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Lightcone Podcast

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Techno optimism for technical founders

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Spenser Skates has spent more than a decade building Amplitude from a YC startup into a public company, and in that time, he's had to reinvent himself just as much as the product.Joining the Lightcone pod, he talks through the shift from founder to l... more

Logistics is a multi-trillion-dollar industry that quietly powers the entire global economy — and it's shockingly manual.Ryan Petersen, founder & CEO of Flexport, joins the Lightcone to break down how AI is finally touching the physical world: making... more

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MIT's new State of AI in Business report went viral for claiming that 95% of enterprise AI projects fail. But the real story isn't that AI doesn't work — it's just big companies can't build it.In this episode of the Lightcone, Garry, Harj, Diana, and... more

Nine out of ten people might tell you you're crazy. The tenth might see what you see.Garry, Harj, Jared, and Diana talk about contrarian bets — the ideas that look impossible until they work. From Uber and Coinbase to DoorDash and Flock Safety, they ... more

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Spenser Skates
CEO and co-founder of Amplitude
Amplitude
Episode: What Founders Have To Unlearn To Become Great CEOs
Aaron Levie
CEO of Box and a prominent figure in the tech space.
Box
Episode: How AI Is Changing Enterprise
Paul Buchheit
Creator of Gmail and partner at Y Combinator
Y Combinator
Episode: AI Revolution: Why This Is The Best Time To Start A Startup
Jake Heller
Founder of Casetext, a legal technology company
Casetext
Episode: Why Vertical LLM Agents Are The New $1 Billion SaaS Opportunities
Jensen Huang
CEO of NVIDIA and notable figure in AI discussions
NVIDIA
Episode: 10 People + AI = Billion Dollar Company?

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Harj
Jared
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Diana
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Gary
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4.7 out of 5 stars from 98 ratings
  • People Need Jobs

    These podcasts are insightful but a lot of the hosts come across as naive and out of touch.

    When you replace vast portions of the job market with AI the gap between the ultra wealthy and everyone else will be too wide to overcome.

    How will money flow? They’re talking about replacing thousands of people at a time. I mean seriously, what do you think is going to happen?

    Wake up. These tools will only make a handful of people incredibly rich.

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    Banksy465
    United Statesa year ago

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Listeners appreciate the insightful discussions surrounding AI and startups, finding them highly relevant and informative.
Some feedback suggests hosts may appear overly optimistic or naive about the potential impacts of technology on the job market.

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What Founders Have To Unlearn To Become Great CEOs
Q: What are the specific differences for successful engineers pre-AI versus post-AI?
It's not an age thing per se, it's a mentality thing. A lot of AI native teams haven't learned the product problem-solving aspects.
What Founders Have To Unlearn To Become Great CEOs
Q: What was like the lightbulb moment for you? When did you flick into this needs to be my priority?
It's hard to say that there was one moment. We've always had this vision at Amplitude of a self-improving product.
The Truth About Building AI Startups Today
Q: How would you differentiate between an idea that could be a great foundation for a billion-dollar company and an idea that is likely to get run over by GPT-5?
Founders should focus on specific user needs and avoid overly generic ideas that lack clear market demand.
Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit On AGI, Open Source Models, Freedom
Q: Why isn't Google the dominant AI company in the world when it has all the resources?
After the Alphabet transition, the company's focus shifted more towards preserving their search monopoly rather than pursuing disruptive AI innovation.
Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit On AGI, Open Source Models, Freedom
Q: Should we be worried that we're relying on meta to keep pushing open source forward when he's a fairly strategic guy?
Yes, we shouldn’t rely exclusively on them for open source advancement; we need a coalition that supports freedom and open-source values.

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