Pixar’s Ed Catmull: Throw out your rules
There's no perfect process for achieving your goals. Accepting that the rules you play by need to be constantly tweaked, hacked or reinvented will open you up to new ways of innovating. Instilling thi...
5 Dec 202347min
Rapid Response: Navigating a leadership crisis, w/Web Summit CEO Katherine Maher
How do you restore confidence after a high-profile leadership uproar? Web Summit’s new CEO Katherine Maher joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to discuss taking over after the sudden, forced resignat...
30 Nov 202326min
Remix: Scott Harrison & charity: water, 5 years later
In the five years since Scott Harrison’s first appearance on Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman, the nonprofit organization he founded, charity: water, has scaled 5 times over. In this episode, he and...
28 Nov 202330min
Bumble’s Whitney Wolfe Herd: Small changes with big impact
Often a small tweak, a rethink of a feature, is what helps your product break out of the pack. Just ask the founder of the Bumble dating app, Whitney Wolfe Herd. She rebounded from one dating app star...
21 Nov 202339min
Sam Altman: Customer love is all you need
The true seed of scale is customer love, which you can’t buy, hack, or game. Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator, scaled countless start-ups by focusing on this one idea: Finding 100 users wh...
20 Nov 202340min
Rapid Response: GaryVee wants your attention, w/VaynerMedia’s Gary Vaynerchuk
In our attention economy, what does it take to capture the cultural zeitgeist? VaynerMedia’s Gary Vaynerchuk – or GaryVee – joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to preach the need for widespread empat...
16 Nov 202333min
Tap into collective genius, w/Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code & Moms First
What happens when you tap into the collective genius of a diverse group? Does the cross-pollination of ideas let you create something greater than the sum of its parts?The real magic happens when you ...
14 Nov 202336min
Rapid Response: Your pandemic business takeaways are wrong, with co-authors Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean
Kick the conventional wisdom. In this episode of Rapid Response, Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera sit down with Bob Safian to discuss their book, The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who Americ...
9 Nov 202323min
