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
Danny Meyer on surviving Covid, inflation, and the next Shake Shack
Masters of Scale
September 29, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Culture building
7
Vision & mission
6
Inflation did what minimum-wage policy couldn't: permanently raised hospitality wages
Suppliers voided contracts mid-term — unprecedented in 37 years of running restaurants
Why entrepreneurs with the right idea face a golden age right now
How Zillow stays the course when the housing market turns
Masters of Scale
September 22, 2022
Pivoting
9
Long-term planning
9
Culture building
5
Why chasing every market shift leaves you behind when it recovers
Zillow killed iBuying — and partnered out the risk instead
One-click home touring doesn't exist yet — Zillow is building it
How EVgo is building America's fast-charging network for electric vehicles
Masters of Scale
September 15, 2022
Business models
9
Scaling infrastructure
8
Pricing strategy
6
Why a charging station takes 18 months to build, not weeks
Charge while you shop: placing stations where drivers already stop
Federal climate legislation changes the investment math for EV infrastructure
Satya Nadella on refounding Microsoft through culture reset
Masters of Scale
September 13, 2022
Culture building
10
Case studies
8
Identity & self-belief
5
Eliminating stack ranking restored trust and unlocked team performance
Insider refounders can reset culture without needing an outsider mandate
Microsoft's OpenAI bet reversed decades of monopoly-era competitive thinking
How World Central Kitchen served 150 million meals in a war zone
Masters of Scale
September 8, 2022
Management
9
Scaling infrastructure
8
Resilience & grit
6
Skip the planning meeting — deploy, adapt, and build the plan on the ground.
6,000 Ukrainians feeding Ukrainians scaled faster than any imported system could.
Flat organizations outperform hierarchies when conditions change by the hour.
Business operating systems
Podcast
AWS CEO Adam Selipsky on scale, sustainability, and staying scrappy
Masters of Scale
August 25, 2022
Business operating systems
9
Culture building
8
Case studies
6
Only 10% of workloads have migrated to cloud — it's barely begun.
Amazon's carbon intensity improved even as absolute emissions grew.
Scale creates obligation: 29M people trained, $2B in housing equity.
Balancing creative experimentation and purposeful direction to scale ideas
Masters of Scale
August 16, 2022
Vision & mission
9
Case studies
8
Management
6
Why asking 'why' before 'what' separates great products from expensive failures.
How Steve Jobs used strategic commitment, not chaos, to ship the iPod.
Turning a neglected thermostat into a desirable gift by caring about the problem.
How Target played offense during its 2022 inventory crisis
Masters of Scale
August 11, 2022
Pivoting
9
Management
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Taking a full inventory hit in one quarter beats dragging it across four
Pandemic years built organisational agility that enabled an eight-hour decision
Culture outperformed strategy as Target's primary competitive advantage
Bill Gates on how Microsoft identified and accelerated technology inflection points
Masters of Scale
August 9, 2022
Origin stories
9
Business models
7
Spotting an inflection point isn't enough — you must actively accelerate it.
Microsoft survived by planning for IBM's exit six years before it happened.
Missing the internet nearly killed Windows; an all-in pivot saved it.
Five ways to burnout-proof your organization
Masters of Scale
August 2, 2022
Culture building
9
Management
7
Work-life balance
6
Spot burnout hidden in high-performer productivity before it causes attrition
Leaders must communicate two-way: send clarity, actively seek frontline truth
Hire before you break; delegation at inflection points prevents solo-founder collapse
Business leadership in turbulent times: Russia, crypto, democracy, and work
Masters of Scale
July 26, 2022
Pivoting
9
Management
8
Fundraising & VC
6
Why pulling out of Russia is a moral threshold, not just a values statement
Crypto bulls and bears are both right — and why that matters
Threatening democracy is directly bad for business investment and talent
Founder interviews
Podcast
Drive full speed at opportunity: AKQA founder Ajaz Ahmed on speed and signals
Masters of Scale
July 19, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Pivoting
6
Saying yes to vague opportunities led Ajaz to Desmond Tutu's life-changing advice.
Pre-building prototypes before pitching turned AKQA from obscure startup to Nike's agency.
The dot-com crash was a launchpad: AKQA raised $71M and went international while rivals froze.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How to harness factions to unite and scale your organization
Masters of Scale
July 12, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Culture building
7
Management
6
Factions turn powerful when aimed at the market, not each other
Cisco's Spin-In model: captive startups funded inside the parent company
Stress comes from workplace toxicity, not how busy a team is
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Ameelio is rebuilding criminal justice with free prison tech
Masters of Scale
June 30, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Business models
9
Fundraising & VC
7
Families pay nothing — attorneys and DOCs fund the model instead
Family contact is the cheapest recidivism intervention available
Cold emails to Jack Dorsey and Reid Hoffman actually worked
How Michael Dell built a tech giant by deconstructing everything
Masters of Scale
June 28, 2022
Origin stories
9
Business models
8
Supply chain
7
IBM's $500 PC sold for $3,000 — Dell fixed that.
Selling direct without retail gave better customer insight.
Going private unlocked a $67B transformation public markets couldn't stomach.