Lex Fridman
Podcaster and researcher
Lex Fridman is here because he asks a simple question and then lets the other person finish. Three or four hours with one guest, and no hurry to get to a clip. I listen when I want to hear how someone thinks, not what they announced.
He was born in 1983 in the Soviet Union, grew up in Moscow, and moved to the United States as a kid. He took his PhD at Drexel, joined MIT to study how people drive with machines, taught the deep learning courses there, and started the podcast in 2018. In this photograph he is teaching at MIT that year.