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
Midi Health CEO on closing the menopause care gap
Masters of Scale
August 6, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Fundraising & VC
6
Physical health & longevity
5
A 2001 study wrongly halted hormone therapy for 20 years
10% of women quit their jobs because of untreated menopause symptoms
Women founders undersell scale — pitch the billion-dollar story first
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Brian Grazer built a curiosity-driven network that scaled
Masters of Scale
August 1, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Communication
6
One hour with a professor beat four years of college.
Refusing to hand papers to an assistant launched a Hollywood career.
A meeting with ODB led directly to producing 8 Mile.
Founder interviews
Podcast
From Barstool to Food52: Erika Ayers Badan on community, attention, and saying no
Masters of Scale
July 30, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Content marketing
6
Business models
5
Barstool grew from $5M to $300M by betting on personality over polish.
Reaction beats perfection: 830 comments on Fluff-in-Coke vs. six on cheesecake.
Saying no fast is a leadership skill — yes to everything means doing nothing.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Asking questions that scale, with AG1's Kat Cole
Masters of Scale
July 25, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Management
7
Business models
5
Scaling requires asking better questions, not applying the same answers everywhere
The hotshot rule: imagine someone you admire in your seat and act on one insight weekly
Protect core products while sequencing channel expansion to avoid diluting brand premium positioning
How pattern-breaking founders identify inflections and build movements
Masters of Scale
July 18, 2024
Niche selection
9
Founder interviews
8
Identity & self-belief
6
Inflections are the founder's weapon — not just a threat to incumbents.
Force a choice, not a comparison: polarising ideas beat universally liked ones.
AI is a sea change to mass cognition, but most startups lack structural insight.
How Liquid Death turned water into a $1.4B brand
Masters of Scale
July 11, 2024
Case studies
9
Growth hacking
7
Business models
6
Why the product name itself was Liquid Death's entire marketing budget
Zero North American co-packers could can spring water — until Austria
Punk DIY culture as a direct blueprint for bootstrapped brand-building
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Ron Howard on evolving your creative vision through constant change
Masters of Scale
July 4, 2024
Why constraints are leverage, not limits, for realising your vision
How a failed streaming startup directly spawned Arrested Development
Saying no to powerful partners who pull you away from your core vision
AI strategy & adoption
Podcast
Grammarly CEO on trust, AI, and the future of knowledge work
Masters of Scale
June 27, 2024
AI strategy & adoption
9
Founder interviews
7
Iteration & feedback loops
5
More AI content without better synthesis tools deepens information overload
User voice and agency are hard constraints, not optional product features
Open-sourcing sensitive-text detection lets the whole industry raise safety standards
Founder interviews
Podcast
Slutty Vegan founder Pinky Cole on building a brand-first vegan chain
Masters of Scale
June 25, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Branding
8
Resilience & grit
7
70% of Slutty Vegan customers are meat eaters — that's the strategy
Why stepping away from your own company is the hardest founder lesson
Surviving as every other vegan chain closes around you
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Noah Kagan built AppSumo to $100M without Silicon Valley rules
Masters of Scale
June 20, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
8
Business models
7
Why slow, organic growth outperformed every hypergrowth attempt at AppSumo
Calculate your 'freedom number' before you quit your job — not after
One Dropbox giveaway drove 250K signups by noon — worth $50M in acquisition
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Cornerstone scaled from near-bankruptcy to a $5.2 billion exit
Masters of Scale
June 13, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
6
Exit strategy
5
Walking out of an AOL deal saved the company from the dot-com crash.
Hiring into 9/11 and 2008 crises — not hibernating — drove 60% growth.
A loan shark bridged the final $100k payroll gap in 2005.
Founder interviews
Podcast
James Dyson on iteration, naivety, and technology-led expansion
Masters of Scale
June 6, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Business models
7
Iteration & feedback loops
7
5,126 failures before success — why one change at a time works
Let technology choose your next product, not market research
Hire for naivety: experienced people know why things won't work
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Routines vs. habits: building structure to enable flexibility
Masters of Scale
June 1, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
5
Habits are on autopilot; routines are intentional but flexible—both free cognitive bandwidth for complex decisions.
Predictable daily structure builds cognitive control and creativity, not chaos.
Schedule loosely held routines with built-in wiggle room; flexibility over time beats rigid structure.
How QuestBridge scaled college access for low-income students
Masters of Scale
May 30, 2024
Case studies
10
Pivoting
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Why QuestBridge had to kill its beloved original program to scale
Convincing elite colleges to offer unconditional four-year full scholarships
How QuestBridge accidentally reshaped university admissions practices nationwide
Founder interviews
Podcast
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev on meme stocks, maturity, and market disruption
Masters of Scale
May 28, 2024
Founder interviews
9
Business models
8
Fundraising & VC
6
24-hour trading meant Robinhood was first to see the meme stock revival
Going public forced faster diversification than staying private ever would
Childhood hyperinflation in Bulgaria shaped Tenev's entire financial philosophy