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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MVP & prototyping
Podcast
Eric Ries on build, measure, learn and the lean startup method
Masters of Scale
June 16, 2020
MVP & prototyping
9
Pivoting
8
Iteration & feedback loops
7
Six months of wasted code taught Eric Ries to ship sooner
Pivoting means changing route, never destination
Why public markets punish the long-term thinking companies need
Founder interviews
Podcast
GM's Mary Barra on speed, crisis response, and lasting change
Masters of Scale
June 13, 2020
Founder interviews
10
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
6
GM built a working ventilator line from scratch in one month.
Bureaucracy slows companies — distinguishing approval from awareness fixes it.
Crisis-era speed only sticks if people are empowered to act without sign-off.
Cash flow management
Podcast
BuzzFeed's Jonah Peretti on surviving record audience growth with collapsing ad revenue
Masters of Scale
June 6, 2020
Cash flow management
9
Pivoting
8
Business models
7
Record traffic meant nothing when all your advertisers are physical businesses
Why founder-led companies have a structural edge in a crisis
Big tech's free-content strategy is now their biggest misinformation liability
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Navigate crises by building networks and seizing emerging opportunities
Masters of Scale
June 3, 2020
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
6
In chaos, established patterns break—exploit the openings for emerging opportunities.
Build networks early; their compounding value over decades determines career trajectory.
Seek roles at industry hubs where smart people and momentum concentrate.
Danny Meyer on reviving restaurants after the pandemic shutdown
Masters of Scale
May 30, 2020
Case studies
9
Long-term planning
7
Cash flow management
6
Full-service restaurants can't survive below 80% capacity
Percentage rent replaces fixed rent to keep landlords and restaurants viable
PPP forgiveness rules make loans a potential death sentence for restaurants
Business operating systems
Podcast
How One Medical's operational DNA enabled rapid COVID-19 response
Masters of Scale
May 28, 2020
Business operating systems
9
Business models
7
Case studies
5
Standardized daily operations let One Medical scale testing overnight
Symptom questionnaires predict COVID better than temperature checks alone
US primary care gets half the investment of peer nations — and it shows
A masterclass in crowdsourcing with Duolingo's Luis von Ahn
Masters of Scale
May 26, 2020
Business models
9
Customer discovery
7
Growth hacking
6
Perfect mission alignment between company and crowd turns free labor into sustainable scale.
Crowdsourcing solves problems easy for humans, hard for computers—reCAPTCHA digitized books in seconds.
Duolingo's 50,000 volunteer course creators prove shared purpose outperforms paid teams.
How Warby Parker navigated the COVID-19 crisis with Neil Blumenthal
Masters of Scale
May 23, 2020
Case studies
9
Pivoting
7
Processes & SOPs
6
Why closing all 120 stores at once was the only rational move
COVID accelerated consumer behavior shifts by three to five years
How to lead and over-communicate when reliable data doesn't exist
Leading through crisis: LifeWay Foods CEO Julie Smolyansky on gut instinct and pandemic response
Masters of Scale
May 21, 2020
Management
9
Supply chain
7
Resilience & grit
6
Stockpiled seven weeks of inventory before U.S. panic buying hit
Personal refugee history shaped faster crisis instincts than any algorithm
Why boards should put more women in leadership roles right now
How Angela Ahrendts united Apple's global retail team
Masters of Scale
May 19, 2020
Culture building
9
Communication
7
Management
6
Weekly unedited iPhone videos built trust with 70,000 retail employees
Reframing stores as a community OS unlocked a new leadership mandate
Giving managers local ownership turned employees into mission advocates
How Verizon's CEO led through COVID-19 without a playbook
Masters of Scale
May 16, 2020
Management
9
Business operating systems
6
Verizon retrained 20,000 employees and moved 115,000 remote in two weeks.
Disconnecting customers during a crisis costs far more than lost revenue.
COVID permanently broke barriers to telemedicine and remote education.
How Angela Ahrendts united global teams at Burberry and Apple
Masters of Scale
May 12, 2020
Culture building
9
Communication
7
Founder interviews
6
A logo alone won't align a team — mission and human contact will.
Confronting resistant executives directly unlocked Burberry's double-digit growth.
An unedited iPhone video beat 70,000-person email for building trust.
Crisis lessons from an ER doctor on the COVID front lines
Masters of Scale
May 7, 2020
Processes & SOPs
8
Management
7
Resilience & grit
6
Efficiency without redundancy left hospitals unable to absorb any surge
Hospitals lose money on public health — so they never prepared for pandemics
Twitter replaced journals as real-time clinical guidance when it mattered most
How Panera pivoted its business model during the COVID-19 lockdown
Masters of Scale
April 30, 2020
Pivoting
9
Business models
6
Management
6
Panera launched a grocery business from idea to live in 14 days.
Half a billion in pre-crisis digital investment made the fast pivot possible.
Values-first leadership turned furloughs and food banks into community action.
Crisis leadership lessons from General Stanley McChrystal
Masters of Scale
April 28, 2020
Management
9
Resilience & grit
7
Long-term planning
6
Why admitting you don't have a plan earns more trust than faking certainty
If you have 20 priorities, you have none — real courage is cutting
Organizations run on pre-crisis muscle memory longer than leaders realize