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Masters of Scale
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...
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Inside the business of hosting the Super Bowl
The Bay Area is in the midst of something unprecedented: playing host to the NBA All-Star Game, Super Bowl, and FIFA World Cup games back-to-back-to-b...
Uncovering the $7 trillion reputation economy
Corey duBrowa spent much of his career advising some of the world’s most scrutinized leaders — from Howard Schultz at Starbucks and Marc Benioff at Sa...
DraftKings’ next big bets, with CEO Jason Robins
Prediction markets. AI. Super Bowl ads. Hear how DraftKings co-founder and CEO Jason Robins is placing bets on the future. Robins talked with host Jef...
Super Bowl ads, Bad Bunny, and the business of cultural risk, with Autodesk’s Dara Treseder
The Super Bowl LX ad blitz was a big budget highwire act — from Anthropic's shot at OpenAI to Lady Gaga's homage to Mr Rogers, and Dunkin's nostalgia-...
GaryVee on how to make Super Bowl ads that are actually funny
Gary Vaynerchuk of VaynerMedia has produced more than a dozen Super Bowl ads for brands. In 2026, his hilarious "Will Shat" spot for Kellogg's Raisin...
How Zoom grew 30x almost overnight
Eric Yuan saw frustrated customers and wanted to make the product he worked on better – but couldn’t convince his bosses. So he struck out on his own...
Padma Lakshmi’s secret to authentic leadership? Stop trying.
TV host, producer, author, and UN Goodwill Ambassador Padma Lakshmi joins Rapid Response with candid advice for business leaders on speaking out, show...
Possible: Amjad Masad on vibe coding, AI agents, and the end of boilerplate
On this episode of Possible, Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger sit down with Amjad Masad, founder and CEO of Replit, to explore how AI is fundamentally cha...
How to break through a fear of failure, with Fawn Weaver & Van Jones
After blitzscaling one of the fastest-growing spirit brands in history, Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey founder Fawn Weaver is reflecting on how to buil...
Reid Hoffman on AI’s new tune, Davos, and the need for CEO courage
As global leaders disperse from the World Economic Forum, LinkedIn co-founder and tech investor Reid Hoffman joins Rapid Response to break down the bi...
Reid Hoffman & Inflection AI’s Sean White on designing AI that makes us better humans
At Masters of Scale Summit in October of 2025, Reid Hoffman and Dr. Sean White, CEO of Inflection AI, discuss how to design responsible AI systems, bu...
How to make smarter changes, with cognitive scientist Maya Shankar
Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar has made a career of cleverly using insights from behavioral economics to fuel her work in the Obama White House and...
Anti-polarizing strategies from a purple city, with OKC Mayor David Holt
Mayors are unique leaders in America, often more loved and less polarized than state or federal politicians, with a different mandate and metric for s...
How to save a magazine, with The Atlantic’s Nicholas Thompson
When Nicholas Thompson took over as CEO of The Atlantic five years ago, the iconic magazine was in financial trouble. Now, its profitable and subscrib...
The AI agents in your wallet, with Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach
What did the latest holiday shopping season reveal about consumer confidence as the year begins? Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach joins Rapid Response t...
How Baby2Baby stepped up as LA wildfires raged
One year ago, as devastating wildfires tore through Los Angeles, nonprofit Baby2Baby was on the ground helping. We're revisiting the conversation Co-C...
The $800M exit that started with a single muffin
Simple Mills started with its founder Katlin Smith tinkering with almond flour muffin recipes in her apartment kitchen. Over the next decade, she buil...
Business world predictions for 2026
As we turn from reflection to what’s ahead for a new year, Rapid Response presents host Bob Safian’s predictions for the most pressing issues business...
The science of fresh starts
To kick off 2026, we’re revisiting our conversation with behavioral scientist Katy Milkman. The Wharton professor and bestselling author of “How to Ch...
Pioneers of AI: Mark Cuban’s investment strategy in this new era of tech
Mark Cuban has spent decades as a serial entrepreneur and investor, with one of the best track records on the planet (including celebrity status on AB...
How to unlock your team’s creative potential
To get the most out of your talent, you need to create an environment that allows them to thrive. Nobody knows this better than Indra Nooyi, who spent...
Resurrecting dire wolves is just the beginning for Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm
In this encore episode of Rapid Response, we revisit a scientific breakthrough that set the internet ablaze: The ‘de-extinction’ of the dire wolf. Whi...
The Salesforce CFO who left to save lives
After serving as Chief Legal Officer and then CFO at Salesforce, Amy Weaver sought a new challenge. She is now CEO of Direct Relief, which she tells h...
Lessons of Rapid Response for 2026
This year delivered whiplash: geopolitics, tariffs, and technology all shifting at once. And heading into 2026, the disruption isn’t easing up. In thi...
Make the office a destination, not just an obligation
With over two billion in annual revenue and nearly 7,000 employees, Gensler has cemented itself as a global icon in architecture and design. Host Jeff...
Kara Swisher takes on big tech, from Apple to Nvidia
Can ChatGPT dethrone Gemini? Is Tim Cook capable of leading Apple into the next wave of AI? As 2025 winds down, journalist and podcast host Kara Swish...
A warning for business leaders: Aspiring autocrats tank economies
How does a country sliding toward autocracy affect its economy? Political scientist and author Barbara F Walter offers data-driven insights about why...
The business behind OnlyFans, with CEO Keily Blair
In less than a decade, OnlyFans says it has grown into a business earning $7 billion a year. The digital platform is known for letting its 4 million c...
Embrace the multihyphenate career, with Chief’s Alison Moore
A recent New York Times headline — “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” sparked a firestorm across social media. Bob Safian welcomes a leader pushing back...
Replay: Dinner table wisdom with Danny Meyer
Danny Meyer is best known as the founder of Shake Shack and the legendary restaurants of his Union Square Hospitality Group in New York City. He joine...
Beyond the Parade: Macy’s navigates tariffs, turbulence and retail evolution
This Thursday marks the 99th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and Macy’s Inc. chairman and CEO Tony Spring joins Rapid Response with a behind-th...
Possible: Steve Kerr and Kris Brown on leadership and purpose in sports
What does it take to turn tragedy into advocacy, and advocacy into lasting change? This week, Reid and Aria are talking to Warriors head coach Steve K...
How to be 'fearless' in the AI age, with Fei-Fei Li and Reid Hoffman
The brilliant computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is often called the Godmother of AI. She talks with host Reid Hoffman about why scientists and entrepreneu...
AI: The new frontier for mental health support?
In recent weeks, OpenAI faced seven lawsuits alleging that ChatGPT contributed to suicides or mental health breakdowns. To spotlight the controversial...
The future of crypto, with Coinbase’s Emilie Choi
When Emilie Choi first left Linkedin to go work at a crypto company called Coinbase, her old colleagues thought she made a big mistake. But after surv...
How to get funded now: VCs Reid Hoffman, Aileen Lee, and Stacy Brown-Philpot, with Van Jones
Reid Hoffman, Stacy Brown-Philpot, and Aileen Lee are three of the most successful, legendary leaders and investors in Silicon Valley. (The term “unic...
Remarkable People: David Chang is 'Steve Jobs with a knife"
What happens when a world-class chef learns that success doesn’t taste like he imagined?
David Chang—the culinary force behind Momofuku and auth...
From billion-dollar brand to blank slate: Bobbi Brown’s comeback
She built her first company, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, into a billion-dollar brand. But when things soured between her and her parent company, Estée Laud...
Branding truths and tariff myths, with Autodesk’s Dara Treseder & Flexport’s Ryan Petersen
In a special episode of Rapid Response, we feature two fast-paced, lively conversations from Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco. Autodesk CMO Da...
When ‘genius’ becomes a trap, with author Ryan Holiday
For everyone from Superbowl-winning coaches to CEOs, Ryan Holiday’s writing has made the timeless wisdom of ancient Stoic philosophers accessible and...