🎙️ Podcasts

Lenny's Podcast

Keith Rabois shares contrarian frameworks for the AI era, arguing that product managers must evolve into CEO-like strategists, that high-performance cultures must sacrifice psychological safety for results, and that founders should ruthlessly prioritize hiring "barrels" (independent drivers) over "ammunition" (executors) to avoid scaling burn without output.

Founders Podcast (David Senra)

Evan Spiegel explains how studying Edwin Land and his education at Crossroads School shaped Snap's mission to build technology that combats isolation by prioritizing human connection, present-moment awareness, and ephemerality over permanent, judgmental social feeds.

The David Lin Report

Tom Rein explains how drones enable asymmetric warfare and transform public safety operations, while detailing his company TAF Drones' mission to build cost-effective, modular American-made police drones to replace banned Chinese DJI units that previously dominated 80% of the market.

NVIDIA AI Podcast

Industry leaders from NVIDIA, Hugging Face, Mistral AI, Black Forest Labs, and Lightricks discuss how open-source inference optimization—spanning quantization, latent compression, and Mixture of Experts architectures—is enabling both massive trillion-parameter models and efficient edge deployment while driving the shift toward sovereign AI and local data control.

Cognitive Revolution

AI safety researcher Ajeya Cotra warns that we are entering "crunch time"—a critical window where AI systems become capable of recursive self-improvement and automating AI R&D, potentially compressing 10,000 years of technological progress into decades while remaining briefly within human control.

NVIDIA AI Podcast

Former OpenAI researchers now leading frontier startups explain how reinforcement learning has evolved from game-playing agents to powering enterprise automation and scientific discovery, requiring new scaling paradigms focused on inference compute and long-horizon reasoning rather than just pre-training FLOPs.

Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson argues that psychological health depends on maintaining a dynamic balance between order and chaos through the act of paying attention, explaining that nihilism and despair emerge when this balance collapses, while meaning arises from optimally mediating between the known and unknown.

20VC with Harry Stebbings

ElevenLabs CRO Carles Raina details how the company is building an AI-native revenue organization with aggressive 20x sales quotas and custom AI agents for inbound, proposals, and customer success, while redefining customer success as a profit center rather than a cost center.

The Pomp Podcast

Investor Jordi Visser argues that AI-driven compute scarcity and persistent inflation will drive capital rotation into Bitcoin and semiconductor hardware, while software stocks face continued disruption from agentic AI.

All-In Podcast

The All-In hosts debate Anthropic's decision to withhold its new AI model 'Mythos' due to autonomous cybersecurity vulnerabilities, with opinions split between viewing it as legitimate AGI safety precautions versus sophisticated 'fear marketing' tactics reminiscent of OpenAI's GPT-2 release strategy.

Stanford Online

This seminar reframes Moravec's Paradox through control theory, demonstrating why robot learning suffers from exponential compounding errors that symbolic tasks avoid, and identifies action chunking and generative control policies as the essential algorithmic breakthroughs that enabled the 2023 inflection point in robotic manipulation capabilities.

Stanford Online

The speaker argues that to solve persistent human problems in HCI, designers must move beyond building better tools and instead critically reimagine entire socio-technical ecosystems. Through examples in event planning, crowdsourcing, social connection, and education, he demonstrates how redesigning human practices—what he terms "critical technical practice"—can unlock values that pure technological advancement has failed to address.