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 →
-0.10pushback per +1 prominence
0.0/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
1.5/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
83guests 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parag Agrawal Co-founder & CEO, Parallel | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Steve Blank Adjunct Professor, Stanford University | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Guillermo Rauch Founder & CEO, Vercel | 6 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jyoti Bansal Co-Founder & CEO, Harness | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cameron Adams Co-founder & CPO, Canva | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jay Kreps Co-founder & CEO, Confluent | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Abhinav Asthana Co-founder & CEO, Postman | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 5 | 0 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Shiner Executive Chair, 1Password | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adam Nash Co-Founder and CEO, Daffy | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Neha Narkhede Co-founder & CEO, Oscilar | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dan Siroker Co-Founder & CEO, Rewind AI | 5 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Paul Copplestone Co-founder & CEO, Supabase | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Christopher Payne Former President & COO, DoorDash | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sam Schillace Deputy CTO & CVP, Microsoft | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jack Altman General Partner, Benchmark | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jay Parikh EVP of CoreAI, Microsoft | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sam Chaudhary Co-founder & CEO, ClassDojo | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Karri Saarinen Co-Founder & CEO, Linear | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Lopp Senior Director of Engineering, Apple | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Wade Foster Co-founder & CEO, Zapier | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Imad Akhund CEO & Co-Founder, Mercury | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eoghan McCabe Co-Founder & CEO, Intercom | 5 | 3 | 6/10 | 1 |
| May Habib Co-founder & CEO, Writer | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jack Krawczyk Senior Product Director, Meta | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anastasis Germanidis Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Runway | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Will Larson CTO, Imprint | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Todd Jackson Partner, First Round Capital | 4 | 0.7 | 1.3/10 | 10 |
| Sheila Joglekar Vashee Chief Marketing Officer, Figma | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Degnan Former Chief Revenue Officer, Snowflake | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Cramer Co-founder & CPO, Sentry | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Tomer London Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Gusto | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bill Magnuson Co-Founder & CEO, Braze | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Yuhki Yamashita Chief Product Officer, Figma | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tristan Handy Founder & CEO, dbt Labs | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt MacInnis Chief Product Officer, Rippling | 4 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Casey Winters Co-Founder and CEO, SuperMe | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kareem Amin Co-founder & CEO, Clay | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Laura Behrens Wu Founder & CEO, Shippo | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Noah Desai Weiss Chief Product Officer, Slack | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Wes Kao Co-founder, Maven | 4 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Busque Co-founder & CEO, Guideline | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeanne DeWitt Grosser COO, Vercel | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anil Varanasi Co-founder and CEO, Meter | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Rick Song Co-founder & CEO, Persona | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ashley Kramer Chief Revenue Officer, ElevenLabs | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Saumil Mehta Global President, Ticketmaster | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Glasgow Founder and CEO, Sprig | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kiren Sekar Chief Product Officer, Samsara | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Lerner Co-Founder & CEO, SYSTM | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bob Moore Co-Founder & CEO, Crossbeam | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Krithika Muthukumar Entrepreneur in Residence, Thrive Capital | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Parrish Partner, Craft Ventures | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Kracov CEO & Co-Founder, Dock | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tara Seshan Product Lead, OpenAI | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jon Noronha Co-founder & CPO, Gamma | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Diya Jolly Chief Product and Technology Officer, Xero | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Epling Chief Product Officer, Vanta | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zack Kanter Founder and CEO, Stedi | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ankur Goyal Founder & CEO, Braintrust | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eeke de Milliano Head of Global Product, Stripe | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anneka Gupta Chief Product Officer, Rubrik | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eilon Reshef Co-founder & Chief Product Officer, Gong | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Oliver Jay Former Chief Revenue Officer, Asana | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Colin Zima Co-Founder & CEO, Omni | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kellan Elliott-McCrea Head of Engineering, Adobe | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Sager COO, Plaid | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Shiebler Co-Founder and CTO, Artemis | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Guild Co-founder & CEO, Owner.com | 3 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Varun Anand Co-founder & Head of Operations, Clay | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Milin Desai CEO, Sentry | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dennis Pilarinos Founder & CEO, Unblocked | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Graham Moreno Head of GTM, Parallel Web Systems | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Gorkem Yurtseven Co-Founder & CTO, fal | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Wang Chief Product Officer, Braze | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jake Stauch Co-founder & CEO, Serval | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adit Abraham Co-founder & CEO, Reducto | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anique Drumright Chief Product Officer, Harvey | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shachar Hirshberg Co-Founder & CEO, Artemis | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Cieri Chief Product Officer, BILL Holdings | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Stephanie Berner Chief Customer Officer, Smartsheet | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Mandich Head of Machine Learning, Sprig | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 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.