The Grittiest Conversations of 2025: AI, Business & Beyond
In this recap episode, we highlight the best moments from our 2025 interviews and reflect on the ideas that defined the year.Featuring:David Rubenstein (co-founder of Carlyle) Yamini Rangan (CEO of Hu...
29 Dec 202541min
How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader
What happens when AI becomes your most influential referrer?As consumers turn to ChatGPT for answers, James Cadwallader and his team at Profound help brands like Eight Sleep and MongoDB gain visibilit...
22 Dec 202550min
How Snap Plans to Win the AR Race | Evan Spiegel on Spectacles
Turning down a $3B offer from Facebook is a bold move for any young CEO.Evan Spiegel shares how Snap’s early dream was to stay independent and give its community an authentic voice, a bet that proved ...
15 Dec 20251h 11min
The Pull to Build: Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit and Starting Roadrunner
What does it take to go from advising founders to becoming one?On this week’s special Reverse Grit episode, we flip the script and put our Grit podcast host Joubin Mirzadegan in the guest seat.Joubin ...
8 Dec 20251h 14min
Building Cloudflare for the Next 50 Years | Co-founder Cloudfare Michelle Zatlyn
Fifteen years in, it can still feel like “we’re just getting started.”Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder of Cloudflare, returns to Grit with Joubin Mirzadegan to share how Cloudflare secures the internet for...
1 Dec 202558min
She Sold Her Startup for $500 Million, Here’s Her Next Idea
Screens have pulled families apart. Brynn Putnam set out to bring them back together with Board, the world’s ‘first face-to-face game console.’On Grit, she tells Joubin Mirzadegan how every venture sh...
24 Nov 20251h 12min
Synthetic Data and the Future of AI | Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
How do companies like Salesforce and Dell scale intelligence across every cloud?Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere, explains how they’re building AI that works across all enterprise systems and...
17 Nov 20251h 11min
From Yext to Roam: Howard Lerman’s Second Act
The hardest company to build is the one you start after you’ve already succeeded.After scaling Yext into a platform powering millions of businesses, Howard Lerman chose to start over with Roam, the “O...
10 Nov 20251h 25min
