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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ivanka Trump | 9 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dana White CEO and President, UFC | 9 | 0 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Michael Dell Founder, Chairman & CEO, Dell Technologies | 9 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rick Rubin Record Producer and Author | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 9 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Ek Founder & Executive Chairman, Spotify | 8 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| James Dyson Founder and Chief Engineer, Dyson | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jimmy Iovine Co-founder, Beats Electronics | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Evan Spiegel Co-Founder and CEO, Snap Inc. | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Travis Kalanick CEO, Atoms | 8 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 8 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ed Catmull Co-Founder, Pixar | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Steve Stoute Founder & CEO, UnitedMasters | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Baszucki Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tobi Lütke Co-Founder and CEO, Shopify | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Ovitz Chairman, Treville Capital Group | 7 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| John Mackey Co-Founder & CEO, Love.Life | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tony Xu Co-Founder and CEO, DoorDash | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Todd Graves Founder and Co-CEO, Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) | 6 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Doug Leone Partner, Sequoia Capital | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Strauss Zelnick Chairman & CEO, Take-Two Interactive | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Glyman Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ramp | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Micky Malka Founder & Managing Partner, Ribbit Capital | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Foroughi Co-Founder & CEO, AppLovin | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jason Fried Co-founder and CEO, 37signals | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mati Staniszewski Co-founder & CEO, ElevenLabs | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Zalaznick Co-Founder and Partner, Major Food Group | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brad Jacobs Chairman & CEO, QXO, Inc. | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Lulu Cheng Meservey Founder and CEO, Rostra | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Ross Founder, Groq | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gustav Söderström Co-CEO, Spotify | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Patrick O'Shaughnessy Founder & CEO, Positive Sum | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zach Dell Co-Founder and CEO, Base Power | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Torsten Reil Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Helsing | 3 | 3 | 3/10 | 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.