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Lex 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.
2:45:26ENLex Fridman· Oct 31, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersDan Houser on Fake Worlds You Want to Live InGuest Dan Houser · Host Lex FridmanThe Rockstar co-founder talks with Lex Fridman about GTA, Red Dead Redemption, character craft, leaving the company, and why language models will not write the last five percent.
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No 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.
1:50:28ENLex Fridman· Aug 29, 2025Podcast · 2 speakersThe 87-Kilobyte Program Two Billion People Open Every MonthGuest Dave Plummer · Host Lex FridmanDave Plummer talks Lex Fridman through Task Manager, old-school Microsoft, and how an autistic mind actually works.
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.
3:43:34ENLex Fridman· Aug 20, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersAt 27, Pieter Levels Stared at a Hotel Ceiling. Then He Shipped Twelve Startups in a YearGuest Pieter Levels · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with the indie hacker behind Photo AI, Nomad List, and Remote OK about viral AI products, digital-nomad loneliness, and why he still deploys PHP to production from a sofa.
36:31ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 14, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersFigma's One-Way Door Swung Open — With a Billion-Dollar ConsolationHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilAfter regulators killed the Adobe deal, Dylan Field tells No Priors how Figma kept building, where AI belongs in design, and why the company was never meant to be only a design tool.
38:48ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Jan 31, 2024Podcast · 2 speakersShopify Built a Copilot, Not an Autopilot, for Every MerchantHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilShopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates on collapsing duplicate engines, shipping AI that proposes but never commits, and teaching storefront search to understand a sweater.
47:42ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Aug 17, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSal Khan Thinks Every Child Can Finally Have a TutorHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilThe Khan Academy founder tells Sarah Guo and Elad Gil how a family tutoring side project became an AI teaching assistant, and why he believes education is on the cusp of its biggest positive shift.
1:59:13ENLex Fridman· Apr 16, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersSimone Giertz Spent Two and a Half Years on a Coat HangerGuest Simone Giertz · Host Lex FridmanThe inventor formerly known as the Queen of Shitty Robots talks with Lex Fridman about everyday objects, spectacular failure, a brain tumor, and why enthusiasm beats duty.
35:36ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Apr 13, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersAGI as a side effect: Noam Shazeer on Transformers, Character.AI, and two-hour chatsHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilIn April 2023, the Transformer co-author told No Priors how a 22-person startup turned open-ended chat into a consumer product — and treated AGI as a byproduct of making the model smarter.
39:10ENNo Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups· Mar 23, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersNever Cite More Than Five Links: Perplexity's Bet on Answer EnginesHost Sarah Guo, Elad GilFounded in August 2022, Perplexity was barely seven months old when its CEO and CTO sat down with No Priors to explain how an answer engine takes on Google.
2:17:46ENLex Fridman· Jan 11, 2023Podcast · 2 speakersOne Great Video Beats a Hundred Mediocre OnesGuest MrBeast · Host Lex FridmanMrBeast tells Lex Fridman why evergreen hits outlast volume, why YouTube comments are a disgrace, and why an AI clone of himself would drain every video of meaning.
2:44:52ENLex Fridman· Nov 29, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersDon't Try to Pen Them In: Todd Howard on Skyrim, Starfield, and Accidental DoorsGuest Todd Howard · Host Lex FridmanThe Bethesda Game Studios director on saying yes to players, leaving a test cell full of every weapon, and why Starfield's empty planets are the point.
3:03:33ENLex Fridman· Oct 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersA Robot Is Whatever Still Has MagicGuest Kate Darling · Host Lex FridmanKate Darling tells Lex Fridman why grocery-store Marty is a real-life Clippy, why animal history is a better guide than humanoid fantasy, and what the Epstein scandal revealed about MIT.
2:46:26ENLex Fridman· Jun 15, 2022Podcast · 2 speakersApple Was a $5 Billion Company in Debt When Tony Fadell Built the iPodGuest Tony Fadell · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Tony Fadell, co-creator of the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Thermostat, about the decisions, fights, and luck behind those products.
2:44:38ENLex Fridman· Nov 23, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersPosting a photo of this moment was not a product category yetGuest Kevin Systrom · Host Lex FridmanKevin Systrom tells Lex Fridman how Instagram began as a failed check-in app, hid a slow upload behind a caption screen, and later sold a thirteen-person company to Facebook for a billion dollars.
1:52:29ENLex Fridman· Sep 6, 2021Podcast · 2 speakersThe Most Valuable Moment in VR Is Taking Off the HeadsetGuest Jaron Lanier · Host Lex FridmanJaron Lanier on why virtual reality's gift is a refreshed real world, why he refuses to call algorithms creatures, and how data dignity could replace the lizard-brain economy of social media.
3:01:07ENLex Fridman· Sep 5, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersLoneliness Has No Clinic. Eugenia Kuyda Built an AI Friend AnywayGuest Eugenia Kuyda · Host Lex FridmanThe Replika co-founder talks with Lex Fridman about grief, conversation, and why memory—not a clever reply—is the real limit of AI companionship.
1:30:52ENLex Fridman· Jan 25, 2020Podcast · 2 speakersCristos Goodrow: There Is No YouTube Algorithm, Only People Moving Through VideoGuest Cristos Goodrow · Host Lex FridmanYouTube’s head of search and discovery tells Lex Fridman why collaborative filtering learned language on its own, why watch time is not satisfaction, and why nobody can predict a viral hit.
1:47:04ENLex Fridman· Jul 29, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersGustav Söderström on Why Spotify Could Only Be Born in SwedenGuest Gustav Soderstrom · Host Lex FridmanLex Fridman talks with Spotify’s chief R&D officer about three-minute songs, 250-millisecond playback, playlist luck, and herding record labels.
1:09:11ENLex Fridman· Jun 10, 2019Podcast · 2 speakersDon't Ship Autopilot: Gavin Miller on AI That Leaves Creatives in ChargeGuest Gavin Miller · Host Lex FridmanAdobe Research's head tells Lex Fridman why smart defaults, fixable errors, and intern-scale bets matter more than a fully automatic Photoshop.
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Lenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersHard Skills, Soft Skills and Mentors: Jules Walter's Playbook for Growing as a PMGuest Jules Walter · Host Lenny RachitskyYouTube product lead Jules Walter explains how he builds IQ and EQ skills, asks for honest feedback, and recruits mentors with the smallest possible ask.
1:01:00ENLenny's PodcastPodcast · 2 speakersControl Over Attention: How Substack Builds Product for Writers and ReadersGuest Sachin Monga · Host Lenny RachitskySubstack's head of product, Sachin Monga, explains the principle behind the company's roadmap, the story of the Recommendations feature, and what he thinks the next era of writing on the internet looks like.Load moreShowing 24 of 144