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 →
-0.07pushback per +1 prominence
1.6/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
1.9/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
226guests 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Hart Founder & Chairman, Hartbeat | 10 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Elon Musk CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 10 | 1 | 0.3/10 | 3 |
| Mark Zuckerberg Founder & CEO, Meta | 10 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Donald Trump | 10 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 6 |
| Matthew McConaughey | 10 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jeff Bezos Executive Chair, Amazon | 10 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Affleck Co-Founder and CEO, Artists Equity | 10 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| James Cameron Filmmaker | 9 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Huberman Associate Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine | 9 | 0.3 | 1.5/10 | 4 |
| Marc Benioff Chair, CEO & Co-Founder, Salesforce | 9 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Marc Andreessen Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 9 | 1.3 | 1.8/10 | 4 |
| Jensen Huang Founder and CEO, NVIDIA | 9 | 1.7 | 1.9/10 | 11 |
| Jake Paul Co-Founder, Anti Fund | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Satya Nadella Chairman and CEO, Microsoft | 9 | 2 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Mark Cuban Co-founder, Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company | 9 | 2.3 | 3/10 | 3 |
| Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 9 | 2.3 | 2.7/10 | 6 |
| Casey Neistat Filmmaker and YouTube Creator | 8 | 0.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Travis Kalanick CEO, Atoms | 8 | 1 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Brian Chesky Co-founder and CEO, Airbnb | 8 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Gary Vaynerchuk Chairman, VaynerX & CEO, VaynerMedia | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Garry Tan President & CEO, Y Combinator | 8 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 6 |
| Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 8 | 1 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Balaji Srinivasan Founder, The Network School | 8 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alexis Ohanian Founder & General Partner, Seven Seven Six | 8 | 1.5 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Andrew Ross Sorkin Co-Anchor, CNBC | 8 | 1.7 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Alex Karp Co-founder & CEO, Palantir Technologies | 8 | 2 | 5/10 | 5 |
| Changpeng Zhao (CZ) Founder, Giggle Academy | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Palmer Luckey Founder, Anduril Industries | 8 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Keith Rabois Managing Director, Khosla Ventures | 8 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jimmy Iovine Co-founder, Beats Electronics | 8 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Greg Brockman President & Co-founder, OpenAI | 8 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bryan Johnson Founder, Project Blueprint | 8 | 3.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Alexander Wang | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andrew Bosworth (Boz) | 7 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| George Hotz Founder, Tiny Corp | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Doug DeMuro Co-founder, Cars & Bids | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chris Dixon Founder & Managing Partner, a16z crypto | 7 | 1 | 1.3/10 | 3 |
| Calley Means Co-founder, Truemed | 7 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Guillermo Rauch Founder & CEO, Vercel | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Harry Stebbings Founder & Host, 20VC | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Trae Stephens Partner, Founders Fund | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shaan Puri Co-Host, My First Million | 7 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ashlee Vance Founder & Host, Core Memory | 7 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Hormozi Founder & Managing Partner, Acquisition.com | 7 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Gwynne Shotwell | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Eric Ries Founder & CEO, Long-Term Stock Exchange | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Cohen Chairman and CEO, GameStop | 7 | 2 | 3.3/10 | 3 |
| Bill Gurley General Partner, Benchmark | 7 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Drew Houston Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Dropbox | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Katie Haun Founder & CEO, Haun Ventures | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Petersen Founder & CEO, Flexport | 7 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Joe Weisenthal Executive Editor of News, Bloomberg Digital | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aravind Srinivas Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity AI | 7 | 2.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Dario Amodei Co-Founder and CEO, Anthropic | 7 | 2.5 | 1.5/10 | 4 |
| Dr. Drew Pinsky Host and Producer, Dr. Drew Productions | 7 | 2.5 | 3.5/10 | 2 |
| Martin Shkreli Co-founder, DL Software | 7 | 3 | 4.7/10 | 3 |
| Morgan Housel Partner, The Collaborative Fund | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Amjad Masad Co-founder & CEO, Replit | 7 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dave Baszucki | 7 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sarah Friar CFO, OpenAI | 7 | 5 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Eddy Cue SVP of Services, Apple | 6 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bridgit Mendler CEO & Co-Founder, Northwood Space | 6 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Mark Gurman Chief Correspondent, Bloomberg News | 6 | 0.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Kevin Warsh Chair, Federal Reserve System | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Samir Chaudry Co-Host & Co-Founder, Colin and Samir | 6 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Dan Romero Co-founder, Tempo | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ali Partovi CEO & Founder, Neo | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shyam Sankar CTO & EVP, Palantir Technologies | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Cristóbal Valenzuela Co-founder & CEO, Runway | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Immad Akhund Co-founder & CEO, Mercury | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Cyan Banister General Partner, Long Journey Ventures | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Car Dealership Guy | 6 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brad Gerstner Founder & CEO, Altimeter Capital | 6 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Ben Thompson Founder & Author, Stratechery | 6 | 2 | 2.3/10 | 3 |
| Dylan Field Co-founder and CEO, Figma | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Erik Prince | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Vernal Partner, Conviction | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kirsten Green Founder & Managing Partner, Forerunner Ventures | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Lulu Cheng Meservey Founder and CEO, Rostra | 6 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nic Carter General Partner, Castle Island Ventures | 6 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Matthew Prince Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare | 6 | 2.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Sam Lessin Founding Partner, Slow Ventures | 6 | 3 | 4.5/10 | 4 |
| Tyler Cowen Professor of Economics, George Mason University | 6 | 4 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Thomas Laffont Co-Founder & Senior Managing Director, Coatue Management | 5 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Roger Lynch CEO, Condé Nast | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Isaac Technology Correspondent, The New York Times | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Andy Dunn Founder & CEO, Pie | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ben Gilbert Co-founder & Co-host, Acquired | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Rosenthal Co-Host, Acquired | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| DJ Seo Co-founder & COO, Neuralink | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ahti Heinla Co-Founder and CEO, Starship Technologies | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Blake Resnick Founder & CEO, BRINC | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Yanisse Co-Founder & CEO, Checkr | 5 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Zachary Perret Co-founder & CEO, Plaid | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Knoop Co-Founder & CEO, Ndea | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chad Byers Co-Founder and General Partner, Susa Ventures | 5 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Justin Mares Founder & CEO, Truemed | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Michael Mignano General Partner, Union Square Ventures | 5 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Senra Host, Founders Podcast | 5 | 1.3 | 1.7/10 | 6 |
| Shaun Maguire Partner, Sequoia Capital | 5 | 1.3 | 2.3/10 | 3 |
| Eric Glyman Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Ramp | 5 | 1.3 | 1.7/10 | 3 |
| Gavin Baker Managing Partner & CIO, Atreides Management | 5 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Lip-Bu Tan CEO, Intel Corporation | 5 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Andrew Reed Partner, Sequoia Capital | 5 | 1.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Scott Wu Co-founder & CEO, Cognition | 5 | 1.5 | 1.8/10 | 4 |
| Delian Asparouhov Partner, Founders Fund | 5 | 1.7 | 2.9/10 | 9 |
| Kris Marszalek Co-Founder & CEO, Crypto.com | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Justine Moore Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sholto Douglas AI Researcher, Anthropic | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| David Tisch Managing Partner, BoxGroup | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Lachy Groom | 5 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Logan Kilpatrick Product Lead, Google DeepMind | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Erik Torenberg General Partner, a16z | 5 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Logan Bartlett Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures | 5 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Chris Power Founder & CEO, Hadrian | 5 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Dwarkesh Patel Host, Dwarkesh Podcast | 5 | 2.6 | 2/10 | 5 |
| Packy McCormick Founder & Writer, Not Boring | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Jordan Schneider Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ChinaTalk | 5 | 3 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Dylan Patel Founder & Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Suhail Doshi Founder & CEO, Playground | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Hudson Founder & CEO, ZeroClick | 4 | 0 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Avlok Kohli CEO, AngelList | 4 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Kevin Espiritu Founder, Epic Gardening | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bill Bishop Publisher and Author, Sinocism | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mike Gallagher Head of Defense, Palantir Technologies | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Gaurav Misra Co-founder & CEO, Captions | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Leif Abraham Co-Founder and Co-CEO, Public | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Jannick Malling Co-founder & Co-CEO, Public.com | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| John Gedmark Co-Founder and CEO, Astranis | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bryce Roberts Founder and Managing Partner, Indie.vc | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| David Perell Founder, Write of Passage | 4 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Casey Handmer Founder and CEO, Terraform Industries | 4 | 1 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Lee Jacobs | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sean Frank | 4 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mark Chen Chief Research Officer, OpenAI | 4 | 1.5 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Augustus Doricko Founder & CEO, Rainmaker | 4 | 1.6 | 2/10 | 5 |
| Turner Novak Founder and General Partner, Banana Capital | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Alex Epstein Founder, Center for Industrial Progress | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Tyler Denk Co-founder & CEO, beehiiv | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Grant LaFontaine Co-Founder & CEO, Whatnot | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bill Peebles Former Head of Sora, OpenAI | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Peter Tuchman Stock Trader, Wall Street | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gabe Whaley Founder and CEO, MSCHF | 4 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Everett Randle General Partner, Benchmark | 4 | 2 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
| Nichole Wischoff | 4 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Willem Van Lancker | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Adam Kovacevich Founder & CEO, Chamber of Progress | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Karol Hausman Co-founder & CEO, Physical Intelligence | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sheel Mohnot Co-Founder & General Partner, Better Tomorrow Ventures | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Huber Co-founder & CEO, Chroma | 4 | 2 | 6/10 | 1 |
| Brendan Foody Co-Founder and CEO, Mercor | 4 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Joshua Steinman Co-Founder & CEO, Galvanick | 4 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Will Manidis Angel Investor & Writer | 4 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Pablo Torre Host & Executive Editor, Meadowlark Media | 4 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tae Kim Founder and Author, Key Context | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Kian Sadeghi Founder & CEO, Nucleus Genomics | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Shawn 'swyx' Wang Co-founder & CEO, AI Engineer | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Anjney Midha Founder & CEO, AMP | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Emily Sundberg Founder & Author, Feed Me | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Seth Rosenberg General Partner, Greylock | 4 | 4 | 7/10 | 1 |
| Shane Arnott Senior Vice President, Anduril Industries | 3 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Steven Schwartz CEO, Whop | 3 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Sigil Wen | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Daniel Singer | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Edward Mehr | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ryan Sandler Co-Founder and CEO, Truework | 3 | 1 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Saman Farid Founder & CEO, Formic | 3 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Ginn Co-Founder and CEO, Hydra Host | 3 | 1 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Preston Holland | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Bridget Harris Co-founder & CEO, YouCanBookMe | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Austin Petersmith Co-Founder & CEO, Howie | 3 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeremy Giffon Founder & Investor, Octave | 3 | 1.5 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Peter Steinberger Agent Lead, OpenAI | 3 | 1.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Ethan Thornton Founder & CEO, Mach Industries | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aaron Cannon Co-founder & CEO, Outset | 3 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Erik Palitsch Co-Founder & CEO, Freeform | 3 | 2 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Chrisman Frank Co-Founder and CEO, Synthesis | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Flo Crivello | 3 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Matt Schlicht Creator, Moltbook | 3 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Samuel Hammond | 3 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jordy (Geordie) | 3 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Doug O'Laughlin President, SemiAnalysis | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Zach Kukoff | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Will Depue AI Researcher, OpenAI | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Tyler Hogge Founder and General Partner, Captain Ventures | 3 | 5 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Ev Randall | 3 | 6 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Robin Langtry Co-Founder and CEO, Avalanche Energy | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Rob Mohr | 2 | 0 | 0/10 | 1 |
| Chad Janis Founder & CEO, Grüns | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Yan Founder & CEO, Hyperliquid | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Yacine Mtibaa Creator, Dingboard | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Russell D'Sa CEO & Co-Founder, LiveKit | 2 | 1 | 0.5/10 | 2 |
| Ted Feldmann Founder & CEO, Durin | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Alex Dhillon Founder & CEO, Outtake | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Akhil Iyer | 2 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Connor Love General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Pavel Asparouhov Co-founder & CTO, Silna Health | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jake Adler Founder & CEO, Pilgrim | 2 | 1 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Keller Cliffton | 2 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Sonwalkar Representative, Julius AI | 2 | 2 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Jeremy Hindle Production Designer | 2 | 2 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Soren Monroe-Anderson Co-Founder and CEO, Neros Technologies | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Quaid Walker Co-Founder and CEO, Bezel | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Christian Garrett Partner, 137 Ventures | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Conor Macdonald CMO, Ridge | 2 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Catherine Boyle | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jeff Woo | 2 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tyler Cosgrove Head of Engineering & Cohost, TBPN | 2 | 2.2 | 1.6/10 | 19 |
| Teddy Warner | 2 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Jeff Wang Windsurf | 2 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Roy Lee Co-founder & CEO, Cluely | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 3 |
| Jennifer Lynn Founder and CEO, Ashlins Pharmaceuticals | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aiden Smith Co-founder, Flapping Airplanes | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jackson Denka | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Max Marchione | 2 | 5 | 8/10 | 1 |
| Alap Shah | 2 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| James Morrissey Founder & CEO, Global Brand Equities | 1 | 0 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Pratap Ramade | 1 | 1 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Aidan McLaughlin | 1 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nima Jalali Founder | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jon Ma Co-Founder & CEO, Artemis | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jordan Higgins Co-Host, TBPN | 1 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Will Brown Research Lead, Prime Intellect | 1 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Koki Mochida Co-Founder & CEO, Aeolus Labs | 1 | 2.5 | 2/10 | 2 |
| Geordie (Jordi) | 1 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Soham Parekh | 1 | 4.5 | 2.5/10 | 2 |
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.