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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elon Musk CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 10 | 1.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Satya Nadella Chairman and CEO, Microsoft | 9 | 1.7 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Michael Dell Founder, Chairman & CEO, Dell Technologies | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jensen Huang Founder and CEO, NVIDIA | 9 | 2.9 | 2.1/10 | 7 |
| Ali Ghodsi Executive, Databricks | 7 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Philippe Laffont Founder & Portfolio Manager, Coatue Management | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Kevin Weil Operator in Residence, Scribble Ventures | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rene Haas CEO, Arm | 6 | 3 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Arvind Jain Co-founder & CEO, Glean | 5 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Gavin Baker Managing Partner & CIO, Atreides Management | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Laffont Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director, Coatue Management | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jamin Ball Partner, Altimeter Capital | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nick Turley Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sherwin Wu Head of Engineering, OpenAI Platform | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bob Mylod Managing Partner, Annox Capital Management | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sunny Madra VP Hardware, NVIDIA | 3 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Andrew Fox Analyst, Atreides Management | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Maureen Zawalnik SVP & Chief Risk Officer, PG&E | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Clark Tang Partner, Altimeter | 1 | 2 | 2.3/10 | 3 |
| Olivier Godman Head of Product, OpenAI Platform | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 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.