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Masters of Scale — 614 episodes

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Raising Cane’s secret recipe for scaling, with CEO Todd Graves

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Mellody Hobson: When investors head for the exit, run to the fire

3

The Devil Wears Prada workplace: Toxic or timeless?

4

How Poppi’s founders built a new soda brand worth $2 billion

5

Maria Sharapova’s centre court tricks for the boardroom

6

Possible: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: stories, schools, superpowers

7

The art of the steal: Serial founder Eric Ryan on finding inspiration

8

A first look at Samsung’s blueprint to win the AI era, with Mauro Porcini

9

Why CEOs need to think more like athletes, with investor Byron Deeter

10

LIV Golf’s gambit to rewrite global sports, with Scott O’Neil

11

Humanize AI before it dehumanizes us, with Dr. Rana el Kaliouby at SXSW

12

The “most stressed” wellness CEO, with Calm’s David Ko

13

How to think faster and talk smarter, with Matt Abrahams

14

The internet is breaking. So what’s next? with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince

15

Arthur Brooks on how to build a meaningful life

16

Crisis at Hormuz, and your $160b tariff refund clock, with Flexport’s Ryan Petersen

17

Futurist Amy Webb: Trends are not enough

18

The C-suite is messier than you think, with Maryam Banikarim

19

How Shantanu Narayen transformed Adobe

20

FanDuel CEO Amy Howe: ‘My whole career has been sliding doors moments’

21

Stop waiting for clarity. Unfreeze and act, with Accenture’s Julie Sweet

22

Your Rich BFF dishes on dopamine spending and the new money minefield, with Vivian Tu

23

Rapid Recap: Iran, Anthropic vs. Pentagon, Paramount’s win, and more

24

Hailey Bieber, AI and fast launches: how e.l.f. Beauty is winning

25

Unrivaled is rewriting the business of women’s basketball

26

Inside the business of hosting the Super Bowl

27

Uncovering the $7 trillion reputation economy

28

DraftKings’ next big bets, with CEO Jason Robins

29

Super Bowl ads, Bad Bunny, and the business of cultural risk, with Autodesk’s Dara Treseder

30

GaryVee on how to make Super Bowl ads that are actually funny

31

How Zoom grew 30x almost overnight

32

Padma Lakshmi’s secret to authentic leadership? Stop trying.

33

Possible: Amjad Masad on vibe coding, AI agents, and the end of boilerplate

34

How to break through a fear of failure, with Fawn Weaver & Van Jones

35

Reid Hoffman on AI’s new tune, Davos, and the need for CEO courage

36

Reid Hoffman & Inflection AI’s Sean White on designing AI that makes us better humans

37

How to make smarter changes, with cognitive scientist Maya Shankar

38

Anti-polarizing strategies from a purple city, with OKC Mayor David Holt

39

How to save a magazine, with The Atlantic’s Nicholas Thompson

40

The AI agents in your wallet, with Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach

41

How Baby2Baby stepped up as LA wildfires raged

42

The $800M exit that started with a single muffin

43

Business world predictions for 2026

44

The science of fresh starts

45

Pioneers of AI: Mark Cuban’s investment strategy in this new era of tech

46

How to unlock your team’s creative potential

47

Resurrecting dire wolves is just the beginning for Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm

48

The Salesforce CFO who left to save lives

49

Lessons of Rapid Response for 2026

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Make the office a destination, not just an obligation

51

Kara Swisher takes on big tech, from Apple to Nvidia

52

A warning for business leaders: Aspiring autocrats tank economies

53

The business behind OnlyFans, with CEO Keily Blair

54

Embrace the multihyphenate career, with Chief’s Alison Moore

55

Replay: Dinner table wisdom with Danny Meyer

56

Beyond the Parade: Macy’s navigates tariffs, turbulence and retail evolution

57

Possible: Steve Kerr and Kris Brown on leadership and purpose in sports

58

How to be 'fearless' in the AI age, with Fei-Fei Li and Reid Hoffman

59

AI: The new frontier for mental health support?

60

The future of crypto, with Coinbase’s Emilie Choi

61

How to get funded now: VCs Reid Hoffman, Aileen Lee, and Stacy Brown-Philpot, with Van Jones

62

Remarkable People: David Chang is 'Steve Jobs with a knife"

63

From billion-dollar brand to blank slate: Bobbi Brown’s comeback

64

Branding truths and tariff myths, with Autodesk’s Dara Treseder & Flexport’s Ryan Petersen

65

When ‘genius’ becomes a trap, with author Ryan Holiday

66

How Anastasia Soare built a beauty brand worth billions

67

Chobani & Patagonia CEOs break down where values meet profit

68

Andrew Ross Sorkin: How to make sense of today’s market

69

The New York Times ‘will not be cowed’, with CEO Meredith Kopit Levien

70

Brené Brown & Reid Hoffman on the skills every leader needs now

71

Airbnb’s bet on an IRL future, with Brian Chesky

72

Replay: How Daymond John built FUBU

73

OLIPOP’s gutsy play to dethrone Coke and Pepsi, with Ben Goodwin

74

How to sell a billion dollars of snacks, with the founders of Chomps

75

Design dominance sparks a blockbuster IPO, with Figma’s Dylan Field

76

Pioneers of AI: The power of storytelling in VCs, with Jeffrey Katzenberg and ChenLi Wang

77

Build stronger trust on your teams, with Rachel Botsman

78

After devastating aid cuts, Mercy Corps keeps fighting, with Tjada D’Oyen McKenna

79

How to find your next mentor, with Janice Omadeke

80

Historic changes across high fashion, with WSJ. Magazine’s Sarah Ball

81

Possible: Stephen Colbert isn’t so sure about AI (with Reid Hoffman)

82

How a near-death experience changed this founder’s approach to fear

83

Music biz at a crossroads: from Taylor Swift to AI, with Sowmya Krishnamurthy

84

Betting on product to win in fantasy sports, with Underdog’s Jeremy Levine

85

Grab’s rise from rideshare to superapp in Asia, with Anthony Tan

86

Reid Hoffman & Kickstarter’s Everette Taylor take your questions

87

Hollywood’s hottest AI partner, with Runway’s Cristóbal Valenzuela

88

How design drives successful companies, with Sarah Stein Greenberg

89

Dating is down. So why is Hinge thriving? with CEO Justin McLeod

90

The bromance that rebuilt Detroit: Dan Gilbert and Mayor Mike Duggan

91

The insights that fuel SharkNinja’s biggest innovations

92

Is it ‘economic Halloween’ in the US? with political economist Mark Blyth

93

Inside one of the world’s greatest fundraising operations

94

Employers adapt to ICE raids and a workforce on edge

95

The new art and science of marketing, with Known’s Ross Martin and Kern Schireson

96

Blocking AI crawlers to save the internet, with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince

97

Strategy Session: Advice from Elan Lee and Sarah Robb O’Hagan

98

How to create a ‘transcendent’ career, with author Suzy Welch

99

From Colbert to Trump’s WSJ lawsuit, Axios’ Sara Fischer on media turmoil

100

CATAN: Reid Hoffman’s favorite board game for business leaders

101

How Starbucks’ CEO is revamping the brand

102

Trump’s chilling effect on big business, with Harvard Business Review’s Adi Ignatius

103

How a summer job grew into an ice cream empire, with CEO Ben Van Leeuwen

104

PBS fights for its future, with President & CEO Paula Kerger

105

How Baby2Baby stepped up as LA wildfires raged, with co-CEOs Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof

106

Canva’s $35B design biz is quietly taking over the workplace, with co-founder & COO Cliff Obrecht

107

Building a $1.5B real estate empire, with Spencer Rascoff and Austin Allison

108

Empowering frontline leaders amid Trump’s massive global aid cuts, with War Child’s Dr. Samantha Nutt

109

How to raise $172M for the underinvested, with Stacy Brown-Philpot

110

Reid Hoffman on Trump vs Musk, Zuckerberg’s “superintelligence,” and the next wave of AI

111

Advice for grads in the age of AI from Reid Hoffman, Spencer Rascoff & more

112

Is Dude Perfect the next Disney?

113

Trump’s impact on crypto future and your portfolio, with Unchained’s Laura Shin

114

Simon Sinek: How to identify great leaders & find your why

115

Sports biz at a crossroads, from the WNBA to the NCAA to ESPN, with Sarah Spain of Good Game

116

Pioneers of AI: Reid Hoffman on AI’s environmental risks and rewards

117

Why great storytellers thrive in business, with Trilith Studios CEO Frank Patterson

118

OLIPOP’s gutsy play to dethrone Coke and Pepsi, with Ben Goodwin

119

Esther Perel: Build better relationships at work

120

The enterprise AI revolution is underway, with Box’s Aaron Levie

121

Why we keep failing to eradicate this disease, with YouTuber John Green

122

The one trait every leader needs today, with General Stanley McChrystal

123

Replay: Banishing burnout, with Arianna Huffington

124

How this first-time founder landed a $630 million exit

125

Replay: Bill Gates is ending his foundation — here’s how it began

126

Musk and DOGE: Inside 100 days of chaos, with WIRED’s Global Editorial Director Katie Drummond

127

Disrupting healthcare job hunting, with Incredible Health’s Dr. Iman Abuzeid

128

Marc Lore wants an AI superapp to plan all your meals

129

Replay: Frustration is your friend, with Adi Tatarko

130

From warzones to boardrooms: José Andrés on leadership learned in the kitchen

131

Why happier vets mean healthier pets, with Modern Animal CEO Steven Eidelman

132

Finding opportunity in volatility, with GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik

133

The business case for wellness, with Wellhub CEO Cesar Carvalho

134

When powerful law firms don’t defend themselves against Trump, with ex-Skadden associate Rachel Cohen

135

How Reid Hoffman’s new company will create cancer cures

136

From data breach scandal to AI darling, with Snowflake’s CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy

137

Climate change ‘codeswitching’ for business, with Planet FWD’s Julia Collins

138

Public radio vs. DOGE: NPR CEO Katherine Maher previews her testimony

139

Live from SXSW: Mike and Kass Lazerow’s ‘messy’ path to success

140

From 'Trump bump' to 'Trump slump,' with Betterment CEO Sarah Levy

141

Solving start-up puzzles, with Vanta CEO Christina Cacioppo

142

Nonprofits navigate Trump’s drastic funding cuts, with The Chronicle of Philanthropy CEO Stacy Palmer

143

What the Oscars tell us about streamers, studios, and Hollywood’s future with The Ankler's Janice Min

144

Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen on leveraging AI

145

Egg prices, avian flu & golden yolks, with Vital Farms CEO Russell Diez-Canseco

146

A more compassionate capitalism, with Cotopaxi’s Davis Smith

147

Can Rivian avoid the EV speed bumps? with founder and CEO RJ Scaringe

148

Building a network of mentors, with Cadre’s Ryan Williams

149

From Nike to Bud Light to Tubi: Lessons from the Super Bowl 2025 ads, with Autodesk's Dara Treseder

150

Pivot: Reid Hoffman joins Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway to go deep on AI news

151

Disrupting the hair color business, with Madison Reed CEO Amy Errett

152

Emma Grede, Mellody Hobson & Angela Ahrendts on inclusive leadership

153

Reid Hoffman on AI ‘Superagency’

154

Scaling solutions for the climate crisis, with Vinod Khosla

155

Redefining work-life balance, with Neha Ruch

156

The power of mentors: Alex Rodriguez, Angela Duckworth, and more

157

When disaster strikes: On the ground amid LA wildfires

158

How Oura Ring is redefining health tech, with CEO Tom Hale

159

5 bold AI predictions for 2025, with Pioneers of AI host Dr. Rana El Kaliouby

160

The science of fresh starts, with change expert Katy Milkman

161

Replay: Plant-based foods need a makeover, with Peter McGuinness

162

Replay: How Fawn Weaver blitzscaled a bourbon brand

163

Replay: How Barstool Sports’ ex-CEO cooks up attention, with Food52’s Erika Ayers Badan

164

What Dungeons & Dragons can teach entrepreneurs, with Reid Hoffman and Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks

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Six lessons of Rapid Response for 2025

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Prepare for a ‘technology supercycle,’ with futurist Amy Webb

167

Rapid Response: Bluesky’s bold plan beyond the ‘X-odus’, with COO Rose Wang

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How The Flex Company founder Lauren Wang disrupted menstrual care

169

Rapid Response: How Cost Plus Drugs is revolutionizing pharma, with CEO Alex Oshmyansky

170

Masters of Scale Live: Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer with Caffè Panna's Hallie Meyer

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Rapid Response: Why Apple defies gravity and AI is God, with Guy Kawasaki, host of Remarkable People

172

Tracee Ellis Ross talks Pattern Beauty, advocacy, and joy with Samira Nasr

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Rapid Response: Iggy Azalea on crypto’s biggest myths and mistakes

174

Possible: Bill Gates on possibility, AI, and humanity

175

How to grow a greener energy grid, with Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson

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Rapid Response: Cultivate loyalty at every level, with Chewy’s Sumit Singh and former Exos CEO Sarah Robb O’Hagan

177

Rapid Response: Reid Hoffman on Trump's election and what's next

178

Rapid fire fun: Slutty Vegan’s Pinky Cole + ocean educator Philippe Cousteau Jr., live from the Masters of Scale Summit

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Former President Bill Clinton in conversation with Reid Hoffman

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Is AI a new species? Microsoft’s Mustafa Suleyman thinks so

181

Rapid Response: Lessons from Gaza & Israel, with World Central Kitchen’s Erin Gore and the Builders Movement's Daniel Lubetzky

182

Disrupting the wedding industry, with Zola’s Shan-Lyn Ma

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Rapid Response: Ken Burns on Leonardo da Vinci, AI, and the future of storytelling

184

Scott Galloway: Unfiltered lessons for business and life

185

Rapid Response: How Wikipedia will survive AI, with CEO Maryana Iskander

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How Bombas pairs scaling impact and profit

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Rapid Response: How mobile voting can save democracy, with Bradley Tusk of Tusk Ventures

188

From brand savant to accidental entrepreneur, with Sophia Amoruso

189

Rapid Response: A new script for the book biz and Hollywood, with The Black List’s Franklin Leonard

190

Bill Gates, Brian Chesky, and more: Unheard moments from our first Summit

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Rapid Response: EA’s march to 1 billion gamers, with CEO Andrew Wilson

192

Dr. Rana el Kaliouby wants more human-centered AI

193

Rapid Response: From Taylor Swift to the Emmys, lessons in celebrity, with The Ankler’s Janice Min

194

From Crystal Pepsi to Cool Ranch Doritos: Lessons from David Novak

195

Rapid Response: 2024 is the most significant time in human history (Encore)

196

Drybar founder Alli Webb’s messy truths

197

Rapid Response: Will.i.am is using AI to re-make radio

198

Reddit’s Steve Huffman: Online platforms ‘can’t just sit on their hands’

199

Rapid Response: How Campus won over Sam Altman & Shaq, with founder Tade Oyerinde

200

Blitzscaling bourbon: How Fawn Weaver built Uncle Nearest whiskey

201

Rapid Response: CNN’s Van Jones on Kamala’s glow-up, AI “wetware,” Elon Musk, and more

202

The vital question Taskrabbit founder Leah Solivan wished she asked investors

203

Remembering Susan Wojcicki

204

Rapid Response: Wild summer travel tales from Boeing to CrowdStrike, with The Points Guy, Brian Kelly

205

OpenAI’s Bret Taylor: Your business can’t wait until AI is perfect

206

Rapid Response: Menopause is having a hot moment, with Midi Health’s Joanna Strober

207

Brian Grazer: Scale your curiosity (Encore)

208

Rapid Response: How Barstool Sports’ ex-CEO cooks up attention, with Food52’s Erika Ayers Badan

209

Asking questions that scale, with AG1’s Kat Cole

210

Rapid Response: Reid Hoffman on the business impacts of Trump vs. Harris

211

Rapid Response: What the Democrats' campaign changeup means for business, with Axios’ Alex Thompson

212

Which start-ups change the future? Investor Mike Maples Jr. with Reid Hoffman

213

Rapid Response: What’s the next Barbenheimer? with The Ankler’s Janice Min

214

Liquid Death’s Mike Cessario: Trust your taste

215

Rapid Response: Team USA’s bold plan for Paris, with US Olympic & Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland

216

Ron Howard: Evolve your vision (Encore)

217

Rapid Response: Why the fashion industry needs a makeover, with Imran Amed

218

Grammarly CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury: Trust, AI, and the future of work

219

Rapid Response: Slutty Vegan wants to be the next Shake Shack, with founder Pinky Cole

220

You could start a company this weekend, w/Noah Kagan

221

Rapid Response: Power moves for the planet, w/GE Vernova CEO Scott Strazik

222

Don’t stop learning: How Cornerstone kept scaling, w/Adam Miller

223

Rapid Response: Taking over when tragedy strikes, w/Guild's Bijal Shah

224

Tinker your way to scale: James Dyson

225

Rapid Response: Crypto’s new chapter, w/Crypto Council for Innovation’s Sheila Warren

226

Bonus: Angela Duckworth’s “No Stupid Questions” Podcast

227

QuestBridge: Scaling College Access with Ana Rowena Mallari

228

Rapid Response: Robinhood confronts a GameStop sequel, w/CEO Vlad Tenev

229

Meet “Reid-ish”: The Story of Cloning Reid Hoffman’s Voice

230

Rapid Response: What campus protests mean for business, w/Ken Frazier and Ken Chenault

231

Grit-scaling with Angela Duckworth

232

Rapid Response: Airbnb reimagined (Part 1), w/CEO Brian Chesky

233

Trendspotting with Ron Shaich: Panera, Cava, and Beyond

234

Rapid Response: Caitlin Clark and the new WNBA, w/Commissioner Cathy Engelbert

235

Local veggies, national scale: Sweetgreen co-founders

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Rapid Response: Meet your kid’s new AI tutor, w/Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan

237

Rapid Response: Fighting media's reality distortion, w/Axios CEO Jim VandeHei

238

Preserve start-up spirit at scale: Techstars’ Maëlle Gavet

239

Rapid Response: How Star Trek prospers against Netflix and Disney+, w/Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman

240

How AI adds to human potential: (LIVE) with Scale AI’s Alex Wang and Intel’s Lama Nachman

241

The healthy, conscious capitalist, w/Whole Foods Market co-founder John Mackey

242

Be an evangelist for authenticity, with tech veteran Guy Kawasaki

243

How to score $200M: Angel City’s playbook for women’s soccer

244

Leading across great divides: Ian Bassin, Protect Democracy Executive Director

245

Reid Hoffman & Jeff Berman on why the future needs re-founders

246

Reid Hoffman opens up, w/On Being's Krista Tippett

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5 leadership lessons from gaming with Reid Hoffman

248

Learn from every "no"

249

Start with a story, cook up success, w/Chef Marcus Samuelsson

250

will.i.am & Austin Russell: Mute the hype, amplify the product

251

Highlights to inspire your 2024

252

What great founders do at night, w/Arianna Huffington

253

Find co-creators everywhere, w/Exploding Kittens' Elan Lee

254

Pixar’s Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules

255

Bumble’s Whitney Wolfe Herd: Small changes with big impact

256

Sam Altman: Customer love is all you need

257

Tap into collective genius, w/Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code & Moms First

258

Reid Hoffman confronts the AI critics, w/WaitWhat CEO Jeff Berman

259

AI + You | 5 ways to ethically build — and use — AI

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AI + You | 4 ways to scale your personal growth

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AI + You | 5 steps for impactful experimentation

262

Mustafa Suleyman: Empathy in AI

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4 strategies for tackling the toughest challenges

264

Stacey Abrams: How to harness risk

265

Eileen Fisher: Keep it simple to make it timeless

266

Brian Grazer: Scale your curiosity

267

Ron Howard: Evolve your vision

268

Focus on the scale that your customers can’t see, w/Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford

269

Build your culture like a product, w/HubSpot's Dharmesh Shah

270

4 secrets to building your network

271

Better metrics for better culture, part 2, with Kapor Capital’s Mitch Kapor & Dr. Freada Kapor Klein

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Better metrics for better culture, part 1, with Kapor Capital’s Mitch Kapor & Dr. Freada Kapor Klein

273

To be first to the future, be stubbornly nimble

274

Tyler Perry and Netflix's Ted Sarandos: Amplify the untapped audience

275

Jimmy Iovine: Harness fear to drive innovation, part 2

276

Jimmy Iovine: Harness fear to drive innovation, part 1

277

How great leaders respond in a crisis, w/Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky

278

Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi — Bringing a culture back from the brink

279

Taskrabbit’s Stacy Brown-Philpot — Keep humans in the equation

280

Shark Tank and FUBU’s Daymond John — How to partner like a shark

281

Google's Eric Schmidt — Innovation is managed chaos

282

Burberry & Apple’s Angela Ahrendts — How to unite a team

283

Spotify’s Daniel Ek — How to build trust fast

284

The 4 core principles of crisis management, w/Ellen Kullman (DuPont, Carbon)

285

Dare to make unexpected moves, w/David Droga of Droga5 and Accenture Song

286

Make it epic, w/will.i.am

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Strategy Session: How to balance innovation with your core business? How to help others tell the story of your product? How to sell an audacious vision to risk-averse stakeholders?

288

When to seek advice and when to ignore it, w/LearnVest & Inspired Capital’s Alexa von Tobel

289

6 leadership traps and how to avoid them

290

Netflix’s Reed Hastings: Why culture matters

291

J.J. Abrams: Make room for magic

292

Cisco's John Chambers: The essential playbooks — and when to use them

293

Ray Dalio: How to embrace conflict

294

5 ways to keep your brand relevant

295

Rapid Response: Loneliness at work, w/Noreena Hertz, author of The Lonely Century

296

Rapid Response: Danny Meyer on the wrenching decision to do layoffs

297

The co-founder effect, w/Rothy's Stephen Hawthornthwaite and Roth Martin

298

Bonus: Stephen Colbert on DonorsChoose (The Complete Interview)

299

Build the right incentives, w/VIPKid’s Cindy Mi

300

Disney’s Bob Iger: How acquisitions become an ecosystem, part 2

301

Disney’s Bob Iger: How acquisitions become an ecosystem, part 1

302

How to unite a team around a shared mission: A story from Yo-Yo Ma on Spark & Fire

303

Nike’s Phil Knight: How to sell without selling

304

Brand while you build, w/Warby Parker’s Neil Blumenthal & Dave Gilboa

305

Let waypoints guide you, w/Aurora's Chris Urmson

306

Rapid Response: Why we need to think again, w/Adam Grant

307

LIVE! Patience or speed? Both. w/Tory Burch

308

How great cultures are built and rebuilt, w/Angela Ahrendts, Uber’s Dara Khosrowshahi & Eric Schmidt

309

Rapid Response: The promise and peril of engineering biology, w/Ginkgo Bioworks Reshma Shetty

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How to do good and do good business, w/Starbucks' Howard Schultz

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Think like an intrapreneur, w/Mach49's Linda Yates

312

5 ways to build your tolerance for risk

313

Why mission matters more than products, w/Noom’s Saeju Jeong

314

Strategy Session: How to stay inspired while remote? Why do you celebrate wins? Is there a co-founder advantage?

315

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella: Why we need re-founders

316

The Wrongness Playbook, part 2, w/Patreon's Jack Conte

317

The Wrongness Playbook, part 1, w/Patreon's Jack Conte

318

Strategy Session: How to build trust in a brand-new space? How do you balance limited cash and big ambitions?

319

Rapid Response: "You should be running toward AI," w/Eric Schmidt (frmr Google CEO)

320

How to take creative leaps — and land them, w/Future Shape's Tony Fadell

321

Bill Gates: How to accelerate history (Part 1)

322

Rapid Response: How to decarbonize your business, w/John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins

323

Bonus: Five ways to burnout-proof your organization

324

Drive full-speed at opportunity, w/AKQA’s Ajaz Ahmed

325

Harness the passion of internal factions, w/Padmasree Warrior of Fable, Cisco, Motorola

326

Sam Altman: Customer love is all you need

327

Michael Dell: Break it ’til you make it

328

Improving human dignity is an engine of scale, w/Promise CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins

329

Above all else, invest in friendship: Reid Hoffman’s 2022 commencement speech

330

Strategy Session Live!: How can a start-up beat a Goliath? What gets top talent to stay put? How do you keep multiple stakeholders happy?

331

Lead, lead again, w/Meta's Sheryl Sandberg

332

Rapid Response: Why business must be a force for good, w/former American Express CEO Ken Chenault

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Extraordinary leaps need solid foundations, part 2, w/Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel

334

Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky

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Extraordinary leaps need solid foundations, part 1, w/Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel

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Rapid Response: Inside a $2.4 billion bet on talent, w/PwC's Tim Ryan

337

Ford’s Bill Ford: The Refounder Mindset, part 2

338

Rapid Response: Stay scrappy, deliver fast, w/Gopuff’s Yakir Gola

339

Ford’s Bill Ford: The Refounder Mindset, part 1

340

Rapid Response: Protecting against the next bio threat, w/The Public Health Company's Charity Dean

341

Airbnb's Brian Chesky: Do things that don’t scale

342

Rapid Response: Rebooting global crisis response, w/ONE Campaign CEO Gayle Smith

343

Rapid Response: How Chief became a phenomenon, w/CEO Carolyn Childers

344

Tyra Banks: Personal brand power

345

Rapid Response: Lessons from an entrepreneur in Ukraine, w/Alyona Mysko, CEO of Fuelfinance

346

Rapid Response: Supporting Ukraine's tech workers, w/Emburse CEO Eric Friedrichsen

347

Chobani's secret to scale: Tap into community, w/founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya

348

Rapid Response: Inside "the most radical supply chain shift since World War II," w/Interos CEO Jennifer Bisceglie

349

Rapid Response: How Airbnb.org is housing Ukrainian refugees, w/Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia

350

The secret power of onboarding, w/Canva's Melanie Perkins

351

Rapid Response: Putting an end to hustle culture, w/Reshma Saujani, author of Pay Up

352

Daymond John, Part 2: How to partner like a shark

353

Rapid Response: Transforming an idea into a movement overnight, w/Black Women For Black Lives co-founder Tokunbo Koiki

354

Rapid Response: The logistical challenge of supporting refugees, w/Susy Schöneberg, head of Flexport.org

355

Daymond John, Part 1: How to partner like a shark

356

Rapid Response: “We have an all-out cyber war right now,” w/Bipul Sinha, Rubrik CEO

357

Rapid Response: How global markets are reacting to Russia's war on Ukraine, w/Sara Menker, CEO of Gro Intelligence

358

Rapid Response: On the ground in Ukraine w/Mercy Corps’ Tjada D'Oyen McKenna

359

Stacey Abrams: How to harness risk

360

Rapid Response: Make mistakes to make progress, w/GM's Gerald Johnson

361

Rapid Response: Invest in first principles, w/Sarah Levy, Betterment CEO

362

Announcing the Masters of Scale Summit

363

Rapid Response: "Be confident enough to show your vulnerability," w/Ken Frazier (Merck/General Catalyst)

364

Strategy Session: How to make the most of tough pivots? What are the right growth targets? How do you best prepare for entrepreneurship?

365

Rapid Response: Scaling when you’re already at scale, w/Qualcomm's Cristiano Amon

366

What great founders do at night, w/Arianna Huffington

367

Rapid Response: Tapping a new generation of consumers, w/The Drone Racing League's Rachel Jacobson

368

Don’t predict the future. Create it, w/Net-a-Porter's Natalie Massenet

369

Rapid Response: Be relentless – so your team can be fearless, w/Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson

370

The 4 core principles of crisis management, w/Ellen Kullman (DuPont, Carbon)

371

Rapid Response: Lessons of Omicron, w/Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of Wellcome Trust

372

Always be recruiting, w/Paul English, co-founder of Kayak

373

Lessons that matter most: What we’ve learned from 100 episodes of Masters of Scale

374

Rapid Response: How to decarbonize your business, w/John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins

375

Leap before you look, w/Marc Lore (Jet.com)

376

Marc Andreessen: The 6 secrets of great timing

377

President Barack Obama: When the moment chooses you, part 1

378

Rapid Response: How flexibility creates momentum, w/Crate & Barrel CEO Janet Hayes

379

Strategy Session LIVE!: How to protect yourself from copycat businesses? When should you seek funding? How to entice funders to invest in a niche business?

380

Rapid Response: How GoFundMe has facilitated $15 billion in giving, w/CEO Tim Cadogan

381

How redefining boundaries drives performance, w/former Unilever CEO Paul Polman

382

Rapid Response: Re-founding Instacart, w/first-time CEO Fidji Simo

383

The case for bootstrapping, w/Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut

384

Three tools for happy, healthy gatherings, by Meditative Story

385

Rapid Response: How to turn intentions into action, w/Aurora James, founder of the 15 Percent Pledge

386

Build a better board, w/Mellody Hobson, Lisa Shalett, & Shishir Mehrotra

387

Rapid Response: "You should be running toward AI," w/Eric Schmidt (frmr Google CEO)

388

Focus on the scale that your customers can’t see, w/Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford

389

Rapid Response: How Peloton keeps pushing through resistance, w/CEO John Foley

390

Rapid Response: The truth about what we watch, with Nielsen’s David Kenny

391

Ray Dalio: How to embrace conflict

392

Rapid Response: Launching a $500b startup, w/Jet.com's Marc Lore

393

A masterclass in crowdsourcing, w/Duolingo's Luis von Ahn

394

Rapid Response: Overcoming institutional hurdles, w/ U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee CEO Sarah Hirshland

395

The Honest Company’s Jessica Alba: Make your customer the star

396

Rapid Response: SolarWinds: Urgent lessons from a cyberattack, w/ CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna

397

No data, no scale, w/Care.com’s Sheila Lirio Marcelo

398

Rapid Response: How to scale tech responsibly, with former Google ad chief and Neeva founder Sridhar Ramaswamy

399

How to unlock your team’s creative potential w/ Indra Nooyi, former CEO of PepsiCo

400

Rapid Response: How to lead for enduring impact w/ Spelman’s Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell

401

Bonus: Five secrets to keeping your best employees

402

Rapid Response: In hard times, the show must go on, w/BroadwayHD’s Bonnie Comley

403

How setbacks create momentum w/ Robert Reffkin, Compass founder and CEO

404

Rapid Response: When to build the company before the product, with Aurora CEO Chris Urmson

405

Strategy Session: When to leave the trenches? Can you pivot without losing customers? Can co-founders stay aligned remotely?

406

Rapid Response: When you should require vaccinations w/ Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer

407

Microsoft’s Satya Nadella: Why we need re-founders

408

Rapid Response: How Electronic Arts grows a metaverse, with CEO Andrew Wilson

409

Coming soon on Masters of Scale Season 9

410

Rapid Response: How mission fuels risk-taking, with Illumina CEO Francis deSouza

411

Make it epic, w/will.i.am

412

Rapid Response: How Harley-Davidson set a foundation for the long term with CEO Jochen Zeitz

413

The beauty of emphasizing the obvious, w/Birchbox's Katia Beauchamp

414

Rapid Response: Inside J.Crew's purposeful pivot, with CEO Libby Wadle

415

Strategy Session: When should founders step aside? Where can you find investors? Were pandemic pivots harmful?

416

Rapid Response: Scaling a mission w/TAAF's Sonal Shah

417

How to find your big idea w/Spanx's Sara Blakely

418

Rapid Response: How BuzzFeed bounced back, w/Jonah Peretti

419

How to accelerate expertise, with Mellody Hobson, co-CEO of Ariel Investments, chair of Starbucks

420

Rapid Response: Tapping into generosity (via Bitcoin), w/Charity: Water's Scott Harrison

421

Asking the uncomfortable questions, w/ Michael Seibel, Y Combinator

422

Rapid Response: Fighting through headwinds at Marriott, w/President Stephanie Linnartz

423

Rapid Response: Why business must be a force for good, w/former American Express CEO Ken Chenault

424

J.J. Abrams: Make room for magic

425

The Complete Interviews from Masters of Scale

426

Rapid Response: Fashioning a greener closet, w/Rent the Runway's Jenn Hyman

427

Build the right flywheel, w/Teach for America / Teach for All's Wendy Kopp

428

Rapid Response: The promise and peril of engineering biology, w/Ginkgo Bioworks Reshma Shetty

429

5 essential moves for post-pandemic success, featuring Airbnb, Etsy, Sunrun, and more

430

Rapid Response: Upskilling and the war for talent, w/Guild Education CEO Rachel Carlson

431

Alex Rodriguez: How mentorship provides an edge

432

Rapid Response: Why real estate matters more than ever, with Compass founder & CEO Robert Reffkin

433

President Barack Obama, part 2: How to adapt to changing rules

434

Rapid Response: Inside Google’s Pandemic Safety Squad, w/Chief Health Officer Dr. Karen DeSalvo

435

President Barack Obama: When the moment chooses you, part 1

436

Rapid Response: Surviving a close shave, with Harry's co-CEO Andy Katz-Mayfield

437

The elusive formula for great hiring, w/Workday's Aneel Bhusri

438

Rapid Response: "A crucible moment for Instacart," with founder & CEO Apoorva Mehta

439

A Strategy Session w/A-Rod + Reid: Build a team of mentors

440

Rapid Response: A pandemic is not a business model, w/Blue Apron's Linda Findley Kozlowski

441

Frustration is your friend, w/Houzz founder Adi Tatarko

442

Rapid Response: Can bankruptcy save movie theaters? with Alamo Drafthouse CEO Shelli Taylor

443

Rapid Response: Delta CEO Ed Bastian: Turbulence, recovery, and risk

444

Beyond Meat's Ethan Brown: How to teach your customer

445

Rapid Response: The trampoline effect, w/ Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman

446

Mark Cuban: What investors really look for

447

Rapid Response: The business of democracy, w/Leadership Now's Daniella Ballou-Aares

448

Disney’s Bob Iger: How acquisitions become an ecosystem, part 2

449

Airbnb's Brian Chesky: "We died and were reborn." A special Rapid Response

450

Tyra Banks: Personal brand power

451

Rapid Response: A prescription for healthy growth, with FIGS Co-CEO Heather Hasson

452

Disney’s Bob Iger: How acquisitions become an ecosystem, part 1

453

Nike’s CEO John Donahoe on wartime leadership (Rapid Response)

454

Virgin’s Sir Richard Branson: The secret to big leaps

455

A taste of Masters of Scale Season 8

456

Rapid Response: Winning and losing, w/Vanderbilt University coach Jerry Stackhouse

457

Rapid Response: Public-private opportunities, with Defense Innovation Unit's Mike Brown

458

Rapid Response: Iterating under pressure, with Feeding America's Claire Babineaux-Fontenot

459

Strategy Session: 5 burning questions & their unexpected answers w/Reid Hoffman & Bob Safian

460

Rapid Response: Why we need to think again, w/Adam Grant

461

How to be the steward of your idea, w/Affectiva's Rana el Kaliouby

462

Rapid Response: Aggressive sustainability, w/Lynn Jurich, CEO of Sunrun

463

How to master your emotions, w/Sam Harris

464

Rapid Response: Ten months of pain and hope, w/restaurateur Danny Meyer

465

Innovation is managed chaos, w/Eric Schmidt of Google/Alphabet

466

Rapid Response: What the pandemic has cost women, w/Ellevest's Sallie Krawcheck

467

What's the hidden business behind your business? w/Rent the Runway's Jenn Hyman

468

8 reliable lessons for unreliable times

469

Rapid Response: Why Salesforce bought Slack, w/Salesforce's Bret Taylor

470

Be a platform, w/Shopify's Tobi Lütke

471

Rapid Response: Why take on a turnaround, w/Magic Leap’s Peggy Johnson

472

The secret power of onboarding, w/Canva's Melanie Perkins

473

Rapid Response: Loneliness at work, w/Noreena Hertz

474

Building bridges to scale, w/Kind’s Daniel Lubetzky

475

Rapid Response: Balancing data with gut feeling, w/JetBlue's Joanna Geraghty

476

Learn from every “no,” w/Walker & Company’s Tristan Walker

477

Rapid Response: Why brands must take a stand, w/Wieden+Kennedy's Colleen DeCourcy

478

How to find hidden value that others miss, w/The Black List's Franklin Leonard

479

Rapid Response: A virtual-first workplace, w/Dropbox's Drew Houston

480

Nike’s Phil Knight: How to sell without selling

481

Rapid Response: Pandemic Planning, Phase Two, w/Dr. Bon Ku (Jefferson University Hospital)

482

Rapid Response: Small business – more stressed than ever, w/H&R Block's Jeff Jones

483

Build a more human internet, w/Caterina Fake

484

Rapid Response: When your business disappears overnight, w/Marriott’s Arne Sorenson

485

The Empathy Flywheel, w/Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar

486

Rapid Response: Movie-theater drama has come to every business, w/Shelli Taylor, CEO, Alamo Drafthouse

487

Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales: To scale, find the right values

488

Rapid Response: The Covid test facts every CEO needs, w/Rajiv Shah (Rockefeller Foundation)

489

YouTube's Susan Wojcicki: How to find – and keep – true north

490

Rapid Response: Your company is a citizen – it can act like one, w/Baratunde Thurston

491

How to build authentic connection at scale, w/Trevor McFedries & Lil Miquela

492

Rapid Response: Healthy offices and the myth of remote-work productivity, w/Diane Hoskins (Gensler)

493

Rapid Response: Nothing matters but this. w/Eric Schmidt (frmr Google CEO)

494

Rapid Response: What you can learn from how schools are pivoting, w/ Success Academy's Eva Moskowitz

495

Peloton’s John Foley – How to turn skeptics into fans

496

Why your company needs new rituals w/Shishir Mehrotra (YouTube, Coda)

497

The infinite learner, w/Barry Diller (Part 1 of our interview)

498

How to price your product to scale, w/ClassPass's Payal Kadakia

499

Be a painkiller AND a vitamin, w/Clara Shih (Hearsay Systems)

500

Let fires burn w/Selina Tobaccowala (Evite, SurveyMonkey, Gixo)

501

Rapid Response: Building a bridge over troubled waters, with Spelman College president Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell

502

Strategy Session: How transparent should you be with your board? How do you boost morale in dark days? Is it time to blitzscale?

503

Rapid Response: Inside PayPal's $530M plan to close the racial wealth gap, with CEO Dan Schulman

504

Rapid Response: What it will take for tech and Hollywood to be anti-racist, w/Color Of Change's Rashad Robinson

505

The 4 core principles of crisis management, w/Ellen Kullman (DuPont, Carbon)

506

Rapid Response: A new playbook for new times, w/Ford Foundation president Darren Walker

507

Stephen Colbert + DonorsChoose's Charles Best — The power of small goals

508

Rapid Response: Burning cash, accepting turbulence w/Delta CEO Ed Bastian

509

Liberating the human spirit, w/Robert F. Smith (Vista Equity, Morehouse Commencement), Recorded live at Summit LA 2019

510

Rapid Response: How business can engage against racism, w/Shellye Archambeau (MetricStream, Nordstrom, Verizon)

511

Build. Measure. Learn, w/Eric Ries of The Lean Startup and the LTSE

512

Rapid Response: GM's Mary Barra: "Going ventilator fast"

513

Strategy Session: The post-pandemic business, w/questions from Village Global and co-host Bob Safian, editor-at-large

514

Rapid Response: BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: Record-high audience, record-low revenue

515

Bonus: Reid’s 2020 Commencement Speech: In a crisis, steer toward the emerging opportunities

516

Rapid Response: Danny Meyer, 10 weeks later: How to revive restaurants

517

Rapid Response: How "startup DNA" helped One Medical respond to Covid, with CEO Amir Rubin

518

A masterclass in crowdsourcing, w/Duolingo's Luis von Ahn

519

Rapid Response: How Warby Parker is making decisions in uncertainty, with CEO Neil Blumenthal

520

Rapid Response: Leading with your gut, w/Lifeway Foods CEO Julie Smolyansky

521

How to unite a team, Part 2 w/Angela Ahrendts of Burberry, Apple

522

Rapid Response: Future-proofing Verizon, with CEO Hans Vestberg

523

Apple's Angela Ahrendts: How to unite a team (Part 1)

524

Rapid Response: Operating in a fishbowl w/Philly 76ers & NJ Devils CEO Scott O’Neil

525

Rapid Response: Crisis lessons from inside the ER, with Dr. Bon Ku

526

Rapid Response: Food security in a pandemic, w/Sara Menker of Gro Intelligence

527

Rapid Response: On the frontlines of scale: Hospitals, w/Dr. David Skorton, AAMC

528

Rapid Response: Inside Panera’s pandemic pivot, with CEO Niren Chaudhary

529

Rapid Response: A crisis leadership session with General Stanley McChrystal

530

Rapid Response: Pet adoptions: Up. Delivery business: Up. What that means to Chewy’s Sumit Singh

531

Rapid Response: "Neighbors are the frontline of support," w/Nextdoor's Sarah Friar

532

Rapid Response: Build government back – better, w/Jen Pahlka (Code for America, USDR)

533

Rapid Response: Remote teams as an intentional choice, w/Wences Casares of Xapo

534

Rapid Response: Target’s Brian Cornell: “I want to see retail survive this”

535

Rapid Response: TaskRabbit's Stacy Brown-Philpot: “A pandemic doesn’t see money.”

536

Rapid Response: Lyft’s John Zimmer: How to keep an essential business running

537

Rapid Response: A playbook for when "there’s no playbook," w/CEO Ellen Kullman (Carbon, DuPont)

538

Rapid Response: Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: "Crisis is pushing us back to our roots"

539

Rapid Response: Fast pivots for changing needs w/DonorsChoose Charles Best

540

Rapid Response: Crisis data is the story of our times, says Crisis Text Line founder

541

Rapid Response: Hourly workers are a ‘hero class’ w/Cue Ball’s Tony Tjan

542

Rapid Response: First, be human – Thoughts on the crisis from Reid Hoffman

543

Rapid Response: Danny Meyer on the wrenching decision to do layoffs

544

Rapid Response: Remote teams, w/WordPress/Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg

545

How to start a revolution, w/Bitcoin pioneer Wences Casares (Xapo)

546

Strategy Session: When to replace the founder, how to be a learn-it-all, when to take the "venture bet," w/questions from Endeavor Outliers and co-host Bob Safian, editor-at-large

547

Be a platform, w/Shopify's Tobi Lütke

548

Netflix’s Reed Hastings: Why culture matters

549

When to zoom in, when to zoom out, w/Josh Silverman (Etsy/eBay/Skype/Evite)

550

Strategy Session: When not to blitzscale, how to persuade your board to let you slow down, and: Are you in a Glengarry Glen Ross market? w/questions from Endeavor and co-host Youngme Moon of HBS

551

Bonus: A Meditative Story from Reid Hoffman

552

What's the hidden business behind your business? w/Rent the Runway's Jenn Hyman

553

How to find your big idea w/Spanx's Sara Blakely

554

How to solve an impossible challenge, w/Megan Smith (US CTO, Google, shift7)

555

LIVE! Find your Trojan horse, w/Robert F. Smith

556

Ray Dalio: How to embrace conflict

557

Raise more money than you need, w/Minted's Mariam Naficy

558

How to set the drumbeat, w/LinkedIn's Jeff Weiner

559

Bill Gates: How to accelerate history (Part 1)

560

Make it epic, w/will.i.am

561

LIVE! Patience or speed? Both. w/Tory Burch

562

Keep humans in the equation, w/TaskRabbit's Stacy Brown-Philpot

563

Strategy Session: How do you gain your users' trust? How do you build a team and company culture at the same time? w/questions from Entrepreneur First and co-host Jason Feifer of Entrepreneur magazine

564

How to build your company to last, w/Fiat's John Elkann

565

Take on Goliath — and win, w/Dropbox's Drew Houston

566

Bonus: Recharge your brain with a Meditative Story by Arianna Huffington

567

23andMe's Anne Wojcicki: Embrace the gatekeepers

568

The Big Pivot w/Slack's Stewart Butterfield

569

Small changes with big impact w/Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble

570

Entrepreneurship as a second act, w/Gwyneth Paltrow

571

Bonus: 10 New Rules for Big Career Changes (The Graduation Episode) w/Jordan Harbinger

572

Bringing a culture back from the brink, w/Uber's Dara Khosrowshahi

573

The case for bootstrapping, w/Mailchimp's Ben Chestnut

574

Open or closed? The answer is both, w/Joi Ito

575

Take bigger risks, w/Shellye Archambeau

576

Check your blindspot, w/Sallie Krawcheck (Ellevest)

577

The Reid Hoffman Story (Part 2): Make everyone a hero

578

The Reid Hoffman Story (Part 1): Make everyone a hero

579

Let your customers be your scouts, w/Eventbrite's Julia Hartz

580

To scale, you must master the skill of storytelling, w/Charity: Water's Scott Harrison

581

The Millennial Episode, w/Brit + Co's Brit Morin

582

The elusive formula for great hiring, w/Workday's Aneel Bhusri

583

When to ignore conventional wisdom, w/Shake Shack's Danny Meyer

584

What great founders do at night, w/Arianna Huffington

585

How to build trust fast, w/Spotify's Daniel Ek

586

Instagram's Kevin Systrom: Keep it simple while scaling big

587

How to make the star employees you need, w/Marissa Mayer

588

How to kill your bad ideas, w/Zynga's Mark Pincus

589

Keep humans in the equation, w/TaskRabbit's Stacy Brown-Philpot

590

How to find your big idea, w/Spanx's Sara Blakely

591

How to do good and do good business, w/Starbucks' Howard Schultz

592

Bonus: The 10 Commandments of Startup Success w/guest host Tim Ferriss

593

Never underestimate your first idea, w/Twitter/Medium's Ev Williams

594

How to price your product to scale, w/ClassPass' Payal Kadakia

595

How to build your company to last, w/Fiat's John Elkann

596

Build a more human internet, w/Caterina Fake (Etsy, Kickstarter, Flickr, "Should This Exist?")

597

Learn to unlearn (Part 2) w/Barry Diller

598

The infinite learner, w/Barry Diller (Part 1 of our interview)

599

The Big Pivot, w/Slack's Stewart Butterfield

600

Look for the ideas that come at you sideways, w/Diane Greene of Google, VMware

601

Escape the competition, w/PayPal's Peter Thiel

602

Bonus: Seven lesser-known laws of leadership

603

Let fires burn, w/Selina Tobaccowala of Gixo

604

The next Silicon Valley is...? w/Endeavor's Linda Rottenberg

605

Bonus: The 10 Commandments of Startup Success w/guest host Tim Ferriss

606

Why culture matters, w/Netflix's Reed Hastings

607

Your plan B needs a plan B, w/Crisis Text Line founder Nancy Lublin

608

Innovation is managed chaos, w/Eric Schmidt of Google/Alphabet

609

Lead, lead again, w/Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg

610

Imperfect is perfect, w/Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

611

Learn from every "no," w/Walker & Company's Tristan Walker

612

Raise more money than you need, w/Minted's Mariam Naficy

613

Airbnb's Brian Chesky in Handcrafted

614

Coming Soon: Masters of Scale