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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jeff Bezos Executive Chair, Amazon | 10 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Justin Kan General Partner, Goat Capital | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jocko Willink Co-founder & CEO, Echelon Front | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Harley Finkelstein President, Shopify | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Keith Raboi Managing Director, Khosla Ventures | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jason Fried Co-founder and CEO, 37signals | 6 | 0.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Noah Kagan Founder & CEO, AppSumo | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sophia Amoruso Founder & Managing Partner, Trust Fund | 6 | 2.6 | 2.4/10 | 12 |
| Kat Cole CEO, AG1 | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam Parr Founder, Hampton | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Brett Adcock Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 5 | 0.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Ankur Jain Founder & CEO, Bilt Rewards | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sahil Lavingia Founder and CEO, Gumroad | 5 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Codie Sanchez Founder & CEO, Contrarian Thinking | 5 | 1.7 | 2.7/10 | 6 |
| Josh Reeves Co-Founder and CEO, Gusto | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Vohra Founder & CEO, Superhuman | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Girdley Chairman & CEO, Girdley Enterprises | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Tyler Denk Co-founder & CEO, beehiiv | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Katie Gatti Founder and Host, Money with Katie | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ankur Nagpal Founder & CEO, Carry | 4 | 1 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Greg Eisenberg CEO & Founder, Late Checkout | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Siroker | 4 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Austin Rief Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Morning Brew | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brian Scudamore Founder & CEO, O2E Brands | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Mochari Founder & CEO Coach, Mochary Method | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Michael Sikand Founder, Sikand Media | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Swanson Founder & Chairman, Athena | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam Corcos Co-Founder & CEO, Levels | 3 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jesse Pujji Founder and CEO, Gateway X | 3 | 1.6 | 1.6/10 | 43 |
| Kian Sadeghi Founder & CEO, Nucleus Genomics | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Gagliardi Regional Vice President, Fidelity Investments | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Robbie Crabtree Founder & CEO, Competitive Storytelling | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ahad Khan | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Josh Kaplan Co-Founder & CEO, Smooth Creative Holdings | 2 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Hagee | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Urien Timmer Director of Global Macro, Fidelity Investments | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Simran Sandhu Co-founder, Our Future | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Steve Gatina | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Isaac Medeiros | 1 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jesse Poogee Founder & CEO, Gateway X | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kate Noel SVP, Head of People Operations, Morning Brew | 1 | 3 | 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.