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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 →
-0.05pushback per +1 prominence
1.6/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
1.7/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
163guests 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO, Meta | 10 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Satya Nadella Chairman and CEO, Microsoft | 10 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jensen Huang Founder and CEO, NVIDIA | 10 | 1.6 | 2.6/10 | 5 |
| Reid Hoffman Partner, Greylock | 9 | 1 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Ilya Sutskever Co-Founder and CEO, Safe Superintelligence Inc. | 9 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Andrew Ng Managing General Partner, AI Fund | 9 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sal Khan Founder & CEO, Khan Academy | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Fei-Fei Li | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Priscilla Chan Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jared Kushner Founder & CEO, Affinity Partners | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Garry Tan President & CEO, Y Combinator | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alexandr Wang Chief AI Officer, Meta Platforms | 8 | 1.7 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Bret Taylor CEO & Co-Founder, Sierra | 8 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Andrej Karpathy Founder, Eureka Labs | 8 | 2.7 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Luis von Ahn Founder & CEO, Duolingo | 8 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Lina Khan Chair, FTC | 8 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Arthur Mensch Co-Founder & CEO, Mistral AI | 7 | 0 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Daphne Koller Founder and CEO, insitro | 7 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Matei Zaharia Co-Founder and CTO, Databricks | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Clem Delangue Co-founder and CEO, Hugging Face | 7 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Baszucki Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Levie Co-Founder & CEO, Box | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Noubar Afeyan Founder & CEO, Flagship Pioneering | 7 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Oriol Vinyals Co-founder, Discovery Loop | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ivan Zhao Co-founder & CEO, Notion | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Noam Shazeer AI Scientist, OpenAI | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Mustafa Suleyman CEO, Microsoft AI | 7 | 1 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Frank Slootman Chairman, Snowflake | 7 | 1 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Scott Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bill McDermott Chairman and CEO, ServiceNow | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nikesh Arora Chairman & CEO, Palo Alto Networks | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Parker Conrad Co-founder & CEO, Rippling | 7 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Matt Garman CEO, Amazon Web Services | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brett Adcock Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 7 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Guillermo Rauch Founder & CEO, Vercel | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| RJ Scaringe Founder & CEO, Rivian | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Prince Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare | 7 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Aidan Gomez Co-founder & CEO, Cohere | 7 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Pedro Franceschi Co-Founder and CEO, Brex | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Howie Liu Co-Founder & CEO, Airtable | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Fidji Simo Co-founder, Metrodora Institute | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brian Schimpf Co-Founder and CEO, Anduril Industries | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cristobal Valenzuela Co-founder & CEO, Runway | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rene Haas CEO, Arm | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 6 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Lip-Bu Tan CEO, Intel Corporation | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eric Glyman Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ramp | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Harrison Chase Co-founder & CEO, LangChain | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Illia Polosukhin Co-Founder, NEAR Protocol | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brian Halligan Co-Founder & Executive Chairperson, HubSpot | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Emad Mostaque Founder & CEO, Intelligent Internet | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Max Hodak Co-founder & CEO, Science Corporation | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Allaire Co-Founder & CEO, Circle | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sridhar Ramaswamy CEO, Snowflake | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Sriram Krishnan Senior Policy Advisor on AI, White House | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Dohmke Founder and CEO, Entire | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Vogt Founder & CEO, The Bot Company | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jakob Uszkoreit Co-Founder & CEO, Inceptive | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Olivier Pomel Co-Founder & CEO, Datadog | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aravind Srinivas Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity AI | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dmitri Dolgov Co-CEO, Waymo | 6 | 2.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Joshua Xu Co-Founder & CEO, HeyGen | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mark Papermaster EVP & CTO, AMD | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Clara Shih CEO, Salesforce AI | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Devi Parikh Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Yutori | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Arvind Jain Co-founder & CEO, Glean | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Erik Allebest Co-founder and CEO, Chess.com | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Glenn Fogel CEO and President, Booking Holdings | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Liam Fedus Co-founder and CEO, Periodic Labs | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Laura Deming Co-Founder & CEO, Until | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Emil Michael Under Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chelsea Finn Co-Founder, Physical Intelligence | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bill Peebles Former Head of Sora, OpenAI | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Tim Brooks Lead of Media Generation, Meta Superintelligence Labs | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Karim Atiyeh Co-Founder, Ramp | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tengyu Ma Assistant Professor, Stanford University | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Edo Liberty Founder & Chief Scientist, Pinecone | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Lukas Biewald Co-founder & CEO, Weights & Biases | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shyam Sankar CTO & EVP, Palantir Technologies | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Keller Rinaudo Cliffton Co-Founder & CEO, Zipline | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jacob Helberg Under Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State | 5 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Stanley Tang Co-Founder & Head of DoorDash Labs, DoorDash | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Fang Co-Founder, DoorDash | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Noam Brown Research Scientist, OpenAI | 5 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Andrew Feldman Co-Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Mati Staniszewski Co-founder & CEO, ElevenLabs | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Hendrycks Executive Director, Center for AI Safety | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ben Mann Co-Founder, Anthropic | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tarek Mansour Co-founder & CEO, Kalshi | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Albert Gu Cofounder, Cartesia | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Knoop Co-Founder & CEO, Ndea | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mikey Shulman Co-Founder & CEO, Suno | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Suhail Doshi Founder & CEO, Playground | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jason Kelly Co-Founder and CEO, Ginkgo Bioworks | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dave Burke Advisor, Arc Institute | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Winston Weinberg Co-founder and CEO, Harvey | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Emily Glassberg Sands Head of Information, Stripe | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Alyssa Henry Former CEO, Square | 4 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Alex Rives Head of Science, Chan Zuckerberg Biohub | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Philipp Herzig Chief Technology Officer, SAP | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rick Caruso Founder and Executive Chairman, Caruso | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Laurent Sartran Member of Technical Staff, Anthropic | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ankur Goyal Founder & CEO, Braintrust | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Peter Chen Director of Applied Science, Amazon | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Graveley Director, Comet, Perplexity AI | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Percy Liang Director, Stanford CRFM | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Shiv Rao | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sajith Wickramasekara Co-founder & CEO, Benchling | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Erik Bernhardsson Founder and CEO, Modal Labs | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Elias Torres Founder & CEO, Agency | 4 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Matt MacInnis Chief Product Officer, Rippling | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Beyang Liu Co-founder & CTO, Sourcegraph | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kanjun Qiu Co-Founder and CEO, Imbue | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Denis Yarats Co-founder & CTO, Perplexity AI | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Simon Last Co-founder, Notion | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joe Liemandt Principal, Alpha School | 4 | 3 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Pushmeet Kohli VP of Research, Google DeepMind | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Patrick Hsu Co-Founder and Core Investigator, Arc Institute | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bill Clerico Founder & Managing Partner, Convective Capital | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Steinberger Co-Founder & CEO, Magic | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Simons Co-Founder & CEO, StackBlitz | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| CJ Desai President and CEO, MongoDB | 4 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Zach Dell Co-Founder and CEO, Base Power | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jesse Zhang Co-Founder and CEO, Decagon | 3 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Karan Singhal Staff Software Engineer, Google Research | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Isa Fulford Researcher, OpenAI | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Tuhin Srivastava Co-founder & CEO, Baseten | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Eric Mitchell Researcher, OpenAI | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Misha Laskin Co-founder & CEO, Reflection AI | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Joshua Meier Co-founder & CEO, Chai Discovery | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Thomas Hubert Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jared Quincy Davis Founder & CEO, Mithril | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Glen Coates Head of App Platform, OpenAI | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Noon Co-Founder and Chairman, Material Security | 3 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Kelvin Guu Principal Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Melisa Tokmak Founder & CEO, Netic | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zach Lloyd Founder & CEO, Warp | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Nadler Founder and CEO, OpenEvidence | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Edwin Chen Founder & CEO, Surge AI | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Josh Goldman Co-Founder and President, KoBold Metals | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brendan Foody Co-Founder and CEO, Mercor | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Josh Albrecht Co-founder & CTO, Imbue | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Isaiah Taylor Founder and CEO, Valar Atomics | 3 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Eric Zelikman CEO & Co-founder, humans& | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Neil Tiwari Managing Director, Magnetar Capital | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gabe Pereyra Co-Founder & President, Harvey | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Felix Ejeckam Co-Founder and CEO, Akash Systems | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ty Mitchell Co-founder & Managing Director, Akash Systems | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rishi Mehta Researcher, Anthropic | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kawal Gandhi Applied AI Lead, Google Cloud | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ofir Ehrlich Co-Founder and CEO, Eon | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alexander Taubman Co-founder & CEO, Long Lake Management | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brandon McKinzie O3 Team Member, OpenAI | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Karan Goel Co-founder & CEO, Cartesia | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Maxim Bar Kogan Co-Founder and CEO, Onyx Security | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matej Balog Research Scientist, Google DeepMind | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nima Alidoust CEO & Co-founder, Vevo Therapeutics | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jack Dent Co-Founder, Chai Discovery | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Johnny Yu Co-Founder & CSO, Tahoe Therapeutics | 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.