When to ignore conventional wisdom, w/Shake Shack's Danny Meyer
To revolutionize an industry, you have to cast off received wisdom. Shake Shack’s Danny Meyer knows this well. When he opened his first high-end restaurant in New York, Union Square Cafe, received wis...
22 Okt 201838min
What great founders do at night, w/Arianna Huffington
To survive your entrepreneurial journey, you have to learn to recharge. Knowing when to turn the lights out may be the only way to keep the lights on. Few know this better than Arianna Huffington, who...
3 Okt 201839min
How to build trust fast, w/Spotify's Daniel Ek
Normally, trust = consistency + time. But when you're scaling fast, you have to find shortcuts to trust, with your partners and your users. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek knows a thing or two about this. When ...
19 Sep 201837min
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 Systrom did when he co-founded Instagram: The simple photo app tapped the right ...
6 Sep 201835min
How to make the star employees you need, w/Marissa Mayer
Can't find the star employees you need? Then make them. That's what Marissa Mayer did when she founded the Associate Product Manager program in the early days of Google — one of the company's crown je...
8 Aug 201841min
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 along the way. Zynga founder Mark Pincus upended the gaming industry with social ...
25 Jul 201832min
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 of the "human cloud" to solve almost any problem — as long as you keep the word ...
11 Jul 201836min
