Notable Guests
Recent Episodes
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Tony Xu, DoorDash CEO, shares his journey from dishwasher to tech leader.
Tony Xu
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Eric Jorgenson, CEO of Scribe Media, discusses distilling great minds' ideas.
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Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z and Netscape, discusses building Mosaic and Netscape.
Marc Andreessen
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Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, talks about founding the cryptocurrency exchange.
Brian Armstrong
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Jason Fried, CEO of 37signals, discusses building Basecamp and HEY.
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Jimmy Iovine engineered landmark albums for Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon, and others before co-founding Interscope Records in 1990, building it into a dominant force in popular music.
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Tobi Lütke built Shopify from frustration with existing e-commerce solutions, creating his own platform using Ruby on Rails after launching Snowdevil, an online snowboard shop.
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John Mackey co-founded Whole Foods Market in 1980 by merging SaferWay Natural Foods with Clarksville Natural Grocery, growing it from a single Austin store to 500+ locations across North America an...
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy founded Colossus, one of the largest investing-focused podcast networks, hosting the flagship Invest Like the Best show dedicated to studying world-class investors and entrepr...
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James Dyson developed 5,127 failed prototypes before launching his own company to reshape the vacuum industry with bagless cyclonic separation technology, overcoming rejection from every major manu...
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Michael Ovitz co-founded Creative Artists Agency (CAA), revolutionizing talent representation and transforming the entertainment industry through a strategic approach that fundamentally shifted pow...
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Todd Graves founded Raising Cane's in the mid-1990s after receiving the worst grade in his college business class for the concept, building one of America's fastest-growing restaurant chains with o...
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Brad Jacobs founded eight separate billion-dollar companies including XPO Logistics, United Rentals, and United Waste, revolutionizing fragmented, labor-intensive industries through aggressive M&A ...
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Michael Dell founded Dell Technologies with just $1,000 from his University of Texas dorm room in 1984 at age 19, revolutionizing the computer industry through a direct-to-consumer sales model.
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Daniel Ek co-founded Spotify in 2006 and grew it to over half a billion users worldwide, pioneering the freemium streaming model that fundamentally reshaped how people consume music and transformed...
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David Senra launched a new podcast called 'David Senra' after nine years of running the successful Founders podcast, expanding his platform for studying exceptional entrepreneurs and investors.