Full episode with Jack Dorsey (Apr 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60KJz1BVTyU Clips channel (Lex Clips): https://www.youtube.com/lexclips Main channel (Lex Fridman): https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman (more links below) Podcast full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Podcasts clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/ai Podcast on Apple Podcasts (iTunes): https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 Podcast RSS: https://lexfridman.com/category/ai/feed/ Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square. Subscribe to this YouTube channel or connect on: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
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Dhanji R. Prasanna is the chief technology officer at Block (formerly Square), where he’s managed more than 4,000 engineers over the past two years. Under his leadership, Block has become one of the most AI-native large companies in the world. Before becoming CTO, Dhanji wrote an “AI manifesto” to CEO Jack Dorsey that sparked a company-wide transformation (and his promotion to CTO). *We discuss:* 1. How Block’s internal open-source agent, called Goose, is saving employees 8 to 10 hours weekly 2. How the company measures AI productivity gains across technical and non-technical teams 3. Which teams are benefiting most from AI (it’s not engineering) 4. The boring organizational change that boosted productivity even more than AI tools 5. Why code quality has almost nothing to do with product success 6. How to drive AI adoption throughout an organization (hint: leadership needs to use the tools daily) 7. Lessons from building Google Wave, Google+, and other failed products *Brought to you by:* Sinch—Build messaging, email, and calling into your product: https://sinch.com/lenny Figma Make—A prompt-to-code tool for making ideas real: https://www.figma.com/lenny/ Persona—A global leader in digital identity verification: https://withpersona.com/lenny *Transcript:* https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-block-is-becoming-the-most-ai-native *My biggest takeaways (for paid newsletter subscribers):* https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/i/176082333/my-biggest-takeaways-from-this-conversation *Where to find Dhanji R. Prasanna:* • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhanji/ *Where to find Lenny:* • Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com • X: https://twitter.com/lennysan • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/ *In this episode, we cover:* (00:00) Introduction to Dhanji (05:26) The AI manifesto: convincing Jack Dorsey (07:33) Transforming into a more AI-native company (12:05) How engineering teams work differently today (15:24) Goose: Block’s open-source AI agent (20:18) Measuring AI productivity gains across teams (21:38) What Goose is and how it works (32:15) The future of AI in engineering and productivity (37:42) The importance of human taste (40:10) Building vs. buying software (44:08) How AI is changing hiring and team structure (53:45) The importance of using AI tools yourself before deploying them (55:13) How Goose helped solve a personal problem with receipts (58:01) What makes Goose unique (59:57) What Dhanji wishes he knew before becoming CTO (01:01:49) Counterintuitive lessons in product development (01:04:56) Why controlled chaos can be good for engineering teams (01:08:07) Core leadership lessons (01:13:36) Failure corner (01:15:50) Lightning round and final thoughts *Referenced:* • Jack Dorsey on X: https://x.com/jack • Block: https://block.xyz/ • Square: https://squareup.com/ • Cash App: https://cash.app/ • What is Conway’s Law?: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-life-hacks/organization/what-is-conways-law# • Goose: https://github.com/block/goose • Gosling: https://github.com/block/goose-mobile • Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/ • Snowflake: https://www.snowflake.com/ • Claude: https://claude.ai/ • Anthropic co-founder on quitting OpenAI, AGI predictions, $100M talent wars, 20% unemployment, and the nightmare scenarios keeping him up at night | Ben Mann: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/anthropic-co-founder-benjamin-mann • OpenAI: https://openai.com/ • OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil (CPO at OpenAI, ex-Instagram, Twitter): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/kevin-weil-open-ai • Llama: https://www.llama.com/ • Cursor: https://cursor.com/ • The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell (co-founder and CEO): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-rise-of-cursor-michael-truell • Top Gun: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/ • Lenny’s vibe-coded Lovable app: https://gdoc-images-grab.lovable.app/ • Afterpay: https://github.com/afterpay • Bitkey: https://bitkey.world/ • Proto: https://github.com/proto-at-block • Brad Axen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyaxen/ • Databricks: https://www.databricks.com/ • Carl Sagan’s quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/32952-if-you-wish-to-make-an-apple-pie-from-scratch ...References continued at: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-block-is-becoming-the-most-ai-native *Recommended books:* • The Master and Margarita: https://www.amazon.com/Master-Margarita-Mikhail-Bulgakov/dp/0802130119 • Tennyson Poems: https://www.amazon.com/Tennyson-Poems-Everymans-Library-Pocket/dp/1400041872/ _Production and marketing by https://penname.co/._ _For inquiries about sponsoring the podcast, email podcast@lennyrachitsky.com._ Lenny may be an investor in the companies discussed.
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Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square. Support this podcast by signing up with these sponsors: - MasterClass: https://masterclass.com/lex EPISODE LINKS: Jack's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jack Start Small Tracker: https://bit.ly/2KxdiBL PODCAST INFO: Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/podcast Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 RSS: https://lexfridman.com/feed/podcast/ Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 OUTLINE: 0:00 - Introduction 2:48 - Engineering at scale 8:36 - Increasing access to the economy 13:09 - Machine learning at Square 15:18 - Future of the digital economy 17:17 - Cryptocurrency 25:31 - Artificial intelligence 27:49 - Her 29:12 - Exchange with Elon Musk about bots 32:05 - Concerns about artificial intelligence 35:40 - Andrew Yang 40:57 - Eating one meal a day 45:49 - Mortality 47:50 - Meaning of life 48:59 - Simulation CONNECT: - Subscribe to this YouTube channel - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LexFridmanPage - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Square, spoke to a student audience at Stanford Graduate School of Business as part of the View From The Top speaker series. Dorsey shared his story and how he came up with the ideas for Twitter (which he created and co-founded) and Square and offered some advice to the entrepreneurs and business students in the auditorium. More about the View From The Top speaker series http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/vftt All View From The Top videos http://www.youtube.com/course?list=EC5C14B375A7F2FEA8 Square https://squareup.com/
Full episode with Jack Dorsey (Apr 2020): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60KJz1BVTyU Clips channel (Lex Clips): https://www.youtube.com/lexclips Main channel (Lex Fridman): https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman (more links below) Podcast full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOdP_8GztsuKi9nrraNbKKp4 Podcasts clips playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrAXtmErZgOeciFP3CBCIEElOJeitOr41 Podcast website: https://lexfridman.com/ai Podcast on Apple Podcasts (iTunes): https://apple.co/2lwqZIr Podcast on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2nEwCF8 Podcast RSS: https://lexfridman.com/category/ai/feed/ Jack Dorsey is the co-founder and CEO of Twitter and the founder and CEO of Square. Subscribe to this YouTube channel or connect on: - Twitter: https://twitter.com/lexfridman - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lexfridman - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lexfridman - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lexfridman - Medium: https://medium.com/@lexfridman - Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lexfridman
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