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
Rebuilding Front for the AI Era | CEO Dan O’Connell
The hardest part of transformation is knowing what to let go of.Dan O’Connell, now leading Front as CEO and formerly on the board at Dialpad, joins Joubin Mirzadegan to explore the delicate balance be...
3 Nov 202559min
ElevenLabs’ Vision for Voice Interfaces | CEO Mati Staniszewski
Before AI became a buzzword, a few true believers were already building.Since early 2022, Mati Staniszewski and his team at ElevenLabs have been among them, working to create voices that “actually rep...
27 Okt 20251h 4min
95% Faster Video Production with Synthesia | Victor Riparbelli
What’s product-market fit like when you give people the power to do what they never thought was possible?On this rerun of Grit from April 2024, Victor Riparbelli, co-founder and CEO of Synthesia, shar...
20 Okt 20251h 8min
From Idea To Impact: How Gamma Is Redefining Presentations | Grant Lee
Make your product irresistible, and everything else will follow.That’s the philosophy of Grant Lee, co-founder and CEO of Gamma, an AI design platform with an 'anti-PowerPoint approach', used by over ...
13 Okt 20251h 10min
Leadership Lessons From Snowflake’s Sales & Marketing Duo | Chris Degnan and Denise Persson
Scaling a business globally comes down to leaders who align teams and drive them forward together.Snowflake serves over 12,000 customers, and early executives Chris Degnan and Denise Persson share how...
6 Okt 20251h 23min
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
