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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How independent retailers out-compete big-box stores using shared scale
Masters of Scale
December 8, 2022
Business models
9
Case studies
8
Processes & SOPs
6
Small retailers' fragmentation is a structural advantage, not a weakness
Faire's net-60 terms and pooled data give Main Street the tools of giants
Doubling a retailer's margin from 3% to 6% can double their take-home pay
Founder interviews
Podcast
How VIPKID built and rebuilt incentives to scale globally
Masters of Scale
December 6, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Pivoting
8
Business models
6
Why incentives must be rebalanced continuously, not set once
How manufactured scarcity and teacher referrals unlocked 100,000 teachers
Rebuilding a $3.5B business after a government policy wiped out the market
Business leadership in crisis: Twitter, Disney, FTX, and what comes next
Masters of Scale
November 30, 2022
Management
9
Long-term planning
7
AI strategy & adoption
5
Why Musk's Twitter layoffs are the perfect model of what not to do
FTX lacked a board — the governance failure investors should have prevented
How to keep sustainability commitments alive when budgets collapse
Disney's brand ecosystem strategy: how Iger managed acquisitions and growth
Masters of Scale
November 26, 2022
Business models
9
Case studies
7
Branding
6
Keep acquired brands separate — never let Disney dilute Marvel or Star Wars.
Shanghai Disneyland: authentically Disney, but deliberately, distinctly Chinese.
Disney Plus firewalled mature Fox content so streaming didn't corrupt the brand.
How Bob Iger turned Disney acquisitions into a lasting ecosystem
Masters of Scale
November 23, 2022
Business models
9
Culture building
8
Case studies
7
Preserve the acquired company's culture — or destroy what you paid for
Bob's three priorities: branded content, technology, global scale
Why Steve Jobs vouching for Bob closed the Marvel deal
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
How Yo-Yo Ma built the Silk Road Ensemble from scratch
Masters of Scale
November 21, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Management
8
Case study
6
Mission-driven recruiting beats job descriptions — passion is the filter.
Language barriers dissolved within days through shared musical work.
Too much control kills innovation; live performance demands productive chaos.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Don't chase unicorns: why resilient "dragon" startups win
Masters of Scale
November 17, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Business operating systems
6
Resilience & grit
5
Unicorn valuations are paper — dragons survive on unit economics
Cash runway first, then offense: a two-step crisis framework
Wartime CEOs thrive on uncertainty; peacetime CEOs shouldn't pretend otherwise
Phil Knight on building Nike's brand through identity and authenticity
Masters of Scale
November 15, 2022
Origin stories
9
Branding
7
Pivoting
5
Why the best sales pitch is one where the idea sells itself
How a near-fatal split from Onitsuka forced Nike to build its own brand
Kaepernick, banned Jordans, Beatles lawsuits: controversy as deliberate strategy
Why female leadership traits are a competitive advantage for everyone
Masters of Scale
November 10, 2022
Management
8
Business models
5
Diverse businesses are measurably more profitable — not an ethics question.
Empathy and vulnerability are competitive weapons, not soft skills.
Female founders get 2% of VC dollars despite outperforming in crises.
Warby Parker: building brand from the inside out and customer experience from the outside in
Masters of Scale
November 8, 2022
Origin stories
10
Branding
8
Customer discovery
6
Luxury eyewear was priced 10x above production cost — ripe for disruption
Home try-on program inverted e-commerce trust: Warby trusted customers first
A converted school bus revealed which cities were ready for permanent stores
Founder interviews
Podcast
Waypoints as a scaling tool: lessons from Aurora's Chris Urmson
Masters of Scale
November 1, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Long-term planning
8
Pivoting
6
Why waypoints are about maximising learning speed, not eliminating risk
How Aurora shifted to trucking — not a pivot, a smarter waypoint
Merging two AV teams: the org-structure mistake that cost both leaders
Founder interviews
Podcast
Patience and speed: how Tory Burch built a billion-dollar brand
Masters of Scale
October 25, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
7
Culture building
6
Why patience and speed aren't opposites — they're a sequence.
Tory Burch held her foundation idea for 15 years before going public.
Pulling from department stores and waiting on China protected the brand.
How great cultures are built and rebuilt: lessons from Angela Ahrendts, Dara Khosrowshahi, and Eric Schmidt
Masters of Scale
October 22, 2022
Case studies
10
Culture building
7
You have six to nine months to change a culture — or you're stuck.
Uber's CEO told staff: we don't have a PR problem, we have an us problem.
Crowdsourcing culture gets average opinions, not distinctive ones.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Scaling social impact alongside business: Howard Schultz and Starbucks
Masters of Scale
October 18, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Culture building
8
Business models
7
Embedding conscience from day one is a competitive advantage, not a cost.
Nine losing years in China reversed by extending benefits to employees' parents.
Every social initiative must be engineered to be cost-neutral or better.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Five ways to build your tolerance for risk
Masters of Scale
October 4, 2022
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Business models
5
Understand risk as a spectrum, not binary choice; use data to reduce uncertainty.
Commit fully to chosen bets once assessed; half measures kill startups.
Align your team and ground decisions in principles to unlock collective risk capacity.