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 →
+0.04pushback per +1 prominence
0.0/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
0.3/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
211guests 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Howard Morgan Chairman, B Capital Group | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bobby Franklin | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Yang Co-Founder and President, Newo.ai | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amish Tripathi Co-founder, Tara Gaming Limited | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rick Marini Co-Founder, President & COO, Rails | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andrey Doronichev Founder & CEO, Optic | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Cindy Padnos | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Galpin Founder, Tree and Leaf Partners | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Lalit Ahuja Founder & CEO, ANSR | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Peter Walker | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anand Gandhi Founder & CEO, Memesys Culture Lab | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tarun Katial Founder & CEO, coto | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Arjun Vaidya Co-Founder & Investment Partner, V3 Ventures | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cyrus Wadia CEO, Activate | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Caroline Winnett Executive Director, Berkeley SkyDeck | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ari Newman | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Dusek Managing Partner, Enygma Ventures | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Leigh-Ann Buchanan | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Diane Yu Co-founder & CEO, TidalWave | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Rizik | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Scott Wharton CEO, Tandem PV | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sven Harmsen Director of External Ventures, NOVA by Saint-Gobain | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Kluz | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Greg Martin Co-founder & CEO, Ghost Security | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Maggie Vo Managing Partner & CIO, Fuel Venture Capital | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Amit Patel Managing Partner, Owl Ventures | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Edward Hieatt | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kim Thanos Founder and CEO, Lumen Learning | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Levi King | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amar Bakshi Co-Founder, Noro | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nathan Beckord CEO & Founder, Foundersuite | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Marty Ringlein | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Luke Cooper Founding Managing Partner, Latimer Ventures | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ishan Girdhar Studio Lead, The LegalTech Fund | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bernard Chong Angel Investor, Bren Investments | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Phil Nadel Managing Director, Forefront Venture Partners | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Melissa Kozak | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Zach Posner Co-Founder and Managing Partner, The LegalTech Fund | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Belson Coutinho Co-founder & COO, Akasa Air | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Shubha Vilas Spiritual Teacher & Author | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Paroma Chatterjee CEO, Revolut India | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Howard Dawber Deputy Mayor for Business, Greater London Authority | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sanjeev Gupta CEO, Karnataka Digital Economy Mission | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashray Malhotra GenAI, Adobe | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Arvinder Gujral Chief Revenue Officer, EnableX | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shaun Modi | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Toeman SVP of AI Innovation, JWX | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Hoag Co-founder & CEO, Dash Labs | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Yvonne Lutsch Investment Director, Lam Capital | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sindhu Joseph Founder & CEO, CogniCor | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Falvey | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yash Hemeraj General Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tanis Jorge Founder, The Cofounder's Hub | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gaurav Bhattacharya | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Katerina Axelsson Founder and CEO, Tastry | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zain Memon Co-Founder, Memesys Culture Lab | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Peeyush Ranjan Co-Founder and CEO, Fermi.ai | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pankaj Rai Group Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Aditya Birla Group | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mukul Deora Transmedia Producer, Tara Gaming Limited | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jatin Varma Founder, Comic Con India | 3 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Vishakha Singh Co-founder, Lokaa Entertainment | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| John Hargrave | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nick Mastronardi Co-Founder and CEO, Polco | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| David Rolf Head of Visa Ventures, Visa | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nathan Rosenberg Co-Founder and CEO, Farmblox | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jonathan Lowenhar Founder & Managing Partner, Enjoy The Work | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Duffell | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Lancaster Founder and CEO, Channel Program | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Danielle DiAgostaro Managing Director, Alchemist Accelerator | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Rothzeid Principal, Shield Capital | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sivan Zamir | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Renan Devillieres Co-founder & CEO, OSS Ventures | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ranvir Mangat Co-Founder and COO, InsightRX | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Srikant Vasan Founder & Managing Partner, Avesta Fund | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kenny Vassigh Founder & CEO, Caylan Space | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Chandra Data & AI Investment Lead, Accenture Ventures | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cyril Shtabtsovsky Founder, AlphaSemantic | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sriram Sundararajan Managing Partner, HypergrowthLabs Capital | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Matt Keener Co-Founder & CMO, Blackbird Health | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Birch Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Veritas Equity Partners | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Glushik Managing Director, HG Ventures | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Applebaum Partner, Pangaea Ventures | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adam Rubenstein Co-Founder and CEO, Traq.ai | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hale Bullen Investment Manager, PS27 Ventures | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vikram Srinivasan Co-founder & CEO, Needl.ai | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| AJ Dye COO, Vertex Innovations | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ash Vaidya Managing Director, Multiplier Capital | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Esposito Co-Founder and COO, VeraAI Technologies | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jim Curry Co-Founder and CEO, BuildGroup | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Steve DeMarco | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adam Mangana Co-Founder, President & CEO, OptimaEd | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ralph Groce President & COO, Scroobius | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Suzanne El-Moursi Co-founder & CEO, BrightHive | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Keith Harrington | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| JT Benton Co-Founder, 9point8 Collective | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Avanlee Christine Founder & CEO, Avanlee Care | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adam Metcalf | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Brian Parks | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sean Tepper Founder & CEO, Tykr | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| France Hoang Founder & CEO, BoodleBox | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Carl Falk Founder & CEO, Botdoc | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Greg Davis Founder and CEO, Overwatch Imaging | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Schwartz Founder and CEO, dataroomHQ | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Bikram Bakshi Partner, Blu Venture Investors | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shawn Olds Co-Founder and CEO, boodleAI | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dan Rizzo Innovation Fellow, Inovalon | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Patrick Russo Founding CEO, OnStation | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Itamar Novik Founder & General Partner, Recursive Ventures | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Karl Seelbach Co-Founder, Skribe.ai | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nick Jain Founder, Content Hurricane | 2 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Rebecca Port Chief People Officer, Okta | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kamal Sharma Global Connected Hubs Leader & CIO, Carrier | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ishaan Khanna CEO, Antara Assisted Care Services | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vijay Rajagopal Chief Growth Officer, Nugget by Zomato | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Vinayak Hegde Principal AI Advocate, Microsoft | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Preeti Vyas President of Content Strategy, Mythik | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Kushal Sanghvi Director, Animmoov Digital Media | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Abhay Tandon General Partner, 3to1 Capital | 2 | 0.6 | 1.2/10 | 28 |
| Sonali Vijayavargiya Founder & Managing Director, Augment Ventures | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Maarten van Kroonenburg Founder & CEO, BW Ventures | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shane Emmons Co-Founder and CEO, Swept AI | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yotam Cohen Co-Founder and CEO, Daisy | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Konstantin Sonkin Co-Founder and CEO, i-BrainTech | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sam Huang Principal, BMW i Ventures | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jay Crone | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Keong Chan Managing Director, Out the Back Ventures | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Stachel Partner, FirstMile Ventures | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Evans Managing Partner, Sentiero Ventures | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Grossman Vice President, Decathlon Capital Partners | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Les Craig General Partner, Next Frontier Capital | 2 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jake Soffer Founder and CEO, FirmPilot | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Malhar Pinnelli VP & Country Leader, 7-Eleven GSC India | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Subhendu Panigrahi Co-Founder & CEO, FOXO | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ewout De Wit Consul General, Kingdom of the Netherlands | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amit Banka Founder and CEO, WeNaturalists | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ritukar Vijay Co-Founder and CEO, Ottonomy Inc. | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rajat Jadhav Co-founder & CEO, Bold Care | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Corey Jeffrey Partner, Inovia Capital | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Taylor Cordoba | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tamerlan Rakhmetzhanov Co-founder & CEO, Armeta AI | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Deepak Ramaswamy Co-founder & CTO, LightSpun | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shaju Puthussery Co-founder & CEO, Lightspun | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Ashley Blackington | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Stephen Emil Co-Founder & CEO, Chronilogix | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Bill Lakeland Co-Founder and CEO, Spexi | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Massay Co-Founder & CTO, Convos | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Kirby Founder & CEO, Total Family | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Logan Brown Founder and CEO, Soxton | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anar Bayramov Head of Product, Polygraf AI | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jennifer Zimmerman Expert in Residence, X&O | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Melanie Nabar Principal, Volition Capital | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jason Ambrose Chief Executive Officer, Backstory | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sandhya (Sonia) Venkatachalam Founder and Managing Partner, Axiom Partners | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eugene Johnson Founder & CEO, Revi | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Josh Kohn Co-Founder & CEO, Meridian Performance Systems | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Brandon Williams General Counsel and COO, Steve Harvey Global | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Craig Kaplan Founder & CEO, iQ Company | 1 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Lewis CRO and U.S. GM, Darrow | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Anthony Kaniowski | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sid Masson Co-Founder and CEO, Wokelo AI | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Matt Schappell Principal, Frist Cressey Ventures | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ronan Soffer Chief Product Officer, Intuition Robotics | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Charles Anselm CEO & Co-Founder, Osyte | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Joe Alalu Co-Founder & General Partner, Daring Ventures | 1 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jenna Anderson Co-Founder and CEO, Kihealth | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Brehm Managing Director, Zell Lurie Commercialization Fund | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrea Dattilo Co-founder & CEO, Vera AI Technologies | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Manfred Heiss Founder & CEO, MyAutoData | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jackie DeMarco CEO & Co-Founder, IMAGExRAY | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jon McLaughlin Managing Partner, Emberline | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Todd Thomas | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Raj Malik Partner, Pixel Perfect Ventures | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Matt Smith Founder & CIO, Chronometer Partners | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Albert Bou Fadel Founder and CEO, SmartBarrel | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eyal Karmi Co-founder & CEO, Nekuda | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Weber Managing Director, Amex Ventures | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Danica Chilibeck Co-Founder and CEO, Caddie AI | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Todd Smith Co-Founder & CEO, TAHO | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Yeri Lopez Director of Partnerships, J2 Ventures | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Brian Lindstrom Partner, HealthX Ventures | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rick Lash Board Member, MSU Research Foundation | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Lena Mareike Wenzel Innovation Manager, EIT Food | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Brad DiPaolo Founder and CEO, CandidateHub | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| James McDowell Founding Partner, Arcanum Capital | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Mounts Managing Partner, Aero X Ventures | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joel Martin Operating Partner, HealthX Ventures | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brad Whistler Founding Partner, Paragraph | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Cross CISO, Atlassian | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Justin Henshaw Founder & CEO, GAGE | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Rajesh Puneyani VP of Technology & Site Leader, Kenvue | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adam Chen Chief Revenue Officer, FinStrat Management | 1 | 0.2 | 0.2/10 | 5 |
| Subramanya Rao Founder and CEO, Discover Dollar | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Rodney Robinson Co-founder & CEO, TabaPay | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kingshuk Khan Founder and CEO, Ikigai | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Glenn Borok Principal, Alumni Ventures | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aja Beckett Founder & CEO, Shotsy | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Harry Statter | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vish Hari Founder & CEO, Ego | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| James Paul Costa Founder, Grapetree Ventures | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Grace Brown Founder & CEO, Andromeda | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yehuda Niv Founder & CEO, Spines | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anastasia Slivker Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Justin Ramsaran Co-Founder & CEO, R Group | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Erin Niehaus Partner, DigitalDx Ventures | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yakov Filippenko Founder & CEO, Intch | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michelle Cole Partner, Paragraph | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Richa Chadha Co-Founder and Producer, Pushing Buttons Studios | 1 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Anil Srinivas Chilla Author & Leadership Practitioner | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rami Khoshan General Partner, Frances Ann Capital | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Garber Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Early Light Ventures | 1 | 2 | 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.