5 memorable lessons from 2023
BOB SAFIAN: Hi everyone, it’s Bob Safian. Welcome to a very special episode. This year, we’ve seen some extraordinary developments: from incredible tech advances to the rise and fall of inflation to...
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REID HOFFMAN: Hi, listeners. It’s Reid. One of the things I love about Masters of Scale is learning about business sectors I’m less familiar with — and if you know anything about me, you know that...
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GUY KAWASAKI: 20 years ago, I had a Porsche 911 and I’m driving in Menlo Park, California in my Porsche. JEFF BERMAN: That’s Guy Kawasaki, author, podcast host, veteran of the early days at Apple, and...
View ArticleHow optimism fuels the economy
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MAËLLE GAVET: In France, we have a lot of holidays. I would spend most of my holidays at my grandparents house. And every morning my grandfather, who was always waking up early, would come and knock on...
View ArticleGrit-scaling
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View ArticleAirbnb’s radical AI future (Part 2)
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View ArticleWhat campus protests mean for business
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View ArticleWhat the longevity craze means for the workplace
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View ArticleCrypto’s new chapter
SHEILA WARREN: 20 percent of Americans, across all demographics, hold crypto. It’s a wild number. One in five. It’s something to take seriously and not to be afraid of. But also to be aware of because...
View ArticleHumanoid robots enter the workforce
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View ArticleTaking over when tragedy strikes
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View ArticleDon’t stop learning: How Cornerstone kept scaling
ADAM MILLER: In 2005, the company had a near death experience. I had hired a boutique investment bank in LA. I got called into a meeting with them, and I went to the office, and the main guy there...
View ArticleTrust, AI, and the future of work
RAHUL ROY-CHOWDHURY: When I was in college, I was a math major, and I was interested to understand how we could develop a model of the world to start inferring facts and knowledge. I came across Alan...
View ArticleSea adventures that can save the planet
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View ArticleTeam USA’s bold plan for Paris
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View ArticleHinge’s summer of love
JUSTIN MCLEOD: I call this the ‘nightclub mindset’ or ‘nightclub model’ of dating apps, which is like one’s cool, and then suddenly the next one is cool. Because dating is just in the ether. People are...
View ArticleCreating a new NBA experience
STEVE BALLMER: We’re in a weird community. I didn’t grow up in a place where you had two teams in the same sport. That’s an unusual thing, I gotta tell you. You know, in Seattle, everybody’s for the...
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