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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.
2:03:23ENWe Have No King: How Viking Raiders Remade Medieval EuropeHost Lex FridmanHistorian Lars Brownworth walks Lex Fridman from Lindisfarne to Vinland, arguing that three centuries of raids were a lesson in speed, pragmatism, and creative destruction.
1:44:35ENJoe Hudson: $500 Billion Went Into AI, and Nobody Defined 'Good for Humanity'Host Nathan LabenzSam Altman says the OpenAI coach's superpower is emotional clarity — and that it will be one of the most critical skills in a post-AGI world.
1:28:01ENThe Q* Letter Never Happened: Helen Toner on OpenAI, Adaptation Buffers, and AI at WarHost Nathan LabenzThe former OpenAI director explains why a famous Reuters story was false, why locking down AI will not work, and how military “battle buddy” demos skip the hard questions.
3:15:17ENDemocrats still think politics runs on money. It runs on attention.Host Lex FridmanEzra Klein and Derek Thompson tell Lex Fridman why the left keeps authorizing billions it cannot build, and why DOGE is a fight over control rather than efficiency.
1:02:32ENThe More Important the Issue, the Less Anyone Discusses ItHost Lex FridmanBernie Sanders tells Lex Fridman why drug lobbyists, campaign cash, and a healthcare system built for profit keep the biggest American problems off the table.
1:04:17ENTrump Tells Lex Fridman the Stick Usually WinsHost Lex FridmanDays before debating Kamala Harris, the former president talked winning, Ukraine, the 2020 election, and the border chart he still carries.
56:35ENThey Asked for a Fraction of the 20 Percent and Still Got NoHost Nathan LabenzZvi Mowshowitz and Nathan Labenz unpack Jan Leike’s resignation, OpenAI’s broken compute pledge, and what a safety culture looks like when the money does not follow the mission.
1:53:10ENThe Board Member Who Had Never Used GPT-4Host Nathan LabenzA GPT-4 red teamer on the safety gap he saw a year before OpenAI's board fired Sam Altman.
2:26:29ENYe said schools should teach only engineering. Then he spent an hour rewriting history.Host Lex FridmanOn Lex Fridman’s podcast in October 2022, the artist formerly known as Kanye West talked design, family, and a theory about Jewish control that the host would not let stand.
2:59:02ENWhen the Answers Are Already Known, Look Where Everyone Stopped LookingHost Lex FridmanGeorges St-Pierre, John Danaher, and Gordon Ryan sit with Lex Fridman to unpack success, confidence, training, and why the greatest of all time may not even be born yet.
1:30:46ENSkip the Funnel of Doom: Cursor's Playbook for Hiring the Top 50Host Lenny RachitskyAdam Ward, Cursor's head of talent, explains how to scope, map and relentlessly pursue the best people instead of hiring whoever survives a recruiting funnel.
1:27:23ENGoing All In on AI at Cisco: Jeetu Patel on Platforms, Packet Loss and Telling People the TruthHost Lenny RachitskyCisco's president and chief product officer explains how a 90,000-person company went AI-first, what Cisco does in the AI infrastructure stack, and the leadership and career lessons behind it.
1:22:39ENBarrels, Undiscovered Talent and Ugly Babies: Keith Rabois on Building Companies in the AI EraHost Lenny RachitskyKhosla Ventures' Keith Rabois explains how he spots talent, why he avoids customer feedback for consumer products, and how AI is reshaping product, design and engineering roles.
1:24:19ENThe Product Owner Trap: Why SAFe Creates Order-Takers and How to Build Real Product Management at ScaleHost Lenny RachitskyMelissa Perri explains the history of Scrum and SAFe, why product owners often become backlog clerks, and how large organizations can reconnect product work to customer value.
1:31:56ENGive Away Your Legos: Molly Graham's Handbook for Leading Through HypergrowthHost Lenny RachitskyMolly Graham walks through the frameworks she built at Google, Facebook, Quip and CZI, from giving away your Legos and the J-curve to the waterline model and six rules for goals.
1:41:43ENPumping Heat Into the Infinite Game: Tobi Lütke on First Principles and Human PotentialHost Lenny RachitskyShopify's founder explains how dissatisfaction with the status quo, long time horizons, and unquantifiable taste drive better products and companies.
1:12:07ENSystems Thinkers Over Specialists: Netflix CPTO Elizabeth Stone on Talent, AI and Excellence as an Operating SystemHost Lenny RachitskyNetflix's chief product and technology officer explains why blurred roles are still a storming phase, what skills she is hiring for, and how the company keeps a high bar as AI changes how work gets done.
1:38:14ENThe Conductor's Playbook: Naomi Gleit on Growth, Clarity, and Building at MetaHost Lenny RachitskyMeta's head of product explains how she created her own luck, built the early growth playbook, and runs complex product teams with extreme clarity.
28:48ENWhy Claude Still Needs a PM: Anthropic's Product Leaders on Judgment, Agents and Parallel BetsHost Lenny RachitskyAt the Lenny and Friends Summit, Anthropic's Ami Vora and Mike Krieger tell Dan Shipper how the product role is changing when technology shifts every couple of months.
1:19:25ENInside Mercado Libre: How 18,000 Engineers Ship 30,000 Changes a Day Without an Army of PMsHost Lenny RachitskySebastian Barrios, formerly head of product and engineering at Mercado Libre and now SVP of Engineering at Roblox, explains how a Latin American giant runs engineering and product as one team.
1:54:54ENSlow Down, Ask Questions, Sell the Vacation: An Executive Negotiator's PlaybookHost Lenny RachitskyJacob Warwick explains how senior operators win bigger offers by treating a job search like an enterprise sale and negotiating collaboratively rather than confrontationally.
1:01:05ENThe Most Popular Product Lessons of the Year, From Positioning to Hard ConversationsHost Lenny RachitskyA countdown of Lenny's ten most downloaded episodes, distilled into practical lessons on positioning, analytics, growth, career leverage, product leadership, and management.
1:19:24ENMercury Said It Didn’t Need PMs—Then It Built a Product Org and a Multi-Product EngineHost Lenny RachitskyA product leader’s guide to hiring the first PMs, matching PM archetypes to stage, investing in quality, and building new product lines without letting the core smother them.
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