Founder Talks
AI founders' thinking and judgment
Across sections: 39 classics · 0 tutorials · 0 picks
Classics
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 · 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
2025-11-10 · 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