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Masters of Scale

On Masters of Scale, iconic business leaders share lessons and strategies that have helped them grow the world's most fascinating companies. Founders, CEOs, and dynamic innovators join candid conversations about their triumphs and challenges with a set of luminary hosts, including founding host Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn co-founder and Greylock partner). From navigating early prototypes to expanding brands globally, Masters of Scale provides priceless insights to help anyone grow their dream enterprise.

Website ↗ Last published 3 November 2026 755 posts collected by Sputnik

Said on Masters of Scale

“Some of my agents are smarter than me and better at math than me. And some of them have the judgment of a toddler. So we really have to look at what is that skill that we keep in our toolkit and what do we keep really close.” — Raina Kumra, Masters of Scale
Raina Kumra · 3 Nov 2026 Listen →
“There is no keeping up. There is only keeping calm. And that thing that you're worried about that you are behind on probably came out a week ago. So you're not that behind. … You can outsource some of that learning too. You just have to keep your judgment. You have to keep your clarity and make sure that you're not turning AI crap out into the world. That's a responsibility.” — Raina Kumra, Masters of Scale
Raina Kumra · 3 Nov 2026 Listen →
“I'm not sure that's the best way because … if we go down that path as we are, there will be incidents that happen and hopefully they're not too awful, but you don't know. And then there'll be regulation. … We tend to wait till something happens. And then think of the global financial crisis 2008 and then a whole bunch of new regulations come in. So that's the likely case here, unfortunately.” — Reed Hastings, Masters of Scale
Reed Hastings · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Like we realized, it took a long time, that we could be distrusted, we could be disliked, but we can never be boring. That the essence of an entertainment brand is to be thrilling. Like you just can't ignore it. You got to participate.” — Reed Hastings, Masters of Scale
Reed Hastings · 31 Oct 2026 Listen →
“53% of the traffic on the internet today is non-human. There's so much of the AI companies that have gotten money. So, what do they do? They scrape. When they scrape Rappler or any other news group, your server costs go up. So, I'm literally paying for someone else to steal our content, and they're doing it.” — Maria Ressa, Masters of Scale
Maria Ressa · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“My second dictator, and I do name them, and I would argue the more powerful dictator in the Philippines, is Mark Zuckerberg. At that point, 97% of Filipinos on the internet were on Facebook. Facebook was our internet.” — Maria Ressa, Masters of Scale
Maria Ressa · 29 Oct 2026 Listen →
“It's pretty clear to me that eventually the majority of the world is going to be using Chinese models. That has huge geopolitical implications. The average geopolitical person I talk to has not figured this out yet.” — Eric Schmidt, Masters of Scale
Eric Schmidt · 27 Oct 2026 Listen →
“Right now, we have paced the frontier most recently by actually holding back our most powerful model, partially because we want to make sure the safety and alignment is at a place where our researchers have a time to really think it through. That model is the model that solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Math problem.” — Sarah Friar, Masters of Scale
Sarah Friar · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I tell finance people all the time: if you don't realize you're in sales, you are losing because you need to go sell. You need to sell an annual plan. You need to go sell a change to a number. You need to sell a budget.” — Sarah Friar, Masters of Scale
Sarah Friar · 22 Oct 2026 Listen →
“During the pandemic, supporting testing nationwide through the work we did at Ginkgo, the number of labs across the country where the operator loads the 96-well plate in a flipped direction is like double-digit percentages. The robot didn't do anything wrong. It's the human in the loop that is still part of autonomous science that we're not observing.” — Renee Wegrzyn, Masters of Scale
Renee Wegrzyn · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“You talked about how AI is kind of transforming drug design. We think of that as top of the funnel. Now, you can test billions of designs in silico. Some subset of those you can actually test in the lab, but we haven't seen billions new clinical trials. It's because the rest of that pipeline is still bottlenecked.” — Renee Wegrzyn, Masters of Scale
Renee Wegrzyn · 13 Oct 2026 Listen →
“My concerns is that we would not use this technology in order to better everyone's lives. And we would use it in ways that are concentrating power or concentrating returns. And it's just something that does worry me.” — Tibo Sottiaux, Masters of Scale
Tibo Sottiaux · 10 Oct 2026 Listen →

Hosts

Masters of Scale is hosted by Bob Safian , Reid Hoffman , Jeff Berman , Rana el Kaliouby , Angela Ahrendts , June Cohen , Kara Swisher , Rachel Ishikawa , Lital Malad , Anne Kave , Jason Feifer and Aaron Bastinelli .

Recent Episodes

  1. 3 Nov 2026

    Thriving in chaos: top leaders’ strategies from Masters of Scale Summit

    With DJ Patil , Raina Kumra , Hayden Brown , Baratunde Thurston , John Mills and Dara Treseder

  2. 31 Oct 2026

    Reed Hastings on Hollywood’s future, Netflix’s shakeup and knowing when to leave

    With Reed Hastings and Michael Moritz

  3. 29 Oct 2026

    Maria Ressa on how to save democracy from Big Tech

    With Aria Finger and Maria Ressa

  4. 27 Oct 2026

    Eric Schmidt scores US vs. China: who’s winning the AI race?

    With Eric Schmidt

  5. 22 Oct 2026

    Reid Hoffman and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar on where AI goes from here

    With Sarah Friar

  6. 20 Oct 2026

    REI’s secrets to sustaining a beloved brand and touching grass

    With Mary Beth Laughton

  7. 15 Oct 2026

    Rich Roll’s ‘crash course’ in entrepreneurship

    With Rich Roll

  8. 13 Oct 2026

    The AI race to save American science and reshape medicine forever

    With Renee Wegrzyn

  9. 10 Oct 2026

    Pioneers of AI: OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux doesn’t want humans to be an ‘afterthought’

    With Tibo Sottiaux

  10. 8 Oct 2026

    Building a marketplace from scratch, with Hipcamp founder Alyssa Ravasio

    With Alyssa Ravasio

  11. 6 Oct 2026

    Kalshi vs. Everyone: Co-Founder Luana Lopes Lara on the lawsuits and the long game

    With Luana Lopes Lara

  12. 1 Oct 2026

    Don't be boring: KCRW's Jennifer Ferro on building a brand people love

    With Jennifer Ferro and Jamie Batmer

Guests

Danny Meyer (10 episodes), Eric Schmidt (9 episodes), Brian Chesky (8 episodes), Dara Treseder (6 episodes), Arianna Huffington (6 episodes), Stacy Brown-Philpot (6 episodes), Daymond John (5 episodes), Sallie Krawcheck (5 episodes), Mustafa Suleyman (5 episodes), Reed Hastings (5 episodes), Janice Min (4 episodes), Bob Iger (4 episodes), and 527 more.