo 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.
1:32:29ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Feb 9, 2025Podcast17 Edits, Then 3 Prompts: Lovable Builds the Same App TwiceHost Nathan LabenzAnton Osika and Isaak Sundeman live-build a shopping comparison tool and argue that opinionated defaults—not open-ended agents—are how non-coders actually ship software.
1:29:14ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 29, 2024Podcast55% of People Have Had a Lucid Dream. Prophetic AI Wants the Rest to Have One Every NightHost Nathan LabenzProphetic AI co-founders Eric Wollberg and Wesley Berry tell Ate-a-Pi how a headband of EEG and focused ultrasound, steered by a neural transformer, is meant to light up the prefrontal cortex during REM.
56:56ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Apr 25, 2024PodcastA Week of PCB Layout in an Hour: Quilter Trains Agents, Not ImitatorsHost Nathan LabenzSpaceX alum Sergiy Nesterenko tells Will Summerlin how Quilter uses reinforcement learning to compile schematics into manufacturable boards, and why cloning human layouts would cap the system at human skill.
1:30:41ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· Jan 23, 2024PodcastThe Model Is a Baked Cake. NYT v. OpenAI Will Likely Cut a Middle PathHost Nathan LabenzTech lawyer Cecilia Ziniti maps the Constitution’s IP clause onto the New York Times lawsuit — and explains why a court is unlikely to order GPT-4 destroyed.
1:20:49ENCognitive Revolution "How AI Changes Everything"· May 25, 2023PodcastA Wafer-Scale Chip So AI Stops Waiting on AmdahlHost Nathan LabenzAndrew Feldman, CEO of Cerebras, tells Nathan Labenz why one 2.5-trillion-transistor die, sparse linear algebra, and a 16-machine supercomputer are a better shape than a GPU cluster.
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Lex Fridman· Aug 8, 2021PodcastThe Marvelous Proof Still Lives in the MarginHost Lex FridmanLuís and João Batalha, the brothers behind Fermat's Library, talk with Lex Fridman about hidden backstories, a publishing system that buys its own work twice, and how to sit with a paper until it finally clicks.
10:17ENLex FridmanPodcastWhy Great Robots Fail as Businesses, and What iRobot Got RightHost Lex FridmaniRobot co-founder Colin Angle explains why so many robotics companies collapse and how cost, vision and a clear user need shaped the Roomba.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcastWhy You Won't Know a Great Name When You See It: Inside Lexicon's Naming ProcessHost Lenny RachitskyDavid Placek of Lexicon Branding explains how his team names brands like Sonos, Azure, Windsurf and Vercel, and how founders can do it on a budget.
1:41:33ENLenny's PodcastPodcastTwo Days to a Founding Hypothesis: Inside the Foundation SprintHost Lenny RachitskyDesign Sprint creators Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky walk through a scripted 10-hour process that pins down customer, differentiation and approach before a startup builds anything.
1:29:39ENLenny's PodcastPodcastFive Customers, Three Prototypes, One Day: How to Find Your Bullseye CustomerHost Lenny RachitskyMichael Margolis of GV explains how to narrow to the customer most likely to adopt first — and how to prove it with a one-day research sprint.
1:39:23ENLenny's PodcastPodcastProven, Better, New: Mark Pincus on Copying Smartly, Killing Hope and Building an Internet TreasureHost Lenny RachitskyThe Zynga founder shares the framework behind his hit games, why starting small beats starting big, and what he sees coming for consumer apps in the age of AI.
1:21:35ENLenny's PodcastPodcastSelling the Mario-on-Blast: Jen Abel's Playbook for Growing Enterprise Sales from $1M to $10M ARRHost Lenny RachitskyEnterprise sales veteran Jen Abel explains why startups should chase tier-one logos, price near $100K, sell vision instead of problems, and hire salespeople who can act like founders.
1:04:39ENLex FridmanPodcastFrom Udacity's Self-Driving Car Course to a Startup for Retirement Communities: Oliver Cameron on Building VoyageHost Lex FridmanVoyage CEO Oliver Cameron tells the unconventional story of how a self-driving curriculum became a car, then a company that deploys in retirement communities, and what he learned along the way.