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
Sophia Amoruso on building identity brands and learning to lead
Masters of Scale
October 3, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Branding
8
Culture building
6
Starting on accident can get you far — but it doesn't scale.
Peak brand: customers tattoo your logo because they identify with it.
Make the implicit explicit early — or your team will guess, badly.
The Blacklist expands from Hollywood scripts to unpublished novels
Masters of Scale
October 1, 2024
Business models
9
Case studies
8
Bootstrapping
6
Hollywood's risk assumptions are wrong — and fixing them unlocks $30B+
Blacklist scripts earn 90% more revenue than comparable non-Blacklist films
Novelists can now reach publishers and film producers through one platform
Unheard moments from Masters of Scale's first Summit
Masters of Scale
September 26, 2024
Management
7
Case studies
6
Resilience & grit
5
Leaders share crisis playbooks: managing psychology, decisiveness rooted in principles.
Creative scaling requires constant risk-taking and comfort with broken work.
Breakthrough ideas spread fastest when leaders act before permission arrives.
Long-term planning
Podcast
EA's path to a billion gamers: AI, community, and the future of entertainment
Masters of Scale
September 24, 2024
Long-term planning
10
Business models
9
AI strategy & adoption
6
AI cut a three-year dev cycle to make 11,000 real college athletes possible
EA's FIFA exit shows owning your brand beats sharing it
Gaming IP will rival Marvel within a decade — Wilson explains why
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
How emotion AI and human-centered design will shape the future of AI
Masters of Scale
September 19, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
9
Founder interviews
6
Niche selection
5
AI needs EQ, not just IQ, to earn real trust
AI as amplifier: a GP and tutor for everyone
Agentic AI requires transparency, memory, and emotional context
David Novak on learning from failure and building culture at scale
Masters of Scale
September 12, 2024
Culture building
9
Case studies
7
Resilience & grit
5
Why Crystal Pepsi failed: ignoring bottler feedback killed repeat purchase
Cool Ranch Doritos came from the salad dressing aisle, not the snack aisle
Publicly rewarding truth-tellers is what makes candour culturally safe
Long-term planning
Podcast
Why the decisions we make today will shape humanity for centuries
Masters of Scale
September 10, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Resilience & grit
6
Decision-making
5
Your brain treats your future self like a stranger.
AI is being built for ads, not planetary flourishing.
Three practices that make long-term thinking a daily habit.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Alli Webb on building Drybar, selling at the right time, and starting again
Masters of Scale
September 5, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Business models
6
Selling the product line weeks before COVID saved the business
Doing one thing better than anyone beats expanding into everything
Running franchise and company-owned stores in parallel is harder than it looks
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Reddit balances free expression with community health
Masters of Scale
August 29, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Business models
7
Management
6
Downvotes suppress extremism better than any content moderation team
Over-controlling the message creates the very distrust you're trying to fix
Reddit ran shadow earnings calls two years before its IPO — and it worked
How Campus is fixing community college with online live instruction
Masters of Scale
August 27, 2024
Business models
9
Origin stories
7
Fundraising & VC
6
68% of community college students drop out — Campus fixes that
Better graduation rates raise revenue, making student support self-funding
Sam Altman closed a deal in four days; Shaq has a doctorate
Founder interviews
Podcast
Blitzscaling bourbon: How Fawn Weaver built Uncle Nearest whiskey
Masters of Scale
August 22, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Pivoting
7
PR & media
6
Built a billion-dollar spirits brand in an industry where growth takes decades, not years.
Navigated entrenched distribution monopolies and racism to launch first African-American-commemorated bourbon.
Used radical strategy—50 states in two years—to unlock press coverage competitors couldn't access.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Van Jones on AI access, politics, and the Dream Machine initiative
Masters of Scale
August 20, 2024
Founder interviews
9
AI strategy & adoption
7
Culture building
5
The AI barrier for minorities is mindset, not hardware access
Technologists, not politicians, are building the next civilisation
Elon Musk went from Andrew Yang supporter to Trump-aligned oligarch
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Leah Solivan built TaskRabbit and sold it to IKEA
Masters of Scale
August 15, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
7
Business models
6
Ask investors what they have earmarked for you — not just competitors
IKEA furniture assembly was TaskRabbit's top task from day one
Bringing in a CEO too early nearly derailed the company
Founder interviews
Podcast
Susan Wojcicki on finding and keeping true north at scale
Masters of Scale
August 14, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Vision & mission
8
Why Google built AdWords from scratch with zero ad experience
Optimising for watch-time unlocked a billion hours — and a moderation crisis
True north only counts if you follow it when it hurts
Founder interviews
Podcast
Bret Taylor on AI strategy, OpenAI governance, and building enduring companies
Masters of Scale
August 8, 2024
Founder interviews
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
Waiting for AI to be perfect means learning after your competitor already won.
AI widens the talent gap — top performers get superhuman leverage, others fall behind.
OpenAI's board chair on navigating a governance crisis and being a fiduciary to humanity.