The Library of 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. Each week, we sit down with the greatest thinkers of our time: founders, investors, athletes, authors, scientists, artists, and operators who have shaped how we live, work, and think.Then we hand the mic to you. Every guest has a Digital Mind on Delphi you can talk to directly. Ask the follow-up. Get the advice. Keep the conversation going long after the episode ends.

The Library of Minds is a business podcast hosted by Delphi, with 26 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Delphi hosts The Library of Minds, a business show with 26 episodes published.

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  Episode #4

  Top Startup Coach: Why Your Team Won’t Tell You the Truth (And How to Fix It) | Alisa Cohn

  Sep 17, 202638 minS3

  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. Continue the conversation with Alisa: https://delphi.ai/alisacohn Explore more perspective here !

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  Episode #3

  Early Facebook Leader: Forget Job Titles, Do This Instead | Julie Zhuo

  Sep 3, 202644 minS3

  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.Have questions for Julie? Ask her anything here !Create your own digital mind here .

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  Episode #2

  "The Social Network Ruined Startups" | Hiten Shah 4x SaaS Founder

  Aug 20, 202648 minS3

  Continue the conversation with Hiten here ! 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. Create your own Delphi here

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  100x AI Engineers Will Be Treated Like Elite Athletes | Kian Katanforoosh (Workera, Stanford)

  Jul 1, 202622 minS3

  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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  Episode #10

  Lyft Founder: The Uber War, the COVID Collapse, and the Robotaxi Threat | John Zimmer

  May 14, 202642 minS2

  💬 Ask John Zimmer a question here . Create your own digital mind here . 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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