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From a $27,500 Charter Company to a $4 Billion Private Jet Giant | Kenn Ricci, Flexjet
Kenn Ricci is the chairman and largest shareholder ofFlexjet (https://www.flexjet.com/), a fractional private jet company that operates more than 360 aircraft and is the largest Gulfstream operator in the world. A former Air Force-trained p
Competition, Intensity & Building a $115 Billion Global Bank | Nik Storonsky, Revolut
Nik Storonsky is the co-founder and CEO of Revolut (https://www.revolut.com/), a digital bank valued at $115 billion that is available in 38 countries. A former trader, he started Revolut with a card for spending abroad without bank fees an
Managing $525 Billion by Rethinking Wealth Management | Kurt MacAlpine, Corient
Kurt MacAlpine is a partner and the CEO of Corient, which manages approximately $525 billion in client assets. He became a first-time CEO at 39, believes wealth management was built on a flawed incentive structure, and applied a professiona
Lessons from Napoleon, Steve Jobs, Joan of Arc & Other Leaders | Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson is the host of “How To Take Over The World (https://www.takeoverpod.com/),” which is one of my favorite podcasts. How To Take Over The World examines history’s greatest leaders and conquerors, and has benefited millions of people
Creating Muse: The Fastest-Growing AI Product Since ChatGPT | Alexandr Wang, Meta
Alexandr Wang is the chief AI officer of Meta and co-founder of Scale AI. We talk about the seven-month effort to build Muse, why Meta focused on personal AI agents instead of coding, and how Mark Zuckerberg and Nat Friedman helped shape th
Channeling Rage, Rolling Calls & Building an Entertainment Empire | Ari Emanuel, WME & TKO
Ari Emanuel is the co-founder of Endeavor, executive chair and CEO of TKO, executive chairman of WME Group, and founder of MARI. We talk about his $4.2 billion bet on the UFC, the ESPN deal that proved it right, lessons from Egon Durban and
How Mark Zuckerberg, Palmer Luckey, Josh Kushner & Scott Wu Think | Jeremy Stern
Jeremy Stern is the editor-in-chief of Colossus (https://colossus.com/author/jeremy-stern/), where he writes long-form profiles of leading entrepreneurs and investors. He goes behind the scenes of his reporting on Mark Zuckerberg (https://c
Bringing AI to the Real Economy | Alexander Taubman
Alexander Taubman is the co-founder and CEO of Long Lake (https://llmh.com/), a company that buys established service businesses and uses AI to improve how they operate. He explains Long Lake’s $6.3 billion deal for American Express Global
Building the Streetwear Empire Kith | Ronnie Fieg
Ronnie Fieg is the founder, CEO and creative director of Kith. At 13, he turned down an envelope of cash at his bar mitzvah to ask his cousin for a job, then spent 15 years working his way up from stock boy to buyer at David Z. He explains
Building One of the Fastest Growing CPG Companies in History | Peter Rahal of David Protein, Medici Brands & RXBAR
Peter Rahal is the co-founder of RXBAR, David Protein, and Medici Brands (https://www.medicibrands.com/). After selling RXBAR for $600 million, he tried investing and quickly discovered he was miserable watching other people run companies.
Luca Ferrari on Building Bending Spoons: Extreme Ownership, Talent Science & Relentless Simplification
Luca Ferrari is a co-founder of Bending Spoons (https://www.bendingspoons.com/), the technology company he built with his partners by rethinking how software businesses should hire, operate and allocate capital. He explains why Bending Spoo
Mati Staniszewski on ElevenLabs, Voice AI & Building the Communication Layer for AI
Mati Staniszewski is the co-founder of ElevenLabs (https://elevenlabs.io/), an AI audio company he started in 2022 with his longtime friend Piotr Dąbkowski. He explains how a frustration with poorly dubbed content in Poland led them to buil
Zach Dell on Base Power, Energy Abundance & Building a Company for Life
Zach Dell is the co-founder of Base Power (https://www.basepowercompany.com/), an energy company on a mission to make electricity more affordable and reliable. His starting insight was that home batteries had the wrong business model. Compa
Doug Leone on Sequoia, Fear, Great Founders & Starting Over at 69
Doug Leone spent 26 years helping lead Sequoia Capital (https://sequoiacap.com/) through successive eras of technological change. Born in Italy, he came to the United States without speaking English and carried the insecurity of an outsider
Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
Torsten Reil has spent his career working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, simulation and entrepreneurship. He began as a biologist studying neural networks and complex systems before founding NaturalMotion, whose technology
Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
Sam Altman has spent his career at the intersection of startups, investing and artificial intelligence. He says he was fascinated by AI as a child in St. Louis, studied it in college and eventually helped start OpenAI (https://openai.com/)
Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber & Atoms
Travis Kalanick is best known for co-founding Uber and building it into one of the world’s largest transportation platforms. Before Uber, he spent years building Red Swoosh under extreme financial pressure. He says he took no salary for its
Lulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra
Lulu Cheng Meservey is the founder of Rostra (https://rostra.co/) and one of the world's most trusted communication strategists, supporting companies such as Anduril, Shopify, Cognition, and Coinbase. In 2016, she co-founded TrailRunner Int
Michael Ovitz, Co-founder of CAA
Michael Ovitz is the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the most powerful and influential talent agencies in Hollywood history, built on a revolutionary approach to representation that fundamentally transformed the enterta
Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
Micky Malka is the founder of Ribbit Capital (https://www.ribbitcap.com/) and helped create Node, which he describes as the first digital art studio designed for digital artists. He calls himself “an entrepreneur at heart and an investor by
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
David Heinemeier Hansson (https://dhh.dk/) (DHH) is the creator of Ruby on Rails (https://rubyonrails.org/) and the co-founder of https://37signals.com/, the company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. He has spent 25 years building a software
The Restaurant Genius Behind Carbone, ZZ’s, Torrisi & More | Jeff Zalaznick
Jeff Zalaznick is co-founder of Major Food Group (https://www.majorfood.com/), the hospitality company behind Carbone, ZZ's, Torrisi, The Grill, and The Pool. He has opened 77 restaurants and bars and 76 are still operating and profitable.
Eric Glyman, Co-founder of Ramp
Eric Glyman is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ramp (http://ramp.com/), the financial-infrastructure platform valued at $44 billion used by over 70,000 businesses to run payments, expenses and accounting from a single place. Glyman grew up in
Jonathan Ross, Founder of Groq
Jonathan Ross is the founder of Groq (https://groq.com/) and the inventor of the Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), now a senior executive at NVIDIA following the company's $20 billion partnership (https://groq.com/newsroom/groq-and-nvidi
Scott Wu, Cognition
Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition (https://cognition.com/), the company behind Devin (https://devin.ai/), the world's first AI software engineer. Wu describes himself as "salty," a word he traces to second grade, when he compe
Steve Stoute, UnitedMasters
Steve Stoute is the founder of Translation (https://www.translationllc.com/), the marketing company behind some of the most iconic brand work of the past 25 years, and UnitedMasters (https://unitedmasters.com/), the independent music distri
Ed Catmull, Co-founder of Pixar
Ed Catmull is the co-founder of Pixar (https://www.pixar.com/) and the former president of Disney Animation (https://disneyanimation.com/). He grew up in 1950s Utah wanting to animate for Disney. Convinced he couldn't draw well enough, he s
Gustav Söderström, Spotify
Gustav Söderström is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Spotify, the world's largest streaming platform, with more than 760 million users across 180 countries. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from KTH Royal Institute of
Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
Ivanka Trump grew up on construction sites and in boardrooms, learning what it takes to be a builder. At just 22 years old, she started doing real estate for a Brooklyn developer. She notched small wins with construction crews and learned t
The Simple Genius of Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin grew up on Long Island obsessed with music — arena rock at 13, punk by high school, then hip-hop when it was still a street movement you could only hear at one club in New York City. The records coming out didn't sound like the c
