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with Dustin Moskovitz
with Drew Houston
with Daniel Ek
with Brian Chesky
Personal, candid interviews with the most world-changing Founders of all time.
with Craig Newmark
With a wish to build up communities, Craig Newmark built a company with clear community values (and no focus on profit) that brought people together in a way nobody could have imagined.
with Theis Søndergaard
Theis Søndergaard opens up about how trust is everything. Literally.
with Hampus Jakobsson
Brian Chesky shares an open letter he sent to his entire team at Airbnb about why culture is so important in a company — and how to build it.
with Mette Lykke
Mette spills all in how to keep one's head in the game, what to prioritize, and (almost most importantly) how to not lose yourself in the ever tasking race that is entrepreneurialism.
with Christian Lanng
with Andreas Ehn
Andreas shares his experience as the CTO of Spotify, what happened after he left, and his globe trotting (and investing) plans for the future.
with Naveen Jain
Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur and philanthropist driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges through innovation. He is the founder of several successful companies and here he talks about the moon, the education system, the health industry, and more.
with Blake Mycoskie
with Lisa Wang
Lisa Wang, the founder of SheWorx, talks life after your startup acquisition.
with Rand Fishkin
Rand shares stories from launching his first startup Moz, the reason why he founded a second startup - Sparktoro, and talks about his failures and successes with fundraising and venture capital.
with Max Levchin
The billionaire co-founder of Facebook and Asana reflects on his journey — Harvard, why he decided to leave Facebook, and the #1 mistake he's made on his entrepreneurial journey.
with Marc Andreessen
The Co-Founder of Andreessen Horowitz talks about the nature of risk-taking, the hell of his second IPO, and why he was happy to disrupt the venture business.
with Aaron Levie
with Fred Wilson
The Co-founder of Union Square Ventures shares why experience running a company doesn't always make a better Venture Capitalist and how he has learned what doesn't work on the Web.
with Steve Case
The Former AOL Chairman and CEO shares lessons about perseverance and forward-thinking that startups can learn from today.
with Tim Westergren & Tom Conrad
with Neil Blumenthal
The founder of Warby Parker shares secrets of building company culture and why startups should think about branding from the get-go.
with Stewart Butterfield
The founder of Slack talks about how he created Flickr and Slack out of the ashes of failed projects and shares tips for achieving a billion dollar valuation.
with Susan Lyne
with John Zimmer
The Co-Founder of Lyft shares his plans for growth, how his team has intentionally built company culture and finding success in the cut-throat ride sharing industry.
with Jerry Yang
The Co-Founder of Yahoo talks about how he pulled off one of the best investments in tech history, what he’s doing now, and how to win in China.
with Jennifer Justice
with Sallie Krawcheck
The Founder of Ellevest talks about her experiences as one of the most senior and prominent women in the financial world, and why she left Wall Street on a mission to close the gender investing gap.
with Ben Horowitz
The Andreessen Horowitz co-founder shares stories of his early years in Silicon Valley, the Loudcloud "IPO from Hell", his partnership with Marc Andreessen, and lists his top five Silicon Valley founders of all time.
with Sophia Amoruso
with Jonah Peretti
The Co-Founder and CEO of Buzzfeed shares his journey to success, his focus on community, and how he turned viral prankery into a billion dollar empire.
with Sheila Marcelo
The Co-Founder and CEO of Care.com talks about the winding road she took - from a small coconut farm in the Philippines to becoming one of a handful women CEOs leading a publicly traded company.
with Michel Feaster
with Julie Rice & Elizabeth Cutler
The Co-Founders of SoulCycle share how they took their business plan scrawled out on a napkin and scaled it into a spinning phenomenon that is sweeping the nation—one stationary bike at a time.
with Reid Hoffman
The prolific internet entrepreneur and investor shares stories about the hard-fought success at PayPal, discusses his failures and what it was like at the very peak of the dot com bubble.
with Kevin Systrom
with Nirav Tolia
Co-Founder and CEO of Nextdoor, a social network for neighborhoods, talks about being 'out of sync' with the Valley all around him, and how he and his team have handled recent scandals.
with Chad Dickerson
Former CEO of Etsy talks about his unconventional journey at the helm of 1.8M DIY-or-DIE crafters.
with Ben Lerer
Co-founder and CEO of Dropbox talks about his YC experience, funding and the not-so-good times.
Co-founder and CEO of Spotify on passion, persistence and the evolution of streaming music.
with Amy Errett
with Aaron Hirschhorn
Co-founder and CEO of DogVacay on deliberate growth, watching dogs to make ends meet and building a business on trust.
with Tristan Walker
Founder & CEO of Walker & Company on courage, patience, and building things that solve problems.
with Yony Feng
The Co-Founder of Peloton describes how they stunned skeptics and proved a threat to boutique fitness.
with Elon Musk
Today's best tech entrepreneur (and CEO of SpaceX + Tesla) shares his thoughts on crashing cars, saving the planet and running out of runway.
with Andy Dunn
with Marc Nager
The CEO of Startup Weekend helped launch thousands of startups globally. Now he's focused on his own back yard - and yours.
with Derek Andersen
Startup Grind Founder and CEO Derek Andersen explains how he went from starting a business in his garage to beginning a global movement in the startup community.
with David Heinemeier Hansson
with Salim Ismail
Salim Ismail talks about the differences (and benefits) of Linear vs. Exponential Growth, and how using a doubling pattern development with the idea of information enabling is developing ever-adapting human growth.
with Tine Thygesen
Culture is everything in a company. Tine Thygesen talks about soft skills and how they are are, increasingly, a startup’s best card.
with Pascal Finette
with Margaret Atwood
The author of The Handmaids Tale (& ~40 other novels!) shares insights of her entrepreneurial journey, why the end of humanity won't likely be the result of a megalomaniacal tech entrepreneur, and her various screen adaptations that are hitting pop culture at the same time.
