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Leads product for Grok Bot at SpaceX AI; previously led growth at Cursor, which he joined when it had about 15 people.
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CasablancaOther Michael Curtiz
So every year I do a watch of Casablanca which is one of my favorite movies and it incidentally also has a character with my last name Yugarte which is like the only example of I think a Yugarte in the media. Um so Casablanca always a great rewatch.
Lenny's Podcast, "How we built Grok Bot in a month", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2026-09-08·youtube.com ↗
DesiderataOther Max Ehrmann
I love the desiderata which I don't know if you've read but um I have it on my on my door uh and I've had it since I was a teenager and everywhere I move I kind of paste it there and it's it's a very short poem but each line I just I find myself finding something new in it every time I read it and I find it really grounding.
Lenny's Podcast, "How we built Grok Bot in a month", lightning round, favourite life motto; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2026-09-08·youtube.com ↗
MonkOther
I sometimes sneak in an episode of Monk, the detective show, uh, which was one that I watched kind of as a kid with my family and I've come back to now that I live in San Francisco. And it's just a great moment in time snapshot of San Francisco in the late 90s, early 2000s when it was shot. Um, that I I really enjoy.
Lenny's Podcast, "How we built Grok Bot in a month", lightning round, favourite recent movie or TV show; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2026-09-08·youtube.com ↗
exaSoftware Exa
I was like a very early user of of Metaphor at the time, which became EXA. And I love kind of using Exa to do all of these maybe more strange queries over the internet, but I see a lot of examples of people building like semantically search over, you know, an embedded image store of the MoMA or kind of things like that. And I always have so much fun playing with those.
Lenny's Podcast, "How we built Grok Bot in a month", lightning round, favourite AI product; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions).
2026-09-08·youtube.com ↗
Cat's CradleBook Kurt Vonnegut
One is I love Kerbonagget. Uh, so Cat's Cradle has been a fun fun recommendation that and a copy that I bought many friends before.
Lenny's Podcast, "How we built Grok Bot in a month", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). Captions spell the author "Kerbonagget".
2026-09-08·youtube.com ↗
The War of ArtBook Steven Pressfield
and then second is The War of Art by Steven Presfield, uh, that I find myself frequently coming back to, even if it's just a page or two at a time. Um, and I'd recommend for anybody.
Lenny's Podcast, "How we built Grok Bot in a month", lightning round, asked for the books they recommend most; the guest's own spoken answer (YouTube captions). Captions spell the author "Presfield".
2026-09-08·youtube.com ↗
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