Podcast Episodes

AI Is Eating Logistics

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 ho…

Published on 8 hours ago

Inside The MIT AI Study Everyone Misunderstood (And What It Means For Startups)

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 thi…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Unpopular Ideas That Became Billion-Dollar Businesses

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 Ub…

Published on 4 weeks ago

The 7 Most Powerful Moats For AI Startups

In the early days, the only moat that startups have is speed. Once you make something people want, the question becomes what deeper moats can you build on to defend against the competition?Garry, Har…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew

Bob McGrew helped build some of the most influential technologies of the past two decades. Bob was an early engineer at PayPal, an early executive at Palantir, and was recently Chief Research Officer…

Published on 2 months ago

Anthropic Co-founder: Building Claude Code, Lessons From GPT-3 & LLM System Design

Tom Brown co-founded Anthropic after helping build GPT-3 at OpenAI. A self-taught engineer, he went from getting a B-minus in linear algebra to becoming one of the key people behind AI's scaling brea…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

How to Spend Your 20s in the AI Era

AI has upended the once "safe" CS career path.

New grads are facing unemployment rates twice those of art history majors, and a CS degree is no longer a surefire ticket to wealth. At the same time, sm…

Published on 4 months ago

Alexandr Wang: Building Scale AI, Transforming Work with Agents & Competing With China

Alexandr Wang started Scale AI to help machine learning teams label data faster.It started as a simple API for human labor, but behind the scenes, he was tackling a much bigger problem: how to turn m…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

State-Of-The-Art Prompting For AI Agents

At first, prompting seemed to be a temporary workaround for getting the most out of large language models. But over time, it's become critical to the way we interact with AI.

On the Lightcone, Garry, …

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Startups Ideas You Can Now Build With AI

There's never been a better time to start an AI company. Not just because there are new ideas, but because the tech finally makes old ones actually work.On the Lightcone, Garry, Harj, Diana, and Jare…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago