# The Library of Minds > The Library of Minds is a video interview series featuring exclusive conversations with the world's top thinkers - from Silicon Valley founders and investors to critically acclaimed authors. Each episode includes an AI-powered Delphi clone of the guest that viewers can chat with for instant insights and personalized advice. ## About The Library of Minds Hear from the world’s greatest thinkers - from Silicon Valley founders & investors to critically acclaimed authors. And when our conversation ends, yours begins. Each guest has a digital mind on Delphi that you can talk to directly for instant insights and advice. The series offers a unique dual experience: 1. **Watch**: Full-length video interviews exploring the guest's thoughts, experiences, and insights 2. **Chat**: Interactive conversations with AI-powered digital clones (Delphi) of each guest ### What is Delphi? Delphi is an AI platform that creates digital clones of individuals, trained on their knowledge, writing style, and thought patterns. Each Library of Minds guest has their own Delphi that viewers can interact with to ask questions and receive personalized responses. ## Platform Links ### Watch & Listen - [Home](https://libraryofminds.com): Main website with all episodes - [YouTube Playlist](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyVK6XGWqKJgPo05Cicsed139cz2-QUYY&si=IegSnXOzqUuHTj1P): Full video episodes with chapters and timestamps - [Spotify Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/7hGEGxuqxxB3PaqoePiz2k): Audio versions of all interviews - [Apple Podcasts](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-library-of-minds/id1841750961): Subscribe for audio episodes - [RSS Feed](/rss): Universal podcast feed ### About Delphi - [Delphi AI](https://www.delphi.ai/pricing?ref=library-of-minds): Create your own AI-powered digital clone - [Delphi Homepage](https://www.delphi.ai): Learn about the Delphi platform ## All Episodes ### Julie Zhuo - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/julie-zhuo - **Air Date**: September 3, 2026 - **Duration**: 44 min - **Description**: 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. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Julie Zhuo questions via their AI clone ### Hiten Shah - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/hiten-shah - **Air Date**: August 20, 2026 - **Duration**: 48 min - **Description**: 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. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Hiten Shah questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [1:02] Bootstrapping vs. VC - [5:27] His Content Playbook Everyone Copied - [10:25] The Best Marketing Channels Are Secrets - [18:23] First Job Ever, at 40+ - [25:52] The AI Workflow He Figured Out Before the Frontier Labs - [29:00] The Social Network Ruined Startups - [46:15] The Only Startup Advice Worth Keeping ### Kian Katanforoosh - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/kian-katanforoosh - **Air Date**: June 1, 2026 - **Duration**: 23 min - **Description**: Kian Katanforoosh is an AI educator and entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of Workera, a company focused on measuring and improving workforce skills. He is also a Stanford computer science lecturer, a founding member of DeepLearning.AI, and co-creator of the Deep Learning Specialization on Coursera with Andrew Ng. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Kian Katanforoosh questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [0:51] Origin story - [2:33] Working with Andrew Ng - [3:50] His AI course that taught 1M+ students - [7:37] Why we need AI mentors now - [8:45] Humans judging skill is unethical (maybe illegal) - [13:06] Success signs everyone overlooks - [14:45] The trap ambitious people keep falling into - [16:02] One metric that actually predicts success - [17:08] New jobs, and everything becomes pro sports - [19:33] How to adapt in the AI era - [21:32] The AI mentor Kian has to help you ### John Zimmer - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/john-zimmer - **Air Date**: May 14, 2026 - **Duration**: 42 min - **Description**: John Zimmer is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and former President of Lyft, the ride-sharing company he started with Logan Green in 2012. Before Lyft, he co-founded Zimride, a long-distance carpooling service launched in 2007 that eventually pivoted into the on-demand ride-hailing model that became Lyft. After stepping down as President of Lyft in 2023 and transitioning to Vice Chair, he is now founding Yes&, his latest venture. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask John Zimmer questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [00:55] Our Host Dara Is Banned From Lyft - [01:15] How Lehman Brothers Shaped Lyft's Culture - [04:05] Should founders suffer? - [05:33] Why He Killed His First Company to Build Lyft - [07:00] Uber Had $3 Billion. Lyft Had 5 Months Left. - [11:48] Do Nice Guys Actually Finish Last? - [15:08] The Lyft Strategies Nobody Talks About - [20:20] COVID Almost Broke Him - [23:47] Tips for Founder Mental Health - [25:34] The Hardest Moment of His Entire Career - [27:45] Self-Driving Cars Will Kill Uber and Lyft… Right? - [33:38] His New Bet After Lyft: Inside Yes& - [36:57] The #1 Skill Every Founder Needs - [39:54] The Real Reason He Walked Away From Lyft ### Enrique Salem - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/enrique-salem - **Air Date**: April 23, 2026 - **Duration**: 31 min - **Description**: Enrique Salem is a seasoned technology executive and investor, best known for serving as CEO of Symantec and now as a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures. He focuses on backing and advising founders building enterprise software and cybersecurity companies, drawing on decades of experience scaling global tech organizations. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Enrique Salem questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [00:51] Testifying to Congress on the spam crisis - [03:02] How AI radicalized the spam problem - [05:33] Humans are the weakest link, and AI can't fix it - [07:49] How to poison an agent (and why it's the biggest threat) - [09:21] The new cybersecurity threats from AI - [13:26] The AI nightmare scenario - [14:50] Will your agent blackmail you? - [16:35] Why he trusts Perplexity Computer and not OpenClaw - [18:56] Recent Anthropic, Vercel, Lovable Mercor breaches - [20:38] Is data actually a moat, or a target? - [22:41] How to build a great security product - [24:47] Making decisions when everything is changing - [27:45] Getting pushed out of Symantec, and why he never feared it - [29:26] Opportunities: What Enrique is hunting for in 2026 ### Ben Braverman - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/ben-braverman - **Air Date**: April 9, 2026 - **Duration**: 29 min - **Description**: Ben Braverman is the co-founder and managing partner of Saga Ventures, an early-stage venture firm, and the former CRO of Flexport, where they scaled the company’s go-to-market from zero to roughly $2B in sales and helped build the modern playbook for selling complex, real-world logistics as a tech product - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Ben Braverman questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [1:15] The story of Ryan Peterson and Flexport - [5:09] We are losing AI narrative war - [10:55] All Americans need ownership in the future - [13:23] His secret for B2B hyper growth - [20:38] The real definition of an AI company - [24:28] What it takes to change the world - [27:08] Opportunities: What Ben is looking for ### Spenser Skates - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/spenser-skates - **Air Date**: March 19, 2026 - **Duration**: 29 min - **Description**: 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. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Spenser Skates questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [00:44] Creating Siri before Siri - [02:46] The discovery that led Amplitude - [04:10] Why you’re not charging your customers enough - [06:56] The future of automated software development - [09:01] Apps will be personalized to each user - [11:45] Intuition is not a moat - [13:21] How Calm won the meditation industry - [14:48] How to discover what customers want - [22:58] 50% of startup outcomes is just not quitting - [24:16] Failure is the default - [27:34] Opportunities: What Spenser is looking for ### Jess Lee - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/jess-lee - **Air Date**: October 24, 2025 - **Duration**: 38 min - **Description**: The visionary who turned fashion discovery into a social phenomenon at Polyvore. Now at Sequoia Capital, she has an unmatched eye for consumer products that people don't just use – they obsess over. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Jess Lee questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [0:00] Intro - [2:50] Who is Jess Lee - [3:44] What early Google taught her - [5:35] When ambition becomes a weakness - [7:34] Customer discovery vs visionary intuition - [9:31] Polyvore: from user → CEO - [12:37] Imposter syndrome & finding authentic leadership - [15:20] Picking the wrong market (Polyvore vs “Figma for design”) - [18:24] Firing fast & setting high performance bars - [20:12] Building cult-like community and emotional loyalty - [22:13] Velocity vs delight in product - [24:32] What she looks for in founders (turn-based velocity) - [25:59] The business model wake-up call - [27:27] Storytelling as a founding superpower - [28:26] Hot take: consumer isn’t dead, it’s being reborn - [31:50] AI-generated media, fanfic, and the next YouTube ### Ben Blumenrose - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/ben-blumenrose - **Air Date**: February 5, 2026 - **Duration**: 40 min - **Description**: Facebook's 5th designer brought glossy, Apple-inspired designs to a site that looked like a wireframe. Days in, Zuckerberg shut him down: "You can't just come in here and shit on our style." That lesson became the foundation for a career spotting billion-dollar companies before anyone else. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Ben Blumenrose questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [1:19] User education vs intuitive design - [4:37] Watching faces, not screens - [6:28] The PM who signed up daily: "It's still shit" - [7:20] Moving the Add Friend button (3% friendship drop) - [9:15] When to bring ideas to leadership - [12:37] "You can't just come in here and shit on our style" - [16:21] Human vs humanity-centered design - [19:21] Who are the historians around Mark? - [23:13] AI commoditizes average—craft is the edge - [27:00] Applying design to customer support (2x gain) - [32:35] Starting Designer Fund: "What is product design?" - [35:10] What Designer Fund is betting on in 2026 ### Roelof Botha - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/roelof-botha - **Air Date**: October 2, 2025 - **Duration**: 34 min - **Description**: Sequoia Capital partner who has been at the forefront of Silicon Valley's most transformative investments. Known for his deep insights into what makes a successful startup and his ability to spot the next big thing. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Roelof Botha questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [0:00] Intro - [1:00] Who is Roelof - [1:49] Managing chaos: Focus and trust at PayPal during crisis - [3:28] Metrics: PayPal's Total Payment Volume as growth driver - [4:42] Growth vs. revenue: Why great companies do both - [6:48] Square's wedge: Card reader to financial ecosystem - [9:31] Category creation: Product quality over hype - [10:55] Retention > Distribution: Building lasting value - [13:03] Companies: Mission, values, and discipline - [14:34] AI era: Rethinking org design and founder leverage - [15:56] Hardship: Pressure as a catalyst for innovation - [19:03] The crater lesson: Why immunity breeds weakness - [20:23] Adversity: Learning from PayPal's and Sequoia's toughest moments - [23:17] Patience: Thinking in decades at Sequoia - [24:21] Delphi: Memory, legacy, and digital minds - [25:59] No complacency: Sequoia's culture of accountability - [29:05] Leadership: Conviction and adapting to change - [32:19] The future: Pre-mortems and staying ahead ### Madhavan Ramanujam - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/madhavan-ramanujam - **Air Date**: December 18, 2025 - **Duration**: 32 min - **Description**: Monetization Expert. Author of Monetizing Innovation. Worked with 250+ tech companies and 25+ Unicorns on unlocking profitable growth. GP at 49 Palms Ventures. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Madhavan Ramanujam questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [03:33 ] Netflix vs Blockbuster: The Pricing Decision That Changed Tech - [08:06] Why Most Startups Get Pricing Wrong - [11:39] Freemium vs Paid: When Free Destroys Value - [15:38] Pricing Models Matter More Than Price - [16:28] The AI Pricing Framework: Autonomy vs Attribution - [21:49] The Biggest Pricing Mistake Ever - [25:05] Why Steve Jobs Was a Pricing Genius - [26:44] Behavioral Pricing: How Founders 10x Deals Without Changing Product - [31:02] Data vs Conviction: How Great Founders Make Pricing Decisions ### Brian Halligan - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/brian-halligan - **Air Date**: November 14, 2025 - **Duration**: 41 min - **Description**: HubSpot's co-founder who literally wrote the book on inbound marketing. The man who turned traditional sales and marketing on its head, creating a $30+ billion company by teaching businesses how to attract customers instead of interrupting them. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Brian Halligan questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [00:00] Intro - [01:47] How inbound marketing was invented (SEO, blogging, early social) - [03:38] Naming the category: inbound vs outbound marketing - [06:58] The pivot to CRM & competing with Salesforce - [09:55] Fixing churn: the Mary / MoFu / Monetization framework - [15:52] The freemium CRM strategy & beating Salesforce from below - [17:44] Making support world-class: Apple Store hiring, culture, & training - [20:01] HubSpot’s culture code - scaling through culture, not code - [27:10] How AI is rewriting inbound marketing, SEO, and brand discovery - [35:54] The Grateful Dead: the original freemium marketers & HubSpot’s inspiration ### Stanley Tang - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/stanley-tang - **Air Date**: October 16, 2025 - **Duration**: 34 min - **Description**: The architect behind DoorDash's meteoric rise from a simple idea to a $50+ billion empire. A Stanford student–turned founder who helped reshape the gig economy, proving that sometimes the best business ideas come from solving your own late-night food cravings. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Stanley Tang questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [0:00] Intro - [1:00] Who is Stanley Tang - [1:29] Early childhood: computers, curiosity, and a physicist dad - [2:46] The class project that became DoorDash - [6:38] The first real delivery (and how it all began) - [9:08] Product-market fit before software - [11:06] Doing things that don’t scale - to the extreme - [15:54] Competing against consumer behavior - [16:25] How DoorDash built operational excellence - [20:01] Speed vs. quality: finding the right balance - [22:53] Robotics, drones, and the future of delivery - [26:58] The darkest moment (and spending 40% of cash to do what’s right) - [30:34] Chaos never ends - learning to embrace it - [31:48] Training thousands of dashers before automation - [33:48] Closing thoughts + talk to Stanley’s digital mind on Delphi ### Kirsten Green - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/kirsten-green - **Air Date**: November 20, 2025 - **Duration**: 38 min - **Description**: Founder Forerunner Ventures, building one of the most respected early-stage firms in consumer and commerce. A former equity research analyst, she’s backed iconic brands like Dollar Shave Club, Glossier, and Warby Parker. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Kirsten Green questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [0:00] Intro - [1:30] Nonlinear Career & Finding Your Path - [5:15 ] Intuition vs Data in Startup Decisions - [7:45] Overnight Success Myths in Venture - [9:10] Launch Fast: Why Perfect Is the Enemy - [11:30] Consumer Behavior, “Weird” Ideas & New Norms - [13:30] Start Narrow, Earn the Right to Expand - [15:50] Distribution, Attention & Growth Strategy - [19:40] The Say/Do Gap: Understanding True User Needs - [25:20] Darkest Career Moments & Resilience Lessons - [30:35] AI-Driven Consumer Shifts (Natural Language Search) - [36:10] Future Bets: Robotics, AI Products & New Experiences ### Gokul Rajaram - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/gokul-rajaram - **Air Date**: October 30, 2025 - **Duration**: 36 min - **Description**: The 'Godfather of AdSense' who helped build Google's advertising business and then led key product teams for merchants at Square. Known for his data-driven approach to product development and his uncanny ability to spot the next big thing before anyone else sees it coming. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Gokul Rajaram questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [00:00] Intro - [01:00 ] Who is Gokul - [03:10] Building Google’s Ad Model - [06:00 ] Metrics That Matter in Business Models - [07:50] When to Ignore the Data - [10:10 ] Prioritizing Customers & Segments - [11:50] Knowing When to Kill a Product - [13:30] When to Build Product #2 - [18:03] Hardest Moment in Gokul’s Career - [20:20] Founder Paranoia & Retention Metrics - [22:00] Culture & Early Team Dynamics - [25:50] What Makes a Team Scale - [30:00] Lessons from Great Leaders - [33:40] Sheryl Sandberg’s Decision Framework ### Soleio - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/soleio - **Air Date**: October 9, 2025 - **Duration**: 32 min - **Description**: Early Facebook designer who helped craft the visual DNA of social media, later leading design at Dropbox. Now an early-stage investor, he's backing the next generation of companies that blur the line between technology and art. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Soleio questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [0:00] Intro - [1:16] Who is Soleio - [2:00] Early web days: The origins of product design - [4:37] Inventing the 'product designer' role at Facebook - [7:43] Culture of speed, ownership, and building at Facebook - [11:45] Shipping fast: The story of Facebook's Like button - [13:54] When to persist and when to quit: Loonshots, 'false fails', and user onboarding at Facebook - [17:49] Transitioning cultures: From Facebook's speed to Dropbox's trust - [20:54] Balancing speed with excellence: Lessons for AI-era startups - [22:28] Is speed or quality a stronger differentiator in today's tech world? - [24:35] Can design be a moat in the age of AI? - [27:35] Rethinking UX in an AI-native world - [29:08] Why Soleio invested in Delphi: The 'Oprahbot' idea and digital minds ### Grant Lee - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/grant-lee - **Air Date**: February 19, 2026 - **Duration**: 30 min - **Description**: Grant Lee is the founder and CEO of Gamma. Gamma is a $2.1B AI-powered storytelling and presentation company used by teams to turn ideas into polished decks, docs, and webpages fast. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Grant Lee questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [5:10] VC: “worst idea I’ve ever heard” (then rage quit) - [7:33 ] Your friends will lie to your face - [10:54] Betting the company on the first 30-seconds - [13:05] How to run a micro-influencer program - [16:14] The secret benefit to hiring painfully slow - [18:12] The pains of scaling - [23:29] Grant’s most challenging moment - [26:45] How to launch your product - [28:12] What Grant is looking for - opportunities ### Shahin Farshchi - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/shahin-farshchi - **Air Date**: January 8, 2026 - **Duration**: 35 min - **Description**: Partner at Lux Capital, where he backs visionary founders building transformative technologies. With a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and a background as an entrepreneur, Shahin bridges the gap between deep tech and venture capital. His career began with a passion for cars, computers, and space—interests that evolved into a lifelong mission to accelerate humanity through engineering. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Shahin Farshchi questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [01:16 ] From PhD to Founder: Choosing Hard Problems - [07:11] The "Ask Nothing" Strategy for Breaking Into VC - [11:38] Balancing Technical Difficulty vs. Scientific Risk - [13:59] Deep Tech Startups Having One Shot - [18:26] The Controversial Mosaic Investment - [23:56] Learning to Trust The Bets You've Made - [27:20] Hard Truths About Scaling from 1 → N - [31:44] Why Money Is The Ultimate Commodity ### Nikhil Basu Trivedi - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/nikhil-basu-trivedi - **Air Date**: January 21, 2026 - **Duration**: 35 min - **Description**: When Canva disrupted design and Hinge redefined dating, one investor saw it coming. Nikhil Basu Trivedi has backed the companies that didn't just compete—they created entirely new categories. In this episode of The Library of Minds, Nikhil breaks down: - Why "durability genetics" matter more than vanity metrics like "0 to $2M in 10 days" - How Farmer's Dog scaled to billions with just 3 SKUs—and why prioritization is a superpower - The magic of consumer + enterprise hybrids (Canva's $3B+ ARR strategy) - Why he focuses on being "the only" instead of "the best" - His darkest career moment and how he started Footwork despite doubting the world needed another VC fund - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Nikhil Basu Trivedi questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [00:46] Artsy and digitizing the intangible - [02:28] Design, taste, and knowing when to stop - [03:59] Launch speed vs. taking time (Figma regret) - [05:39] Durability and business genetics - [07:49] Hinge vs Farmer's Dog: success = churn - [08:55] Optimizing for users vs business model - [09:39] The new vanity metric: 0 to $2M in 10 days - [10:29] Creating markets vs capturing markets - [12:48] Product vs brand (Brex vs Ramp) - [14:39] Consumer + Enterprise: Canva's $3B strategy - [17:46] Prioritization as superpower (Farmer's Dog's 3 SKUs) - [20:23] Starting Footwork: rejecting the warm blanket - [22:32] Darkest career moment and resilience - [25:14] Should you take venture capital? - [26:21] Wisdom for the next century - [27:27] Lean startup vs zero to one philosophy - [30:56] Being "the only" not "the best" - [32:35] The blank sheet exercise ### Al Ramadan - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/al-ramadan - **Air Date**: November 6, 2025 - **Duration**: 37 min - **Description**: Co-founding partner of Play Bigger and the mind behind Quokka Sports, which revolutionized how people experience sports online. Spent nearly a decade at Macromedia and Adobe, fundamentally changing how the world thinks about digital experiences and user interaction. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Al Ramadan questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [0:00] Intro: Al Ramadan on Category Design & Play Bigger - [02:50] Founding Quokka Sports and the Birth of a New Category - [04:25] The Magic Triangle: Product, Company, and Category Alignment - [07:23] How Qualtrics Became the King of Experience Management - [11:24] Escaping the Horizontal Tool Trap (and Why Most Startups Fail) - [13:05] Solving Problems People Don’t Know They Have - The Uber Mindset - [17:31] The 13 Deadly Sins of Existing Markets Explained - [22:31] AI’s Impact on Category Design and the Future of Innovation ### Keith Rabois - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/keith-rabois - **Air Date**: September 25, 2025 - **Duration**: 34 min - **Description**: Early PayPal executive and former leader at LinkedIn and Square, and an early investor in YouTube. Known for his razor-sharp insights on what separates winning companies from the rest – and the honesty to say it out loud. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Keith Rabois questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [0:00] Intro - [0:56] Who is Keith - [3:13] Can you judge a startup by its Office? - [4:28] Litigator to PayPal Mafia, zero business experience - [8:52] Start a company, or work for someone great? - [11:15] All-nighters and culture at PayPal - [13:03] Do vacations mean you hate your life? - [16:05] Square's zero-defect rule - [17:23] Speed of adaptability vs. speed of execution - [21:35] Is AI sustaining or disruptive? - [25:53] Why stress is good for you - [28:14] Building moats in AI - [30:39] Slack & communication ### Chris Slowe - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/chris-slowe - **Air Date**: January 15, 2026 - **Duration**: 38 min - **Description**: The CTO of Reddit and technical architect behind the 6th most visited website on the internet shares the engineering decisions that have led the platform from scrappy startup to global giant, navigating massive rewrites and building for a deeply opinionated community of millions. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Chris Slowe questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [02:37] How Reddit became a giant - [04:27] Building for users who hate change - [10:29] What tech debt really signals - [15:39] The A/B testing trap - [19:20] Why Reddit won't label AI content - [25:15] Anonymity creates better content - [27:57] Most memorable Reddit AMAs - [30:11] His worst architecture decision - [33:00] The tech bet that never fails - [36:16] First YC batch: Sam Altman, Twitch founders, Aaron Schwartz ### Delian Asparouhov - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/delian-asparouhov - **Air Date**: December 2, 2025 - **Duration**: 43 min - **Description**: Partner at Founders Fund & Co-founder and President of Varda Space Industries, which is building the world’s first space factories. Delian is Bulgarian, attended MIT, and likes to ski and play soccer. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Delian Asparouhov questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [00:00] Intro - [02:40] Delian’s “one thing” framework for high-impact decisions - [07:40] Motion vs. Progress: How founders avoid fake productivity - [09:35] Why empty calendar space creates real leverage for operators - [11:40] 996 culture, burnout, and when extreme intensity actually works - [15:40] How Delian operated as a first-time founder without asking for permission - [16:15] Inside the Keith Rabois years: 24/7 immersion + compressed learning - [18:10] Why Delian finds AI boring (and why he still can’t care about it) - [22:50] The Benchmark saga: 7 years of poking the bear and the blowback - [28:00] Varda’s mission: Space manufacturing, geopolitics, and free-market power - [34:15] Swallowing ego: Knowing your strengths vs. fixing your weaknesses - [36:05] The FAA battle: Delian’s hardest moment and what he learned ### Jason Boehmig - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/jason-boehmig - **Air Date**: December 9, 2025 - **Duration**: 38 min - **Description**: Co-founder and CEO of Ironclad, a company revolutionizing contract management through technology. A former corporate attorney, Boehmig has leveraged his legal expertise to streamline and automate the often cumbersome processes involved in legal work. - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Jason Boehmig questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [01:30] From Fenwick lawyer to AI tinkerer → founding Ironclad - [03:02] Stepping down as CEO after 10 years - [05:37] The workflow → CLM category expansion story - [08:49] The one-line email that changed Ironclad forever - [09:56] Coding a database on a Caltrain before a customer demo - [12:13] Why category language matters for GTM - [16:00] Trust, speed, and why Ironclad hired a “professional breaker” - [19:20] Jason’s #1 interview red flag - [23:26] Poetry, Maya Angelou, and the philosophy behind Ironclad - [25:52] What makes a company enduring - [31:27] Hardest “no”: churning hundreds of YC customers - [35:27] Why Jason believes Delphi will redefine knowledge preservation ### Chad Byers - **URL**: https://libraryofminds.com/chad-byers - **Air Date**: March 5, 2026 - **Duration**: 31 min - **Description**: Chad Byers is a co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures. Susa is a seed-stage venture firm that has deployed over $1B across five funds and backed more than 170 companies, including Robinhood (where Chad’s $250K seed check became a $400M+ stake by IPO). - **Delphi Chat**: Available - Ask Chad Byers questions via their AI clone - **Topics Covered**: - [0:37] The 26yo who backed Robinhood after everyone passed - [1:45] To make money, don’t listen to the experts - [2:50] Inventing the “data moat” thesis - [5:05] Chad’s method for spotting truly exceptional people - [10:02] Chad’s unicorn filter (and how he ignores hype) - [13:14] The key moat in the AI era - [16:55] “Oh shit, oh fuck” is the real startup journey - [18:00] How Chad raised Fund I with no track record - [22:50] When to act on your conviction - [25:39] How living with the Neuralink founders shaped his founder diligence - [27:50] What comes after the AI wave (the real next bets) ## Episode Features Each episode of The Library of Minds includes: ### Video Content - **Full Interview**: In-depth conversation with the guest - **Timestamps**: Clickable timestamps for easy navigation to specific topics - **Episode Duration**: Clearly marked runtime - **Release Date**: Air date for each episode - **Episode Number**: Sequential episode numbering ### Interactive Elements - **Delphi Chat Integration**: Chat with an AI clone of the guest - **Suggested Questions**: Curated questions recommended by each guest - **Guest Bio**: Background information about each guest - **Social Sharing**: Share episodes on social media ## Target Audience The Library of Minds is designed for: - **Founders & Entrepreneurs**: Learn from successful Silicon Valley founders - **Investors**: Gain insights from top investors and VCs - **Knowledge Seekers**: Anyone interested in the minds behind the digital revolution - **AI Enthusiasts**: Explore AI-powered digital clones through Delphi - **Podcast Listeners**: Consume content via audio on preferred platforms ## Unique Value Proposition What sets The Library of Minds apart: 1. **AI-Powered Interaction**: First interview series with integrated AI clones 2. **Curated Questions**: Each guest provides suggested questions to ask their Delphi 3. **Multi-Platform Access**: Available as video (YouTube) and audio (podcasts) 4. **High-Quality Guests**: Exclusive access to top thinkers and founders 5. **Interactive Experience**: Move beyond passive watching to active engagement ## Contact & Attribution - **Creator**: Delphi AI Inc. - **Website**: https://libraryofminds.com - **Partner**: https://www.delphi.ai - **Copyright**: © 2026 Delphi AI Inc. 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