The Library of Minds

As a child, Jim Kwik was known as the boy with the broken brain. A traumatic injury meant it took him three years longer than everyone else to learn how to read. He rebuilt his mind from scratch, and spent the next 30 years teaching the world's top performers to do the same, from main-stage TED speakers to Hollywood actors memorizing scripts.Now he's warning that AI is doing to our minds what elevators did to our legs. This conversation is his training program for the age of cognitive decline.Chat with Jim's Delphi: https://www.delphi.ai/jimkwikCreate your own Delphi: delphi.ai/signup

Politeness kills more companies than conflict.

Alisa Cohn, named the world’s #1 startup coach by Thinkers50, has spent decades coaching founders and executives at companies including Google, Microsoft, Venmo, and Etsy.

She joins Dara to explain why teams hide bad news, how founders confuse high standards with micromanagement, and why sharing every idea can quietly derail a company. They also discuss hiring in the AI era, founder mode, and practical tools for working through imposter syndrome.

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Julie Zhuo was Facebook's first intern and spent 14 years becoming its VP of Product Design.

Now building Sundial, an AI analyst used by companies like OpenAI, she refuses to take the CEO title. Her take: titles are shortcuts, shortcuts are limiting, and in the AI era everyone should think of themselves as one thing, a builder.

In this episode, Julie sits down with Dara to talk about why she nuked every recurring meeting at her company except one, what a decade of managing people taught her about managing AI agents that drift and game their own metrics, what it felt like inside Facebook the day growth suddenly flattened, why chat is the wrong interface for design no matter how good the models get, and the letter she wrote her daughter about the eye and the hand, and why she wants her kids to keep doing hard things even when AI could spare them.

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Hiten Shah, 4x SaaS founder and CEO of Crazy Egg, believes The Social Network ruined startups. His take: the movie sold an outcome instead of a craft, and tech filled up with tourists who wanted the founder badge without the scars.

In this episode, Hiten sits down with Dara to talk about why the best marketing channels are secrets nobody will share, why content is still king no matter what the crowd says, how burning millions of his own dollars taught him the wrong lessons about venture capital, why environment fit beats culture fit, and the philosophy he learned at eight years old that made uncertainty feel like home.

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Kian Katanforoosh, founder of Workera, believes humans hurt people with their biases. His prediction: once science proves AI is less biased, companies will have no choice.
In this episode, Kian sits down with Dara to talk about why your best engineer might deserve the Cristiano Ronaldo treatment, the difference between perishable and durable skills, why "what did you learn this month?" might be the most important career question in the AI era, and the one metric he thinks actually predicts long-term success.

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Uber had $3 billion in the bank. Lyft had 5 months of runway left.In this episode, Lyft co-founder John Zimmer sits down with host Dara to tell the untold story of how he and his team fought back, stood up for drivers, and refused to lose to the most aggressive competitor in tech.John opens up about killing his first company to start Lyft, surviving COVID, his honest take on founder mental health, the future of self-driving cars, and the real reason he walked away from the company he built.If you're a founder, operator, or anyone who loves great startup stories - this one's a masterclass.

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Enrique Salem has been watching cyber threats evolve for 35 years. As former CEO of Symantec and now a General Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, he has seen what happens when systems scale, when attackers adapt, and when trust breaks. In this episode, he breaks down why security is never “protect everything”, why agents create a new category of risk, and how founders should think about what actually matters from day one.

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Ben Braverman reveals why the AI industry is losing a narrative war plus how it can win, how he helped build the outbound playbook an entire generation of startups copied, and what the best founders actually look like when nobody's watching.

Ben Braverman is the co-founder of Saga Ventures and former Chief Revenue Officer of Flexport, where he helped scale revenue from $100K to nearly $2 billion ARR. Before Saga, he served as head of sales at multiple YC companies and helped define the modern outbound motion.

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Spenser Skates reveals why software is about to become fully automated, why apps will be personalized to each user, how he pivoted from building “Siri before Siri” into Amplitude, and what it actually takes to win in the AI era.

Spenser Skates is the founder and CEO of Amplitude, the company that pioneered modern product analytics and helped define how product teams measure, iterate, and scale software.

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At 26, Chad Byers bet $250k on Robinhood after 100 investors passed. That single check turned into $400M+ and helped define how Susa Ventures spots generational founders.

In this episode, Chad breaks down his "spiky people" thesis for finding exceptional founders, why most fast investment decisions end up being wrong, and how to build conviction while staying calm through hype cycles. He also shares what the real startup journey looks like, how he raised Fund I with no track record, and where he's placing bets after the AI wave.