Masters of Scale

"Masters of Scale" is a podcast that offers award-winning business advice from iconic CEOs in Silicon Valley and beyond.

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Reid Hoffman & Kickstarter’s Everette Taylor take your questions

Reid Hoffman & Kickstarter’s Everette Taylor take your questions

For our latest Strategy Session, Reid Hoffman and Kickstarter CEO Everette Taylor answer questions from entrepreneurs about how to build more resilient businesses. They share frameworks for taking smarter risks, finding co-founders, and more.

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Hollywood’s hottest AI partner, with Runway’s Cristóbal Valenzuela

Hollywood’s hottest AI partner, with Runway’s Cristóbal Valenzuela

AI tools are disrupting all types of creative content, and Runway AI is a pioneer making major waves in Hollywood. It’s partnering with the likes of Disney and Netflix to revolutionize production. Runway’s co-founder & CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela joins Rapid Response to dissect the company’s breakneck growth, the risks and responsibilities of AI tool makers, and how AI is redefining both business expectations and our notion of creativity. Cristóbal also reveals why he rebuffed advances from Meta for a highly lucrative acquisition, and how AI video is just a stepping stone to an entirely new media format — one more expansive and transportive than we can realistically comprehend today.

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How design drives successful companies, with Sarah Stein Greenberg

How design drives successful companies, with Sarah Stein Greenberg

Whether you’re building a new product from scratch, growing your team, or trying to find product market fit, every part of scaling a business has one thing in common. It needs to be well designed. That’s why we’re headed back to school this week – and learning from Stanford d.school executive director Sarah Stein Greenberg. She reveals strategies for using human-centered design to improve everything from your product roadmap to your company culture.

Greenberg’s book: Creative Acts for Curious People

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Dating is down. So why is Hinge thriving? with CEO Justin McLeod

Dating is down. So why is Hinge thriving? with CEO Justin McLeod

As young people report feeling lonelier and less connected than ever, the dating app Hinge is driving its users into real life, human experiences. CEO Justin McLeod returns to Rapid Response to share how the platform is combating digital fatigue amongst users, as well as navigating the risks and opportunities of AI in online dating. McLeod also explores Hinge’s recent collaboration with renowned psychologist Esther Perel, and offers insider tips to find that special someone in the chaos of modern romance. 

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The bromance that rebuilt Detroit: Dan Gilbert and Mayor Mike Duggan

The bromance that rebuilt Detroit: Dan Gilbert and Mayor Mike Duggan

As we gear up for our 2025 Masters of Scale Summit, we’re revisiting one of the stellar on-stage conversations that happened at the 2024 event. Hear Rocket Companies’ Dan Gilbert and Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan reveal how their unique public-private partnerships have transformed the struggling city into a growing hub for everything from tech companies to electric vehicle manufacturing. 

Note: this conversation was recorded in October of 2024, before Duggan announced he would not seek another term as mayor and is instead running for governor of Michigan as an independent.

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The insights that fuel SharkNinja’s biggest innovations

The insights that fuel SharkNinja’s biggest innovations

From humble beginnings selling vacuums on late night informercials, SharkNinja has grown to a 6 billion dollar a year business. CEO Mark Barrocas joins host Jeff Berman to reveal how the company keeps coming up with hits like the Ninja Creami, why “educated consumers” are the backbone of their business, and how they’re navigating the shifting winds of tariffs.

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Is it ‘economic Halloween’ in the US? with political economist Mark Blyth

Is it ‘economic Halloween’ in the US? with political economist Mark Blyth

Zoom out from continuing tariff turmoil and Trump’s recent attacks on the Fed and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and you’ll see a broader new economic order is forming. Political economist and Brown University professor Mark Blyth joins Rapid Response to reveal why outdated models still underpin much of our economic understanding, and what we still misunderstand – and underestimate – about China. Blyth also shares why the Democrats struggle to craft an engaging story about the economy, why it's so hard to predict a recession, and what Brown's recent settlement with the Trump Administration tells us about higher education's need to pivot from its reliance on federal funding.

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Inside one of the world’s greatest fundraising operations

Inside one of the world’s greatest fundraising operations

When Rick Shadyac Jr. took over as CEO of the fundraising organization responsible for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, it was bringing in about 600 million a year. The recently retired leader joins host Jeff Berman to reveal how he built a fundraising machine that is now approaching 3 billion per year, and how that money will have a global impact on kids with cancer.

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Employers adapt to ICE raids and a workforce on edge

Employers adapt to ICE raids and a workforce on edge

As the Trump Administration ramps up mass deportations, the American Business Immigration Coalition is advocating for policy reform. Rebecca Shi leads the organization made up of 1,400 current and former CEOs, trade group leaders and more, who heavily rely on an immigrant workforce. Hear how uncertainty over immigration has disrupted daily business and hit the bottom line, as well as the carve-outs and clarity that big employers like Lowe’s, Tyson Foods and others seek for the long-term.

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Bio of Masters of Scale

"Masters of Scale" is a podcast that offers award-winning business advice from iconic CEOs in Silicon Valley and beyond. Hosted by Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and renowned investor, the podcast explores the strategies that enabled these CEOs to transform their startups into global brands and navigate through crises.

The podcast features two distinct formats that provide a comprehensive perspective on business growth and resilience. In the classic format, Reid Hoffman presents unconventional theories about scaling businesses and invites guests to share their personal stories of entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, management, and fundraising. Listeners gain insights into the challenges, failures, setbacks, and valuable learnings that shaped these leaders' journeys.

In the Rapid Response format, hosted by Bob Safian, former editor-in-chief of Fast Company, the podcast addresses real-time challenges faced by businesses. This format focuses on crisis response, rebuilding efforts, diversity and inclusion, leadership changes, and other pressing topics.

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