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 →
+0.24pushback per +1 prominence
0.0/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
1.7/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
217guests 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Reinhardt Co-founder and CEO, Charm Industrial | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Daniel Yergin Vice Chairman, S&P Global | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Schroepfer Founding Partner, Gigascale Capital | 7 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| K.R. Sridhar Founder & CEO, Bloom Energy | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Yet-Ming Chiang Professor of Materials Science, MIT | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Rogers Co-Founder and CEO, Mill | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jigar Shah Co-Managing Partner, Multiplier LLC | 6 | 3.3 | 2.3/10 | 3 |
| Rafi Garabedian Co-Founder and CEO, Electric Hydrogen | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jason Bordoff Founding Director, Center on Global Energy Policy | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Kurt House Co-Founder and CEO, KoBold Metals | 5 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Nat Bullard Co-founder & CSO, Halcyon | 5 | 1.8 | 1.1/10 | 10 |
| Julio Friedmann | 5 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 4 |
| Mateo Jaramillo Co-founder and CEO, Form Energy | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nan Ransohoff | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ramez Naam Founder & Managing Partner, Planetary VC | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Drew Baglino Founder & CEO, Heron Power | 5 | 2.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Allison Clements Principal, 804 Advisory | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Akshat Rathi Senior Climate Reporter, Bloomberg News | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jesse Jenkins Associate Professor, Princeton University | 5 | 3 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jake DeWitt Co-founder & CEO, Oklo Inc. | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mary Powell CEO, Sunrun | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Amin Vahdat Chief Technologist for AI & Infrastructure, Google | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Roberts Host and Creator, Volts | 5 | 5 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Neha Palmer CEO and Co-Founder, TeraWatt Infrastructure | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Dan Shugar Founder & CEO, Nextpower | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Melissa Lott Partner for Energy Technologies, Microsoft | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Katie Huff | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Peter Battaglia Senior Director of Research, Google DeepMind | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Julian Dumoulin-Smith Managing Director, Jefferies | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Holly Buck | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| John O'Donnell Founder & Chief Innovation Officer, Rondo Energy | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kiran Bhatraju | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chase Lockmiller | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stephen Lacey Co-Founder and Executive Editor, Latitude Media | 4 | 1.1 | 1.1/10 | 45 |
| Leah Ellis | 4 | 1.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Dr. Michael Webber Professor, The University of Texas at Austin | 4 | 1.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Michael Dunne CEO and Founder, Dunne Insights | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Varun Sivaram Founder & CEO, Emerald AI | 4 | 2 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Scott Nolan Founder & CEO, General Matter | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rob Gramlich Founder & President, Grid Strategies | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Isha Datar Executive Director, New Harvest | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Grunwald Contributing Opinions Writer, The New York Times | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pete Johnson CEO and Co-Founder, Koloma | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kim Zou Co-founder & CEO, Sightline Climate | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Trevor Houser Partner, Rhodium Group | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ethan Zindler Head of Country and Policy Research, BloombergNEF | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jenny Chase Solar Specialist, BloombergNEF | 4 | 2 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Ian Rountree | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kurt Kelty | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sheldon Kimber Founder and CEO, Intersect Power | 4 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Gene Berdichevsky Co-Founder and CEO, Sila Nanotechnologies | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Christian Belady Former VP, Datacenter Advanced Development, Microsoft Mathur, Microsoft | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Jacobs Co-Founder & Former CEO, Generate Capital | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Brian Janous Co-Founder and CCO, Cloverleaf Infrastructure | 4 | 3.5 | 1.8/10 | 4 |
| John Koomey Founder and President, Koomey Analytics | 4 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Emily Grubert | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Orbuch Partner, Lowercarbon Capital | 4 | 4.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Brett Kugelmass Founder & CEO, Last Energy | 4 | 5 | 7/10 | 1 |
| Tom Burton Chair, Sustainable Energy Practice, Mintz | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Heather O'Neill President & CEO, Advanced Energy United | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Waters CEO, Powin | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ahmad Faruqi Independent Energy Economist | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tom Moerenhout Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University SIPA | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Emily Pontecorvo Founding Staff Writer, Heatmap News | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Panama Bartholomew | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Julian Spector Senior Reporter, Canary Media | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alfred Johnson Co-Founder and CEO, Crux | 3 | 0.3 | 0.5/10 | 4 |
| Seth Frader-Thompson | 3 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Dana Guernsey CEO and Co-founder, Voltus | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Colbert Chairman and CEO, Elementl Power | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Gabrielle Dreyfus Chief Scientist, IGSD | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Colin Grabow Associate Director, Cato Institute | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Corey Cantor Research Director, ZETA | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alejandro de la Garza Freelance Climate Journalist | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Koch-Blank Managing Director, RMI | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Liza Reed Director for Climate and Energy, Niskanen Center | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jamie Beard Founder & Executive Director, Project InnerSpace | 3 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Ackerman Audio Journalist, Marketplace | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Astrid Atkinson CEO & Co-Founder, Camus Energy | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Luis Olmedo Executive Director, Comité Cívico del Valle | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rob Hanson Co-founder & Senior Advisor, Monolith | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Steingart Chair & Professor, Columbia University | 3 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Saloni Multani Partner, Galvanize Climate Solutions | 3 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Lara Pierpoint Managing Director, Trellis Climate | 3 | 1.9 | 1.6/10 | 12 |
| Josh Wong Founder & CEO, ThinkLabs AI | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Josh Linville VP of Fertilizer, StoneX | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| George Hershman CEO, SOLV Energy | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Addison Stark | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Chris Sharp Chief Technology Officer, Digital Realty | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ernest Scheyder | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| James Frith | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rebecca Dell Adjunct Research Scholar, Columbia Business School | 3 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Dr. Lynn Loo CEO, Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Roland Horne Professor of Earth Sciences, Stanford University | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| TP Huang (TP Wang) Independent Analyst, TP's Substack | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cassie Bowe Partner, Energy Impact Partners | 3 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Stacey Kauk Chief Science Officer, Isometric | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Yeh Founder & Partner, Precursor | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Visioni Assistant Professor, Cornell University | 3 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Seyed Madaeni CEO & Co-Founder, Verse | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alistair Frew (Alistair Fury) | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| John Larson Partner, Rhodium Group | 3 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Gia Schneider Co-founder & CCO, Natel Energy | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Liz Specht VP of Science & Strategic Initiatives, FSI | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Scott Hsu Fusion Partner, Lowercarbon Capital | 3 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mark Cupta | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Rutherford Senior Director of Research, ICCT | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Lubershane Partner & Head of Research, Energy Impact Partners | 3 | 2.1 | 1.4/10 | 14 |
| Anne-Sophie Corbeau Global Research Scholar, Center on Global Energy Policy | 3 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Tyler Norris Head of Market Innovation, Google | 3 | 2.7 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Sam Jaffe VP of Business Development, Mana Battery | 3 | 2.8 | 2/10 | 5 |
| Carlos Araque Co-Founder and CEO, Quaise Energy | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amelia DeLuca | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jessica Lovering Postdoctoral Researcher, Uppsala University | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ben Hertz-Shargel President, New Jersey Board of Public Utilities | 3 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Chris Bataille Global Fellow, Columbia University SIPA | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tim Hade Senior Vice President, Voltus | 3 | 4 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Nick Chaset CEO, Octopus Energy US | 3 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Sam Smith-Eppsteiner | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adrian Yao | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Scott Moskowitz VP Market Strategy & Public Affairs, Qcells | 3 | 5 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zach Dell Co-Founder and CEO, Base Power | 3 | 6 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Richard Wang Co-founder & CEO, Voya Energy | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rob Black Cabinet Secretary, New Mexico Economic Development Department | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jamie Daggett | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tristan Doherty VP of Manufacturing, Commonwealth Fusion Systems | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Michael Stadler Co-founder & CTO, Xendee | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sanjay Vijendran Co-founder & CTO, TerraSpark | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Cristobal Undurraga Co-Founder and CEO, Ceibo | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Carl Popham Founder, Mobility+Energy Consulting LLC | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Britta von Ossen Managing Director, CRC-IB | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Brad Langley Chief Marketing Officer, GridX | 2 | 0.3 | 1/10 | 3 |
| Dr. Ben Lee | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Steve Piper Director of Energy Research, S&P Global | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ben Brown | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Judson Boomhauer Associate Professor of Economics, UC San Diego | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Greg Thiel Managing Director of Technology, Energy Impact Partners | 2 | 1 | 0.7/10 | 3 |
| Dr. Melissa Ball Director of Technology, Energy Impact Partners | 2 | 1 | 0.7/10 | 3 |
| David Groarke Managing Director, Indigo Advisory Group | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Charles Brooke Program Director, Spark Climate Solutions | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nick Woolley Co-founder and CEO, ev.energy | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Steve Pantano | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Baumgartner Managing Director, Mizuho Securities | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Heidi Jane Hawkins | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Kevin Surprise Senior Lecturer in Environmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Song Co-founder, Make Sunsets | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Zach Stein Co-founder & CEO, Carbon Collective | 2 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Marion Hill | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eric Slesserev Assistant Professor, Yale University | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Maeve Allsup Founding Reporter, Latitude Media | 2 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ahmad Ghahreman Co-Founder and CEO, Cyclic Materials | 2 | 1.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Raymond Hawkins Chief Customer Officer, Compass Datacenters | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Jen Shafer (Jen Schaefer) | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hans Smit President & CEO, Ocean Minerals LLC | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Katie MacDonald | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tomas de Oliveira Bredariol | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mallory Thomas Partner, Risk Advisory, Baker Tilly US | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tim Mills President & CEO, ERMCO | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Bodhi Cabiyo Director of Interdisciplinary Science, Carbon Direct | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Renee Grogan Co-Founder and Board Director, Impossible Metals | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Duncan Campbell VP of Project Development, Scale Microgrids | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brandon Moffat | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Davidson Professor Emeritus, UMCES | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Freya Chay (Freya Che) Program Lead, CarbonPlan | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jayant Mukhopadhyay Senior Aviation Researcher, ICCT | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dave Schroeder Managing Partner, Volta Energy Technologies | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jesse Rivest Partner, Khosla Ventures | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff McCauley | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ari Lipman | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Doğuş Çubuk (Doj Chubuk) | 2 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Steve Letendre Senior Advisor, Vehicle-Grid Integration Council | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bob Sorenson Chief Analyst, Hyperion Research | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yanai Yedvab Co-founder & CEO, Stardust Solutions | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eyal Cohen Founder and CEO, Humble Robotics | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jake Elder | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shanu Matthew SVP & Portfolio Manager, Lazard Asset Management | 2 | 3 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Landon Mossberg Co-Founder and CEO, Peak Energy | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tony Brough President, Dora Partners | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mario Fernandez Former Head, Breakthrough Energy Catalyst | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Klauber Chief Sustainability Officer, World Energy | 2 | 3 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Sachs | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alyssa Peterson Founder & CEO, SeaAhead | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| James McGinnis CEO & Co-Founder, David Energy | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Modon Co-Founder and CEO, Unlimited Industries | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Colin Campbell | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Katie Bayes Director of Research, Crux | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sean McAvoy President & Chief Product Officer, GridBeyond | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adib Nasli Co-Founder and CEO, Xendee | 1 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Timmy Kloster SVP of Tax Credit Syndications, U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Laurent Bueneau Power & Utilities Industry Leader, Microsoft | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Scott Engstrom Co-founder & Chief Customer Officer, GridX | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Bilal Khashid | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ian McGavis | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tanis McCoy President & GM, NewRange Copper Nickel | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kayla Schultz Partner, CohnReznick | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Tom Tillis U.S. Senator, United States Senate | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nick Fulgham Senior Energy and Climate Data Analyst, Ember | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Stacey Phillips | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Carrie Carnes Director of Customer-to-Grid Solutions, APS | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andreas Apley CFO, Reverion | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Charlotte Johnson GM of Generation Flex, Kraken | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Billy Briscoe CEO, Clean Energy Fund of Texas | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Amanda Lee Co-Founder & COO, Banyan Infrastructure | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ty Yeagerson | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rayford Smith Global Head, Power and Energy, Google Cloud | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Erica Reinhart Executive Director & Co-Founder, Spark Climate Solutions | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nick Broad Senior Vice President, DNV | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kate Steele SVP, NRECA International | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Eliahu-Ontiveros Managing Director, SemiAnalysis | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Paul Siegel | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Doge Chubuk | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Carl Hoyland Co-Founder & CEO, Zanskar | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Paul Lambert Co-founder and CEO, Quilt | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gnevamir Fleece | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Garth Sheldon-Coulson Co-Founder & CEO, Panthalassa | 1 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pierre Lafarge Co-founder & CEO, Sparkfund | 1 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Carrie Von Munch Co-Founder and COO, Pacific Fusion | 1 | 4 | 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.