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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.

• 2026-10-06 Kalshi vs. Everyone: Co-Founder Luana Lopes Lara on the lawsuits and the long game Prediction markets incentivize truth. Everything else incentivizes clickbait. That's the core argument Luana Lopes Lara makes for Kalshi — the prediction market platform she co-founded that has gone from $5 billion to $22 billion in valuation in under Transcript →
• 2026-10-01 Don't be boring: KCRW's Jennifer Ferro on building a brand people love Jennifer Ferro is the former board chair of NPR and president of Southern California’s iconic public radio organization: KCRW. Ferro talks with host Jeff Berman about how nearly two decades as the founder’s deputy taught her to lead, why she thinks Transcript →
• 2026-09-29 Halloween meets GLP-1s: Hershey’s candy Super Bowl, with CEO Kirk Tanner The second a brand like Hershey stops being culturally relevant, says its CEO Kirk Tanner, you should be worried. He joins Rapid Response to explain exactly what he's doing to make sure that never happens. Tanner also reveals why GLP-1 users are actuall Transcript →
• 2026-09-26 Rapid Response: Stop creating businesses. Buy one instead, with Codie Sanchez Own or be owned. That's Codie Sanchez's ultimatum for anyone serious about their financial future. The founder of Contrarian Thinking and author of the new book Own or Be Owned returns to Rapid Response to make her most impassioned case yet for why buyi Transcript →
• 2026-09-24 How to build a billion-dollar sports team from scratch, with Golden State Valkyries’ Jess Smith When Jess Smith became employee number one for the Bay Area’s WNBA expansion team, the future was a blank slate. Now, the Golden State Valkyries brand is boasting a unicorn valuation in just its second season. Smith talks with host Jeff Berman about b Transcript →
• 2026-09-22 Rebranding in a war zone, with Prosper Global (formerly Mercy Corps) The world has never faced so many humanitarian crises at once, and the systems built to respond to them are fraying. Tjada McKenna, CEO of Prosper Global — the organization long known as Mercy Corps — joins Rapid Response during UN General Assembly Transcript →
• 2026-09-17 Brené Brown & Reid Hoffman on the skills every leader needs now Author and researcher Brené Brown joined host Reid Hoffman on stage last year in San Francisco for the 2025 Masters of Scale Summit. She reveals insights about how to lead courageously, the underrated skills leaders need to thrive, and why compassion i Transcript →
• 2026-09-15 Let’s Kill Sh*t: Axios CEO on simplifying your work-life in the AI era AI isn't simplifying your life… Yet. It's mass-producing more options, more decisions, and more noise. Axios CEO Jim VandeHei returns to Rapid Response to make the case that the antidote isn't a better productivity app, it's a ruthless, three-part sys Transcript →
• 2026-09-12 Rapid Response: On's 16-year overnight success: Zendaya, Federer, and outrunning competition On built a $4 billion sports brand in 16 years with a garden hose, a Roger Federer dinner in Zurich, and a young designer who watched a Halloween YouTube video. Co-founder and co-CEO David Allemann joins Rapid Response to explain why the defining decade Transcript →
• 2026-09-10 From high school dropout to CEO, with Autodesk’s Andrew Anagnost Autodesk is the massive public software company at the heart of designing almost everything around you, from cars to buildings to video games. CEO Andrew Anagnost talks with host Jeff Berman about why he first joined a “rebel” group at the company, Transcript →
• 2026-09-08 NFL Kickoff: the science gets more damning, but the money keeps growing The NFL is the world's most valuable sports business, and it keeps growing. But is the growth sustainable? Sports journalist Michele Steele joins Rapid Response to kick off the 2026-2027 NFL season with a clear-eyed look at what's driving record franchi Transcript →
• 2026-09-03 Angela Duckworth on why grit isn’t enough With the highly anticipated follow up to her bestseller “Grit”, psychologist and author Angela Duckworth offers a new framework for achieving excellence. She talks with host Jeff Berman about why making even small changes to your situation is the pr Transcript →
• 2026-09-01 When AI agents do your shopping, everything changes, with Shopify’s Jess Hertz For decades, e-commerce rewarded the biggest brands who could buy their way to the top of search results. AI is changing that. Shopify COO Jess Hertz joins Rapid Response to share what Shopify's data reveals about the agentic shopping revolution in real Transcript →
• 2026-08-29 Pioneers of AI: Designing AI for people and the planet, with Aza Raskin AI is rapidly changing what it means to be human, but is AI development truly human-centered? According to Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, the answer is largely “no.” The man who invented the “infinite scroll” is now Transcript →
• 2026-08-27 Chicago Fed President on inflation, recession, and Trump’s attacks The economy is strong, prices are still too high, and the job market is sending mixed signals. The Federal Reserve is navigating all of it while fending off the most overt political pressure in its modern history. Austan Goolsbee, President of the Chica Transcript →
• 2026-08-25 Ford's Jim Farley on beating China, and the storm nobody sees coming With the ongoing disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and fuel prices still elevated, few auto executives are feeling the pressure more acutely than Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley. He joins Rapid Response to give a candid account of what the turmoil me Transcript →
• 2026-08-20 How Barnes & Noble made a comeback, with CEO James Daunt CEO James Daunt has now rescued two iconic bookstore chains: Barnes & Noble and Waterstones. He joins host Jeff Berman to discuss the turnarounds, plus how bookstores are preparing for an onslaught of AI-written content, his BookTok strategy, and why lo Transcript →
• 2026-08-18 What the jobs report isn't telling you about AI & the workforce, with Upwork’s Hayden Brown Few leaders have a better real-time read on how AI is actually reshaping the workforce than Hayden Brown. As CEO of Upwork, the platform where 18 million freelancers meet the businesses that need them, she sees what the monthly jobs report can't: which Transcript →
• 2026-08-15 Pioneers of AI: Why AI conversations are always one-sided Is it possible for us to ever wholeheartedly trust a machine the way we would a human? According to Charles Duhigg, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the S Transcript →
• 2026-08-13 Know which rules to break, with MTV co-founder Tom Freston Tom Freston is a cofounder of MTV and former CEO of Viacom. He joined host Jeff Berman to dig into the wild stories and meaningful lessons from his life as an unconventional corporate leader. Freston reveals how MTV’s audience-first mentality and “s Transcript →