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The Library of Minds

Engage, learn, and connect with the world's greatest minds.

The Library of Minds

Engage, learn, and connect with the world's greatest minds.

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Join a lineup of founders, investors, athletes, authors, and operators shaping how we live, work, and think.
Turn your episode into an ongoing dialogue through your own Digital Mind on Delphi.
Recorded as a focused, editorially produced conversation that showcases your clearest ideas and stories.
Plug into a cross-disciplinary audience spanning business, entrepreneurship, science, and culture.

About The Library of Minds

Engage, learn, and connect with the world's greatest minds.

Hear from the world's greatest minds across business, sports, health, science, and culture. Then keep the conversation going.The Library of Minds is the world's first interactive podcast.

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Cross-Discipline Builder Audience

You reach founders, investors, and operators who follow episodes like HubSpot's $20B journey, DoorDash's origin story, and Reddit's scaling playbook.

Operator-to-Operator Deep Dives

You sit for a focused interview that mirrors episodes with Sequoia, Canva & Hinge investors, and Lyft's founder-built around your real decisions, not surface-level talking points.

Expert Guest Roster Credibility

You stand alongside leaders behind Opendoor, Amplitude, Robinhood, DoorDash, and HubSpot, reinforcing your authority in business, entrepreneurship, science, and culture.

Episode Plus Digital Mind

You get both a flagship interview and a persistent Digital Mind on Delphi so listeners can keep asking you questions long after the episode airs.

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From First Idea to Category Leader

Walk listeners through how you went from zero to a durable business, product, or movement-warts, wrong turns, and all.

The original spark and the problem you couldn't ignore Early experiments, false starts, and near-death moments Finding product-market fit and your first real traction signal Key hires, culture choices, and process shifts that unlocked scale What you'd repeat-and what you'd never do again
Your Mental Models for Bets and Tradeoffs

Deconstruct how you make high-stakes calls on markets, product, people, and capital so builders can borrow your decision frameworks.

How you size opportunities and decide what not to build Frameworks you use to evaluate talent and co-founders Your approach to speed vs. quality in the AI era Lessons from your best and worst investment or product bets How your decision-making has evolved over time
Building in the Age of AI and Automation

Share how AI is reshaping your field and what builders should do now to stay ahead of the curve.

Where AI is already changing your day-to-day work Opportunities you see for AI-native products or workflows Risks, public perception, and how companies can respond How you think about 100x engineers and new team structures Advice for founders starting AI-first companies today
Culture, Resilience, and the Human Side of Scale

Explore how you've navigated culture, crisis, and personal resilience while building or backing ambitious companies.

Culture choices that scaled faster than code or product Managing public scrutiny, controversy, or platform risk Handling crashes, collapses, or near-failure moments Maintaining your own mental and physical health under pressure How your view of success has changed over time
How You'd Contribute to the Show
Audience Takeaways

Your episode helps listeners understand how you think-your frameworks, tradeoffs, and playbooks-so they can apply them to building companies, products, and careers of their own.

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Your inflection points: the key decisions, failures, and bets that changed your trajectory.
Your mental models: how you evaluate markets, talent, product, and risk.
Your playbooks: concrete tactics for going from idea to scale in your domain.
Why Trust Me
Episodes feature leaders from HubSpot, DoorDash, Lyft, Reddit, Sequoia, Forerunner, and Founders Fund.
Conversations focus on specific decisions and numbers, not generic inspiration.
Every guest is positioned as a practitioner with real operating experience.
The Ideal Guest

You're a strong fit if you're a founder, investor, operator, scientist, creator, or athlete with real decisions, numbers, and scars-and you're willing to unpack how you actually think and work.

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Sequoia's CPO & Partner Jess Lee on How AI Will Change Consumer Apps

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The Untold Story of Building DoorDash with Co-Founder Stanley Tang

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