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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sundar Pichai CEO, Alphabet and Google | 9 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Satya Nadella Chairman and CEO, Microsoft | 9 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 9 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Evan Spiegel Co-Founder and CEO, Snap Inc. | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bret Taylor CEO & Co-Founder, Sierra | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tobi Lütke Co-Founder and CEO, Shopify | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Patrick Collison Co-founder & CEO, Stripe | 8 | 3.3 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Tony Xu Co-Founder and CEO, DoorDash | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| RJ Scaringe Founder & CEO, Rivian | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Thompson Founder & Author, Stratechery | 7 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Christina Cacioppo CEO and Co-founder, Vanta | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dave Ricks Chair & CEO, Eli Lilly and Company | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Pieter Levels Founder, levels.io | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Eric Glyman Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ramp | 6 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Rampell General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 6 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Vogt Founder & CEO, The Bot Company | 6 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mati Staniszewski Co-founder & CEO, ElevenLabs | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dmitri Dolgov Co-CEO, Waymo | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Sundheim Founder & CIO, D1 Capital Partners | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 5 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Charlie Songhurst Founding Partner, Katana Capital | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Anton Osika Co-Founder & CEO, Lovable | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam Bowman Head of Publishing, Stripe | 4 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Alex Depledge Entrepreneurship Advisor, HM Treasury | 4 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Garrett Langley Founder & CEO, Flock Safety | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zach Abrams Co-founder & CEO, Bridge | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Casey Handmer Founder and CEO, Terraform Industries | 4 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Luana Lopes Lara Co-Founder & COO, Kalshi | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tarek Mansour Co-founder & CEO, Kalshi | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Reiner Pope Co-founder and CEO, MatX | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Julia DeWahl Co-founder & President, Antares | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kanishka Narayan | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Henri Stern Co-founder and CEO, Privy | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Merva Iqbal Co-founder & CEO, HIVED | 1 | 2 | 4/10 | 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.