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Published · transcript-backedEdwin Chen: belief
7 Dec 2025 Lenny's Podcast The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)
“Almost like it's this destiny that their entire life, and experiences, and interests shape them towards. And so I think that principle applies pretty broadly, not just the founders, but the people creating, I think.”
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- Edwin Chen
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- 7 Dec 2025
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Yeah. Waymo, good job. Good job over there. Do you have a favorite life motto that you find yourself coming back to in work or in life? So I think I mentioned this idea that founders should build a company that only they could build. Almost like it's this destiny that their entire life, and experiences, and interests shape them towards. And so I think that principle applies pretty broadly, not just the founders, but the people creating, I think. Well, let me follow that thread to unlightening this answer. Do you have any advice for how to build those sorts of experiences that help lead to that? Is it follow things that are interesting to you, because it's easy to say that, it's hard to actually acquire these really unique sets of experiences that allow you to create something really important?…
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