Podcasts · Business

David Senra

Scicomm Media

50 episodes

Conversations with the greatest living founders.

Episodes

  1. Competition, Intensity & Building a $115 Billion Global Bank | Nik Storonsky, Revolut

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 49

    Nik Storonsky is the co-founder and CEO of Revolut, a digital bank valued at $115 billion that is available in 38 countries. A former trader, he started Revolut with a card for spending abroad without bank fees and…

  2. Managing $525 Billion by Rethinking Wealth Management | Kurt MacAlpine, Corient

    · 1 h 20 min · Episode 48

    Kurt MacAlpine is a partner and the CEO of Corient, which manages approximately $525 billion in client assets. He became a first-time CEO at 39, believes wealth management was built on a flawed incentive structure, and…

  3. Lessons from Napoleon, Steve Jobs, Joan of Arc & Other Leaders | Ben Wilson

    · 1 h 11 min

    Ben Wilson is the host of “How To Take Over The World,” which is one of my favorite podcasts. How To Take Over The World examines history’s greatest leaders and conquerors, and has benefited millions of people. In this…

  4. Creating Muse: The Fastest-Growing AI Product Since ChatGPT | Alexandr Wang, Meta

    · 1 h 12 min · Episode 46

    Alexandr Wang is the chief AI officer of Meta and co-founder of Scale AI. We talk about the seven-month effort to build Muse, why Meta focused on personal AI agents instead of coding, and how Mark Zuckerberg and Nat…

  5. Channeling Rage, Rolling Calls & Building an Entertainment Empire | Ari Emanuel, WME & TKO

    · 1 h 24 min · Episode 45 · Explicit

    Ari Emanuel is the co-founder of Endeavor, executive chair and CEO of TKO, executive chairman of WME Group, and founder of MARI. We talk about his $4.2 billion bet on the UFC, the ESPN deal that proved it right,…

  6. How Mark Zuckerberg, Palmer Luckey, Josh Kushner & Scott Wu Think | Jeremy Stern

    · 1 h 08 min · Episode 44

    Jeremy Stern is the editor-in-chief of Colossus, where he writes long-form profiles of leading entrepreneurs and investors. He goes behind the scenes of his reporting on Mark Zuckerberg, explaining how months of…

  7. Bringing AI to the Real Economy | Alexander Taubman

    · 1 h 02 min · Episode 43

    Alexander Taubman is the co-founder and CEO of Long Lake, a company that buys established service businesses and uses AI to improve how they operate. He explains Long Lake’s $6.3 billion deal for American Express…

  8. Building the Streetwear Empire Kith | Ronnie Fieg

    · 1 h 30 min · Episode 42

    Ronnie Fieg is the founder, CEO and creative director of Kith. At 13, he turned down an envelope of cash at his bar mitzvah to ask his cousin for a job, then spent 15 years working his way up from stock boy to buyer at…

  9. Building One of the Fastest Growing CPG Companies in History | Peter Rahal of David Protein, Medici Brands & RXBAR

    · 1 h 21 min

    Peter Rahal is the co-founder of RXBAR, David Protein, and Medici Brands. After selling RXBAR for $600 million, he tried investing and quickly discovered he was miserable watching other people run companies. He…

  10. Luca Ferrari on Building Bending Spoons: Extreme Ownership, Talent Science & Relentless Simplification

    · 2 h 01 min · Episode 40

    Luca Ferrari is a co-founder of Bending Spoons, the technology company he built with his partners by rethinking how software businesses should hire, operate and allocate capital. He explains why Bending Spoons aspires…

  11. Mati Staniszewski on ElevenLabs, Voice AI & Building the Communication Layer for AI

    · 1 h 11 min · Episode 39

    Mati Staniszewski is the co-founder of ElevenLabs, an AI audio company he started in 2022 with his longtime friend Piotr Dąbkowski. He explains how a frustration with poorly dubbed content in Poland led them to build…

  12. Zach Dell on Base Power, Energy Abundance & Building a Company for Life

    · 1 h 16 min · Episode 38

    Zach Dell is the co-founder of Base Power, an energy company on a mission to make electricity more affordable and reliable. His starting insight was that home batteries had the wrong business model. Companies sold…

  13. Doug Leone on Sequoia, Fear, Great Founders & Starting Over at 69

    · 1 h 22 min · Episode 37

    Doug Leone spent 26 years helping lead Sequoia Capital through successive eras of technological change. Born in Italy, he came to the United States without speaking English and carried the insecurity of an outsider…

  14. Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing

    · 1 h 24 min

    Torsten Reil has spent his career working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, simulation and entrepreneurship. He began as a biologist studying neural networks and complex systems before founding…

  15. Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible

    · 1 h 18 min

    Sam Altman has spent his career at the intersection of startups, investing and artificial intelligence. He says he was fascinated by AI as a child in St. Louis, studied it in college and eventually helped start OpenAI…

  16. Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber & Atoms

    · 1 h 49 min · Episode 34

    Travis Kalanick is best known for co-founding Uber and building it into one of the world’s largest transportation platforms. Before Uber, he spent years building Red Swoosh under extreme financial pressure. He says he…

  17. Lulu Cheng Meservey, Founder of Rostra

    · 1 h 18 min · Episode 33

    Lulu Cheng Meservey is the founder of Rostra and one of the world's most trusted communication strategists, supporting companies such as Anduril, Shopify, Cognition, and Coinbase. In 2016, she co-founded TrailRunner…

  18. Michael Ovitz, Co-founder of CAA

    · 1 h 07 min · Episode 32

    Michael Ovitz is the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the most powerful and influential talent agencies in Hollywood history, built on a revolutionary approach to representation that fundamentally…

  19. Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka

    · 1 h 16 min · Episode 31

    Micky Malka is the founder of Ribbit Capital and helped create Node, which he describes as the first digital art studio designed for digital artists. He calls himself “an entrepreneur at heart and an investor by…

  20. DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control

    · 1 h 42 min · Episode 30 · Explicit

    David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is the creator of Ruby on Rails and the co-founder of 37signals, the company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. He has spent 25 years building a software business around one condition: no…

  21. The Restaurant Genius Behind Carbone, ZZ’s, Torrisi & More | Jeff Zalaznick

    · 1 h 48 min · Episode 29

    Jeff Zalaznick is co-founder of Major Food Group, the hospitality company behind Carbone, ZZ's, Torrisi, The Grill, and The Pool. He has opened 77 restaurants and bars and 76 are still operating and profitable. He is…

  22. Eric Glyman, Co-founder of Ramp

    · 59 min · Episode 28

    Eric Glyman is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ramp, the financial-infrastructure platform valued at $44 billion used by over 70,000 businesses to run payments, expenses and accounting from a single place. Glyman grew up…

  23. Jonathan Ross, Founder of Groq

    · 1 h 12 min · Episode 27

    Jonathan Ross is the founder of Groq and the inventor of the Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), now a senior executive at NVIDIA following the company's $20 billion partnership with Groq. Before Groq, Ross built…

  24. Scott Wu, Cognition

    · 1 h 05 min · Episode 26

    Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind Devin, the world's first AI software engineer. Wu describes himself as "salty," a word he traces to second grade, when he competed in a seventh-grade…

  25. Steve Stoute, UnitedMasters

    · 1 h 35 min · Episode 25 · Explicit

    Steve Stoute is the founder of Translation, the marketing company behind some of the most iconic brand work of the past 25 years, and UnitedMasters, the independent music distribution platform he launched in 2017.…

  26. Ed Catmull, Co-founder of Pixar

    · 1 h 35 min · Episode 24

    Ed Catmull is the co-founder of Pixar and the former president of Disney Animation. He grew up in 1950s Utah wanting to animate for Disney. Convinced he couldn't draw well enough, he studied physics and computer…

  27. Gustav Söderström, Spotify

    · 1 h 14 min · Episode 23

    Gustav Söderström is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Spotify, the world's largest streaming platform, with more than 760 million users across 180 countries. He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from…

  28. Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life

    · 1 h 24 min · Episode 22

    Ivanka Trump grew up on construction sites and in boardrooms, learning what it takes to be a builder. At just 22 years old, she started doing real estate for a Brooklyn developer. She notched small wins with…

  29. The Simple Genius of Rick Rubin

    · 1 h 24 min · Episode 21

    Rick Rubin grew up on Long Island obsessed with music — arena rock at 13, punk by high school, then hip-hop when it was still a street movement you could only hear at one club in New York City. The records coming out…

  30. Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two Interactive

    · 1 h 39 min

    Strauss Zelnick has spent 40 years doing the same thing: finding where new technology is about to supercharge an old business, and getting there first. He started at Columbia Pictures in 1983 running international TV…

  31. Dana White, UFC

    · 1 h 13 min · Episode 19 · Explicit

    Dana White grew up watching CEOs read canned statements written by lawyers. He decided early he would never do that. When Lorenzo Fertitta and his brother bought the UFC in 2001 for $2M and handed White a small equity…

  32. Adam Foroughi, AppLovin

    · 1 h 26 min · Episode 18

    Chapters (00:00:00) The $6B Buyback That Made $60B (00:02:15) Borrowing Money To Buy Back Stock At A Discount (00:05:02) Why VCs Passed On AppLovin In 2012 (00:09:00) From App Discovery To Ad Platform (00:14:45)…

  33. David Baszucki, Roblox

    · 1 h 28 min · Episode 17

    David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, the platform where tens of millions of people gather daily to play, build, and socialize inside user-generated virtual worlds. Baszucki grew up in Eden Prairie,…

  34. Evan Spiegel, Snap

    · 1 h 58 min · Episode 16

    Evan Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat. At Stanford, he enrolled in the product design program. In 2011, in a class project, he and two classmates — Reggie Brown and Bobby…

  35. Tony Xu, DoorDash

    · 1 h 49 min · Episode 15

    Tony Xu is the co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, the largest food delivery platform in the United States. Before he was a tech executive, he was a dishwasher. Xu was born in Nanjing, China, and immigrated to the U.S. at…

  36. The Book of Elon with Eric Jorgenson

    · 1 h 50 min · Episode 14

    Eric Jorgenson is an investor, author, and the CEO of Scribe Media — best known for his mission to distill the ideas of the world's most consequential thinkers into books anyone can read. Obsessed with the idea that…

  37. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z & Netscape

    · 1 h 50 min · Episode 13

    Marc Andreessen is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of the most influential venture capital firms in the world. Before he was an investor, he was a builder. At 22, Andreessen…

  38. Brian Armstrong, Coinbase

    · 1 h 50 min · Episode 12

    Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange and one of the most recognized names in the digital asset industry. Armstrong founded Coinbase in 2012 alongside Fred…

  39. Jason Fried, 37signals (makers of Basecamp, HEY and ONCE)

    · 2 h 21 min · Episode 11 · Explicit

    Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the software company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. Fried is widely regarded as one of the most influential voices in modern product development, remote work, and…

  40. Jimmy Iovine, Interscope Records & Beats by Dre

    · 2 h 08 min · Episode 10 · Explicit

    Jimmy Iovine is the co-founder of Interscope Records, Beats by Dre, and the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy. Iovine is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the modern music industry.…

  41. Tobi Lütke, Shopify

    · 2 h 24 min · Episode 9 · Explicit

    Tobi Lütke is the co-founder of Shopify, where he has served as the company's CEO since 2008. Under his leadership, Shopify grew from an online snowboard shop in Ottawa, Canada in 2004 to the world's leading…

  42. John Mackey, Whole Foods Market

    · 1 h 41 min · Episode 8

    John Mackey is the co-founder of Whole Foods Market, where he also served as the company's CEO for 44 years (1980–2022). More recently, Mackey is the co-founder of Love.Life, a wellness company focused on a holistic…

  43. Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Colossus & Positive Sum

    · 2 h 06 min · Episode 7

    Patrick O'Shaughnessy is the Chairman Emeritus of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, the founder of Colossus, and the founder and CEO of Positive Sum. He is an investor, author, and podcaster who has devoted his career to…

  44. James Dyson, Dyson

    · 1 h 38 min · Episode 6

    James Dyson is the founder and chairman of Dyson, a technology-led company present in 84 markets worldwide. He is an inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who has devoted his life to solving problems through new…

  45. Michael Ovitz, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)

    · 2 h 07 min · Episode 5

    Michael Ovitz is the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the most powerful and influential talent agencies in Hollywood history, built on a revolutionary approach to representation that fundamentally…

  46. Todd Graves, Raising Cane's

    · 2 h 00 min · Episode 4

    Todd Graves is the founder and CEO of Raising Cane's, one of America's most successful and fastest-growing restaurant chains built on a radically simple concept that nearly everyone told him would fail. He is an…

  47. How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies

    · 2 h 03 min · Episode 3

    Brad Jacobs is the chairman and CEO of QXO, Inc., and the founder of eight separate billion-dollar companies including XPO Logistics, United Rentals and United Waste. He is an entrepreneur and logistics executive…

  48. Michael Dell, Dell Technologies

    · 1 h 31 min · Episode 2

    Michael Dell is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies. He is an entrepreneur and technology executive widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in personal computing and enterprise…

  49. Daniel Ek, Spotify

    · 2 h 09 min · Episode 1

    Daniel Ek is the co-founder and CEO of Spotify. Daniel Ek is an entrepreneur and technology executive widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in music, podcasting and audio streaming more broadly.…

  50. Welcome to David Senra

    · 1:20 · Trailer

    Nine years ago, I launched Founders. Today, I'm launching a new podcast called David Senra. The first episode goes live this Sunday, September 28. Subscribe wherever you watch or listen to podcasts. Founders will…

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