A directory with opinions
The technology & B2B SaaS podcasts worth your commute.
Every show on this list has a real editorial take, who it's for, who it isn't, and the single best episode if you only listen to one. No SEO chaff, no “top 100 podcasts of 2026” stuffing. Just the shows I actually recommend, kept honest with a last-verified date on every entry.
Editorial picks
11 shows
The shows I'd subscribe to if I had to start from scratch tomorrow. Hand-picked, not algorithmic.
Lenny's Podcast
PickLenny Rachitsky
Long, structured interviews with operators about the craft of building product.
Listen if you build product or growth at a venture-backed SaaS company.
interviewweekly60m+Acquired
PickBen Gilbert · David Rosenthal
5-hour deep dives on the companies that defined modern technology.
Listen if you you treat company history as professional reading, not entertainment.
panelmonthly60m+Lex Fridman Podcast
PickLex Fridman
Long-form conversations across AI, science, and culture, guest-list-driven.
Listen if you you want extended, technical-leaning conversations with AI researchers.
interviewweekly60m+Latent Space
Pickswyx (Shawn Wang) · Alessio Fanelli
The technical AI engineering podcast, practitioners talking to practitioners.
Listen if you you ship LLM-powered features and need implementation-grade detail.
interviewweekly30–60mThe Pragmatic Engineer
PickGergely Orosz
Engineering management, hiring, and the business of software at scale.
Listen if you you manage engineers, or are about to.
interviewweekly60m+Risky Business
PickPatrick Gray
Weekly news + analysis show for working security professionals.
Listen if you you work in security and need a weekly news synthesis.
panelweekly60m+Darknet Diaries
PickJack Rhysider
Narrative true-crime stories from the cybersecurity world.
Listen if you you like long-form narrative non-fiction, think This American Life for hacking.
narrativebiweekly30–60mIdentity at the Center
PickJeff Steadman · Jim McDonald
The trade podcast for identity and access management practitioners.
Listen if you you work in workforce IAM, IGA, or PAM.
panelweekly30–60mCyberWire Daily
PickDave Bittner
Daily 20-minute briefing on the cybersecurity news that actually moved markets, regulators, or attackers.
Listen if you work in or sell to cybersecurity and need the daily news pulse.
narrativeweekly<30mClick Here
PickDina Temple-Raston
Long-form cybersecurity journalism from a former NPR investigative reporter, with the production values to match.
Listen if you you prefer reported narrative journalism to panel-discussion formats.
narrativebiweekly30–60mThe TWIML AI Podcast
PickSam Charrington
Deep-dive interviews with AI researchers and engineering leaders, longer-running and more academic than the LLM-shipping podcasts.
Listen if you you're an ML or AI engineer who reads papers and wants the author interview.
interviewweekly60m+
Reading paths
All paths →Don't want to scroll a directory? Pick a path, each one is a 3–7 show listening loop curated for a specific kind of role.
If you're a B2B SaaS founder
A weekly listening loop for early-to-mid-stage B2B SaaS founders. The order matters: start with operational frameworks, end with market context.
4 shows
If you build with LLMs
For engineers shipping LLM-powered features. Latent Space is the trade publication; Lex and No Priors fill in the wider picture from the research and investor sides.
3 shows
If you run security or identity
For working security and IAM practitioners. CyberWire Daily and Risky Business for the news pulse, Identity at the Center plus Future of Identity for IAM-specific coverage, Click Here and Darknet Diaries for the narrative pieces you can share with non-technical colleagues.
6 shows
If you're a bootstrapped or indie founder
For founders running capital-efficient or independent software businesses. Indie Hackers and Default Alive for the explicit bootstrapped lens; SaaStr and Lenny's Podcast for the broader B2B SaaS operating playbook when it's applicable; The Knowledge Project to keep the thinking sharp.
5 shows
If you ship AI features in production
For engineers shipping AI in production rather than researching the next paper. Latent Space and Practical AI for the applied weekly cadence; TWIML AI for research depth when you want the author interview; MLOps Coffee Sessions for the platform engineering perspective.
5 shows
All shows
22 of 22 matching the current filters.
Format
Episode length
Category
Acquired
PickBen Gilbert · David Rosenthal
5-hour deep dives on the companies that defined modern technology.
Listen if you you treat company history as professional reading, not entertainment.
panelmonthly60m+Click Here
PickDina Temple-Raston
Long-form cybersecurity journalism from a former NPR investigative reporter, with the production values to match.
Listen if you you prefer reported narrative journalism to panel-discussion formats.
narrativebiweekly30–60mCyberWire Daily
PickDave Bittner
Daily 20-minute briefing on the cybersecurity news that actually moved markets, regulators, or attackers.
Listen if you work in or sell to cybersecurity and need the daily news pulse.
narrativeweekly<30mDarknet Diaries
PickJack Rhysider
Narrative true-crime stories from the cybersecurity world.
Listen if you you like long-form narrative non-fiction, think This American Life for hacking.
narrativebiweekly30–60mIdentity at the Center
PickJeff Steadman · Jim McDonald
The trade podcast for identity and access management practitioners.
Listen if you you work in workforce IAM, IGA, or PAM.
panelweekly30–60mLatent Space
Pickswyx (Shawn Wang) · Alessio Fanelli
The technical AI engineering podcast, practitioners talking to practitioners.
Listen if you you ship LLM-powered features and need implementation-grade detail.
interviewweekly30–60mLenny's Podcast
PickLenny Rachitsky
Long, structured interviews with operators about the craft of building product.
Listen if you build product or growth at a venture-backed SaaS company.
interviewweekly60m+Lex Fridman Podcast
PickLex Fridman
Long-form conversations across AI, science, and culture, guest-list-driven.
Listen if you you want extended, technical-leaning conversations with AI researchers.
interviewweekly60m+Risky Business
PickPatrick Gray
Weekly news + analysis show for working security professionals.
Listen if you you work in security and need a weekly news synthesis.
panelweekly60m+The Pragmatic Engineer
PickGergely Orosz
Engineering management, hiring, and the business of software at scale.
Listen if you you manage engineers, or are about to.
interviewweekly60m+The TWIML AI Podcast
PickSam Charrington
Deep-dive interviews with AI researchers and engineering leaders, longer-running and more academic than the LLM-shipping podcasts.
Listen if you you're an ML or AI engineer who reads papers and wants the author interview.
interviewweekly60m+Default Alive
Mike Vacanti · Tyler Tringas
Capital-efficient founder conversations, the explicit anti-blitzscaling pitch told from the operating chair.
Listen if you you're building a capital-efficient SaaS and want peer conversations.
interviewweekly30–60mFuture of Identity
Mat Knutson
Identity industry interviews with vendor leaders and practitioners, complementary to Identity at the Center's two-host format.
Listen if you you work in identity and want vendor-leader interviews for roadmap context.
interviewbiweekly30–60mHacking Humans
Dave Bittner · Joe Carrigan
Weekly look at social engineering, phishing, and the human side of cybersecurity, accessible enough for non-technical colleagues.
Listen if you you work in or sell to security awareness training programs.
panelweekly30–60mIndie Hackers
Courtland Allen
Interviews with bootstrapped and indie founders, the antidote to venture-backed-only podcast diets.
Listen if you you're a bootstrapped or indie founder and want peers on the mic, not VCs.
interviewirregular30–60mMLOps Coffee Sessions
Demetrios Brinkmann
The community podcast for ML platform engineers, with the loose conference-corridor energy that the topic actually has.
Listen if you you work on ML platforms, training infrastructure, or model deployment systems.
interviewweekly30–60mNo Priors
Sarah Guo · Elad Gil
Two AI investors interviewing the people building the AI era.
Listen if you you're building or investing at the application layer of AI.
interviewweekly30–60mPractical AI
Daniel Whitenack · Chris Benson
Applied AI engineering conversations, the right pitch for practitioners shipping AI in production rather than researchers publishing papers.
Listen if you you're a software engineer shipping AI features in production.
panelweekly30–60mSaaStr
Jason Lemkin · Harry Stebbings
B2B SaaS-specific founder and operator conversations from the SaaStr conference team, longer-running and tighter on B2B than the general founder shows.
Listen if you you're an operator or founder at a B2B SaaS company.
interviewweekly30–60mSmashing Security
Graham Cluley · Carole Theriault
Weekly conversational take on cybersecurity news, irreverent enough to share with non-security colleagues.
Listen if you you want cybersecurity coverage that's accessible to non-specialists.
panelweekly30–60mThe Knowledge Project
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish interviews thinkers about mental models, decision-making, and applied wisdom rather than industry mechanics.
Listen if you you read Farnam Street or are interested in mental models and meta-cognition.
interviewbiweekly60m+The Twenty Minute VC
Harry Stebbings
High-velocity interviews with venture capitalists and founders.
Listen if you you want a wide read on what venture capitalists are saying right now.
interviewweekly30–60m