The Man Who Builds for the Decade Ahead | Founder of Google X, Waymo, and Udacity
What does it take to reinvent entire industries, over and over again?This week on Grit, Sebastian Thrun, the “godfather” of self-driving cars and massive open online courses, reflects on a career push...
29 Sep 20251h 13min
How WordPress Became a Web Giant | Automattic Founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg
What kind of founder builds a billion-dollar company around something anyone can use for free? Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress and CEO of Automattic, joins Joubin Mirzadegan to reflect on two ...
22 Sep 20251h 10min
The Central Nervous System for Modern Business | Confluent CEO Jay Kreps
The apps and websites we use every day depend on systems most of us never see.Jay Kreps joins Joubin Mirzadegan to share how Confluent became the ‘central nervous system’ for companies like Expedia an...
15 Sep 20251h 17min
Airtable’s AI Reboot with CEO Howie Liu
Can a no-code giant reinvent itself in the AI-native era?This week on Grit, Airtable CEO Howie Liu shares what it means to “refound” a company, how speed comes from tearing up old playbooks, and why c...
8 Sep 20251h 7min
Inside the Mind of the World’s Most Optimistic CEO
For Bill McDermott, work has never been just a job.On this Labor Day rerun of Grit, first published Jan 9, 2023, the ServiceNow CEO reflects on what he learned from his earliest jobs and how he carrie...
1 Sep 20251h 9min
How Dropbox Beat Big Tech in the Cloud Wars
How do you win when your competitors are the biggest companies in the world?This week on Grit, Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston retraces the path from a bus-stop prototype to competing head-on ...
25 Aug 20251h 32min
Building High-Impact Sales Teams | Dan Lee and Nooks
Even with AI, sales still comes down to human connection. This week on Grit, Dan Lee shares how Nooks automates busywork like research and dialing for thousands of sales teams, letting reps focus on t...
18 Aug 202558min
Shishir Mehrotra on Building Tools Creators Love
What if your tools shared context like your team does?This week on Grit, Shishir Mehrotra shares how the Coda and Grammarly collaboration unlocks context as a “superpower,” reflects on his early days ...
11 Aug 20251h 29min
