Episodes
Two years of tape. Every episode is checked claim by claim and playable.
32 episodes in 2026
🎙DAVID SENRA
1h 11m Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs co-founder and CEO Mati Staniszewski sits down with David Senra to discuss how intense product focus, Palantir-inspired engineering, and an ethical, human-first philosophy turned …
40 statements 13 featured 4 assessments
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1h 16m Building a Power Company for the Next 50 Years | Zach Dell, Base Power
In this in-depth discussion, Base Power founder Zach Dell and host David Senra explore how distributed residential batteries, vertical integration, and operational rigor are transforming the…
25 statements 9 featured 4 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 22m How to Dominate for Decades | Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital
Legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone shares the psychological drivers, investment heuristics, and institutional philosophies behind his decades-long career at Sequoia Capital.…
27 statements 8 featured 2 assessments
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1h 23m Building Defense Technologies to Protect Democracies | Torsten Reil, Helsing
Torsten Reil, co-founder of defense tech unicorn Helsing, joins David Senra to explain how artificial intelligence, autonomous drone swarms, and sovereign manufacturing are rendering convent…
29 statements 9 featured 8 assessments
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1h 18m Sam Altman on Building OpenAI & Betting on the Impossible
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins David Senra to discuss the operational strategy, compute infrastructure scaling, and non-consensus bets behind OpenAI, while drawing on business history and human…
37 statements 13 featured 4 assessments
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1h 48m Excellence Is the Capacity To Take Pain | Travis Kalanick, Founder of Uber
In this in-depth discussion, Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick joins David Senra to dissect the operational warfare, regulatory battles, and investor dynamics behind hypergrowth company buildi…
34 statements 12 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 17m The Comms Strategist Behind Anduril, Shopify & Cognition | Lulu Cheng Meservey
Communications strategist Lulu Cheng Meservey joins David Senra to break down her 'Go Direct' communications philosophy, explaining how ambitious founders build movements, bypass legacy medi…
17 statements 6 featured 1 assessments
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1h 6m Founder of CAA Michael Ovitz: "I Just Knew I Was Going to Outwork Every One of Them"
In this in-depth conversation with David Senra, legendary CAA co-founder Michael Ovitz shares foundational business principles on relentless work ethic, managing creative genius, competitive…
22 statements 8 featured 3 assessments
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1h 16m Lessons From Backing The Best Founders In Fintech | Micky Malka
In this in-depth conversation, Ribbit Capital founder Micky Malka joins David Senra to share his foundational operating principles, tracing how multi-decade compounding, a nonconformist rebe…
18 statements 8 featured 2 assessments
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1h 41m DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
Software pioneer David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) joins David Senra to discuss the principles of building highly profitable, lean software companies, maintaining radical personal autonomy, and…
27 statements 8 featured 3 assessments
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1h 47m The Restaurant Genius Behind Carbone, ZZ’s, Torrisi & More | Jeff Zalaznick
In this in-depth conversation, Major Food Group co-founder Jeff Zalaznick shares the entrepreneurial journey, creative philosophy, and operational strategies behind building a global hospita…
16 statements 6 featured 1 assessments
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58m The $44 Billion Company Automating Your Company's Finances
In this interview, Ramp CEO Eric Glyman speaks with David Senra about how Ramp leverages first-principles product design and artificial intelligence to automate corporate finance, eliminate …
19 statements 6 featured 1 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 11m Why Asking the Right Questions Is the Most Important Skill in the AI Age
David Senra interviews Groq founder Jonathan Ross on the architectural breakthroughs of Language Processing Units (LPUs), the transformative impact of ultra-fast inference speed on artificia…
28 statements 10 featured 1 assessments
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1h 5m The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
In this in-depth conversation, Cognition CEO Scott Wu and host David Senra discuss the origins of Devin, the world's first autonomous AI software engineer, examining the competitive mindset,…
22 statements 10 featured 4 assessments
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1h 35m The Marketing Genius of Steve Stoute
In this extensive conversation with David Senra, marketing visionary and music executive Steve Stoute breaks down his career trajectory from major label leadership to disrupting advertising …
23 statements 7 featured 7 assessments 2 contradicted
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1h 34m Building Pixar, Working With Steve Jobs, and Cultivating Creativity | Ed Catmull
In this in-depth conversation with David Senra, Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull shares the leadership principles, organizational mechanisms like the Braintrust, and pivotal partnerships with Ste…
37 statements 10 featured 6 assessments
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1h 13m The Company Apple Couldn't Kill | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
In an in-depth conversation with David Senra, Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström details the organizational architecture, ethical product design, and counter-positioning strategies that enable…
31 statements 9 featured 7 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 23m Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
Ivanka Trump joins host David Senra to discuss her evolution from corporate leadership and public service to mission-driven venture investing, sustainable real estate development, and person…
14 statements 8 featured 6 assessments 3 contradicted
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1h 23m Rick Rubin on Finding Your Life’s Work
In this in-depth conversation, legendary record producer Rick Rubin and host David Senra explore the timeless principles of artistic creation, radical reduction, and creative mindset. Rubin …
22 statements 7 featured 2 assessments
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1h 39m The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
In an in-depth interview with David Senra on the Founders podcast, media executive and investor Strauss Zelnick recounts his journey from leading Hollywood studios to orchestrating the histo…
31 statements 10 featured 11 assessments 4 contradicted
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1h 13m Dana White: The Man Behind the UFC
In this in-depth interview with David Senra on the Founders podcast, UFC CEO Dana White chronicles the transformation of the Ultimate Fighting Championship from a near-bankrupt promotion int…
43 statements 18 featured 8 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 26m Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
In this in-depth interview, AppLovin co-founder and CEO Adam Foroughi breaks down how he bootstrapped a mobile advertising powerhouse into an ultra-lean enterprise generating over $5 billion…
29 statements 9 featured 10 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 27m Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
In this in-depth conversation, Roblox founder and CEO David Baszucki speaks with host David Senra about the multi-decade engineering philosophy, proprietary infrastructure, and creator-led e…
50 statements 14 featured 14 assessments 2 contradicted
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1h 58m Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
In this in-depth interview with David Senra, Snap Inc. co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel shares the product philosophies, operational frameworks, and technological convictions that shaped Snap…
42 statements 16 featured 9 assessments
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1h 49m Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
In this in-depth interview with David Senra, DoorDash co-founder and CEO Tony Xu details the company's evolution from a simple student MVP into a global logistics infrastructure, sharing har…
30 statements 10 featured 4 assessments
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1h 50m How Elon Thinks
In this in-depth conversation, David Senra and the author of The Book of Elon deconstruct Elon Musk's core operating principles, engineering doctrines, and purpose-driven mindset. They exami…
11 statements 3 featured 1 assessments
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1h 49m Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen joins David Senra to explore the history of technological innovation, examining the psychology of elite founders, the architectural evolution of venture ca…
35 statements 10 featured 5 assessments 1 contradicted
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1h 49m Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
In this extensive interview, Coinbase co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong details the company's founding history, legal battles against federal regulators, and uncompromising cultural princip…
36 statements 11 featured 14 assessments
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2h 21m Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
In this extensive conversation, 37signals co-founder Jason Fried joins David Senra to unpack his core business philosophies on radical simplicity, cost discipline, product craftsmanship, and…
47 statements 12 featured 3 assessments 1 contradicted
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2h 8m Jimmy Iovine: Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre
Music executive and Beats co-founder Jimmy Iovine joins David Senra to share masterclasses on creative collaboration, artist development, and fearless entrepreneurship. He reflects on his ic…
38 statements 10 featured 9 assessments 1 contradicted
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2h 23m Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke joins David Senra to unpack his first-principles philosophy on company building, organizational engineering, and executive leadership. Across twenty-one ye…
50 statements 12 featured 3 assessments
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1h 41m John Mackey: The Dropout Who Changed How America Eats
Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey joins host David Senra to unpack the strategies, governance battles, and philosophical principles behind scaling a natural foods startup into a global ente…
31 statements 9 featured 5 assessments