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Grit — 285 episodes
How AIG Is Reinventing Insurance With AI | Peter Zaffino
From Airbnb to Linear: How Karri Saarinen Redefined Product Design
How Kevin Mandia Built the Most Trusted Name in Cybersecurity
The Silicon Valley Insider In The Pentagon | DoW Emil Michael
How Sierra Is Pulling Ahead in the AI Race | Co-founder Bret Taylor
The AI Era of Cybercrime: How Malwarebytes Is Evolving Its Security Stack | Marcin Kleczynski
The Truth Behind Automation Claims in Customer Support | Cresta CEO Ping Wu
The Safest Dollar on the Internet | Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire
Why We’re Only Using 1% of AI | Glean CEO Arvind Jain
The Grittiest Conversations of 2025: AI, Business & Beyond
How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader
How Snap Plans to Win the AR Race | Evan Spiegel on Spectacles
The Pull to Build: Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit and Starting Roadrunner
Building Cloudflare for the Next 50 Years | Co-founder Cloudfare Michelle Zatlyn
She Sold Her Startup for $500 Million, Here’s Her Next Idea
Synthetic Data and the Future of AI | Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
From Yext to Roam: Howard Lerman’s Second Act
Rebuilding Front for the AI Era | CEO Dan O’Connell
ElevenLabs’ Vision for Voice Interfaces | CEO Mati Staniszewski
95% Faster Video Production with Synthesia | Victor Riparbelli
From Idea To Impact: How Gamma Is Redefining Presentations | Grant Lee
Leadership Lessons From Snowflake’s Sales & Marketing Duo | Chris Degnan and Denise Persson
The Man Who Builds for the Decade Ahead | Founder of Google X, Waymo, and Udacity
How WordPress Became a Web Giant | Automattic Founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg
The Central Nervous System for Modern Business | Confluent CEO Jay Kreps
Airtable’s AI Reboot with CEO Howie Liu
Inside the Mind of the World’s Most Optimistic CEO
How Dropbox Beat Big Tech in the Cloud Wars
Building High-Impact Sales Teams | Dan Lee and Nooks
Shishir Mehrotra on Building Tools Creators Love
How Notion Reimagined Productivity Tools | Ivan Zhao
The Travel Giant Built on Billions of Reviews | Steve Kaufer on TripAdvisor
The Expert Network Behind Handshake AI’s Model Training w/ Garrett Lord & Mamoon Hamid
How Plaid Turned a Failed $5.3B Deal with Visa into Momentum | Zach Perret (Plaid)
Episode 250: AI Special Featuring Sierra, Harvey, Windsurf & More
How Imprint Is Reinventing Credit Cards for Modern Brands | Daragh Murphy
GitLab’s CEO on Why the Next Great Developer Might Not Write Code | Bill Staples
Stord’s Plan to Take on Amazon’s Logistics Advantage | Sean Henry
Family, Focus, and 350M Users: Inside Zoom with Eric Yuan
Bret Taylor’s Journey Leading Salesforce, Sierra & OpenAI
Inside Aurora’s Push to Make Autonomous Trucking Real | Chris Urmson
From Scaling Cisco to Seeding AI: John T. Chambers on Speed, Strategy, and Reinvention
How Matt Murphy Made Marvell Essential to AI and Cloud
HubSpot CEO on the Future of SaaS, AI, & Leading Through Change
From White House to Wall Street: David Rubenstein
No Reset Button: Reinventing Amplitude in a Post-AI World (Spenser Skates)
Flexport’s Third Act: Winning in a Broken Global Trade System
Brex 3.0: Inside the Radical Turnaround with Pedro Franceschi
From India to Silicon Valley: The Jay Chaudhry & Zscaler Story
The Unlikely Path to Building a Billion-Dollar Gov Tech Company | Zac Bookman
Bootstrapped to $12B: Mailchimp’s Ben Chestnut on Life After the Exit
Meet the Man Who’s Making Supersonic Flight Possible Again | Blake Scholl
#232 CEO NetApp, George Kurian: New Chapters
#231 CEO & Co-Founder Harvey, Winston Weinberg w/ Ilya Fushman: Worthy Sacrifices
#230 Co-founder & CEO, Wolt & Head of DoorDash International, Miki Kuusi: The Next Mountain
#229 Former CEO Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick w/ Bing Gordon: Change the Game
#228 Co-Founder Alinea & Tock: Selling Experience
#227: CEO & Founder Axon, Rick Smith: Push Risk
#226 President & COO Coinbase, Emilie Choi: Through the Storm
#225 CEO Lattice, Sarah Franklin: Trailblazer
#224 CTO & Co-Owner 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson: Perfect Flow
#223 Great Stories and Gritty Advice for 2025
#222 CEO San Francisco Giants, Larry Baer: Winning Plays
#221 CEO & Chairman Sony Pictures, Tony Vinciquerra: Into the Fire
#220 Former CEO Amazon Worldwide Consumer, Jeff Wilke: Exponential
#219 CEO Tanium, Dan Streetman: Critical Responsibility
#218 CEO Etsy, Josh Silverman: Second Acts
#217 CEO & Co-Founder Codeium, Varun Mohan w/ Leigh Marie Braswell: Limitless
#216 Founder Khan Academy, Sal Khan: Dangerously Curious
#215 COO Rippling Matt MacInnis: Learn the Engine
#214 Former CEO Hulu & WarnerMedia Jason Kilar: No Labels
#213 CEO & Co-Founder Loom Joe Thomas w/ Ilya Fushman: After the Exit
#212 Founder Magic Leap & SynthBee Rony Abovitz: Underdog
#211 CEO & Co-Founder Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski: Country Cousin
#210 CEO & Co-Founder Huntress Kyle Hanslovan w/ Ev Randle: Deep Roots
#209 Former President & CEO Ford, Mark Fields: All Cylinders
#208 CEO & Co-Founder Patreon, Jack Conte: Crowd Surfer
#207 Co-Founder & Chairman Zynga, Mark Pincus: Speed of Play
#206 CEO & Founder Rivian, RJ Scaringe: Electrified
#205 CEO Snowflake, Sridhar Ramaswamy: Visibility
#204 Founder & Former CEO Blue Bottle, James Freeman: After the Exit
#203 CEO Niantic, John Hanke: Buried Ships
#202 Chairman of Qualcomm, Mark McLaughlin: The Right Pitch
#201 CEO Lyft, David Risher: The Ride
#200 CEO & Co-Founder Together AI, Vipul Ved Prakash w/ Bucky Moore: Super Cycle
#199 CEO & Co-Founder Klaviyo, Andrew Bialecki: High Slope
#198 CEO & Co-Founder Wayfair, Niraj Shah: Homeward
#197 CEO, Chairman & Founder Zscaler, Jay Chaudhry: No Attachment
#196 CEO & Co-Founder Braze, Bill Magnuson: Principles of Change
#195 CEO Salesforce AI, Clara Shih: Above the Clouds
#194 CEO & Founder Sunshine, Marissa Mayer: Innovative Instincts
#193 Former CEO Nextdoor, Sarah Friar: Four Circles
#192 CTO & Co-Founder Discord, Stanislav Vishnevskiy: Ship It
#191 CEO & Co-Founder Intercom, Eoghan McCabe: Second Beginning
#190 Co-Founder Cost Plus Drugs, Mark Cuban: Mavs to Meds
#189 Co-Founder Watershed, Taylor Francis: Worthy Missions
#188 CEO & Co-Founder Synthesia, Victor Riparbelli w/ Josh Coyne: Gorilla in the Room
#187 President & COO of AG1, Kat Cole: Wings to Supplements
#186 COO Asana, Anne Raimondi: Recovering Perfectionist
#185 CEO & Founder Netskope, Sanjay Beri: The Trenches
#184 Former CEO & Co-Founder Sun, Scott McNealy: In the Piñata
#183 CEO & Co-Founder Harness, Jyoti Bansal: Three-Layered Cake
#182 CEO & Co-Founder Cribl, Clint Sharp: Finding Traction
#181 CEO Transcarent, Glen Tullman: Problem Solving
#180 CEO & Co-Founder Verkada, Filip Kaliszan: Outlier
#179 CEO & Co-Founder Zapier, Wade Foster: Missouri’s Connector
#178 Author of “Radical Candor,” Kim Scott: Uncommon Sense
#177 President & Co-Founder Anthropic, Daniela Amodei: AI Hurricane
#176 CEO MongoDB, Dev Ittycheria: Edge
#175 CEO Snowflake, Frank Slootman: Amped
#174 CEO & Co-Founder Ginkgo Bioworks, Jason Kelly: Life Finds a Way
#173 Author of “The Qualified Sales Leader,” John McMahon: The Five-Time CRO
#172 Professor at UPenn & Author, Angela Duckworth: Grit
#171 Founder & Former CEO Drift, David Cancel: Never Trapped
#170 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors (Encore)
#169 CEO & Founder Cato Networks, Shlomo Kramer: The Burden of Persona
#168 CEO & Founder Glean, Arvind Jain w/ Mamoon Hamid: New Playbook
#167 CEO StockX, Scott Cutler: Detroit’s First Unicorn
#166 Executive Chairman & Former CEO Attentive, Brian Long: Problem Hunting
#165 Former CEO & Co-Founder of Zillow, Spencer Rascoff: Real Estate Voyeurism
#164 CEO & Co-Founder Duolingo, Luis von Ahn: "The Pitch Was Never Pittsburgh"
#163 CEO Bill, René Lacerte: Hourglass Leadership
#162 CEO & Co-Founder Rippling, Parker Conrad w/ Mamoon Hamid: Compounding
#161 Founder & EVP of Oracle NetSuite, Evan Goldberg: Endless Possibilities
#160 CEO Grammarly, Rahul Roy-Chowdhury: Better, Not More
#159 CEO 1Password, Jeff Shiner: Chief Eliminator of Obstacles
#158 CRO Anduril Industries, Matt Steckman: On Defense
#157 CEO Udemy, Greg Brown: The Plunge
#156 CRO Snowflake, Chris Degnan: Part 2
#155 CEO Yahoo, Jim Lanzone: Brand Rejuvenation
#154 Remix: Tornadoes, Unicorn Meat, and Hypergrowth Sales
#153 COO & CRO Weights & Biases, Yan-David Erlich: ML’s Moment
#152 CEO Gainsight, Nick Mehta: Human-First
#151 CEO Outreach, Manny Medina: 10M or Die
#150 CEO Box, Aaron Levie w/ Mamoon Hamid: Open For Business
#149 Co-CEO Workday, Carl Eschenbach: A Life of Significance
#148 Former Snowflake CEO, Bob Muglia: The Datapreneurs
#147 Ex-Waze CEO & Founder of Post News, Noam Bardin: Hockey Sticks and Plateaus
#146 Co-founder & CEO Rubrik, Bipul Sinha: Authenticity Reigns
#145 CRO Tealium, Ted Purcell: Snap Into It
#144 CEO Lacework, Jay Parikh: Quiet Intensity
#143 CEO HashiCorp, Dave McJannet: Phase Shifts
#142 President of DocuSign, Robert Chatwani: Get Uncomfortable
#141 CEO Navan, Ariel Cohen: Be Naive!
#140 CRO Walmart, Seth Dallaire: How You Show Up
#139 CEO Coach, Matt Mochary: Coaching Greatness
#138 CEO Motive, Shoaib Makani w/ Ilya Fushman: Powering the Physical Economy
#137 CEO Oura, Tom Hale: Business & Backgammon
#136 COO Modern Treasury, Rachel Pike: Golden Ticket
#135 CMO & CSO GitLab, Ashley Kramer: The Three Ps
#134 Chief Bizdev Officer at Uber, Jen Vescio: Buy, Build, or Partner
#133 CEO Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh Arora: Create Certainty
#132 Former 49ers Quarterback Alex Smith and Former Warriors Guard Shaun Livingston: Hard Steps
#131 Golden State Warriors Forward Andre Iguodala: The Sixth Man
#130 Former Vice President Al Gore: Relentless
#129 CRO Zapier, Giancarlo “GC” Lionetti: Recheck, Rebalance
#128 Former COO & Corporate Officer at Stripe, Claire Hughes Johnson: Scaling People
#127 CEO Intuit Mailchimp, Rania Succar: Consistent Inner Equilibrium
#126 CRO Gem, Lesley Young: Hard Yards
#125 CRO Starburst, Javier Molina: Reading Cues
#124 Founding CRO at Procore, Dennis Lyandres: Defining "Winning"
#123 CEO GitHub, Thomas Dohmke: Open-Source Values
#122 President & Board Member at Freshworks, Dennis Woodside: What If This Goes Really Well?
#121 Founder & Co-CEO Brex, Henrique Dubugras: Pivot or Else
#120 Chairman & CEO ServiceNow, Bill McDermott: Full Speed Ahead
#119 Co-founder & CEO Gong, Amit Bendov: No Royalty
#118 Dean of Stanford GSB, Jonathan Levin: Innovation Engines
#117 Co-founder & COO Cloudflare, Michelle Zatlyn: A Better Internet
#116 Grit Recap: 9 Intersections of Personal and Professional
#115 Executive Board Member at SAP, Scott Russell: Chief Optimist Officer
#114 CMO GE, Linda Boff: Play ‘Til the Whistle
#113 CEO PagerDuty, Jennifer Tejada: The Re-Finder
#112 Former President at Tesla / CEO of DVx Ventures, Jon McNeill: First-Principles
#111 Founder and CEO Whoop, Will Ahmed: Unlocking Optimal Human Performance
#110 Former CRO / Advisor at Notion, Olivia Nottebohm: Grow Fast or Die Slow
#109 Co-founder & CEO, Databricks Ali Ghodsi: The Difference Between Truth and Data
#108 COO Zscaler, Dali Rajic: If You’re Not Always Learning, You’ll Get Wiped Out
#107 Founding CRO at Flexport, Ben Braverman: The Power of Genuine Curiosity
#106 Co-founder & CEO Sweetgreen, Jonathan Neman: The Restaurant Company of the Future
#105 AOL Founder & CEO Revolution, Steve Case: The Rise of the Rest
#104 Co-founder of Intuit, Scott Cook: The Power of Paradigms
#103 Founder & CEO Productboard, Hubert Palan w/ Ilya Fushman: Chasing Perfection
#102 CEO Qualcomm, Cristiano Amon: We’re In a Hurry to Get to the Future
#101 CEO Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian: Competitor-Aware and Customer-Obsessed
#100 Chairman of Kleiner Perkins, John Doerr: Getting Into Trouble with Disruptors
CEO Touch the Top, Erik Weihenmayer: Climbing Everest Blind
Co-founder and CEO G2, Godard Abel: Finding Opportunity in Challenging Times
Founding CRO @HubSpot / Prof @HBS / CoFounder @Stage 2 Capital Mark Roberge: The Science and Psychology of Scaling
CMO Canva, Zach Kitschke: From Employee Number 5 To $40 Billion Valuation
Founder & CEO Freshworks, Girish Mathrubootham: Success Is In the Big Things, Happiness Is In the Small Things
CMO Riot Games, Jason Bunge: Change Is Inevitable, Get Used To It
Co-Founder & CEO Charm Industrial, Peter Reinhardt: “All That Matters Is What the Customers Are Telling You”
Co-Founder & CEO Clari, Andy Byrne: Machine Learning and Human Feeling
Co-Founder & COO Okta, Frederic Kerrest: Zero to IPO
Founder & CEO Flock Safety, Garrett Langley: Tech That Makes Everyone Safer
COO Ironclad, Leyla Seka: More Equal Is Always Better
Chief Freemium Business Officer at Spotify, Alex Norstrom: The Power of Setting Impossible Goals
#87 Founder & CEO Thrive, Arianna Huffington: Life Is About More Than Money and Power
CMO Airtable, Archana Agrawal: Success Is Not a Formula
CMO Square, Lauren Weinberg: Self-made boss
Co-Founder & CEO Handshake, Garrett Lord: The Billion-Dollar Question That Changed College Recruiting
CMO Thoughtspot, Scott Holden: Tactics, Strategy, and Downhill Skiing
Co-founder & CEO ZoomInfo, Henry Schuck: This Job Is Not Supposed to Be Fun
CRO Articulate, Jaimie Buss: A Problem Solver That Happens to be Good at Sales
CMO Tinder, George Felix: Trusting Your Gut, ‘Smelling Like a Man,’ and Swiping Right
VP of Sales at Hopin, Javier Ortega Estrada: Ingredients for High Growth and a Good Paella
President at Confluent, Erica Schultz: Cashing in on Your Currency
CRO Zoom, Ryan Azus: It’s Not Zoom Fatigue, It’s Work Fatigue
CCO Instabase, Ozge Ozcan: Rising and Falling - Like a Phoenix
CMO Samsara, Sarah Patterson: What You Do vs. Why It Matters
CRO Calendly, Kate Ahlering: Embracing Leadership - On and Off the Basketball Court
CEO Loom, Joe Thomas: Communication, the Mother of All Skills
President at Databricks, Andy Kofoid: Reinvention at Any Stage
Former CEO Splunk, Doug Merritt: Creating 360° Order in Chaos
CEO Stord, Sean Henry: Supply Chains... Are Fun?
Former President at NetApp, Tom Mendoza: Sustaining Urgency and Injecting Tension
President, Global Strategic Customers at Salesforce, Jim Steele: Measuring Your Facetime
CMO Attentive, Sara Varni: Cold Beer and Cheeseburgers
CRO Nextdoor, Heidi Andersen: Nurturing an Elastic Mind
CMO Rippling, Matt Epstein: Building the Supermarket of SaaS
CMO TripActions, Meagen Eisenberg: The Joy of Living in Awkward
CRO Unqork, Philip Lacor: Playing the Infinite Game
CBO Duolingo, Bob Meese: Carrying Culture Through Language
CRO Pendo, Jennifer Brannigan: Un-designing Your Leadership Path
CRO Rubrik, Brian McCarthy: Embedding Missionary Values Into Company Culture
President and COO Coinbase, Emilie Choi: Rising Through the Crypto Ranks
COO Bloomreach, Christy Augustine: Thin Mints and Company Building
CEO Alteryx, Mark Anderson: Transformation Starts with Leadership
CEO Relativity, Mike Gamson: Fueling the Next Technology Ecosystems
CRO Stripe, Mike Clayville: Building Tornado Companies
Chief Business Officer at Compass, Rob Lehman: Leadership by Fire
COO Cameo, Brian Frank: From Professional Networks to Celebrity Networks
President of Field Operations at BetterUp, Marc Maloy: Building Better Organizations by Building Successful People
CEO Incorta, Scott Jones: From Running Sales to Running a Company, and Everything in Between
Head of eSports at Activision Blizzard, Brandon Snow: Building 'Generational Fandom' of Professional Video Game Teams
Head of Revenue and BD at Asana, Oliver Jay: The Cutting Edge of Product-Led Growth
SVP Sales at Affirm, Eric Morse: Exploring The Partnership Between Engineering and Sales
CRO Front, LB Harvey: Moving Up-Market + Operational Excellence
CRO/CSO Dialpad, Dan O’Connell: Taking Risks and Running a Company
CCO Figma, Amanda Kleha: The Strategies Behind Figma’s $10 Billion Valuation
CRO Okta, Steve Rowland: Identifying and Developing Future Business Leaders
CRO Thrive, Renu Gupta: Building Positive Personal and Professional Habits
SVP Sales at Iterable, Jan Zeman: Hiring and Coaching Successful Sales Talent
Chief Customer Officer at Xero, Rachael Powell: The Power of Positive Psychology: Creating Authentic Company Cultures
President of Sprout Social, Ryan Barretto: Establishing a Compelling Company Vision
SVP Revenue at GitHub, Erica Anderson: Combining Top-Down and Bottom-Up Sales Motions
CRO DataStax, Harry Ault: The Three Steps to a Successful Tech Company Turnaround
VP Unity Technologies, Laura Palmer: Going The Extra Mile: Forging Meaningful Customer Connections
President and COO Golden State Warriors, Brandon Schneider: Building One of the NBA’s Most Valuable Teams
CRO RealReal, Kayti Sullivan: Setting Priorities in Work and in Life
CRO UiPath, Thomas Hansen: Balancing the Art and Science of Sales
VP of Global Professional Services at PayPal, Marcy Campbell: Risk and Reward: Creating Successful Sales Organizations
CRO Gong, Ryan Longfield: Finding Comfort in the Uncomfortable: Redefining Failure
CEO Cassidy Ventures, Brendon Cassidy: LinkedIn, Echosign + Talkdesk: Building Successful Startup Sales Teams
CRO Box, Mark Wayland: Forging Positive Sales Cultures
VP Sales Impossible Foods, Dana Worth: From Gourmet to Fast-Food: How He Built Impossible Foods’ Go-To-Market
CRO Cloudflare, Chris Merritt: Creating an Authentic Content-driven Strategy
SVP Salesforce, Mike Wolff: Tips for Becoming a More Effective Sales Leader
CSO Relativity, Peter Kim: The Values of a People-Centric Leader
CRO PagerDuty, Dave Justice: The Principles of Successful Crisis Leadership
CRO Amplitude, Matt Heinz: Exploring The Mindset of a Successful Sales Leader
SVP Global Strategic Services at UiPath, Jay Snyder: Driving Customer Engagement Through Value-Based Selling
CRO Clari, Kevin Knieriem: Exploring the Benefits of Data-Driven Sales
CRO ServiceTitan, Ross Biestman: ‘Team Before Self’: Motivating High-Performing Salespeople
CRO Snowflake, Chris Degnan: Building Snowflake’s Successful Sales Organization from the Ground Up
CRO Flexport, Will Urban: Streamlining Global Trade With Revolutionary Technology
Founder and CEO of Applied Intuition, Qasar Younis: Creating Customer-Oriented Company Cultures
Board Director at Fastly, Kelly Wright: How She Went from Selling Door to Door to Board Director
CRO Auth0, Dave Wilner: Discussing Growth and Leadership
CRO Atlassian, Cameron Deatsch: Exploring Atlassian’s Unorthodox Strategy
CRO Twilio, Marc Boroditsky: A Behind the Scenes Look at Twilio’s Go to Market Strategy
SVP and Head of Sales at AppsFlyer, Mar Brandt: Leadership Insights
COO of LinkedIn, Dan Shapero: Discussing Go to Market Leadership
B2B General Manager of Calm, Jim Herbold: Describing ‘Unicorn Meat’
VP and GM at Shopify, Loren Padelford: Breaking the Rules in Sales
SVP Sales Modern Health, Hannah Willson: Overcoming the Stigma of Mental Health in Sales
Chief Sales Officer at Brex, Sam Blond: Recruiting Talent
CRO Cockroach Labs, Jeff Miller: Building an Effective Open Source Go to Market Strategy
VP Sales at Mixpanel, Meka Asonye: Exploring Analytics, High Velocity Sales, and Stigmas
CRO CircleCI, Jane Kim: Leading with Vulnerability and Making Mistakes
CRO TripActions, Carlos Delatorre: The Science of Sales
CRO Obsidian Security, Bob Kruse: Building a Winning Sales Culture
VP of Sales at Palo Alto Networks, Jeff StClair : Discovering, Recruiting, and Coaching Sales Talent
Chief Sales and Success Officer at Slack, Bob Frati: Exploring Slack’s Key Growth Levers and Competition
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