Talks
Each page takes one new recording and pulls out what the speaker argued, the exact line with a link to the second they said it, and where it agrees or breaks with what they and other operators said before.
Lenny's Podcast · Sep 25, 2026 · 22 min
Katie Dill on Design Quality in the AI Building Boom
Katie Dill, Stripe's head of design, on Lenny's Podcast in September 2026: AI makes work look finished fast, so a named editor has to filter it after the build.
Lenny's Podcast · Sep 25, 2026 · 23 min
Marty Cagan's 10 Product Regrets Since Inspired
Marty Cagan on Lenny's Podcast, September 2026: ten regrets since Inspired, from leaving out viability to underrating how hard people chase predictability.
a16z · Sep 23, 2026 · 47 min
Amjad Masad on What to Learn in the AI Era
Replit CEO Amjad Masad on a16z, September 2026: most teenagers who start a startup are doing premature optimization, and college should train young heretics.
Alex Hormozi · Sep 11, 2026 · 29 min
Alex Hormozi's Play to Save a Failing Theme Park
Alex Hormozi, September 2026: a theme park weeks from broke needs cash first, so lead with a $5,000 summer camp giveaway and sell the $2,000 pass after.
The Startup Ideas Podcast · Sep 8, 2026 · 39 min
Greg Isenberg's Local AI Map and Three Startup Ideas
Greg Isenberg, The Startup Ideas Podcast, September 2026: run models locally for private, repeated review work, and three niche startups he would build.
Y Combinator · Sep 3, 2026 · 21 min
Paul Graham on Ambition and Formidable Founders
Paul Graham on Y Combinator's channel, September 2026: fear of failure drives founders day to day, ambition is mostly inborn, and small money still works.
Alex Hormozi · Aug 29, 2026 · 27 min
Alex Hormozi's Playbook for a $10M Service Business
Alex Hormozi on his channel, August 2026: point a roofer at the repairs rivals skip, close with a menu, sell a repair-credit plan and charge 20% for speed.
a16z · Aug 28, 2026 · 54 min
Ben Horowitz: AI Infrastructure, Mythical Man-Month
Ben Horowitz on a16z, August 2026: $3 billion of compute now catches a rival that a thousand new engineers never could, and agents are a new type of employee.
Lenny's Podcast · Aug 23, 2026 · 85 min
Jen Abel's 15-Step Enterprise Sales Cycle
Jen Abel on Lenny's Podcast, August 2026, walks a $100K enterprise deal step by step. A 25 to 35% win rate is healthy. Above that, your price is too low.
Y Combinator · Aug 6, 2026 · 42 min
Garry Tan on Personal AGI: Own Your Skill Files
Garry Tan's Y Combinator keynote, August 2026: a rented model plus context you own makes personal AGI, and your skill files belong in a repo you control.
