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
Building a global community in the age of AI
Masters of Scale
October 14, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Vision & mission
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Loneliness is rising as digital connection replaces real belonging and community.
AI is expanding the digital realm; the counter-trend is real, physical human experiences.
Design sensibility—not just engineering—is essential to building the future responsibly.
How Daymond John built FUBU through strategic partnerships
Masters of Scale
October 9, 2025
Origin stories
10
Business models
7
Influencer & partnerships
6
LL Cool J wore FUBU in a Gap ad, costing Gap nothing but FUBU everything
Samsung's textile division saved FUBU after 27 banks said no
Ten shirts, two years, dozens of rap videos — how FUBU faked scale
OLIPOP's path to challenging Coke and Pepsi with functional soda
Masters of Scale
October 7, 2025
Case studies
9
Product-market fit
8
Management
7
Clinical trials back OLIPOP's health claims — not just marketing trends
960% growth in one year forced a brutal leadership evolution
Emotional maturity is the most undervalued skill in hypergrowth companies
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Chomps built a billion-dollar meat snack brand without outside capital
Masters of Scale
October 2, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Bootstrapping
9
Branding
7
Why throttling growth beats chasing capital in early CPG
A cold call from Trader Joe's changed everything overnight
Panel data revealed their real customer was female — not male
How Figma turned a blocked acquisition into a $30 billion IPO
Masters of Scale
September 30, 2025
Case studies
8
AI strategy & adoption
7
Business models
6
Adobe's blocked bid became fuel — Figma IPO'd at double the price.
Good enough is now mediocre; design craft is the only edge left.
We're in the MS-DOS era of AI prompting — better interfaces are coming.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Storytelling, AI investing, and the future of longevity tech with WonderCo
Masters of Scale
September 27, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Market research
7
Product-market fit
6
Why the best founders are storytellers first, technologists second.
Drone light shows, AI note-taking, and cybersecurity: WonderCo's investment logic.
Building a longevity lab to turn science into scalable consumer health products.
How trust works in teams and why the old models are breaking
Masters of Scale
September 25, 2025
Culture building
9
Remote teams
7
AI strategy & adoption
6
Trust hasn't declined — it has redistributed from pyramids to networks
The trust pause has been designed out of modern life by speed and platforms
Disenchanted team members must go; 80% of leaders regret waiting too long
Founder interviews
Podcast
How to find a mentor: lessons from Janice Omadeke's journey
Masters of Scale
September 18, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Business models
6
Prospecting & outreach
6
Treat mentor outreach like a pipeline — map, sequence, and target deliberately.
Ask for 15 minutes as a learner, not a seller; never pitch too early.
Don't build emotional dependency — mentors guide, they don't replace your judgment.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Stephen Colbert and Reid Hoffman on AI, creativity, and human connection
Masters of Scale
September 13, 2025
Founder interviews
10
AI strategy & adoption
7
Resilience & grit
5
AI connection may strip out the micronutrients that make human bonds real.
Discovery beats personalized invention — AI reflects you back, not the unknown.
Access changes everything: inferior AI therapy beats zero therapy for billions.
Founder interviews
Podcast
How a near-death experience reshaped one founder's relationship with fear
Masters of Scale
September 11, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Pivoting
6
The opposite of love is not hate — it's fear.
Omaze pivoted from celebrities to houses, reaching £400m run rate.
A chain of six coincidences kept Poulsen alive after four minutes flatlined.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Betting on product to win in fantasy sports
Masters of Scale
September 4, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Product-market fit
7
Pivoting
6
Underdog won by building different games, not better versions of DraftKings' products
American fans play games and pick players; international sportsbooks designed for teams
Regulatory battles taught the industry to unify and pass clarifying legislation together
How Grab beat Uber and built Southeast Asia's largest super app
Masters of Scale
September 2, 2025
Case studies
9
Business models
8
Product-market fit
6
Grab built its own maps because Uber never would — now Amazon buys them.
A 9-week AI sprint flipped 80% of staff from fear to fluency.
Triple bottom line isn't idealism: a Manila flood hit Grab's revenue directly.
Reid Hoffman and Everette Taylor on building resilient businesses
Masters of Scale
August 28, 2025
Pivoting
9
Founder interviews
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
Market chaos creates entrepreneurial opportunity — disruption enables action
Inaction has its own worst-case scenarios; intelligent risk beats avoiding risk
When stuck as a 'nice to have', diagnose product vs marketing before pivoting
Founder interviews
Podcast
How Runway's CEO thinks about AI video, creativity, and the next media format
Masters of Scale
August 26, 2025
Founder interviews
9
AI strategy & adoption
8
AI video is a new medium — not a shortcut to filmmaking
Runway resets its product roadmap every week to survive
Today's video models are a stepping stone to a genre-less new format
How human-centered design helps teams navigate uncertainty
Masters of Scale
August 21, 2025
Design thinking
10
Customer discovery
7
AI tools & automation
6
Teams are good at solving problems — but terrible at finding the right ones
AI's best design use: rapidly generating divergent scenarios humans couldn't alone
Struggling during a project is often when learning is actually highest