Masters of Scale

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On Masters of Scale, iconic business leaders share lessons and strategies that have helped them grow the world's most fascinating companies. Founders, CEOs, and dynamic innovators join candid conversations about their triumphs and challenges with a set of luminary hosts, including founding host Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner). From navigating early prototypes to expanding brands globally, Masters of Scale provides priceless insights to help anyone grow their dream enterprise.

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Masters of Scale

Episodes

What the jobs report isn't telling you about AI & the workforce, with Upwork’s Hayden Brown

Pioneers of AI: Why AI conversations are always one-sided

Know which rules to break, with MTV co-founder Tom Freston

Rapid Recap: Google’s exodus, Spider-Man’s odyssey, Taco “Hell”, and more

Always be the challenger, with Savannah Bananas founder Jesse Cole

The new rules of brand building, with Wieden+Kennedy CEO

How to beef up your business, with ButcherBox CEO Mike Salguero

Serena Williams on winning in business

Possible: Satya Nadella on making human and token capital compound

Author Jim Collins on unlocking your potential

Delta's Ed Bastian on spiking fuel, summer travel, and a blunt reality check on AI

Build better relationships at work

The quiet reinvention of a $42b business, with Canva’s Cameron Adams

Pioneers of AI: John Deere's AI vision for future farms

Chef Marcus Samuelsson on the ingredients for success

Relevance is a sport: Gap’s Richard Dickson on swinging, missing, and winning

How to build breakout products, with Mark Pincus & Reid Hoffman

Cannes Lions’ battle of the brands: Starbucks’ stumble, World Cup ads, and more

Pioneers of AI: Reid Hoffman says the AI race is not a cage match

How to balance a two-sided marketplace, with Care.com CEO Brad Wilson

$300m in year two. The controversy came free, with David Protein’s Peter Rahal

IBM’s $10 billion bet on what comes after AI

The U.S. at 250: The case for reckoning and rebuild, with Ian Bremmer

The future of EVs, with Rivian’s RJ Scaringe

World Cup kickoff: Goals, greed, and geopolitics, with ESPN’s Sam Borden

Rapid Response: The Guardian’s secret weapon against media’s collapse, with CEO Anna Bateson

Rohan Oza: The playbook for building billion-dollar consumer brands

The race no one can win: AI’s anti-human crisis, with Aza Raskin

How to get better at money, with Carrie Joy Grimes

Why success destroys the companies we love, with Eric Ries

Pioneers of AI: How fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out.

How Coach scaled from a single store into a global icon

The “invisible army” behind Amazon’s robotaxi revolution

Author David Epstein on why constraints fuel innovation

Duolingo’s battle for learning in an AI world, with Luis von Ahn

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

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

The Devil Wears Prada workplace: Toxic or timeless?

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

Maria Sharapova’s centre court tricks for the boardroom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How to think faster and talk smarter, with Matt Abrahams

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

Arthur Brooks on how to build a meaningful life