THE INTERVIEW ROOM

Hear the thinking behind the business.

Conversations and company presentations, with a direct route back to the research.

Stripe Sessions · 2026-05-19

Sam Altman in conversation with Patrick Collison

A founder conversation about AI and the businesses being built around it.

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Research OpenAI
Research OpenAI

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2026-02-13

Dario Amodei — scaling, compute and AI economics

Discusses model progress, compute investment, industry economics and regulation.

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Research Anthropic
Research Anthropic
Research Cohere
Research Mistral AI
Research World Labs
Research Shield AI

Dwarkesh Podcast · 2024-02-21

Patrick Collison — building, progress and payments

A long-form founder discussion; compare the operating philosophy with Stripe’s later company disclosures.

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Research Stripe
Research Ramp
Research Plaid
Research Mercury
Research Databricks
Research Oura
Research Helion
Research Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-06-19

Aravind Srinivas — AI, search and the internet

The Perplexity co-founder discusses search and the development of the answer engine.

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Research Perplexity
Research Perplexity
Research Glean
Research Anduril

Saronic

Saronic — company film

Company film linked from Saronic’s official website. Explore the vessels, mission and team, then compare those claims with original disclosures.

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Research Saronic
Research Epirus
Research Figure
Research Apptronik
Research Brex
Research Rippling
Research TAE Technologies

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2024-08-02

Elon Musk & the Neuralink team

A discussion with the founder and team about brain-computer interfaces and the company’s work.

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Research Neuralink
Research Neuralink
Research Epic Games
Research Discord

Lex Fridman Podcast · 2023-11-09

Elon Musk — engineering, AI and long-term ambition

A historical founder conversation. Treat forecasts as dated views and compare them with current company disclosures.

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Research SpaceX
Research Lambda
Research Crusoe