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
How Diane Greene built VMware by following ideas sideways
Masters of Scale
November 10, 2017
Founder interviews
9
Pivoting
7
Vision & mission
6
Scalable ideas rarely come head-on — learn to spot them sideways.
VMware found its market by chasing pain, not a master plan.
Greene named the cloud 'Elastic Sky' years before the term existed.
How PayPal escaped competition using exponential growth
Masters of Scale
November 8, 2017
Business models
9
Growth hacking
7
Origin stories
6
Winning competitions makes you excellent at the wrong things
7% daily user growth from 24 people beat eBay's payment product
Burn $10M/month to outrun rivals — profitability can wait
Seven lesser-known laws of leadership
Masters of Scale
August 26, 2017
Management
9
Delegation
8
Work-life balance
5
Think big while executing today—future billions and daily user impact
Delegate ruthlessly when you scale; your job multiplies through others
Build teams of cognitive opposites who complement your weaknesses
How smart founders decide which fires to let burn
Masters of Scale
July 19, 2017
Pivoting
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
5
Ignoring some fires is a deliberate growth strategy, not neglect
Assign probability and severity to risks — fix only fatal ones now
SurveyMonkey had no database backup; fixing it fast saved the business
Ten commandments of startup success from Reid Hoffman and Tim Ferriss
Masters of Scale
July 5, 2017
Culture building
8
MVP & prototyping
7
Hiring & recruitment
7
Rejections are data — a squirmy no signals you're onto something real.
Do things that don't scale first: hand-craft the experience for your first users.
Move fast, but build stable infrastructure before speed breaks everything.
How Google built a culture of managed innovation chaos
Masters of Scale
June 7, 2017
Culture building
9
Management
7
Case studies
5
Why tolerating insubordination is the secret to Google's success
20% time's hidden power: a check on management overreach
Instincts are right 95% of the time; specific ideas only 25%
Hiring & recruitment
Podcast
Leading through scale: lessons from Sheryl Sandberg at Google and Facebook
Masters of Scale
May 31, 2017
Hiring & recruitment
9
Culture building
9
Management
8
Why your team's silence means you're already the bottleneck
Hiring for roles that never existed before requires abandoning prior experience
Mission is the one plan leaders must never break
Founder interviews
Podcast
Why shipping imperfect products faster beats waiting for perfect ones
Masters of Scale
May 24, 2017
Founder interviews
10
Iteration & feedback loops
8
Business operating systems
5
Embarrassment at launch is a feature, not a bug.
Facebook ran 10,000 simultaneous product versions to learn faster.
Users can't predict their own reactions — so ship and watch.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Tristan Walker built a company by listening to rejection
Masters of Scale
May 17, 2017
Founder interviews
9
Niche selection
6
Pitching investors
5
A polarised investor reaction signals a genuinely big idea
Multi-blade razors made shaving worse for an entire demographic
One sharp endorsement outweighs a crowd of dismissals
Why founders should raise more capital than they think they need
Masters of Scale
May 10, 2017
Fundraising & VC
9
Origin stories
7
Resilience & grit
6
Unknown costs always exceed the plan — budget as if you have half
Taking capital right before Lehman collapsed saved Minted from extinction
Post-bust conservatism is a founder's curse, not a virtue
Customer discovery
Podcast
How to handcraft your product before you scale
Masters of Scale
May 3, 2017
Customer discovery
9
MVP & prototyping
7
Iteration & feedback loops
6
The only way to scale is to first do unscalable things like meeting every user one-by-one
Hand-serving customers reveals the product features they actually need to evangelize
Design the extreme experience backwards to find the magical-yet-doable sweet spot