Masters of Scale
725 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago - ★★★★★ - 3.7K ratingsAward-winning business advice from Silicon Valley and beyond. Iconic CEOs, from Nike to Netflix, Starbucks to Slack, share the strategies that helped them grow from startups into global brands — and to weather crisis when it strikes.
On each episode of our classic format, founding host Reid Hoffman — LinkedIn cofounder, Greylock partner and legendary Silicon Valley investor — and a stellar lineup of guest hosts prove unconventional theories about how businesses scale. Guests share their stories of entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, management, fundraising. You’ll hear the human journey, too — failures, setbacks, learnings.
From our Rapid Response format, you can expect real-time wisdom from business leaders in fast-changing situations. Hosted by Bob Safian, past editor-in-chief of Fast Company, these episodes tackle crisis response, rebuilding, diversity & inclusion, leadership change and much more.
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Rapid Response: Turning tears to action, w/Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson
July 21, 2022 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MB“Hope is a practice. It comes from doing.” As the head of Planned Parenthood, Alexis McGill Johnson is regrouping in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to remove the federal right to safe abortion. Johnson is now faced with the challenge to move her team from tears and shock to action. Any leader faced with a worst-case scenario can learn from her vision: “to fight and stay courageous, and maintain ourselves.” Read a transcript of this episode: www.mastersofscale.com Su...
115. Drive full-speed at opportunity, w/AKQA’s Ajaz Ahmed
July 19, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBIf you want to capitalize on an opportunity that you think could change the world, you need to drive full speed toward it. Back in 1994, when Ajaz Ahmed dropped out of college to start one of the first digital ad agencies, AKQA, he knew he was at the cusp of the next revolution in tech. And if he wanted to be part of it, he’d have to move fast. Ahmed shares stories about how a band of 21-year-old dropouts built the agency from ground up, winning over early clients by building protot...
Rapid Response: Waging a $1.4 trillion food fight, w/Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness
July 14, 2022 13:26 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBWhat’s the difference between an activist brand and an active brand? Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness says that acting on your values defines a business — from climate change to Roe v. Wade. To unleash the next wave of growth for plant-based meat purveyor Impossible, McGuiness is rethinking how the whole category presents itself, taking aim at what he calls “safe and lame” approaches, partnering with the likes of Billie Eilish, and targeting the $1.4 trillion global meat indust...
114. Harness the passion of internal factions, w/Padmasree Warrior of Fable, Cisco, Motorola
July 12, 2022 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33 MBEvery company has its own internal factions: engineers vs. designers, East Coast vs. West, IT vs. everybody. The trick is turning factionalism into healthy competition that propels you toward your shared mission. At Motorola, Cisco, and now her start-up Fable, Padma Warrior has tapped into the power of internal divisions. It's not about separating people into warring camps; it's about building bridges from our differences, rather than divisions. Read a transcript of this episode: h...
Rapid Response: Volunteer for impact, w/AmeriCorps’ Michael Smith, live at the Social Innovation Summit
July 07, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBVolunteering and service are muscles that can close America’s divides and push social change. Speaking live at the 2022 Social Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., AmeriCorps’ new CEO, Michael Smith, shares a vision for healing sociopolitical divides through partnerships and on-the-ground experiences. When it comes to tackling natural and social crises, he’s prioritizing impact over volume. Read a transcript of this episode: www.mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Sc...
17. Sam Altman: Customer love is all you need
July 05, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes - 36.8 MBThe true seed of scale is customer love, which you can’t buy, hack, or game. Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator, scaled countless start-ups by focusing on this one idea: Finding 100 users who love you is better than 1 million who kinda like you. As CEO of OpenAI, Sam leads the creation of genuinely useful AI products. He shares timeless insights in his interview from 2018 on how to build on the love of passionate customers to create world-shifting tools. Read a transcript...
Rapid Response: From ‘delusion’ to criminal justice revolution, w/Ameelio’s Zo Orchingwa
June 30, 2022 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBWhen a tech nonprofit competes against a $2 billion incumbent dominating the market, its odds are slim. But Zo Orchingwa took that bet, founding Ameelio, believing that access to communication and education for the incarcerated is needed for their future success. Ameelio is on a quest to partner with every prison district in the country until one day, it scales enough to be redundant. Read a transcript of this episode: www.mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Scale we...
113. Michael Dell: Break it ’til you make it
June 28, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBThe first stage of building up a business is to break things down. Michael Dell started a computer company in his dorm room by cracking open some early IBM PCs and figuring out what he could do better, faster, and cheaper. Then he did the same thing to the entire model of computer sales. Learn from Dell how to revolutionize an industry — using deconstruction to gain insight your competitors lack, and then building something bigger and better. Read a transcript of this episode: http...
Rapid Response: Solar energy’s time to shine, w/Sunrun’s Mary Powell
June 25, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MBWhile gasoline prices soar, solar company Sunrun is poised to usher in a customer-led revolution of distributed energy technologies. Sunrun’s CEO Mary Powell combats a “no and slow” culture to transform more homes into virtual energy plants by preaching optimism and scorning bureaucracy. She’s moving with urgency to create a cleaner and more cost-effective future as fast as possible. Read a transcript of this episode: www.mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly...
112. Improving human dignity is an engine of scale, w/Promise CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
June 21, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes - 38.1 MBDelivering human dignity to your customers is more than just good practice. It can be a powerful engine of scale. This insight has inspired Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins her whole career, as a labor leader, a music manager, and now as a fin-tech entrepreneur with Promise. Her secret? Take a contrarian lens to existing systems. Find a space where human dignity is lacking, create a product that gives your customers flexibility, options, access they didn’t have before — and unlock new value. ...
Above all else, invest in friendship: Reid Hoffman’s 2022 commencement speech
June 18, 2022 09:00 - 19 minutes - 17.6 MBFor Reid Hoffman, the way to live a meaningful and productive life is to focus on one key area: friendships. Speaking at Vanderbilt University’s 2022 commencement, he shares four lessons on why friendships are crucial for helping us achieve our potential and enact meaningful change. Read a transcript of this episode: www.mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: https://mastersofscale.com/subscribe See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...
Rapid Response: Redesigning work in a crisis, w/Upwork CEO Hayden Brown
June 16, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBMost future of work conversations revolve around the “where,” but Upwork CEO Hayden Brown says it’s more important to focus on the “who.” 10% of the workforce at Upwork, the global tech platform for millions of freelance workers, was directly impacted by the Ukrainian war. Hayden’s people-focused approach to the difficult decision of how to manage remote employees in Russia is the same mindset she applies to meet the needs of all workers, from people feeling conflict to working moth...
Rapid Response: Redesigning work in a crisis, w/UpWork CEO Hayden Brown
June 16, 2022 09:00 - 38 minutes - 35.1 MBMost future of work conversations revolve around the “where,” but UpWork CEO Hayden Brown says it’s more important to focus on the “who.” 10% of the workforce at UpWork, the global tech platform for millions of freelance workers, was directly impacted by the Ukrainian war. Hayden’s people-focused approach to the difficult decision of how to manage remote employees in Russia is the same mindset she applies to meet the needs of all workers, from people feeling conflict to working moth...
Strategy Session Live!: How can a start-up beat a Goliath? What gets top talent to stay put? How do you keep multiple stakeholders happy?
June 14, 2022 09:00 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBHow can a small business survive a David vs. Goliath competition? If two sets of stakeholders have opposing needs, how can a startup pivot to keep them both happy? Reid Hoffman and Bob Safian answer these questions and more from small business owners in the Masters of Scale community. Plus: another round of Pivot Point! Learn more about becoming a Masters of Scale Member: www.mastersofscale.com/members Read a transcript of Strategy Session 12 at: https://mastersofscale.com/strateg...
Rapid Response: Don’t wait for the system, build it!, w/Genius Guild’s Kathryn Finney
June 09, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBEntrepreneurship is an essential tool for building a more equitable society — which is why Kathryn Finney is laser-focused on encouraging people who don’t fit the mold of the stereotypical founder to jump in. Her new book, “Build the Damn Thing,” taps into wisdom from her years at the venture studio Genius Guild and beyond. She brings a message to founders: The universe is conspiring for your greatness. Read a transcript of this interview at: mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the M...
5. Lead, lead again, w/Meta's Sheryl Sandberg
June 07, 2022 09:00 - 35 minutes - 32.1 MBIn just 6 years, Facebook grew to 2 billion users and 14,000 employees. How? Well, first, they hired COO Sheryl Sandberg. And she knew that to lead a fast-changing organization, you have to be as skilled at breaking plans as you are at making them. Great scale leaders know how to pivot, because every day there are new competitors, new threats, new opportunities. Sandberg shares the practical, tactical on-the-ground leadership lessons she learned while scaling at Google and Meta. Re...
Rapid Response: Why business must be a force for good, w/former American Express CEO Ken Chenault
June 02, 2022 09:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MB"Corporations can be a force for good – and they can also be very successful," says Ken Chenault, chair of investment firm General Catalyst and former longtime CEO of American Express. During the past year, Ken has been an outspoken advocate for business leaders to actively engage in societal matters. After George Floyd’s death, he and Merck CEO Ken Frazier launched OneTen, a coalition to create 1 million jobs for Black Americans that now includes major brands from IBM to Nike to Wa...
111. Extraordinary leaps need solid foundations, part 2, w/Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel
May 31, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBA diverse network of collaborators is key when making scale leaps. Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel has cultivated a wide network of scientists, business leaders, and government officials across his career. When COVID-19 struck, Bancel called upon this nexus of experts to aid the warp-speed development of the mRNA-based vaccine in the race to save millions of lives. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: https:...
Rapid Response: A global benefit concert for Ukraine, w/World Unite for Ukraine’s Victoria Yampolsky
May 26, 2022 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBIt’s easy to have a grand idea; putting that plan into action is not. Victoria Yampolsky conceived of a global concert in support of Ukraine. Without any experience in entertainment or international aid, she shares how she didn’t accept “no” for an answer in her quest to book big-name guests like Pink Floyd and negotiate a streaming deal — to pursue a fundraising goal of $10 million. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Scale we...
110. Extraordinary leaps need solid foundations, part 1, w/Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel
May 24, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBIf you're launching a moonshot, success depends on how you manage the trajectory of risk. When Stéphane Bancel became Moderna's first CEO, the biotech start-up was chasing a way-out idea many experts thought was impossible. Stéphane built a culture of calculated risk-taking to create a platform for extraordinary leaps — one that enabled life-saving mRNA vaccines when Covid-19 struck. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Scale we...
114. Extraordinary leaps need solid foundations, Part 1, w/Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel
May 24, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.2 MBIf you're launching a moonshot, success depends on how you manage the trajectory of risk. When Stéphane Bancel became Moderna's first CEO, the biotech start-up was chasing a way-out idea many experts thought was impossible. Stéphane built a culture of calculated risk-taking to create a platform for extraordinary leaps — one that enabled life-saving mRNA vaccines when Covid-19 struck. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Scale we...
Rapid Response: Inside a $2.4 billion bet on talent, w/PwC's Tim Ryan
May 19, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBWith the workplace in historic flux, consulting firm PwC is committing a whopping $2.4 billion to create an employee engagement platform offering a radically new level of choice. PwC’s U.S. chair, Tim Ryan, shares why the bold initiative is necessary in the face of the Great Resignation. It's just one of several evolving crises, Ryan says, that has made leading a business more complex and demanding than ever. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe ...
Rapid Response: Inside a $2.4 billion bet on talent, w/ PwC's Tim Ryan
May 19, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBWith the workplace in historic flux, consulting firm PwC is committing a whopping $2.4 billion to create an employee engagement platform offering a radically new level of choice. PwC’s U.S. chair, Tim Ryan, shares why the bold initiative is necessary in the face of the Great Resignation. It's just one of several evolving crises, Ryan says, that has made leading a business more complex and demanding than ever. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe ...
113. Ford’s Bill Ford: The Refounder Mindset, part 2
May 17, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBMassive change isn’t something you can brute-force — you need to ignite buy-in, again and again, up and down your organization. Because even if your changes will make things more fun, more interesting, and more profitable, you’re going to face defiance and inertia until you clue everyone in. That’s what Bill Ford learned while working to remake Ford Motor Company as an environmental powerhouse — against surprising internal and even national-level resistance. Read a transcript of t...
109. Ford’s Bill Ford: The Refounder Mindset, part 2
May 17, 2022 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBMassive change isn’t something you can brute-force — you need to ignite buy-in, again and again, up and down your organization. Because even if your changes will make things more fun, more interesting, and more profitable, you’re going to face defiance and inertia until you clue everyone in. That’s what Bill Ford learned while working to remake Ford Motor Company as an environmental powerhouse — against surprising internal and even national-level resistance. Read a transcript of t...
Rapid Response: Stay scrappy, deliver fast, w/Gopuff’s Yakir Gola
May 12, 2022 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBHas Gopuff cracked the code of instant delivery — a field where even Amazon has struggled? Co-founder Yakir Gola talks about the challenge of owning the customer journey from app to warehouse to doorstep, and the reasons why being outside Silicon Valley is giving Gopuff a big advantage as it expands across the United States and around the world. Yakir talks with host Bob Safian about why moving fast is only one piece of the growth puzzle. Read a transcript of this episode: https://...
112. Ford’s Bill Ford: The Refounder Mindset, part 1
May 10, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBWe often hear the story about the great leader who joins a legacy company and guides it through massive transformation. But massive transformation can also start from the inside. Bill Ford, the executive chair of the Ford Motor Company, founded by his great-grandfather, is proof that great change can come from within. He has led not just one but multiple refreshes of Ford’s mission, culture, and, especially, their approach to sustainability. In Part One of a two-part series, you’ll ...
108. Ford’s Bill Ford: The Refounder Mindset, part 1
May 10, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBWe often hear the story about the great leader who joins a legacy company and guides it through massive transformation. But massive transformation can also start from the inside. Bill Ford, the executive chair of the Ford Motor Company, founded by his great-grandfather, is proof that great change can come from within. He has led not just one but multiple refreshes of Ford’s mission, culture, and, especially, their approach to sustainability. In Part One of a two-part series, you’ll ...
Rapid Response: Protecting against the next bio threat, w/The Public Health Company's Charity Dean
May 05, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBCharity Dean was one of the first public health officials to set the alarm on COVID. When she searched for a tool to forecast future bio threats, she realized that it didn’t exist yet. So she co-founded the Public Health Company, where she uses lessons from her government experiences, but without the same rules or limits. She speaks with Bob Safian about why all companies must be public health companies. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe to th...
Rapid Response: Protecting against the next bio threat
May 05, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBCharity Dean was one of the first public health officials to set the alarm on COVID. When she searched for a tool to forecast future bio threats, she realized that it didn’t exist yet. So she co-founded the Public Health Company, where she uses lessons from her government experiences, but without the same rules or limits. She speaks with Bob Safian about why all companies must be public health companies. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe to th...
1. Airbnb's Brian Chesky: Do things that don’t scale
May 03, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBIn honor of our five year anniversary of Masters of Scale, we're revisiting our first episode ever, featuring Airbnb's Brian Chesky. If you want your company to truly scale, you first have to do things that don't scale. Handcraft the core experience. Get your hands dirty. Serve your customers one-by-one. And don't stop until you know exactly what they want. That's what Brian Chesky did. As CEO of Airbnb, Brian’s early work was more akin to a traveling salesman. He takes us back to ...
Rapid Response: Rebooting global crisis response, w/ONE Campaign CEO Gayle Smith
April 30, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBGayle Smith is the CEO of the ONE Campaign, the advocacy group founded by U2’s Bono — and last year, she was tapped by the U.S. State Department to coordinate America’s COVID response and vaccine distribution globally. Her experience both inside and outside government gives her a distinctive outlook on how business can and should help on humanitarian issues, from Ukraine dislocation to climate change. She also shares lessons about effective advocacy: tactics pioneered by ONE that ca...
107. BetterUp’s Alexi Robichaux & Prince Harry: Scale yourself first, and then your business
April 26, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBBefore you can help others grow, you must be equipped to take care of yourself. This is far from a new concept for Alexi Robichaux, the co-founder and CEO of BetterUp, and Prince Harry, the coaching platform’s Chief Impact Officer. They both share stories — from their own lives and others’ — that exemplify the value in adopting the right mindset for growth. Robichaux’s scale journey stems back to a piece of coaching advice that changed his life. By closely observing and following hi...
111. BetterUp’s Alexi Robichaux & Prince Harry: Scale yourself first, and then your business
April 26, 2022 09:00 - 37 minutes - 34.4 MBBefore you can help others grow, you must be equipped to take care of yourself. This is far from a new concept for Alexi Robichaux, the co-founder and CEO of BetterUp, and Prince Harry, the coaching platform’s Chief Impact Officer. They both share stories — from their own lives and others’ — that exemplify the value in adopting the right mindset for growth. Robichaux’s scale journey stems back to a piece of coaching advice that changed his life. By closely observing and following hi...
Rapid Response: How Chief became a phenomenon, w/CEO Carolyn Childers
April 21, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBAmid pandemic disruption, Chief turned a small, NYC-based club for women executives into a national phenomenon with more than 12,000 members. Co-founder and CEO Carolyn Childers joins Rapid Response to share how she and co-founder Lindsay Kaplan managed the unlikely transformation, which recently yielded a $100 million Series B funding round. She reveals how the company leveraged existing tech and their own innovations to build connections, identifying not just a gap in the marketpl...
82. Tyra Banks: Personal brand power
April 19, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBTo succeed in the modern business environment, you need to strut your stuff: to cultivate a personal brand that supports career growth. No one represents this better than Tyra Banks. As a model, a producer, and an entrepreneur, Tyra has forged a personal brand that has enabled her to make multiple pivots, building fame, wealth, and meaningful impact on the issues that matter most to her. Startups can come and go, and so can employers. In our very uncertain landscape, the thing that ...
78. Tyra Banks: Personal brand power
April 19, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MBTo succeed in the modern business environment, you need to strut your stuff: to cultivate a personal brand that supports career growth. No one represents this better than Tyra Banks. As a model, a producer, and an entrepreneur, Tyra has forged a personal brand that has enabled her to make multiple pivots, building fame, wealth, and meaningful impact on the issues that matter most to her. Startups can come and go, and so can employers. In our very uncertain landscape, the thing that ...
Rapid Response: Lessons from an entrepreneur in Ukraine, w/Alyona Mysko, CEO of Fuelfinance
April 14, 2022 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBMeet Alyona Mysko, the CEO of a B2B startup in Ukraine called Fuelfinance, as she walks us through the lessons she’s learned while leading her company in a war. Her experience — which sometimes requires her and her team to work from bomb shelters during the day — offers lessons for every leader about communication, collaboration, and creativity in crisis. All of Ukraine is running like a start-up now, she says: Each citizen takes the initiative to pick up what needs to be done. Alyo...
Bonus: Five surprising ways to rethink your hiring
April 12, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBLearn the 5 mindsets that will reshape the way you hire, train, and retain — to build the team of superheroes that will power your business to scale. Hear real-world advice and great stories from Reid, Bob, and legendary leaders like PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, GoFundMe’s Tim Cadogan, Burberry and Apple’s Angela Ahrendts, and Vanderbilt basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: ...
Five surprising ways to rethink your hiring
April 12, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBLearn the 5 mindsets that will reshape the way you hire, train, and retain — to build the team of superheroes that will power your business to scale. Hear real-world advice and great stories from Reid, Bob, and legendary leaders like PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi, GoFundMe’s Tim Cadogan, Burberry and Apple’s Angela Ahrendts, and Vanderbilt basketball coach Jerry Stackhouse. Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.com Subscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter:...
Rapid Response: Supporting Ukraine's tech workers, w/Emburse CEO Eric Friedrichsen
April 07, 2022 09:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MB“Don't let the roadblocks get in the way when there are people who need you desperately.” Eric Friedrichsen, the CEO of Emburse, a B2B software provider, has navigated around risks and financial costs to meet the needs of tech contractors based in Ukraine. Part of that response includes the company’s offer to relocate people and families to Spain, where Emburse’s European headquarters is located. The company’s executives are also personally funding housing costs for colleagues takin...
106. Chobani's secret to scale: Tap into community, w/founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya
April 05, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBYour local community can be the power behind an epic scale story — because smart community investment always maximizes returns. No one knows this like Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of Chobani. He turned a small Upstate New York town into an epicenter of Greek yogurt by mobilizing a community to revive a mothballed dairy plant. In creating opportunities for new jobs, he created opportunities for massive scale. This story repeats over and over as the company grows, building commu...
110. Chobani's secret to scale: Tap into community, w/founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya
April 05, 2022 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBYour local community can be the power behind an epic scale story — because smart community investment always maximizes returns. No one knows this like Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of Chobani. He turned a small Upstate New York town into an epicenter of Greek yogurt by mobilizing a community to revive a mothballed dairy plant. In creating opportunities for new jobs, he created opportunities for massive scale. This story repeats over and over as the company grows, building commu...
Rapid Response: Inside "the most radical supply chain shift since World War II," w/Interos CEO Jennifer Bisceglie
April 02, 2022 09:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBRussia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the sanctions that followed, have radically impacted supply chains around the world. Jennifer Bisceglie, CEO of Interos, a risk-management firm focused on supply chains, has seen her company’s risk dashboards light up in new and far-reaching ways. Many businesses are more exposed than they realize, she says, with tech businesses surprisingly facing some of the highest risk. Driven by this disruption, a more sophisticated supply chain is coming toget...
Rapid Response: How Airbnb.org is housing Ukrainian refugees, w/Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia
March 31, 2022 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBAirbnb’s charitable arm, Airbnb.org, has committed to offer free, temporary housing for up to 100,000 refugees fleeing Ukraine. Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia joins Rapid Response to discuss how the company is deploying business tools for humanitarian benefit. He also shares how Airbnb’s platform has become a surprising tool to transfer money directly to individual Ukrainians, already generating $15 million. Along with co-founders Brian Chesky and Nate Blecharczyk, Joe is a fierce bel...
73. The secret power of onboarding, w/Canva's Melanie Perkins
March 29, 2022 11:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBOnboarding isn't just about employees. The often overlooked step-by-step process — to join a product or company — lays the foundation for everything that follows. No one knows this better than Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva. From the moment she started the Australia-based graphic design platform, she knew she had to engage newcomers with simplicity and speed. It took a series of steps: onboard users to her product, one-by-one; onboard investors to help her build; onboa...
77. The secret power of onboarding, w/Canva's Melanie Perkins
March 29, 2022 11:00 - 43 minutes - 40 MBOnboarding isn't just about employees. The often overlooked step-by-step process — to join a product or company — lays the foundation for everything that follows. No one knows this better than Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva. From the moment she started the Australia-based graphic design platform, she knew she had to engage newcomers with simplicity and speed. It took a series of steps: onboard users to her product, one-by-one; onboard investors to help her build; onboa...
Rapid Response: Putting an end to hustle culture w/Reshma Saujani, author of Pay Up
March 24, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MB“It’s not about fixing women. It’s about fixing the system,” says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code and Marshall Plan for Moms. As the author of the new book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work, Reshma calls out corporate feminism and society’s assumption that women have to solve the problems of workplace achievement on their own. She argues that childcare is an economic issue that should be subsidized by employers, and that the discourse around the “future of work” nee...
Rapid Response: Putting an end to hustle culture, w/Reshma Saujani, author of Pay Up
March 24, 2022 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MB“It’s not about fixing women. It’s about fixing the system,” says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code and Marshall Plan for Moms. As the author of the new book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work, Reshma calls out corporate feminism and society’s assumption that women have to solve the problems of workplace achievement on their own. She argues that childcare is an economic issue that should be subsidized by employers, and that the discourse around the “future of work” nee...
105. Daymond John, Part 2: How to partner like a shark
March 22, 2022 09:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBGood partnerships transcend the transactional. In Part 2 of our two-part series featuring Daymond John, founder of FUBU and one of the original “sharks” on ABC’s Shark Tank, Daymond shows how aligning your mission with partners builds trust that can take your scale to a new level. Featuring stories about Shark Tank, the Kardashians, Coogi, Pharrell Williams, Trainual and more, Daymond delivers lessons on unexpected and unconventional partnerships that continue to fuel his personal b...