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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Long-term planning
Podcast
Marc Andreessen: six insights on timing for entrepreneurs
Masters of Scale
January 4, 2022
Long-term planning
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Timing beats funding, hiring, and competition as your biggest risk.
Good ideas that look bad are the only ones worth pursuing.
Open-mindedness declines naturally — founders must actively fight it.
How Barack Obama built the right team to seize his moment
Masters of Scale
December 21, 2021
Case studies
10
Delegation
8
Vision & mission
7
Why being two years early beats being first at the peak
Flat teams and capped salaries outran better-funded rivals
Listening to community stories — not policy — won every race
Leading a retail brand through pandemic disruption: lessons from Crate & Barrel's CEO
Masters of Scale
December 16, 2021
Vision & mission
9
Supply chain
8
Branding
7
Flexibility over control drove record growth during peak COVID uncertainty
Crate & Barrel was rebooted from a nostalgia brand into a purpose-led home retailer
Labour disruption rivals supply chain disruption — trust is the only fix
Founder interviews
Podcast
GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan on scaling generosity and asking for help
Masters of Scale
December 9, 2021
Founder interviews
9
Communication
7
Processes & SOPs
6
People underestimate others' willingness to help them by half.
For-profit structure delivers 97 cents of every dollar to beneficiaries.
Organising a campaign multiplies your giving impact by 20–25x.
How Paul Polman rebuilt Unilever by redrawing its boundaries
Masters of Scale
December 7, 2021
Pivoting
9
Culture building
7
Pricing strategy
5
Dropping quarterly reporting sent shares down 8% — then built a decade of growth.
Purpose without boundary change is a soapbox speech, not a transformation.
Making every worker a shareholder shifted culture faster than any values program.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Reid Hoffman on AI, the metaverse, great resignation, and big tech
Masters of Scale
November 22, 2021
Founder interviews
9
Business operating systems
8
Management
6
Why engagement metrics — not greed — explain Facebook's real problem
Most tech questions aren't 'if' but 'when' — trailing is often right
The great resignation exposes a broken employer-employee honesty contract
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Aurora James turned a single Instagram post into $10 billion for Black-owned businesses
Masters of Scale
November 18, 2021
Founder interviews
10
Pivoting
7
Business models
6
Why a $1M donation isn't enough — shelf space is the real commitment
Contracts and quarterly audits turn pledges into durable economic change
A $680 average order dropped to $79 overnight — and the pivot that saved the business
How to build a board that navigates your company to scale
Masters of Scale
November 16, 2021
Management
8
Communication
7
Long-term planning
5
The wrong board member breaks companies faster than the right one saves them.
Walkabout board meetings replace decks with honest, peer-witnessed desk conversations.
Board diversity is a strategic radar advantage, not a compliance checkbox.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Peloton navigates safety recalls, supply chains, and societal pressure
Masters of Scale
November 4, 2021
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Supply chain
7
Challenges fuel Peloton's culture more than pandemic tailwinds ever did
Hardware margin hits absorbed by subscription lifetime value
Business leaders filling the gap where governments are failing
Founder interviews
Podcast
A masterclass in crowdsourcing with Luis von Ahn
Masters of Scale
October 19, 2021
Founder interviews
9
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Business models
6
Perfect mission alignment is the foundation—your crowd's motivations must match yours, not conflict with them.
Find Goldilocks problems: tasks too complex for computers, simple enough for humans to complete in 5-10 seconds.
Transparency and legal clarity about how you use crowdsourced effort prevent resentment and build lasting contributor commitment.
How the US Olympic Committee navigates crisis, culture, and institutional change
Masters of Scale
October 14, 2021
Communication
9
Culture building
8
Management
6
Why CEOs must lead through decisions that won't keep everyone happy
Sport's power dynamics make sexual misconduct uniquely dangerous — and fixable
The 2028 LA Games is the USOPC's ESG moment to set global standards
How Care.com used data at every stage to scale
Masters of Scale
October 5, 2021
Business models
9
Case studies
8
Customer discovery
7
Cheap, scrappy data beats expensive surveys at every early stage.
Your personal problem is a starting point, not a scale blueprint.
Serving both sides of a marketplace is a business imperative, not charity.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Scaling tech responsibly: Sridhar Ramaswamy on search, ads, and monopoly power
Masters of Scale
September 30, 2021
Founder interviews
10
Business models
8
Blue ocean strategy
7
Ad-funded search structurally serves advertisers, not users.
1% market share is enough to build a profitable subscription search business.
Companies at government scale are autocratic — and need specialist regulators.
How Indra Nooyi built a PepsiCo where talent could thrive
Masters of Scale
September 28, 2021
Case studies
9
Culture building
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Why transplanting talent into the wrong culture always fails
Spinning out Yum! Brands freed restaurant talent to thrive
Writing to executives' parents unlocked loyalty no perk could buy
Leading a college through COVID, racial reckoning, and reinvention
Masters of Scale
September 23, 2021
Management
8
Case studies
6
Vision & mission
5
Preparation before a crisis hits is what makes rapid response possible
Black women's businesses are the most underfunded — Spelman built a center to fix that
Slow, broad consultation produces decisions that hold when tested under pressure