Founder Talks
AI founders' thinking and judgment
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Classics
2026-09-04 · Anima Anandkumar & Benedikt Jenik
Transformers Can't Think In Physics: Anima Anandkumar on Accelerated Understanding
2026-09-03 · channel-20vc
NVIDIA Crushes Q4, OpenAI Cuts Off Cursor, Instinct Hits $2.5B Valuation
2026-09-03 · a16z Crypto Team
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
2026-09-02 · Sean Lie
OpenAI's New AI Chip Changes Everything — Sean Lie, Cerebras CTO
2026-09-01 · Ajeya Cotra
The OpenAI/Hugging Face Story: An Investigator's Perspective
2026-09-01 · a16z
AI Can Solve Math. Can It Create Something New?
2026-09-01 · ClickHouse CEO
ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should Be a Concern
2026-09-01 · Dwarkesh Patel
The OpenAI/Hugging Face Attack, Clearly Explained
2026-09-01 · a16z Partners
a16z's $1.1B Machine Age Fund: A Blueprint for the Future
2026-09-01 · a16z 嘉宾
Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
2026-08-30 · Tara Seshan
AI's Third Era: The Rise of Persistent AI Coworkers
2026-08-29 · channel-20vc
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
2026-08-29 · a16z
Why Top Founders Are Racing Into AI Infrastructure
2026-08-28 · channel-20vc
NVIDIA's AI Investment Spree: Acquiring Poolside, Backing Mercor & Perplexity, and Anthropic's $30T Assumption
2026-08-28 · Michael Truell
How Cursor Built One of AI's Fastest-Growing Companies
2026-08-26 · Anima Anandkumar
AI Weather Prediction: Scientists Said Impossible, One Try Succeeded
2026-08-26 · a16z Podcast Host
How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation
2026-08-26 · a16z (Andreessen Horowitz)
The State of AI: Models, Moats, and the Consumer Renaissance
2026-08-26 · channel-lex-fridman
DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501
2026-08-25 · channel-latent-space
⏭️ Forward Deployed: Voice AI on what works in 2026
2026-08-25 · Jen Abel
The Full AI Enterprise Sales Cycle, Step by Step
2026-08-25 · Dylan Patel
Two AI Labs Will Control Most of the World's Workforce
2026-08-24 · Will Gaybrick & David George
Tokens Are the New Dollars: Stripe Executives on the Future of Payments
2026-08-23 · Sam Altman × David Senra
Sam Altman on building OpenAI & betting on the impossible
2026-08-22 · channel-acquired
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio)
2026-08-22 · channel-20vc
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
2026-08-21 · channel-tim-ferriss
From Losing Everything to a $4 Billion Comeback — Guy Oseary
2026-08-21 · Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss: I Asked AI What to Do With the Next 5 Years of My Life
2026-08-21 · Joon Sung Park
From Prediction to Simulation: Joon Sung Park on Teaching AI to Shape the Future
2026-08-20 · channel-tim-ferriss
Madonna Does Not Want Her Music Trained On By AI
2026-08-20 · Tim Ferriss
Q&A with Tim — The Art of Male Friendship, Reinvention in The Age of AI, & More
2026-08-20 · Andrew Macdonald
Uber's Untold Stories: Travis, China & Self-Driving
2026-08-20 · channel-20vc
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
2026-08-20 · channel-dwarkesh-patel
Chip design from the bottom up – Reiner Pope
2026-08-19 · channel-tim-ferriss
Do AI Founders Think They're Building God?
2026-08-19 · Geoffrey Hinton
The Godfather of AI's Scary Thought Experiment
2026-08-19 · Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss: The Random Show — Mortality, AI, Supplements & Rock Climbing
2026-08-19 · Guy Oseary
Why I Put $35 Million Into Anthropic
2026-08-19 · Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin
The Agent Cloud: Databricks' Bet on the Future of AI
2026-08-19 · Mark Chen
OpenAI Research Chief on AGI, o1, Evals, and Scaling Laws
2026-08-19 · Gavriel Cohen
The Blueprint for Autonomous Work Agents | Gavriel Cohen, NanoClaw
2026-08-19 · channel-latent-space
The Cutting Edge of Diffusion: Drug Discovery Over Image Generation
2026-08-19 · Akshat Bubna
The Future of AI Infra: From Kubernetes to Agent Sandboxes
2026-08-19 · Dan Biderman
The AI Memory Problem: Why Long Context Isn't Enough
2026-08-19 · channel-latent-space
RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab: Lila Sciences
2026-08-19 · Bo Wang & Ci Chu
Causal Models Need Causal Data: Xaira's X-Cell with Bo Wang & Ci Chu
2026-08-19 · Eiso Kant
The AI Frontier: From Open Weights to Open Research
2026-08-19 · Akshay Nathan
OpenAI's Vision for the AI Super App
2026-08-19 · Philip Kiely & Ali Taha
Next 100x in AI: Inference, Networking, & Self-Optimizing Models
2026-08-19 · Matt McPartlon & Neil Patil
They Thought the Model Was Broken — Chai Discovery's Breakthrough
2026-08-19 · Alex Krentsel
Exo: Let Agents See Their Own Code and Logs
2026-08-19 · Tao Zhang
Manus AI Co-founder Tao Zhang: Building the Future of Autonomous AI Agents
2026-08-19 · Stripe France
10 Years of Stripe France: Pivoting in the AI Era
2026-08-19 · Michele Catasta
Replit's Head of AI on the Future of Software Development
2026-08-19 · Reiner Pope
From Training to Serving: The Engineering Behind GPT, Claude, and Gemini
2026-08-19 · Eric Jang
Rebuilding AlphaGo: Self-Play, RL, and the Future of LLMs
2026-08-19 · Alex Imas & Phil Trammell
The Better AI Gets, the Smaller Its Economic Share?
2026-08-19 · channel-dwarkesh-patel
The data black hole at the center of AI
2026-08-19 · channel-dwarkesh-patel
What does the next training paradigm look like?
2026-08-19 · channel-dwarkesh-patel
Grant Sanderson (@3Blue1Brown) – AI disproved a famous math conjecture. Now what?
2026-08-19 · Dwarkesh Patel
Smarter AI Models Could Drive Compute Prices 10x
2026-08-19 · channel-dwarkesh-patel
8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning
2026-08-19 · Ryan Greenblatt
What Happens Once AI Can Automate AI Research?
2026-08-19 · channel-a16z
“Every small business should run itself” | Lassie with a16z
2026-08-19 · Decagon
How Decagon Runs 90% of Its Agents on Open-Source Models
2026-08-19 · a16z
How Open Source Became AI's Backbone
2026-08-19 · channel-a16z
AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.
2026-08-19 · channel-a16z
Kavak's Playbook for Rebuilding a Company Around AI
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
The design process is being rewritten. | OpenAI’s head of design
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor
2026-08-19 · Dianne Penn
Why AI Is Going Vertical (Again)
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
Why the AI’s honeymoon is ending (and tech workers are feeling it) | Noam Segal
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
The rise of taste, human authenticity and judgment in an AI world | Adam Mosseri (Head of IG)
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
Why OpenAI is merging Codex and ChatGPT and the future of knowledge work | Andrew Ambrosino
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Claude Code & Cowork)
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
Tony Fadell: How to build real taste (and why AI makes it matter more)
2026-08-19 · Ethan Mollick
The Most Rational Take on AI You’ll Hear This Year
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
AI predictions: Job markets, Codex beats Claude, and the death of org charts | Dan Shipper
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
Why the next AI boom is physical AI | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex-OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
2026-08-19 · channel-lenny
How Anthropic, Costco, and Patagonia all build incorruptible companies | Eric Ries
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
2026-08-19 · David Frankel
The AI Boom Will Create Enormous Roadkill: Who Wins & Loses? | David Frankel
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
The AI Company Simulating the Entire Economy | Simile Co-founder & CEO, Joon Sung Park
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
2026-08-19 · Matt Murphy
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
Frontier Labs Threatened by Kimi? Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models & Stripe Buys PayPal
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
2026-08-19 · channel-20vc
Meta Takes on OpenAI | Apple Sues OpenAI | SK Hynix’s $26BN IPO
2026-08-19 · channel-sv101
对话前DeepMind曹原：AI for Science爆发，一个新时代到来了
2026-08-19 · channel-sv101
对话王熙乔：AI时代的教育者、十年沉浮，与人类文明的下一步
2026-08-18 · channel-a16z
Lighthouse or Landgrab? How to Pick Your AI Sales Strategy
2026-08-16 · channel-acquired
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio)
2026-08-12 · Matthew Berman & swyx
AI Frontier Lab Strategy: A Crossover Conversation
2026-08-12 · channel-latent-space
Why AI Agents Don't Actually Understand You — Danielle Perszyk, Amazon AGI Lab
2026-08-12 · Lex Fridman
State of AI in 2026: LLMs, Coding, Scaling Laws, China, Agents, GPUs, AGI
2026-08-12 · channel-lex-fridman
OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter Steinberger | Lex Fridman Podcast #491
2026-08-03 · Dmitri Dolgov × Y Combinator
Dmitri Dolgov: The Demo Is Only 1% of the Work
2026-07-31 · Patrick Collison × Y Combinator
Patrick Collison: Is AI Breaking the Lean Startup Playbook?
2026-07-30 · 陈冕（Liblib/Evoken 创始人） × 晚点
Liblib's Chen Mian: On Surviving and Near-Death Moments
2026-07-29 · Alexandr Wang × Y Combinator
Alexandr Wang: A Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity
2026-07-28 · 叶奇意 × 硅谷101
Ye Qiyi on Yang Zhilin, Two Generations of Chinese AI & AGI Faith
2026-07-28 · Sam Altman × Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Sam Altman on AGI, Compute Race and Physical AI
2026-07-27 · Sam Altman × Y Combinator
Sam Altman: Never a Better Time to Do a Startup
2026-07-26 · 黄仁勋 × Y Combinator
Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA
2026-07-22 · 姚颂（Striding AI 创始人） × 晚点
Yao Song: Deephi, Oriental Space & a Decade of Hard Tech
2026-07-22 · Travis Kalanick × a16z
Travis Kalanick: Building a Company in Stealth
2026-07-15 · 曹旭东（Momenta 创始人）× 晚点
Momenta's Cao Xudong After IPO: AI Without an End
2026-07-01 · Aravind Srinivas × Joe Rogan
Aravind Srinivas on AI search and the future of knowledge
2026-05-28 · 何小鹏（小鹏汽车董事长/CEO） × 张小珺
He Xiaopeng Returns: The Iron Humanoid Robot & Bigger Bets
2026-05-26 · 许华哲 × 晚点
Xu Huazhe on Embodied AI Again: Don't Miss the Biggest Watermelon
2026-05-22 · Eric Schmidt × Alan Blinder
Eric Schmidt on the AI revolution: geopolitics, military & energy
2026-05-19 · Nat Friedman × Daniel Gross × John Collison × Patrick Collison
Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross on the real signals in AI investing
2026-05-01 · Clem Delangue
Clem Delangue on why AI can't stay locked behind big APIs
2026-04-29 · Demis Hassabis × Konstantine Buhler
Demis Hassabis: We're three quarters of the way to AGI
2026-04-27 · 唐文斌（原力灵机创始人）× 晚点
Tang Wenbin: China's Earliest AI Founder & His Embodied Journey
2026-03-23 · 黄仁勋 × Lex Fridman
Jensen Huang × Lex Fridman: NVIDIA, the $4T Company & the AI Revolution
2026-03-10 · Bret Taylor × John Collison
Bret Taylor on AI agents, outcome-based pricing and the OpenAI board
2026-02-12 · 陈宇森（MuleRun 创始人）× 晚点
MuleRun's Chen Yusen: Claude Code & Disposable Software
2026-01-26 · 印奇（阶跃星辰董事长） × 张小珺
Yin Qi on Leading StepFun: Smart People's Temptations & Trade-offs
2026-01-08 · 陈冕（Liblib/Lovart 创始人） × 罗永浩
Chen Mian × Luo Yonghao: Let Me Make a Splash, Then Leave Quietly
2026-01-08 · 张鹏（智谱 CEO）× 张小珺
Zhipu CEO Zhang Peng: The First Global LLM IPO
2025-12-30 · 季逸超（Manus 联合创始人） × 张小珺
Manus's Last Interview Before the Sale: Peak Ji on the Wild 2025
2025-12-10 · 闫俊杰（MiniMax 创始人/CEO） × 罗永浩
Yan Junjie × Luo Yonghao: The Mountain Can Be Crossed
2025-11-10 · 张林峰/孙伟杰（深势科技）× 晚点
DP Technology: AI for Science, from Start to Now
2025-10-30 · 李想（理想汽车创始人/CEO） × 张小珺
Li Xiang Returns: CEO as LLM, MoE, and Human Wisdom
2025-10-09 · 吴明辉（明略科技）× 张小珺
Wu Minghui's 19-Year Story: Enterprise Agentic Models
2025-10-08 · Sam Altman × Ben Horowitz × Erik Torenberg
Sam Altman on Sora, energy, and building an AI empire
2025-09-18 · Mustafa Suleyman × Trevor Noah
Mustafa Suleyman on whether AI will save or end humanity
2025-09-10 · Elon Musk × Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Elon Musk on Grok, Optimus and AI evolution
2025-08-27 · 杨植麟（月之暗面 CEO）× 张小珺
Yang Zhilin Returns: K2, Agentic LLMs & the Brain in a Vat
2025-04-12 · Sam Altman × TED
Sam Altman at TED 2025: Agents, Superintelligence & ChatGPT
2025-02-11 · 王小川（百川智能创始人） × 晚点
Wang Xiaochuan: AI × Medicine and the Math of Life
2025-01-20 · 闫俊杰（MiniMax 创始人/CEO） × 晚点
MiniMax's Yan Junjie: Don't Apply Mobile-Internet Logic to LLMs
2025-01-14 · 李开复（零一万物创始人） × 晚点
Kai-Fu Lee: Only Big Tech Can Chase Frontier Models
2025-01-02 · 李想（理想汽车创始人）× 张小珺
Li Xiang's First 3-Hour Interview (Full Podcast)
2024-03-18 · Sam Altman × Lex Fridman
Sam Altman on GPT-5, Sora and the board saga
2023-11-09 · Elon Musk × Lex Fridman