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✦Limit the number of details✦Atlas: a world model for spatial intelligence✦Opensource UI✦The designer who drew Cursor’s icons✦Four questions about AGI✦The model is behaving impeccably. Your information architecture isn’t.✦The sycophancy trap: what happens when feelings become the metric✦Drawing With Light: An Exploration of Lit GPU Tubes with TSL and WebGPU✦Neurodivergence: What is it and Why Does it Matter✦Your product didn’t get worse✦The singular viable product✦AI canvas, Synthetic self, The prompt is the product✦Building a Real-Time 3D Face Mask with MediaPipe, Threlte and Three.js✦Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)✦Building an Infinite Loom: Unravelling Images into Threads with Three.js
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Lenny's Podcast
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Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Anish Acharya suggests that successful company building now involves creating a series of loops, emphasizing distribution as a crucial, discovered moat in the AI era.

3 days ago·79 min listen/watch
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AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)

OpenAI's product lead discusses the shift from "rowing" to "steering" as AI agents become coworkers, emphasizing human judgment and ambition as key differentiators in the evolving product management role.

30 Aug·82 min listen/watch
Lenny's Podcast
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How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel

Jen Abel outlines a 15-step enterprise sales cycle, contrasting it with the typical five-stage CRM pipeline, covering everything from landing the first meeting to navigating procurement and securing a signature.

23 Aug·85 min listen/watch
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OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

OpenAI's Head of Design, Ian Silber, discusses why this era is optimal for product designers, how AI impacts design teams, and what OpenAI seeks in design hires.

16 Aug·72 min listen/watch
Syntax
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1029: The Workflow of the Future With Zed

Developers discuss Zed, a tool built in Rust, and its new version control system DeltaDB.

12 Aug·60 min listen/watch
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a16z Podcast
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Garry Tan on Taste, Agents and Founder Ambition

Garry Tan discusses how AI is rewriting the startup playbook and enabling tiny teams to build businesses at scale.

12 Aug·52 min listen/watch
Lenny's Podcast
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The playbook for building high talent density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

Adam Ward discusses building high-talent-density teams and a three-step hiring framework.

9 Aug·91 min listen/watch
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ShopTalk Show
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726: Be More Weird, Sameness is Ok, and People Noticing the Effort You Put In

Being a weirdo is something to aspire to in web creativity, as people notice the effort put into unique online work.

3 Aug·53 min listen/watch
Lenny's Podcast
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This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

Whatnot's CPO, Tom Verrilli, discusses his company's founding premise that product management's existence is regrettable, how AI is reshaping the PM role, and what he seeks in new hires.

2 Aug·85 min listen/watch
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a16z Podcast
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Ruby Thelot on Internet Culture, AI, and the Future of Taste

Ruby Thelot discusses internet culture, AI, and digital communities, exploring how technology reshapes human relationships and creativity.

2 Aug·34 min listen/watch
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a16z Podcast
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Ben Horowitz: The Fight Over Open Source AI

Ben Horowitz argues open source AI is crucial for security, innovation, and competition, countering efforts to restrict open models and prevent AI ecosystem dominance by a few labs.

26 Jul·33 min listen/watch
Lenny's Podcast
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Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

Anthropic's first technical product manager, Dianne Penn, discusses the company's rapid growth, the development of Claude's coding abilities, and the role of human judgment in AI.

26 Jul·94 min listen/watch
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a16z Podcast
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Travis Kalanick Is Back | Building the Future of Industrial AI

Travis Kalanick discusses his vision for industrial AI and digitizing the physical world.

22 Jul·92 min listen/watch
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a16z Podcast
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Why Physical AI Is the Next Frontier | Applied Intuition

Applied Intuition cofounders discuss the emergence of physical AI and their new Dana platform, designed to accelerate the development of autonomous systems and overcome deployment challenges.

21 Jul·81 min listen/watch
Lenny's Podcast
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Netflix CPTO on AI and the future of product and tech roles | Elizabeth Stone

Netflix CPTO Elizabeth Stone discusses the importance of systems thinking and AI fluency in product and tech roles.

19 Jul·72 min listen/watch
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How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

A survey of thousands of tech workers reveals AI has split the workforce, with half thriving and half shaken, while burnout and job dissatisfaction surge.

12 Jul·96 min listen/watch
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a16z Podcast
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Jake Paul & Anti Fund: From Creator to Investor

Jake Paul and Geoff Woo announce Anti Fund's $100 million growth fund and discuss their investment strategy and portfolio.

22 Jun·66 min listen/watch
a16z Podcast
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Samo Burja on Growth, Energy, and AI

AI's significant demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure could initiate a new wave of industrial expansion, impacting sectors far beyond just technology.

12 Jun·28 min listen/watch
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99% Invisible
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Ask Your Doctor About

Prescription drug brand names have become increasingly unintelligible and distant from ordinary English.

12 May
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99% Invisible
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Enshittification

A seventh-generation farmer struggles with the poorly designed software on his tractor, a common issue for many modern farmers.

5 May