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Masters of Scale

Award-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 t... Read more

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Strategy Session: 5 burning questions & their unexpected answers w/Reid Hoffman & Bob Safian

Strategy Session: 5 burning questions & their unexpected answers w/Reid Hoffman & Bob Safian

How do you build expertise in new tech like quantum, crypto and AI? How much attention should you be paying to the stock... Read more

9 Feb 2021

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71. How to find hidden value that others miss, w/The Black List's Franklin Leonard

71. How to find hidden value that others miss, w/The Black List's Franklin Leonard

Forget looking for a needle in a haystack – instead, build a new type of metal detector, to find undervalued assets that... Read more

17 Nov 2020

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Bonus: Reid’s 2020 Commencement Speech: In a crisis, steer toward the emerging opportunities

Bonus: Reid’s 2020 Commencement Speech: In a crisis, steer toward the emerging opportunities

New graduates 🎓are like entrepreneurs — standing on the edge of that cliff, ready to build their own plane and fly. But... Read more

3 Jun 2020

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Rapid Response: How "startup DNA" helped One Medical respond to Covid, with CEO Amir Rubin

Rapid Response: How "startup DNA" helped One Medical respond to Covid, with CEO Amir Rubin

Since One Medical’s IPO in January, CEO Amir Rubin has been forced to constantly adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, as h... Read more

28 May 2020

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55. Be a platform, w/Shopify's Tobi Lütke

55. Be a platform, w/Shopify's Tobi Lütke

The secret to massive scale? Be a platform. Build a virtuous cycle where everyone wins, and you’ll emerge the biggest wi... Read more

15 Dec 2020

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47. Bill Gates: How to accelerate history (Part 1)

47. Bill Gates: How to accelerate history (Part 1)

How did Bill Gates scale BOTH a global business and a global philanthropy? He spotted an inflection point in history — a... Read more

7 Nov 2019

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21. How to do good and do good business, w/Starbucks' Howard Schultz

21. How to do good and do good business, w/Starbucks' Howard Schultz

You can make your social impact and your bottom line work hand-in-hand. But you'll have to be as creative and innovative... Read more

7 Mar 2018

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49. Ray Dalio: How to embrace conflict

49. Ray Dalio: How to embrace conflict

Want to improve any idea? Find someone who disagrees with it. This is something legendary investor Ray Dalio knows. But ... Read more

26 Nov 2019

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24. How to kill your bad ideas, w/Zynga's Mark Pincus

24. How to kill your bad ideas, w/Zynga's Mark Pincus

To succeed, you have to be relentless about pursuing a big opportunity — and ruthless about killing your own bad ideas a... Read more

25 Jul 2018

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Rapid Response: How business can engage against racism, w/Shellye Archambeau (MetricStream, Nordstrom, Verizon)

Rapid Response: How business can engage against racism, w/Shellye Archambeau (MetricStream, Nordstrom, Verizon)

What can your business do right now in the struggle against racism? More than you think, says Shellye Archambeau, former... Read more

19 Jun 2020

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52. Bill Gates: The biggest success story you haven't heard (Part 2)

52. Bill Gates: The biggest success story you haven't heard (Part 2)

In Part 2 of this special two-part conversation, we’re talking with Bill Gates about the biggest success story ever told... Read more

20 Dec 2019

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3. Learn from every "no," w/Walker & Company's Tristan Walker

3. Learn from every "no," w/Walker & Company's Tristan Walker

The best business ideas often seem laughable at first glance. So if you’re hearing a chorus of “No’s” — it may actually ... Read more

17 May 2017

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7. Your plan B needs a plan B, w/Crisis Text Line founder Nancy Lublin

7. Your plan B needs a plan B, w/Crisis Text Line founder Nancy Lublin

To succeed, entrepreneurs need a good idea, timing, money, luck. But more than anything, they need the ability to genera... Read more

14 Jun 2017

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26. Instagram's Kevin Systrom: Keep it simple while scaling big

26. Instagram's Kevin Systrom: Keep it simple while scaling big

You can scale big with a simple idea (and a tiny team!) — but only if you catch the prevailing winds. That's what Kevin ... Read more

6 Sep 2018

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23. Keep humans in the equation, w/TaskRabbit's Stacy Brown-Philpot

23. Keep humans in the equation, w/TaskRabbit's Stacy Brown-Philpot

You may think that to scale you need to cut humans out of the equation. The opposite is true. You can harness the power ... Read more

11 Jul 2018

36mins

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56. How to start a revolution, w/Bitcoin pioneer Wences Casares (Xapo)

56. How to start a revolution, w/Bitcoin pioneer Wences Casares (Xapo)

What if your idea is so radical that people have trouble grasping what it is — or even believing it won't harm them? Eve... Read more

27 Feb 2020

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6. Innovation is managed chaos, w/Eric Schmidt of Google/Alphabet

6. Innovation is managed chaos, w/Eric Schmidt of Google/Alphabet

Google has succeeded by innovating again and again. Their secret? They don’t tell their employees how to innovate; they ... Read more

7 Jun 2017

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4. Imperfect is perfect, w/Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

4. Imperfect is perfect, w/Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

If you’re Steve Jobs, you can wait for your product to be perfect. For the rest of us, If you’re not embarrassed by your... Read more

24 May 2017

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2. Raise more money than you need, w/Minted's Mariam Naficy

2. Raise more money than you need, w/Minted's Mariam Naficy

Think you've raised enough money for your startup? Think again. You have to run through a minefield of unexpected expens... Read more

10 May 2017

28mins

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Strategy Session: How transparent should you be with your board? How do you boost morale in dark days? Is it time to blitzscale?

Strategy Session: How transparent should you be with your board? How do you boost morale in dark days? Is it time to blitzscale?

How do you take smart risks, how can you be transparent – but inspiring – with your board and your team, how do you keep... Read more

14 Jul 2020

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