Star Treatment
Does prominence change the questions? Every guest, plotted: their public prominence (rated 1–10 by an LLM, methodology below) against the host pushback they met, measured from every diarized word of their episodes.
An aggregate AI reading of public interviews: pushback per exchange, plotted against guest prominence. It describes questioning patterns across the whole catalogue, not any single guest, and every point opens to its episode. full disclaimer →
dot size = rated episodes · gold line = average per prominence level · every dot links to the person
All guests, by prominence
| Guest | Prominence | Host pushback | Guest pushback | Eps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jensen Huang Founder and CEO, NVIDIA | 10 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO, Meta | 10 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Joseph Gordon-Levitt Co-founder & CEO, HitRecord | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam Bankman-Fried Former CEO, FTX | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Steve Ballmer Owner and Chairman, Los Angeles Clippers | 9 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jamie Dimon Chairman and CEO, JPMorgan Chase | 9 | 2.3 | 2.7/10 | 3 |
| Dara Khosrowshahi CEO, Uber | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Eric Yuan Founder & CEO, Zoom | 8 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Michael Lewis Author & Financial Journalist | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Morris Chang Founder, TSMC | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Howard Schultz Chairman Emeritus, Starbucks | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Ek Founder & Executive Chairman, Spotify | 8 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jason Calacanis Founder & CEO, LAUNCH | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Charlie Munger Former Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway | 8 | 3 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Anatoly Yakovenko Co-Founder and CEO, Solana Labs | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Brad Gerstner Founder & CEO, Altimeter Capital | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brian Koppelman Screenwriter, Director & Showrunner | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brendan Eich Co-Founder and CEO, Brave Software | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Doug DeMuro Co-founder, Cars & Bids | 7 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Peter Fenton General Partner, Benchmark | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Howard Marks Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Ovitz Chairman, Treville Capital Group | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Thompson Founder & Author, Stratechery | 7 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Raj Gokul Co-Founder and President, Solana Labs | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Anthony Gonzalez Co-CEO, Cobalt Service Partners | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Mauboussin Head of Consilient Research, Counterpoint Global | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Packy McCormick Founder & Writer, Not Boring | 6 | 1.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Mitch Lasky General Partner, Benchmark | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Tavel Venture Partner, Benchmark | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Emily Chang Host and Executive Producer, Bloomberg | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Senra Host, Founders Podcast | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Peter Gassner Founder & CEO, Veeva Systems | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Vishria General Partner, Benchmark | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chetan Puttagunta General Partner, Benchmark | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Miles Grimshaw Partner, Thrive Capital | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anu Hariharan Founder & Managing Partner, Avra | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hamilton Helmer Co-Founder & Co-CIO, Strategy Capital | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Katherine Boyle General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jim Weber Former CEO, Brooks Running | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Canlis Owner and Operator, Canlis | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Miller Co-Founder and CEO, Fundrise | 4 | 0.9 | 0.5/10 | 8 |
| Mario Gabriele Founder and Editor, The Generalist | 4 | 1.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Blake Robbins Co-founder & Partner, Hidden Capital | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| John Bathgate Investor & Portfolio Manager, NZS Capital | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brinton Johns Co-founder & Portfolio Manager, NZS Capital | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Marks Co-Founder and Managing Partner, TQ Ventures | 3 | 2.5 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Chenyi Shi Partner, Strategy Capital | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
host and guest pushback: scored 0-10 per topic segment by an LLM with a published rubric over the diarized transcript; an episode’s number is the peak-weighted p75 · prominence: rated 1–10 by an LLM from the person's public profile · full method on /methodology.