Masters of Scale
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Masters of Scale is an entrepreneurship podcast about scaling companies, navigating leadership, and learning from experienced founders and executives.
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Founder interviews
Podcast
How Todd Graves built Raising Cane's into a billion-dollar single-item brand
Masters of Scale
May 7, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Culture building
7
One menu item, one sauce — and why less beats more at scale
Why private equity's 3-5 year exit horizon destroys restaurant culture
Funded the first restaurant by fishing in Alaska for a summer
Cash flow management
Podcast
Mellody Hobson: run toward volatility, not away from it
Masters of Scale
May 5, 2026
Cash flow management
9
Resilience & grit
7
Financial literacy
6
The stock market bottom is where you should feel safest.
Women's sports: WNBA gets 3% of NBA media money, 15% of viewers.
Never make big life decisions based purely on money.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Poppi's founders built a $2 billion soda brand from scratch
Masters of Scale
April 30, 2026
Founder interviews
10
Social media
7
Pivoting
6
A last-minute Super Bowl floater ad tripled brand awareness overnight
TikTok virality and an Amazon affiliate hack fuelled early hypergrowth
Selling 100% to Pepsi for $2B brought unexpected grief, not just relief
Founder interviews
Podcast
Maria Sharapova on sport, business, and composure under pressure
Masters of Scale
April 28, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Long-term planning
6
Why saying no to deals was Sharapova's sharpest competitive weapon
Only the serve is in your control — everything else is adjustment
Match point intensity is irreplicable, but mental discipline transfers
Founder interviews
Podcast
Reed Hastings on AI, education, and the coming era of abundance
Masters of Scale
April 25, 2026
Founder interviews
10
AI strategy & adoption
8
Pivoting
6
Emotional intelligence will outlast STEM credentials in an AI world.
Radiology shows elastic demand absorbs AI gains — most jobs won't collapse.
Middle-power countries have little leverage; the AI race is US vs China.
How serial founder Eric Ryan builds brands by stealing from distant categories
Masters of Scale
April 23, 2026
Case studies
9
Niche selection
8
Design thinking
6
Steal ideas from far outside your category, never from competitors
Selling a company can shatter founder identity — starting the next one fixes it
Great culture means pairing artists with operators and sharing the full plan
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
Samsung's Design Manifesto for the AI Era
Masters of Scale
April 21, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
8
Design thinking
8
Vision & mission
6
Human-AI blend beats pure automation; originality comes from the interaction.
Four dimensions guide Samsung's vision: live longer, better, loud, and on.
Form and function will flex based on meaning, not enforce uniform minimalism.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Why CEOs need to think like athletes: Byron Deeter on investing and peak performance
Masters of Scale
April 16, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Fundraising & VC
8
Resilience & grit
6
Sleep deprivation is statistically equivalent to running a company drunk.
Back already-great teams — then get out of their way.
Crimes of omission hurt more than failed bets; Bessemer publishes its misses.
LIV Golf's global expansion strategy, with Scott O'Neill
Masters of Scale
April 14, 2026
Business models
9
Founder interviews
7
Fundraising & VC
6
Revenue up 108% last year while expenses rose only 8%
Players hold team equity, making stars genuine business partners
Taking golf's best to 199 countries the PGA Tour ignores
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
Humanizing AI: keeping technology human-centric in the age of machines
Masters of Scale
April 9, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
9
Management
6
AI measures IQ but ignores EQ — and we only build what we measure.
Robots won't take over; they'll absorb jobs humans don't want.
The AI boys club is widening the economic gap for women founders.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Calm CEO David Ko on stress, burnout, and leading with vulnerability
Masters of Scale
April 7, 2026
Founder interviews
9
Management
7
Resilience & grit
6
Why Calm's CEO calls himself the most stressed CEO alive
Good stress is a sprint; burnout is a marathon you won't start
Nearly half of C-suite leaders are stressed but hiding it
How to think faster and talk smarter with Matt Abrahams
Masters of Scale
April 2, 2026
Communication
9
Public speaking
7
Anxiety is evolutionary — manage it with breath work and movement.
Start pitches like an action movie: value first, no preambles.
Listening to paraphrase builds trust faster than any other technique.
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
How AI is reshaping the internet, cybersecurity, and work
Masters of Scale
March 31, 2026
AI strategy & adoption
10
Business models
8
Community building
5
Getting traffic from Anthropic is 65,000x harder than Google once was
AI compresses attacker dwell time from days to minutes
Workers aged 25–40 face the sharpest AI displacement risk
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How to Build a Meaningful Life in an Age of Digital Distraction
Masters of Scale
March 26, 2026
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
6
Work-life balance
5
Meaning—not pleasure or achievement—has cratered since 2008 as the strongest predictor of depression
Tech seduces left-brain problem-solving while erasing boredom and blank space where meaning emerges
Real friendship and calculated risk-taking are essential; virtual relationships and tech distraction guarantee emptiness
Strait of Hormuz crisis, oil shocks, and the $160 billion tariff refund window
Masters of Scale
March 24, 2026
Supply chain
8
AI strategy & adoption
7
Cash flow management
6
Air freight prices doubled; fertilizer shortage threatens global food supply
94% of businesses owed tariff refunds haven't filed — deadline clock is ticking
AI cut Flexport's customs error rate from 1.8% to 0.2% — operators beat pure SaaS