Best David Taylor Sharp Podcasts (2024)

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Brittany Cartwright’s Shocking Divorce Details, Selling Sunset’s Messy Return & J Lo’s Passive Aggressive Pain 42:44

1h ago42:44

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In this lively episode of Bravo Bench, David, Ana, and Ace dive into their docket. From Ace's hilarious charges against a nudist colony neighbor to Ana reopening the case of Bennifer, no topic is off-limits. David shares (em, name drops) some insider details from his Hollywood adventures, while the Bench debates the complexities of breakup passive …

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Sister Wives Kody & Robyn Brown Disaster, Dorit’s Bit$h Era & Brad Pitt’s Latest Move 47:27

9h ago47:27

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In this episode of Bravo Bench, the gang gets real about everything from Instagram cyberbullying to the latest Bravo drama. David, Ana, and Ace kick off the conversation with a hilarious debate over lighting, velvet vests, and Instagram stories gone wrong. Then, they dive into pop culture's juiciest headlines, including Anna Delvey’s rumored spot o…

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#206 CEO & Founder Rivian, RJ Scaringe: Electrified 57:01

19h ago57:01

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Guest: RJ Scaringe, CEO and Founder of Rivian “I’m very comfortable with things not being in their end state,” says Rivian CEO and founder RJ Scaringe. The company’s challenging mission — to help make 100% of the world’s cars electric — will take a long time, and a lot of willingness to build the metaphorical plane in midair. As Rivian has grown fr…

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Ep 104 - I Believe In Helmets - Brandon Cox 29:37

3h ago29:37

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In March of this year, Brandon took his wife and a visiting climber from Hungry to the Atlantis climbing area in Queen Creek Canyon near Phoenix, AZ. They were warming up on some easy routes and were all thoroughly enjoying the day. On Brandon’s second lead of the day climbing an easy 5.8, things were going fine until they weren’t.From what Brandon…

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Teresa & Melissa “Reconcile” For RHONJ Future, Travis & Taylor’s Uncertain Future & Sister Wives’ Latest Epic Fail 48:15

1d ago48:15

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In this lively episode of The Bravo Bench, the hosts tackle Sister Wives’ Mary Brown and her controversial "Worthy Up" symposium, with Ace leading the charge. David drops the latest Housewives gossip about Melissa Gorga and Teresa Giudice, sparking a debate on whether they might reconcile. The trio also dives into Travis Kelce's sudden Hollywood ri…

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Melissa Gorga’s False New Claims About Teresa, Bennfier Divorce Turns Ugly & Shannon’s Beador’s Redemption 42:20

6d ago42:20

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In this lively episode of The Bravo Bench David, Ana, and Ace dive into the latest reality TV scandals and pop culture moments with their signature blend of humor and sass. From Ace's take on a controversial Dance Moms performance to Ana's rant about the latest TikTok trend, no topic is off-limits. The crew also dishes on the latest Bravo gossip, q…

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#205 CEO Snowflake, Sridhar Ramaswamy: Visibility 1:07:14

3m ago1:07:14

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Guest: Sridhar Ramaswamy, CEO of Snowflake “People underestimate what it is to go through a complete reset,” says Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. And he knows it: After an incredible 15-year run at Google, he started over from zero with an AI search startup, Neeva. And in hindsight, he regrets not trying to port over more of the skills that had ma…

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Teresa & Louie's Next Move, Blake Lively's Hollywood Takedown & Sister Wives Returns 1:24:19

17d ago1:24:19

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This week on The Bravo Bench, things heated up as Ace and Ana took a little detour down memory lane before David even had a chance to join the fray. Ana couldn't resist filling Ace in on David's swanky upbringing, complete with not one, not two, but three homes! Naturally, Ace saw an opportunity and wasted no time propositioning David—more than onc…

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#204 Founder & Former CEO Blue Bottle, James Freeman: After the Exit 1:07:13

15d ago1:07:13

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Guest: James Freeman, Founder and Former CEO of Blue Bottle Coffee In the six or so years since he sold his last shares of Blue Bottle Coffee to Nestlé, James Freeman has had a lot of time to ruminate — about how he succeeded in creating a unique café experience, and also the ways he failed his workers as a manager. But he’s already thinking about …

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Potential Series End of RHONJ, Stassi Schroeder’s Bravo Return & Shannon Beador’s Legal Setback 1:01:15

17d ago1:01:15

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This week on "The Bravo Bench," buckle up for a wild ride through the most jaw-dropping celebrity gossip and TV show drama! Nick Cannon shocks with a $10 million policy on his testicles—because when you're Nick Cannon, even your privates go platinum. Dive into the chaos of *Dance Moms*, where the drama spins faster than a rogue pirouette. Catch the…

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#203 CEO Niantic, John Hanke: Buried Ships 1:09:17

25d ago1:09:17

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Guest: John Hanke, CEO of Niantic When Pokémon Go launched, Niantic CEO John Hanke was enjoying a tranquil walk through a bamboo forest near Kyoto with his son. When he got back, it was all hands on deck: Building on a platform Niantic had developed for its previous game, Ingress, Pokémon Go was a runaway success story, earning $100 million dollars…

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Teresa's Uncertain RHONJ Future, Alexis Bellino's Shocking Reveal & JLo's Mixed Messages 1:05:28

23d ago1:05:28

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In this pilot episode David, Ana, and Ace dive into some juicy controversial topics. Kicking things off with TLC’s Forbidden Love, debating whether an ex-Amish guy who allegedly saw bestiality is guilty by association. Then, Ana drops a wild story about an Olympic pole vaulter whose manhood aka package might have cost him the medal and how she’s ac…

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#202 Chairman of Qualcomm, Mark McLaughlin: The Right Pitch 1:13:24

1M ago1:13:24

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Guest: Mark McLaughlin, chairman of the board at Qualcomm When he was 24, Mark McLaughlin thought his career was over. Since childhood, he had dreamed of attending West Point and joining the Army, but a helicopter crash left him unable to serve, with a medical discharge. However, the crash also let him stay closer to his then-girlfriend Karen. They…

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Ep 103 - Rock Strike On Mt. Shasta - Sean Oldfield 33:16

19d ago33:16

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Sean Oldfield was climbing Mount Shasta this year in May when he was violently struck in the back of the head by a falling rock on his descent. Despite wearing a helmet (which saved his life), Sean ended up getting flown off the mountain in a helicopter to the hospital, where he received multiple staples in his head, a fractured skull, and a concus…

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#201 CEO Lyft, David Risher: The Ride 1:16:25

29d ago1:16:25

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Guest: David Risher, CEO of Lyft David Risher can measure his career in phone calls, from the one that introduced him to Jeff Bezos in 1995, to the call from the Lyft board in 2023, asking him to vie for the CEO job. But initially, he believed his life’s legacy might be the nonprofit Worldreader, which has brought books to more than 22 million read…

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Bravo Bench 3:25

1M ago3:25

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Welcome to The Bravo Bench, where we invite you to “Get Judgy with Us!” Hosted by the dynamic trio of David Yontef, Ana Quincoces, and Ace Fanning, this podcast serves up a delightful mix of sharp wit, unapologetic opinions, and plenty of humor. Join us as we don our judicial robes to preside over the latest Bravo shows, dissecting every juicy deta…

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#200 CEO & Co-Founder Together AI, Vipul Ved Prakash w/ Bucky Moore: Super Cycle 55:29

1M ago55:29

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Guests: Vipul Ved Prakash, CEO and co-founder of Together AI; and Bucky Moore, partner at Kleiner Perkins No one knows for sure whether the future of AI will be driven more by research labs and AI-native companies, or by enterprises applying the technology to their own data sets. But one thing is for sure, says Together AI CEO and co-founder Vipul …

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#199 CEO & Co-Founder Klaviyo, Andrew Bialecki: High Slope 1:00:23

29d ago1:00:23

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Guest: Andrew Bialecki, CEO of Klaviyo Whenever the marketing platform Klaviyo is hiring, says CEO Andrew Bialecki, “we sort of don't care so much what skills you have.” Instead, the company looks for “high slope” individuals who are curious and able to continually learn new things. “A big turnoff for me is [when] somebody says, ‘Oh, well, I was ne…

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#198 CEO & Co-Founder Wayfair, Niraj Shah: Homeward 54:42

2M ago54:42

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Guest: Niraj Shah, CEO and co-founder of Wayfair Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah caught the entrepreneurship bug in his mid-20s, when he and his longtime co-founder Steve Conine sold their first company just a few years out of college. They left the acquirer and independently realized “we absolutely wanted to start something else,” Niraj recalls. “Once you’…

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Ep 102 - Heat Stroke On The R2R2R - Kirk And Fred 51:56

2M ago51:56

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Kirk and Fred have been friends for a long time. They have done adventure races together in the past and know where their limits lie. During this adventure, Fred nearly lost his life to heat stroke when they were doing the Rim to Rim to Rim (R2R2R) in the Grand Canyon. Kirk and Fred talk openly about what led up to the incident and how they managed…

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#197 CEO, Chairman & Founder Zscaler, Jay Chaudhry: No Attachment 43:17

1M ago43:17

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Guest: Jay Chaudhry, CEO, chairman, and founder of Zscaler Much of the media coverage of Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry is quick to identify him as the wealthiest Indian-American person, with a net worth of $10.8 billion. But to hear Jay himself tell it, that number has never been very important to him: “My family had no money,” he says of his childhood …

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#196 CEO & Co-Founder Braze, Bill Magnuson: Principles of Change 57:12

2M ago57:12

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Guest: Bill Magnuson, CEO and co-founder of Braze The deployment of smartphones around the world was more impactful than any other technology to date, says Braze CEO Bill Magnuson — and that has big implications for emerging fields like generative AI. “If we get to the point where they [LLMs] really can be useful, human-like companions ... they wil…

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#195 CEO Salesforce AI, Clara Shih: Above the Clouds 45:02

2M ago45:02

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Guest: Clara Shih, CEO of Salesforce AI In 2020, Clara Shih quit Hearsay, the company she founded and ran for 11 years; in hindsight, she says “I probably should have quit a little bit sooner.” But at the time, she cared a lot — too much — about what everyone else thought. “There's a lot of guilt around leaving initially and feeling bad for feeling…

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#194 CEO & Founder Sunshine, Marissa Mayer: Innovative Instincts 1:25:50

3M ago1:25:50

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Guest: Marissa Mayer, CEO and Founder of Sunshine and former CEO of Yahoo When Marissa Mayer was first hired as the CEO of Yahoo, the company had lost nearly a quarter of its workforce in the preceding six months. Early on, she was chatting with employees in the cafeteria and one of them got her attention by smacking her tray. “Is it go time?” he a…

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#193 Former CEO Nextdoor, Sarah Friar: Four Circles 1:17:17

2M ago1:17:17

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Guest: Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor Sarah Friar has worked with some of the top leaders in Silicon Valley, including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, Block CEO Jack Dorsey, and most recently Nextdoor founder Nirav Tolia, who just replaced her as CEO in May. And one of the things that sets top performers apart from the …

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Ep 101 - Bit By A Rattlesnake - Julia Fiorino 39:51

3M ago39:51

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This is a crazy incident where my guest was bit by a rattlesnake in June of 2022 and ended up in the hospital for 12 straight days. She was climbing at Consumnes River Gorge in Lake Tahoe and it was going to be her first time trad climbing. The crew was getting all set up near the first climb, she decided to use the “facili-trees” (if you will) bef…

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#192 CTO & Co-Founder Discord, Stanislav Vishnevskiy: Ship It 1:03:34

3M ago1:03:34

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Guest: Stanislav Vishnevskiy, CTO and co-founder of Discord For many years, the conventional wisdom was the gaming was not social because it was something you usually did at home. “But people who play games are often the most social,” says Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy. “They’re spending 10, 20 hours with other people online, hanging out.” As a…

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#191 CEO & Co-Founder Intercom, Eoghan McCabe: Second Beginning 59:16

4M ago59:16

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Guest: Eoghan McCabe, CEO, Chairman, and Co-Founder of Intercom “We are not ready for the degree to which our world is going to change,” says Intercom CEO Eoghan McCabe, “in insane and incredible ways.” When he co-founded the company in 2011, the Irish-born entrepreneur was making it easier for companies to offer human customer service to their cus…

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#190 Co-Founder Cost Plus Drugs, Mark Cuban: Mavs to Meds 46:33

4M ago46:33

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Guest: Mark Cuban, co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs and costar, Shark Tank “I just love to compete,” says Mark Cuban. “And the day I stop is the day I’m dead.” Previously the co-founder of MicroSolutions and Broadcast.com, Cuban is probably best known to the public today for competing with the likes of Daymond John and Barbara Corcoran on the reality …

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#189 Co-Founder Watershed, Taylor Francis: Worthy Missions 1:00:03

3M ago1:00:03

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Guest: Taylor Francis, co-founder of Watershed One day when he was 13, Taylor Francis walked out of the movie theater, and he was pissed off. He had just seen Al Gore’s documentary An Inconvenient Truth and internalized a “generational call to arms, that my parents had screwed our generation” by causing the climate crisis, he says. 14 years later, …

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Ep 100 - Backcountry Ski Accident: Part Two - Taylor Rose 23:03

4M ago23:03

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This is Part Two of this story sequence with Taylor Rose. If you haven’t tuned in to episode 99, stop here and go back and listen to Part One (Episode 99) where Taylor Rose shares all about the details of his accident when he broke his femur on April 2nd, 2021 backcountry skiing in Huntington Ravine in the Mount Washington area. In this episode, Ta…

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#188 CEO & Co-Founder Synthesia, Victor Riparbelli w/ Josh Coyne: Gorilla in the Room 59:27

4M ago59:27

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Guests: Victor Riparbelli, CEO and co-founder of Synthesia; and Josh Coyne, partner at Kleiner Perkins When Victor Riparbelli wants to learn something, he’ll start with a YouTube video or a podcast: “I maybe buy the book on Amazon as like the fifth step,” the Synthesia CEO says. His company is trying to change the text-first (or text-only) way info…

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#187 President & COO of AG1, Kat Cole: Wings to Supplements 1:00:22

4M ago1:00:22

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Guest: Kat Cole, COO of Athletic Greens You can’t make smart decisions if you don’t know the truth — the “true truth,” as Athletic Greens COO Kat Cole puts it. “As you get bigger and you have success, innovator’s dilemma, you end up talking to yourself instead of really being rooted in what’s going on.” That’s why she has embraced the anxiety of th…

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#186 COO Asana, Anne Raimondi: Recovering Perfectionist 1:06:26

5M ago1:06:26

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Guest: Anne Raimondi, COO and Head of Business at Asana Asana COO Anne Raimondi feels pressure to perform in her job “every day, all the time.” But that pressure doesn’t come from her fellow executives; she imposes it on herself, trying to think carefully about how much each of her decisions will impact her team. “I have a lot of privilege and choi…

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#185 CEO & Founder Netskope, Sanjay Beri: The Trenches 54:32

5M ago54:32

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Guest: Sanjay Beri, CEO and Founder of Netskope “You can be waiting your whole life to do something, and then your life’s over,” says Sanjay Beri. After nine years at Juniper Networks, he left his comfortable job, moved his family to a house with a pricier mortgage, and launched the cloud security firm Netskope. His entrepreneurial story would make…

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Ep 99 - Backcountry Ski Accident: Part One - Taylor Rose 38:03

5M ago38:03

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Taylor Rose is a twenty-four year old guy who loves the outdoors. He was out skiing in the backcountry with some friends in Huntington Ravine on Mount Washington in 2021 when he suffered a broken femur from a long sliding fall that resulted in a rescue involving his crew and the Mount Washington Avalanche Center. Tune in to hear part one of this se…

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#184 Former CEO & Co-Founder Sun, Scott McNealy: In the Piñata 1:18:03

5M ago1:18:03

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Guest: Scott McNealy, former CEO and co-founder of Sun Microsystems & co-founder of Curriki Scott McNealy never wanted to be CEO of Sun, and in his 22-year tenure before selling to Oracle, he knows there were times he failed to execute, or to rein in the once-iconic Silicon Valley firm’s worst impulses. But like his pro golfer son, Maverick, Scott …

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#183 CEO & Co-Founder Harness, Jyoti Bansal: Three-Layered Cake 59:28

5M ago59:28

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Guest: Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder of Harness Cisco bought Jyoti Bansal’s first company AppDynamics for $3.7 billion, making him a very wealthy man. But after two African safaris, a week of Michelin-starred meals in Tokyo, and more adventures all around the world, he realized that spending his money didn’t truly make him happy. After some soul…

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#182 CEO & Co-Founder Cribl, Clint Sharp: Finding Traction 1:12:26

6M ago1:12:26

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Guest: Clint Sharp, CEO and co-founder of Cribl New employees are joining the remote data platform Cribl every week, and as the staff grows, CEO Clint Sharp has noticed a problem: He can’t file a bug report without a lot of caveats. When there were a handful of users, no one would bat an eye at the CEO posting a bug on Slack, but now he has had to …

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#181 CEO Transcarent, Glen Tullman: Problem Solving 1:30:17

6M ago1:30:17

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Guest: Glen Tullman, CEO of Transcarent Before he was CEO of Transcarent, Glen Tullman presided over the biggest digital health merger of all time: His previous company Livongo was acquired in 2020 by Teledoc for $18.5 billion. Over his decades of experience in health tech, he has developed saying: Hire low, fire high. When one of his friends was o…

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#180 CEO & Co-Founder Verkada, Filip Kaliszan: Outlier 1:12:36

6M ago1:12:36

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Guest: Filip Kaliszan, CEO and co-founder of Verkada Great founders try to grow personally at least as fast as their companies do — but sometimes, says Verkada CEO Filip Kaliszan, that’s just not possible. By the time the company had about 200 employees, he says, “the scale of the business and the rate of the growth of the business ... outpaced my …

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Ep 98 - Dropped In Joshua Tree - Devin Farkas 45:44

6M ago45:44

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Devin Farkas was instructing a ten day climbing course in Joshua Tree National Park this last January. They were on day two of this ten day course when Devin’s trip was cut short. Tune into this episode to hear why.This podcast is produced by Ashley Saupe. This podcast is sponsored by Rocky Talkie and then American Alpine Institute and supported by…

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#179 CEO & Co-Founder Zapier, Wade Foster: Missouri’s Connector 59:53

6M ago59:53

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Guest: Wade Foster, CEO and co-founder of Zapier When Wade Foster and his co-founders launched Zapier, he was 24, and doubted himself constantly. He consulted mentors like Paul Graham and Jay Simons, studied entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs, and also took inspiration from an unlikely source: Actor and martial artist Bruce Lee. “[He] had…

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#178 Author of “Radical Candor,” Kim Scott: Uncommon Sense 1:09:38

6M ago1:09:38

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Guest: Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Radical Respect: How To Work Together Better After her first management book Radical Candor became a worldwide bestseller, Kim Scott found herself giving talks to all kinds of companies about how they could apply her advice and build a stronger, kinder cu…

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#177 President & Co-Founder Anthropic, Daniela Amodei: AI Hurricane 1:46:13

7M ago1:46:13

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Guest: Daniela Amodei, President and co-founder of Anthropic With a reported valuation of as much as $18 billion, Anthropic has the resources to be one of the dominant AI companies in Silicon Valley; however, it was conceived as a public benefit corporation and always tries to strike a balance between hypergrowth and responsibility. Anthropic’s fla…

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#176 CEO MongoDB, Dev Ittycheria: Edge 1:05:31

6M ago1:05:31

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Guest: Dev Ittycheria, CEO and President of MongoDB When you think about who you were and the decisions you made two, or four, or eight years ago ... how do you feel? Dev Ittycheria, the President and CEO of MongoDB, says he’s embarrassed about certain things he did — and that’s a good thing. “If you’re not [embarrassed], that means you’re not real…

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Ep 97 - Accident In Yosemite - Grant And David 47:19

7M ago47:19

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On Fourth of July weekend, two climbing partners, Grant and David, set out to climb a 2,200 foot climb on the Northwest face of Half Dome in Yosemite National Park in California. The conditions were perfect to climb this beautiful and exposed twenty-three pitch climb. Things started out perfectly, but not everything turned out as they had planned. …

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#175 CEO Snowflake, Frank Slootman: Amped 53:31

7M ago53:31

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Guest: Frank Slootman, CEO and Chairman of Snowflake and author of Amp It Up Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman doesn’t recall a time in his childhood where new achievements were celebrated — because, according to his father, putting everything into your work and “leaving it all on the field” was the only choice. “The problem with it,” Frank says, is tha…

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#174 CEO & Co-Founder Ginkgo Bioworks, Jason Kelly: Life Finds a Way 59:42

7M ago59:42

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Guest: Jason Kelly, CEO and co-founder of Ginkgo Bioworks Almost everyone in the second generation of biotechnology entrepreneurs, says Ginkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly, works in that field because of one thing: Jurassic Park. The Michael Crichton novel-turned-Steven Spielberg movie captured both the wonder and beauty of bioengineering, and the chal…

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