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 →
+0.19pushback per +1 prominence
3.9/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
3.2/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
218guests measured
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 10 | 3.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Demis Hassabis CEO & Co-Founder, Isomorphic Labs | 9 | 3 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Sergey Brin Co-founder, Google | 9 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mark Cuban Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 9 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Jim Cramer Host, CNBC's Mad Money | 9 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Condoleezza Rice Director, Hoover Institution | 9 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Reid Hoffman Partner, Greylock | 9 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Marc Benioff Chair, CEO & Co-Founder, Salesforce | 9 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Kahneman Professor of Psychology Emeritus, Princeton University | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nas Daily (Nuseir Yassin) | 8 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Geoffrey Hinton Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto | 8 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Kara Swisher Podcast Host, Vox Media | 8 | 3 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Marissa Mayer Founder & CEO, Dazzle AI | 8 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Yann LeCun Executive Chairman, AMI Labs | 8 | 3.8 | 4.8/10 | 4 |
| Senator Mark Warner U.S. Senator, United States Senate | 8 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Pollan Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley | 8 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sir Nick Clegg Former President of Global Affairs, Meta | 8 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Anthony Scaramucci Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge Capital | 8 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Palmer Luckey Founder, Anduril Industries | 8 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Ross Sorkin Co-Anchor, CNBC | 8 | 4.5 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Bret Taylor CEO & Co-Founder, Sierra | 8 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Haidt Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern | 8 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Greg Brockman President & Co-founder, OpenAI | 8 | 5.3 | 3/10 | 4 |
| Mustafa Suleyman CEO, Microsoft AI | 8 | 5.3 | 3/10 | 3 |
| Chris Hayes Host, MSNBC | 8 | 6 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Nick Bostrom Director of Research, Macrostrategy Research Initiative | 7 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Joanna Stern Founder & CEO, New Things | 7 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Alexandr Wang Chief AI Officer, Meta Platforms | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vlad Tenev Co-Founder & CEO, Robinhood | 7 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Pat Gelsinger General Partner, Playground Global | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Vogt Founder & CEO, The Bot Company | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Pogue Correspondent, CBS Sunday Morning | 7 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| David Friedberg Founder & CEO, The Production Board | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 7 | 3.7 | 3.3/10 | 7 |
| Jürgen Schmidhuber Director, AI Initiative, KAUST | 7 | 4 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Dick Costolo Managing Partner & Co-Founder, 01 Advisors | 7 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Cristiano Amon President and CEO, Qualcomm | 7 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| RJ Scaringe Founder & CEO, Rivian | 7 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Aravind Srinivas Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity AI | 7 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Krieger Chief Product Officer, Anthropic | 7 | 4.3 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Arthur Mensch Co-Founder & CEO, Mistral AI | 7 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| David Baszucki Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 7 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Aidan Gomez Co-founder & CEO, Cohere | 7 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Peter Diamandis Executive Chairman, XPRIZE Foundation | 7 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bill McDermott Chairman and CEO, ServiceNow | 7 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dario Amodei Co-Founder and CEO, Anthropic | 7 | 6 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Lawrence "Larry" Lessig Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School | 7 | 6 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Frances Haugen Founder, Beyond the Screen | 7 | 6 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Gavin Wood Founder and Chief Architect, Parity Technologies | 7 | 6 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Max Hodak Co-founder & CEO, Science Corporation | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Johann Hari Author and Journalist | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Wael Ghonim Author & Internet Activist | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Plouffe Partner, Orchestra | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Casey Newton Founder & Editor, Platformer | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jim Lanzone CEO, Yahoo | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Caspar Lee General Partner, Creator Ventures | 6 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Erik Brynjolfsson Director, Stanford Digital Economy Lab | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| James Manyika SVP, Research, Technology & Society, Google | 6 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Petersen Founder & CEO, Flexport | 6 | 3 | 2.7/10 | 3 |
| Jack Clark Co-Founder and Head of Policy, Anthropic | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Astro Teller Captain of Moonshots and CEO, X | 6 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Callaghan Host and Creator, Channel 5 | 6 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Domke | 6 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sridhar Ramaswamy CEO, Snowflake | 6 | 3.3 | 2.3/10 | 3 |
| Blake Lemoine Former Senior Software Engineer, Google | 6 | 3.3 | 4.3/10 | 3 |
| Andrew Bosworth Chief Technology Officer, Meta | 6 | 3.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Saagar Enjeti Co-host and Co-founder, Breaking Points | 6 | 3.5 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Alex Stamos Chief Product Officer, Corridor | 6 | 4 | 3/10 | 3 |
| Tom Lee Head of Research, Fundstrat Global Advisors | 6 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Prince Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare | 6 | 4.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Emil Michael Under Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 6 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Liz Hoffman Business and Finance Editor, Semafor | 6 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 6 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Kurian CEO, Google Cloud | 6 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Josh Brown CEO & Co-Founder, Ritholtz Wealth Management | 6 | 5 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Matt Garman CEO, Amazon Web Services | 6 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gary Marcus Founder & Executive Chairman, Robust AI | 6 | 5.3 | 5.7/10 | 3 |
| Panos Panay SVP of Devices & Services, Amazon | 6 | 5.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Sebastian Siemiatkowski CEO, Klarna | 6 | 5.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Parker Harris Co-Founder, Salesforce & CTO, Slack | 6 | 6 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Guthrie EVP, Cloud + AI Group, Microsoft | 6 | 6 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brad Lightcap Former COO, OpenAI | 6 | 6 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Ives Partner & Senior Managing Director, Yorkville Ives | 6 | 6 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Christina Cacioppo CEO and Co-founder, Vanta | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Noland Arbaugh Clinical Trial Participant, Neuralink | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| M.G. Siegler Author & Publisher, Spyglass | 5 | 2.6 | 2.1/10 | 16 |
| Campbell Brown Co-Founder and CEO, Forum AI | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Horowitz Director, Perry World House & Professor, University of Pennsylvania | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Lila Ibrahim Chief AI Readiness Officer, Google DeepMind | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Noah Smith Economics Writer & Publisher, Noahpinion | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dwarkesh Patel Host, Dwarkesh Podcast | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Michael Batnick Managing Partner, Ritholtz Wealth Management | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Molly White Author, Citation Needed | 5 | 3.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Joelle Pineau Chief AI Officer, Cohere | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 3 |
| Zeb Evans Founder & CEO, ClickUp | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Parmy Olson Technology Columnist, Bloomberg | 5 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Bryan Catanzaro VP of Applied Deep Learning Research, NVIDIA | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Suhail Doshi Founder & CEO, Playground | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Max Chafkin Features Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andy Yen CEO and Founder, Proton | 5 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Eugenia Kuyda Founder & CEO, Wabi | 5 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gustav Söderström Co-CEO, Spotify | 5 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Swami Sivasubramanian VP of AI and Data, AWS | 5 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Blaise Aguera y Arcas VP, Fellow & CTO, Google | 5 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Professor Anil Seth Professor of Neuroscience, University of Sussex | 5 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Stephanie Link Chief Investment Strategist, Hightower Advisors | 5 | 6 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Muhammad Alam Executive Board Member, SAP | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Martin Migoya Chairman & CEO, Globant | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aytekin Tank Founder & CEO, Jotform | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christophe Beck Chairman and CEO, Ecolab | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jarek Kutylowski Founder & CEO, DeepL | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Evan Ratliff Host, Shell Game | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rev Lebaredian VP, Omniverse & Simulation Technology, NVIDIA | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rob Copeland Finance Reporter, The New York Times | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sharon Goldman Founder and Editor, Ground Level AI | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Reed Albergotti Technology Editor, Semafor | 4 | 2.8 | 2.4/10 | 5 |
| David Cahn Partner, Sequoia Capital | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Olivia Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Alan Baratz CEO, D-Wave Quantum | 4 | 3 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Melia Russell Senior Correspondent, Business Insider | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Yossi Matias Head, Google Research | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bill Vass Chief Technology Officer, Booz Allen Hamilton | 4 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Danny Shapiro VP of Marketing, Mythic | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Marshall Kosloff Co-Host, The Realignment | 4 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Steven Adler Co-founder, Guidelight AI | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Prem Natarajan EVP & Chief Scientist, Capital One | 4 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Chen Chief Research Officer, OpenAI | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Broderick Author and Editor-in-Chief, Garbage Day | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Deepa Sitaraman Tech Correspondent, Reuters | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Lauren Goode Senior Writer, WIRED | 4 | 4.3 | 2.7/10 | 3 |
| Brian McCullough Host, Techmeme Ride Home | 4 | 4.5 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Paul Kedrosky Partner, SK Ventures | 4 | 5 | 7/10 | 1 |
| Alex Himel VP & Head of Wearables, Meta | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Boris Cherny Head of Claude Code, Anthropic | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amit Zavery President, COO & CPO, ServiceNow | 4 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Dmitry Shevelenko Chief Business Officer, Perplexity | 4 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Michael Intrator Co-Founder and CEO, CoreWeave | 4 | 5 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Brian Venturo Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder, CoreWeave | 4 | 5 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Tony Stubblebine CEO, Medium | 4 | 5 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Rick Heitzman Founder & Managing Partner, FirstMark Capital | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Liz Reid VP and Head of Search, Google | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nick Fox SVP of Knowledge & Information, Google | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Koray Kavukcuoglu CTO, Google DeepMind | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Hendrycks Executive Director, Center for AI Safety | 4 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Carissa Véliz Philosopher, University of Oxford | 4 | 6 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Yinon Costica Co-Founder & VP of Product, Wiz product at the cybersecurity company Wiz. He focuses on emerging cybersecurity threats created by generative AI software and the defensive guardrails organizations must implement. | 4 | 6 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ed Zitron CEO & Founder, EZPR | 4 | 6 | 7/10 | 1 |
| Emily M. Bender Professor of Linguistics, University of Washington | 4 | 6 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Matt Wood Chief AI & Technology Officer, AWS | 4 | 6 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Neil Shah Co-Founder & CEO, EZ Newswire | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Guy Tytunovich Co-Founder and CEO, CHEQ | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sokwoo Rhee Head of LG Nova, LG Electronics | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Sasha Lazimi Co-founder & CEO, Yubo | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kristi Coulter Author | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Campbell EVP & Chief Product Officer, Hyland | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Spiros Xanthos Founder & CEO, Resolve AI | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adrian McDermott Chief Technology Officer, Zendesk | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ellen Huet Features Writer, Bloomberg News | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Grady Summers CEO, Netwrix | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tom Eggemeier CEO, Zendesk | 3 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Norman Winarski Founder & President, Winarsky Ventures | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Clint Sharp Co-Founder & CEO, Cribl | 3 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Evan Hubinger Alignment Stress-Testing Lead, Anthropic | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gil Luria Head of Technology Research, D.A. Davidson | 3 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Charles Sansbury CEO, Cloudera | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Max Zeff Senior AI Reporter, TechCrunch | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Mager Co-Founder & CEO, Precision Neuroscience | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Ben Rapoport Co-Founder & CSO, Precision Neuroscience | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cory Weinberg Senior Reporter, The Information | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Meta's Generative AI Head Chief Technology Officer, Airbnb | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ranjan Roy Co-author, Margins | 3 | 3.7 | 3.3/10 | 62 |
| Max Cherney Tech Correspondent, Reuters | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Anissa Gardizy Reporter, The Wall Street Journal | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Mark Moffat CEO, IFS | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Snehal Antani CEO & Co-founder, Horizon3.ai | 3 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jacqui Canney Chief People Officer, ServiceNow | 3 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Y-Lan Boureau Founder & CEO, ThrivePal | 3 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Hanna Director of Research, Distributed AI Research Institute | 3 | 6 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Rausch VP of Alexa and Echo, Amazon | 3 | 6 | 3/10 | 1 |
| William Saunders Alignment Science Researcher, Anthropic | 3 | 6 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Maroney CTO for Power, Texas Instruments | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Caitlin Kelly Vice President, Communications, OUTFRONT Media | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rachel Williamson VP of People Strategy, Ulta Beauty | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shiv Ramji CEO, Cellebrite | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eric Markowitz Managing Partner, Nightview Capital | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Keith Zubchevich President & CEO, Conviva | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Marty Brodbeck Chief Technology Officer, Priceline | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Simon Balmain Former Senior Community Manager, Twitter | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jitesh Gai President & CEO, Hyland | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Partha Srinivasa EVP & CIO, Erie Insurance | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Karthik Kripapuri CEO, Promevo | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joseph George SVP & GM, IT Solutions Group, GoTo | 2 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rona Novick Dean Emerita, Yeshiva University | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jinja Birkenbuehl Founder & CEO, Birk Creative | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stephen Morris San Francisco Bureau Chief, Financial Times | 2 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Gaurav Nemade Former Founding PM, Google LaMDA | 2 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Amir Khoshniyati Vice President, Wiliot | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adel El Hallak VP of Product Management, Agentic AI, NVIDIA | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joe Davis EVP, AI Engineering, ServiceNow | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Guillaume de Saint-Marc VP of Engineering, Outshift by Cisco | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Monte MacDiarmid Misalignment Science Researcher, Anthropic | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rubail Birwadker Global Head of Growth Products, Visa | 2 | 3 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Eric Kelleher President & COO, Okta | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adam Parker CEO, Trivariate Research | 2 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Antoine Shagoury Chief Technology Officer, Kyndryl | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Grace Shao Founder and Author, AI Proem | 2 | 3.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Ara Kharazian Lead Economist, Ramp | 2 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Arnab Bose Chief Product Officer, Asana | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Plummer Co-founder & CEO, Dragonfly | 2 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kellie Romack Chief Digital Information Officer, ServiceNow | 2 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Simon Edwards Chief Financial Officer, Bloom Energy | 2 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Francois Chadwick CFO, Cohere | 2 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Jamil Ghani VP of Worldwide Prime, Amazon | 2 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Josh Siebert VP of AI, Data & Enterprise Platforms, Ulta Beauty | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Greg Anugas Founder & CEO, Snowfire AI | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dallas Dolen US TMT Industry Leader, PwC | 1 | 3.3 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Colin Murdock Chief Business Officer, Google DeepMind | 1 | 6 | 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.