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 →
-0.01pushback per +1 prominence
0.0/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
1.6/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
225guests 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astro Teller Captain of Moonshots and CEO, X | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Rand Fishkin Co-founder & CEO, SparkToro | 7 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Neil Patel Co-Founder, NP Digital | 7 | 3 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Mike Maples Founding Partner, Floodgate | 7 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Hernan Kazah Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Kaszek | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Aydin Senkut Founder & Managing Partner, Felicis | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dheeraj Pandey Co-founder & CEO, DevRev | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Josh Reeves Co-Founder and CEO, Gusto | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Slowe CTO and Founding Engineer, Reddit | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Immad Akhund Co-founder & CEO, Mercury | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Arvind Jain Co-founder & CEO, Glean | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Steven Galanis Co-founder & CEO, Cameo | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sean Ellis Author, Hacking Growth | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Guy Podjarny Founder & CEO, Tessl | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Rubin CEO & Co-Founder, Illumio | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Avery Pennarun Co-founder & CEO, Tailscale | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dax Dasilva Founder & CEO, Lightspeed Commerce | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Edo Liberty Founder & Chief Scientist, Pinecone | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Martin Basiri Founder & CEO, Passage | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Lior Susan Founder & Managing Partner, Eclipse Ventures | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Allen Lau Co-founder & Operating Partner, Two Small Fish Ventures | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jack Newton Founder & CEO, Clio | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Siqi Chen Founder & CEO, Runway | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Casey Ellis Founder and Advisor, Bugcrowd | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Filev Founder & CEO, Zencoder | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Noah Glass Founder and CEO, Olo | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andres Bilbao Co-Founder and CEO, 30X | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Nick Frosst Co-Founder, Cohere | 5 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mike Katchen Co-Founder and CEO, Wealthsimple | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Peter Walker | 5 | 2.4 | 1.9/10 | 7 |
| Ankit Jain Co-founder & CEO, Infinitus Systems | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Warda Inam Founder & CEO, Overjet | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amanda Kahlow Founder & CEO, 1mind | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michel Tricot Co-founder & CEO, Airbyte | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jennifer Smith Co-Founder and CEO, Scribe | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Harish Abbott Co-Founder and CEO, Augment | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dean Sysman Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Axonius | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jon Noronha Co-founder & CPO, Gamma | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Soham Mazumdar Co-Founder and CEO, WisdomAI | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Adamson Co-Founder & CCO, Neo Financial | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Hawkinson Founder & CEO, BrightAI | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Saad Co-host, The Startup Podcast | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mike Wessinger Co-Founder and Executive Chair, PointClickCare | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dane Atkinson Founder and CEO, Odeko | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Eberhard Founder and CEO, KOHO | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Liron Zvibel Co-Founder & CEO, WEKA | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ashutosh Garg CEO & Co-Founder, Eightfold AI | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Blake Hall Co-Founder & CEO, ID.me | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mike Silagadze Founder & CEO, ether.fi | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dileep Thazhmon Founder & CEO, Jeeves | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Israel Co-founder & CEO, Metropolis Technologies | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Russ Fradin Co-Founder and CEO, Larridin | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zach Lloyd Founder & CEO, Warp | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Sherman Founder, Bluefish | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shensi Ding Co-Founder and CEO, Merge | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Rick Song Co-founder & CEO, Persona | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Hanslovan Co-Founder and CEO, Huntress | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Jannick Malling Co-founder & Co-CEO, Public.com | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adam Robinson Founder & CEO, Retention.com | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Wes Bush Founder and CEO, ProductLed | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Hussein Fazal Co-founder & CEO, Super.com | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Zach Abrams Co-founder & CEO, Bridge | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Rob Palumbo Founder, Outpoint | 4 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Fox Founder & CEO, AssemblyAI | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Walker CEO, Passetto | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mike Murchison Co-Founder & CEO, Ada | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Anurag Goel Founder and CEO, Render | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Maju Kuruvi Co-Founder and CEO, Spangle AI | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Poojan Kumar Chief Product Innovation Officer, Commvault | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Lorenc Founder, Security Startup (Undisclosed Company Name in Context) or Cybersecurity Founder, Undisclosed Company Name in Context or Founder, Undisclosed Security Company or Cybersecurity Founder, Undisclosed Company (Max 8 words) | 4 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mateo Marietti Co-Founder and CEO, CookUnity | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jay Madheswaran Founder and CEO, Eve | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Alarie Co-Founder and CEO, Blue J | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Forrest Zeisler Co-Founder and CTO, Jobber | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gopi Rangan Founding Partner, Sure Ventures | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ray Reddy Founder, Stealth | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mallorie Brodie Co-Founder & CEO, Bridgit | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Stephany Lapierre Founder, TealBook | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Lindsey Goodchild Chief Strategy Officer, Axonify | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Aydin Mirzaee Co-Founder and CEO, Fellow | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sam Jones Co-Founder and CEO, Method Security | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chaz Englander CEO & Co-Founder, Model ML | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amit Shah Founder, Instalily | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Simon Eskildsen Co-founder & CEO, turbopuffer | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aviv Leibovici Co-Founder & CPO, Buildots | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eldon Sprickerhoff Founder and Advisor, eSentire | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ross McNairn Co-founder and CEO, Wordsmith AI | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rob Woollen Co-Founder and CTO, Sigma Computing | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Benedetta Lucini Founder & CEO, Otter Finance | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jordan Boesch Founder & CEO, 7shifts | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alon Arvatz Co-Founder and CEO, PointFive | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ned Phillips Founder and Sales Coach, The Sales Movement | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jason Van Gaal Founder and CEO, Synapse Data Center | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nathan Beckord CEO & Founder, Foundersuite | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ian MacKinnon Co-founder, Stingray Security | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sanish Mondkar Founder & CEO, Legion Technologies | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Theobald Robotics Founder | 3 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Paul Mikesell Founder & CEO, Carbon Robotics | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Butt Co-founder & CEO, Enable | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Graham Founder, Borrowell | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hongwei Liu Co-Founder and CEO, Mappedin | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Hanif Joshaghani Co-Founder and CEO, Symend | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vitaly Pecherskiy Co-founder & CEO, StackAdapt | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Tai Founder & CEO, MotoInsight | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Halliday Co-Founder and CEO, AirOps | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Surajit Chatterjee Founder & CEO, Ema | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tarek Alaruri Co-founder & CEO, Stuut | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Didi Gurfinkel Co-Founder & CEO, Datarails | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bassem Hamdy CEO and Co-Founder, Briq | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Alex Mashrabov Co-founder & CEO, Higgsfield AI | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Stéphan Donzé Founder & CEO, AODocs | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zuben Matthews Co-Founder & CEO, Brigit | 3 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Koen Droste Co-Founder, Polarsteps | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Salguero Founder & CEO, ButcherBox | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Park CEO, Clutch | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dimitri Gurski Co-Founder and CEO, Flo Health | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Saurav Chopra Founder & CEO, 5Mins.ai | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Josh Domingues Founder and Executive Chairman, Flashfood | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yanni Giannaros Founder, Wyre | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Goldsmid Head of Product, Deel | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Stevenson Co-Founder and CEO, Spellbook | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Don Mal Co-Founder & Executive Chairman, Una Software | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pierce Ujjainwalla Co-Founder & CEO, Knak | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shubham Mishra Co-Founder and Global CEO, Pixis | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Carol Leaman Founder, Axonify | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Solon Angel CEO & Co-Founder, Remitian | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Jay Myers Co-Founder, Bold Commerce | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Potter Co-founder & CEO, Rewind | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew McLeod CEO, Certn | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yoav Vilner Co-founder & CEO, Walnut | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Colin Zima Co-Founder & CEO, Omni | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Russ d’Sa | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Rudolph Co-Founder & CTO, Peregrine | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Omar Haroun Co-Founder and CEO, Eudia | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Viraj Parekh Co-founder & Field CTO, Astronomer | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Amar Varma Co-Founder and CEO, Mantle | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Doug Soltys Editor-in-Chief & Founder, BetaKit | 3 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Dicks Storyteller & Author, Storyworthy | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Derrick Fung Founder, Drop | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Allan Wille Co-founder & CEO, Klipfolio | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cherif Habib Co-Founder and CEO, Dialogue | 3 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Rob Khazzam Co-Founder and CEO, Float | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Braatz Co-founder & CEO, Fullscript | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| AJ Loiacono CEO & Co-Founder, Judi Health | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Mishin Founder & CEO, Manifest OS | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Laura McGee Founder & CEO, Diversio | 3 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Marty Kausas Co-Founder & CEO, Pylon | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Liu Partner, Lightspeed | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Shmulek Bachar Founder & CEO, Argyle | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Alex Back Founder & CEO, Couch.com | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mark Hughes Founder | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sean McCarthy Co-Founder and CEO, BackOps | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Helen Hastings Founder & CEO, Quanta | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eric Foster Founder & CEO, TENEX | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Wayne Slavin Co-Founder and CEO, Sure | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Brett Carlson Co-Founder & CEO, ServiceUp | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Doug Scott Co-Founder, Ethic | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Soham Ganatra Co-founder & CEO, Composio | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Michael Lingelbach Founder & CEO, Hedra | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Merrill Lutsky Co-founder & CEO, Graphite | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Parker Gilbert Co-Founder and CEO, Numeric | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dean Brauer President & COO, Cybrid | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Hoff Co-Founder and Board Advisor, Auvik Networks | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Adrian Camara | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Nabeil Alazzam Founder & CEO, Forma.ai | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hamed Abbasi Co-founder & Former CEO, Plooto | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Marty Krátký-Katz Angel Investor, Chaotic Good Ventures | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rodolphe Barrere Co-Founder and CEO, Potloc | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ron Spreeuwenberg Co-Founder and Board Director, Lillio | 2 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Antos Co-Founder and CEO, Within | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lee Silverstone SVP, Product AI Platform, ConnectWise | 2 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Cos "Kaz" Nicolaescu Co-Founder and CEO, Accrual | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Isaiah Granet Co-Founder and CEO, Bland AI | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Anderson Co-Founder & CEO, Filevine | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Paffenholz Co-founder & CEO, Juicebox | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sahil Phadnis Co-Founder and President, Affiniti | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Roy Lee Co-founder & CEO, Cluely | 2 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Noah Greenberg Co-founder & CEO, Stacker | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Wang | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Ellis Co-founder & CEO, Thatch | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tate Hackert Co-Founder and President, ZayZoon | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Anderson Former Co-Founder & CPO, Tandym | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Lockhead | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Moe Abbas Founder & Entrepreneur | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jaspar Carmichael-Jack Founder & CEO, Artisan | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Cody Ruberto Founder and CEO, Uride | 2 | 2 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Benjamin Encz Co-founder & CEO, Ashby | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Rea | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Marc Boscher Co-Founder & CEO, Unito | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Whitteker Co-Founder & CEO, MILLIONS | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Corey Gross VP, Head of AI Center of Excellence, Q2 | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Darryl Hicks Founder & CEO, Revaly | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eran Henig CEO, Thriver | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jafar Owainati Co-founder & CEO, Barley | 2 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Rob Woodbridge Co-Founder and COO, Trexity | 2 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Rafael Broshi Co-Founder and CEO, Notch | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mary Beth Snodgrass Founder & Managing Director, Product Advisory Collective | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joseph Lee Co-Founder and CEO, Supademo | 2 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jack Kuveke Founder & General Partner, Jabroni Capital | 2 | 3 | 5/10 | 2 |
| François de Kerret Founder, Zeffy | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rob Boukine Co-Founder and CEO, Noibu | 2 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Michael Kravshik CEO, LumiQ | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Tian Co-Founder and CEO, Doppel | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Espinoza Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Clover | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Justin Adams Co-Founder and CEO, Aiwyn | 2 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Wesley Tian Former CEO & Co-Founder, Aragon AI | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Ali Khokhar Co-founder & CEO, Amigo AI | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bobby Samuels Co-founder & CEO, Protege | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yogi Goel Co-founder & CEO, Maxima | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bhaskar S. Founder & CEO, Bicycle AI | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Jim Co-Founder, Cleerly | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Pablo Palafox Co-founder & CEO, HappyRobot | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tolga Ermis Founder | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jon Robin Co-Founder and CSO, Dabble | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Miles Shedden Senior Director of Business Operations, Credo Semiconductor | 1 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Damien Lewke Founder & CEO, Nebulock | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| George Kurdin Co-founder & CEO, Monk | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anada Lakra Co-founder and CEO, BoldVoice | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jordan Dearsley Co-Founder and CEO, Vapi | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kazi Ahmed Co-Founder & CEO, Carbon6 Technologies | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jon Yoo Founder | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Niklas Lindgren Co-Founder and CEO, Endra | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Roy Moussa Co-Founder and CEO, GetVocal | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Frankie Le Nguyen Founder, Staging Labs | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Darius Vaillancourt EdTech Founder | 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.