Notable Guests
CP
Chetan Puttagunta
2x
DH
Dan Hill
1x
EC
Emily Chang
1x
EW
Emily White
1x
GT
Garry Tan
1x
HH
Hamilton Helmer
1x
JH
Jaclyn Hester
1x
JS
Jake Saper
1x
JC
Jesse Cole
1x
LK
Lotte Bjerre Knudsen
1x
RJ
Ramesh Johari
1x
SC
Samooha Co
1x
ST
Sarah Tavel
1x
VM
Vlad Magdalin
1x
Recent Episodes
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Andrew Ross Sorkin manages five major roles simultaneously: DealBook newsletter founder, CNBC Squawk Box host, DealBook Summit organizer, Billions co-creator, and author of financial history books ...
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Tobi Lütke credits two core practices: discarding outdated beliefs when faced with new data and closely observing emerging technologies that shift what's possible, allowing him to grow as a leader
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Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor argue AI represents a fundamentally different paradigm than previous technology waves, not merely better software, requiring new approaches to product building
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Jesse Cole transformed a failing college summer league team into the Savannah Bananas by creating 'Banana Ball'
Jesse Cole
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Zach Perret navigated Plaid's near-$5 billion Visa acquisition falling through, then pivoted during COVID's volatile market conditions to build a diversified, durable standalone business
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Bill McDermott, one of history's greatest enterprise salespeople, began as a bag-carrying Xerox salesman alongside Howard Schultz in 1983 and rose to youngest corporate officer at 36
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Vercel has become the infrastructure platform powering modern web development with 6 million users, 80,000 active teams, and 200% year-over-year growth, recently valued at $3.25B
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ARM's unlikely journey from 1990 Cambridge startup designed for low-power devices evolved into the dominant chip architecture across all computing
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Luis von Ahn built Duolingo into a $9B public company in a space everyone thought couldn't produce large exciting businesses by pioneering gamification and mobile-first language learning
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Clem Delangue presents a contrarian thesis: rather than few dominant foundation model companies, thousands of businesses will build specialized in-house AI models for their specific use cases
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Joe Montana transitioned from legendary 49ers quarterback to venture investor at Liquid 2 Ventures, applying Super Bowl-winning lessons to seed and pre-seed stage investing in unicorn startups
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Sebastian Siemiatkowski built Klarna over 19 years despite multiple headwinds, growing to serve 150 million consumers globally and processing 2 million payments daily through buy-now-pay-later domi...
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Austin Link's Starfish Space addresses the space industry's proliferation of satellites by building spacecraft that dock with and reposition satellites, extending their usable lifetime by tens of m...
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Synopsys and its EDA (electronic design automation) software powers the entire silicon value chain
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Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, Novo Nordisk's Chief Scientific Advisor, led research in the early 1990s that first invented semaglutide, explaining the molecular mechanism behind Ozempic's weight loss effects
Lotte Bjerre Knudsen
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Gaurav Ahuja provides deeper analysis of the modern payments ecosystem and Visa's current competitive position, examining whether the duopoly is genuinely threatened by disruption
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Morgan Housel discusses his new book 'Same as Ever,' which explores what won't change across vastly different macro financial environments, complementing his previous bestseller 'The Psychology of ...
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Doug DeMuro explains 2023 car industry supply chain dynamics, EV transition challenges, dealership business model problems, and how consumer car purchase decisions actually get made
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Cristobal Valenzuela's Runway provides generative AI video and film tools used by creators including those behind A24's Best Picture-winning 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'
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Crusoe Energy builds AI cloud infrastructure powered by stranded energy sources like oil flares, turning methane waste into GPU compute while reducing global greenhouse gas emissions by multiple pe...