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 →
+0.03pushback per +1 prominence
1.0/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
0.9/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
177guests 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jake Paul Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Palmer Luckey Founder, Anduril Industries | 8 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Alex Karp Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies | 8 | 0 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Dara Khosrowshahi CEO, Uber | 8 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Katzenberg Founding Partner, WndrCo | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vlad Tenev Co-Founder & CEO, Robinhood | 8 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Friedberg Founder & CEO, The Production Board | 8 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Max Levchin Founder & CEO, Affirm | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Steve Huffman Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Reddit | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Keith Rabois Managing Director, Khosla Ventures | 8 | 1.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tom Mueller Founder, CEO & CTO, Impulse Space | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Baszucki Co-founder & CEO, Roblox | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Morgan Housel Partner, The Collaborative Fund | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bridgit Mendler CEO & Co-Founder, Northwood Space | 7 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Sridhar Ramaswamy CEO, Snowflake | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sophia Amoruso Founder & Managing Partner, Trust Fund | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Suster Managing Partner, Upfront Ventures | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Elad Gil Founder, Gil Capital | 7 | 1.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Ashlee Vance Founder & Host, Core Memory | 7 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ryan Serhant Founder & CEO, SERHANT. | 7 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mark Pincus Founder & Executive Chairman, Zynga | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alfred Lin Partner & Co-Steward, Sequoia Capital | 7 | 2.7 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Sebastian Siemiatkowski CEO, Klarna | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Emil Michael Under Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Cyan Banister General Partner, Long Journey Ventures | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jackie Reses Chair & CEO, Lead Bank | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Richard Socher Founder & CEO, You.com | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Keller Rinaudo Cliffton Co-Founder & CEO, Zipline | 6 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Trae Stephens Partner, Founders Fund | 6 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Brian Schimpf Co-Founder and CEO, Anduril Industries | 6 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Qasar Younis Co-founder & CEO, Applied Intuition | 6 | 0.7 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Sir Peter Beck Founder & CEO, Rocket Lab | 6 | 0.7 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Naveen Rao Co-founder and CEO, Unconventional AI | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Shaun Maguire Partner, Sequoia Capital | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Senra Host, Founders Podcast | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mark Papermaster EVP & CTO, AMD | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Feldman Co-Founder and CEO, Cerebras Systems | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Henry Ward Co-founder & CEO, Carta | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brett Adcock Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 6 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jack Altman General Partner, Benchmark | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Delian Asparouhov Partner, Founders Fund | 6 | 1 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Tomasz Tunguz Founder & General Partner, Theory Ventures | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lucy Guo Founder & CEO, Passes | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Coogan Co-Host, TBPN | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Hunter Walk Partner & Co-Founder, Homebrew | 6 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Alex Bouaziz Co-Founder and CEO, Deel | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Blania Co-Founder & CEO, Tools for Humanity | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pedro Franceschi Co-Founder and CEO, Brex | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bradley Tusk CEO, Tusk Holdings | 6 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Packy McCormick Founder & Writer, Not Boring | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Hemant Taneja CEO & Managing Director, General Catalyst | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nikesh Arora Chairman & CEO, Palo Alto Networks | 6 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Adam Goldstein Founder & CEO, Archer Aviation | 5 | 0 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Matt Miller Managing Partner & Founder, Grey Rock Investment Partners | 5 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Teresa Carlson Global Head of Public Sector, Anthropic | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Morris Jr. Founder & Managing Partner, Chapter One | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Lamm Co-founder and CEO, Colossal Biosciences | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Chris Power Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 5 | 0.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Adam Bry Co-Founder & CEO, Skydio | 5 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Gilly Raanan Founder, Cyberstarts | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Ulevitch General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jonathan Siddharth Co-founder & CEO, Turing | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 5 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Ariel Cohen Co-Founder & CEO, Navan | 5 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Brian Singerman Partner Emeritus, Founders Fund | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jordan Noone General Partner, Embedded Ventures | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jared Hecht Venture Partner, Union Square Ventures | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kaz Nejatian CEO, Opendoor | 5 | 1.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Rodrigo Liang Co-Founder and CEO, SambaNova Systems | 5 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Thomas Laffont Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director, Coatue Management | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Mignano General Partner, Union Square Ventures | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Navin Chaddha Managing Partner, Mayfield Fund | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Winston Weinberg Co-founder and CEO, Harvey | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gordon Ritter Founder & General Partner, Emergence Capital | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Adam Foroughi Co-Founder & CEO, AppLovin | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dan Wright Co-Founder and CEO, Armada | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 2 |
| Matt Grimm Co-Founder & COO, Anduril Industries | 4 | 0 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Zach Dell Co-Founder and CEO, Base Power | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Michael Hurlston President & CEO, Lumentum | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| CJ Desai President and CEO, MongoDB | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Miles Clements Partner, Accel | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Arun Mathew Partner, Accel | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Billy Talheimer Co-Founder and CEO, REGENT | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Scott Nolan Founder & CEO, General Matter | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Justin Fishner-Wolfson Co-Founder & Managing Partner, 137 Ventures | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kyle Harrison General Partner, Contrary | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Arielle Zuckerberg General Partner, Long Journey Ventures | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Grace Isford Partner, Lux Capital | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Doug Bernauer Founder & CEO, Radiant | 4 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| David Weisburd Co-Head of Venture Capital, 10X Capital | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Fox Founder & CEO, AssemblyAI | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Scott Morton Founder and CEO, Revel | 4 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Peter Barrett Co-Founder and General Partner, Playground Global | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Constantine Bueller Partner, Sequoia Capital | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mark Bhargava Managing Director, General Catalyst | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Cohen Founder & CEO, Hello Patient | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Patrick McGee Features Writer, Financial Times | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Drew Oetting Co-Founder and President, 8VC | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Danielle Strachman Co-founder & General Partner, 1517 Fund | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Samir Vasavada Co-Founder & CEO, Vise | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gabe Pereyra Co-Founder & President, Harvey | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Tanay Tandon Co-Founder & CEO, Commure | 4 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Leigh Marie Braswell Partner, Kleiner Perkins | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Kolicich Founding Partner & CIO, 8VC | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Tarek Mansoor | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pete Shadbolt Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder, PsiQuantum | 4 | 1.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Alex Immerman General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Geoffrey Woo Co-founder & Managing Partner, Anti Fund | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Allison Chief Product Officer, Joby Aviation | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Leif Abraham Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Public | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Didi Das | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Bucky Moore Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Andy Lowery CEO, Epirus | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joshua Steinman Co-Founder & CEO, Galvanick | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eric Romo President & COO, Impulse Space | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Lee Jacobs Investor, Long Journey Ventures | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Minn Kim Founder, Lighthouse | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Willem Sundblad Co-founder & CEO, Oden Technologies | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Nick Abouzeid Co-Founder and CEO, Rivet | 3 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ken Venner Chief Technology & Product Officer, Senra Systems | 3 | 0.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Chen Li General Partner, WndrCo | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Augustus Doricko Founder & CEO, Rainmaker | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Christian Garrett Partner, 137 Ventures | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Art Levy Chief Business Officer, Brex | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gil Feig Co-Founder & CTO, Merge | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shensi Ding Co-Founder and CEO, Merge | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Josephs Co-Founder, Autopilot | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dylan Diamond Co-Founder & CEO, Saturn | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Apoorv Agrawal Partner, Altimeter Capital | 3 | 1.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Steve Simoni Co-Founder and President, Allen Control Systems | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Isaiah Taylor Founder and CEO, Valar Atomics | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ev Randle General Partner, Benchmark | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ben Miller Co-Founder and CEO, Fundrise | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Kian Sadeghi Founder & CEO, Nucleus Genomics | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Jason Fiedler Venture Advisor, Left Lane Capital | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Molly Alter Partner, Northzone | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gio (Giovanni) CTO, AppLovin | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Barton Sector Head, Coatue | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mitch Lee Co-founder & CEO, Arc Boats | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Claire Zhao Investor, Lightspeed | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jaimin Rangwalla CIO of Public Investments, Coatue | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Cameron McCord Co-Founder and CEO, Nominal | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jacob Peters Co-founder & CEO, Superpower | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sam D'Amico Founder & CEO, Impulse Labs | 2 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Peter Ludwig Co-founder & CTO, Applied Intuition | 2 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Tony Kim Managing Director, BlackRock | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Philip Johnston Co-Founder and CEO, Starcloud | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matan Grinberg Co-Founder and CEO, Factory | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Levy Representative, Atmo | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Greg Little Senior Counselor, Palantir Technologies | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Philip Clark Partner, Thrive Capital | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| JC Btaiche Founder & CEO, Fuse | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michel Del Buono Chief Investment Officer, a16z Perennial | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Yaz El-Baba Partner, Emergence Capital | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Soren Monroe-Anderson Co-Founder and CEO, Neros Technologies | 2 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Xander Oltmann Founder and General Partner, Commodity Capital | 2 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Roy Lee Co-founder & CEO, Cluely | 2 | 4 | 6/10 | 1 |
| John Maslin Co-Founder & CEO, Vulcan Elements | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Coatue Investor Update | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Hannan Happi Co-Founder and CEO, Exowatt | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Paul Klein Founder & CEO, Browserbase | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Eric Crispin Partner, Altimeter Capital | 1 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Stephen Slattery Head of Product, Nominal | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Andrew Founder & CEO, Wander | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zach Schendel | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Justin White | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Max Cook Sector Head, Coatue Management | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jordan Black Co-Founder & CEO, Senra Systems | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Israel "Izzy" Slotowicz Founder & CEO, Craft | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rune Kvist Co-Founder and CEO, AIUC | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jack Sharky Co-Founder and CTO, Whop | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rohit Badangay Co-founder & CEO, Zamp | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Philip Ehrenstein Founder & CEO, Dirac | 1 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Brian Kim | 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.