Masters of Scale
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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 Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner). From navigating early prototypes to expanding brands globally, Masters of Scale provides priceless insights to help anyone grow their dream enterprise.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 40min
Arthur Brooks on how to build a meaningful life
Arthur Brooks, bestselling author and Harvard professor studying happiness, offers a concise mini-bio and big ideas. He explores the modern collapse of meaning, three channels of well-being, and how tech and boredom shape creativity. He discusses love, risk, friendship types, leadership ethics, and how to anchor capitalism in moral purpose.
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Mar 24, 2026 • 30min
Crisis at Hormuz, and your $160b tariff refund clock, with Flexport’s Ryan Petersen
Ryan Petersen, founder and CEO of Flexport and global trade expert, gives a real-time take on the Strait of Hormuz disruption. He discusses oil and air freight spikes, container rerouting around Africa, stranded containers and port headaches. He also covers the looming $160B tariff refund opportunity, how refunds are bought and financed, and AI’s role in speeding customs and logistics.
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Mar 19, 2026 • 29min
Futurist Amy Webb: Trends are not enough
Amy Webb, futurist and CEO of the Future Today Strategy Group, famous for forecasting tech and convergence research. She explains why static trend lists are dead. She spotlights convergences as the real unit of change. She discusses the post-search internet, programmable biology, corporate surveillance, and why leaders miss transformative collisions.
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Mar 17, 2026 • 31min
The C-suite is messier than you think, with Maryam Banikarim
Maryam Banikarim, former CMO of Univision, Gannett and Hyatt and founder of NYC Next and The Longest Table, blends marketing savvy with community building. She talks candidly about career pivots, C-suite politics, and the value of pauses. Stories from growing up in Iran and creating civic projects highlight resilience, belonging, and why embracing mess can spark joy and bold moves.
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Mar 14, 2026 • 31min
How Shantanu Narayen transformed Adobe
Shantanu Narayen, longtime Adobe CEO who led its shift to cloud subscriptions and steered AI strategy. He recounts moving Photoshop and Creative Cloud to subscriptions. He discusses data-driven product lifecycles, experiments with AI models and partnerships, and how AI augments creativity and changes workflows.
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Mar 12, 2026 • 35min
FanDuel CEO Amy Howe: ‘My whole career has been sliding doors moments’
Amy Howe, CEO of FanDuel and former Ticketmaster leader who steered teams through crises. She talks about leading through COVID, scaling regulated consumer businesses, FanDuel’s pivot from prediction markets to sports betting, tribal and state regulatory challenges, responsible gaming measures, and using AI to improve safety and personalization.
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Mar 10, 2026 • 30min
Stop waiting for clarity. Unfreeze and act, with Accenture’s Julie Sweet
Julie Sweet, CEO and Chair of Accenture, leads the company’s AI and reskilling efforts. She urges leaders to act despite uncertainty. Topics include using AI now through data hygiene, leader-led learning and AI proficiency tied to career progression, expanding entry-level roles amid automation, and why constructive C-suite tension and corporate reskilling are strategic imperatives.
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Mar 5, 2026 • 38min
Your Rich BFF dishes on dopamine spending and the new money minefield, with Vivian Tu
Vivian Tu, financial educator and CEO of Your Rich BFF, offers practical personal finance guidance for a broad online audience. She explains dopamine-driven spending during uncertainty. She tackles lifestyle inflation, vetting online money advice, Gen Z’s economic worries, buy-now-pay-later harms, prediction-market risks, and why steady, modest financial habits win.
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Mar 3, 2026 • 28min
Rapid Recap: Iran, Anthropic vs. Pentagon, Paramount’s win, and more
They unpack how recent Middle East strikes could ripple through global business. They map the messy AI arms race, including a tech firm pulling out of a major Pentagon deal and rivals circling. They trace big moves in media mergers and leadership churn at major companies. They separate hype from substance on AI trends, space projects, and hot health and social media stories.
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Feb 26, 2026 • 31min
Hailey Bieber, AI and fast launches: how e.l.f. Beauty is winning
Tarang Amin, CEO who turned e.l.f. Beauty into a fast-moving, values-led disruptor. He talks rapid product cycles and hands-on AI experiments. He explains bold cultural moves like the Hailey Bieber partnership and being channel-agnostic from Dollar General to Sephora. He also covers community-driven launches, supply chain shifts, and why speed and conviction matter.
