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
Human dignity as a driver of scale: Promise CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins
Masters of Scale
June 21, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Business models
7
Pricing strategy
6
Poor people repay at 93% when given flexible payment plans
Dignity-first design means fewer support calls, not warmer feelings
Walking out on a corrupt sheriff client saved the company
Work-life balance
Podcast
Above all else, invest in friendship
Masters of Scale
June 18, 2022
Work-life balance
7
Identity & self-belief
6
Real friends reveal your blind spots and expand your worldview
The right friend at the right moment redirects your entire path
Helping friends deepens your sense of purpose and belonging
How Kathryn Finney is building equitable entrepreneurship from the ground up
Masters of Scale
June 9, 2022
Case studies
9
Fundraising & VC
8
Business models
6
VCs drove up Black founders' valuations — then blamed them for the fallout
$100 microgrant turned into $100k in sales; speed beats bureaucracy
Fewer than 11 Black women had raised $1M in VC funding as of 2016
How Sheryl Sandberg scaled Google and Facebook by breaking plans
Masters of Scale
June 7, 2022
Management
9
Long-term planning
8
Delegation
7
Why clinging to early plans is the biggest leadership failure at scale.
Make people safe to tell you when you're wrong — or they won't.
Keep mission constant; break everything else as fast as needed.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Moderna's network of collaborators enabled the COVID-19 vaccine
Masters of Scale
May 31, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Culture building
6
Pivoting
5
Bancel's decade-built network let him spot the pandemic weeks before his own team.
Moderna designed the COVID vaccine in 10 minutes using mRNA software-like technology.
A deliberate two-week delay ensured the vaccine worked for all ethnic groups.
How a first-time event organiser built a global benefit concert for Ukraine in six weeks
Masters of Scale
May 26, 2022
Case studies
10
Management
6
Pivoting
5
Cold calls alone secured Pink Floyd, streaming partners, and 100 volunteers.
Setting a $10M target — not $3M — was a deliberate tactic to attract bigger names.
Shared purpose replaced management: no egos, no friction, fast decisions.
Long-term planning
Podcast
How Moderna built its mRNA platform by treating risk as a discipline
Masters of Scale
May 24, 2022
Long-term planning
9
Case studies
7
Management
6
Stéphane accepted a 5% success chance because the upside was permanent.
Building the mRNA OS first meant saying no to VCs and early IPO.
Pharma avoids risk by default — Moderna made risk-taking a cultural principle.
PwC's $2.4 billion bet on employee choice as a business driver
Masters of Scale
May 19, 2022
Culture building
9
Management
8
Business models
7
Giving employees radical choice over work drives client performance, not undermines it.
Demographic data shows the talent shortage is structural, not a temporary power shift.
Playing it safe is the real culture risk — short-term metrics mask long-term erosion.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Bill Ford on refounding a 120-year-old company from the inside
Masters of Scale
May 17, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Management
7
Pivoting
6
Middle management, not executives, is where change actually dies
Ford mortgaged its own blue oval to avoid the 2008 bankruptcy
Electrifying the F-150 was a deliberate internal and external signal
Bill Ford: how a company lifer drives transformation from within
Masters of Scale
May 10, 2022
Culture building
9
Founder interviews
7
Vision & mission
6
An insider can refound a company — outsiders aren't required
Every green initiative needs a business case to silence naysayers
Ground-level contacts give leaders the honest truth hierarchy hides
Customer discovery
Podcast
Do things that don't scale: Building Airbnb
Masters of Scale
May 3, 2022
Customer discovery
9
MVP & prototyping
8
Vision & mission
5
Spend early growth obsessing over a handful of users, not millions.
Manually build until it breaks, then automate the most painful step.
Design the absurdly perfect experience, then work backward to what scales.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Chief built a national network for senior executive women
Masters of Scale
April 21, 2022
Founder interviews
10
Culture building
6
Pivoting
5
Senior executive women lack community — Chief was built to fix that
A pandemic that threatened the model tripled community engagement instead
Hybrid work is an opportunity for women only if companies act with intention
Founder interviews
Podcast
Running a startup through war: lessons from a Ukrainian founder
Masters of Scale
April 14, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Management
7
Cash flow management
6
How a strong mission kept a team working through daily bomb sirens
Cash reserves and US clients were the financial lifeline in wartime
Buying Ukrainian products is a direct, actionable form of support
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Five surprising ways to rethink your hiring
Masters of Scale
April 12, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
7
Hire for cultural fit and long-term vision, not just immediate availability.
Build your own talent by developing generalists into specialized roles over time.
Remove geographic barriers to access the world's best candidates, not just local ones.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Chobani scaled by investing in community and co-ownership
Masters of Scale
April 5, 2022
Founder interviews
9
Culture building
8
Bootstrapping
6
Chobani hit $1B revenue with zero outside investment
Giving equity to 2,000 workers turned employees into co-owners
Replicating community culture at a new plant requires starting over