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 →
-0.10pushback per +1 prominence
3.0/10host pushback, prominence 8–10
3.5/10host pushback, prominence 1–4
110guests 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narendra Modi Prime Minister of India, Government of India | 10 | 1 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bill Gates Co-Chair, Gates Foundation | 10 | 2 | 1/10 | 2 |
| Elon Musk CEO, Tesla and SpaceX | 10 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| A. R. Rahman Founder and Head, KM Music Conservatory | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ranbir Kapoor Actor and Co-Owner, Mumbai City FC | 9 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kriti Sanon Co-founder, Hyphen | 9 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| KL Rahul Indian International Cricketer, BCCI | 9 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rishi Sunak Member of Parliament, UK Parliament | 9 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sam Altman CEO, OpenAI | 9 | 4 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Suniel Shetty Founder, Popcorn Entertainment | 8 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ajay Banga President, World Bank Group | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Yann LeCun Executive Chairman, AMI Labs | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nandan Nilekani Non-Executive Chairman & Co-Founder, Infosys | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Kumar Mangalam Birla Chairman, Aditya Birla Group | 8 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Yuval Noah Harari Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | 8 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dara Khosrowshahi CEO, Uber | 8 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Badshah (Aditya) | 8 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ritesh Agarwal Founder & Group CEO, OYO | 8 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brian Armstrong Co-Founder & CEO, Coinbase | 8 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Chamath Palihapitiya Founder & CEO, Social Capital | 8 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Ray Dalio Founder and Mentor, Bridgewater Associates | 8 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dario Amodei Co-Founder and CEO, Anthropic | 8 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Vinod Khosla Founder, Khosla Ventures | 8 | 5 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw Executive Chairperson and Founder, Biocon | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Ted Sarandos Co-CEO, Netflix | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nikesh Arora Chairman & CEO, Palo Alto Networks | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Christopher Luxon Prime Minister, New Zealand | 7 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Aravind Srinivas Co-founder & CEO, Perplexity AI | 7 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Prajakta Koli Content Creator & Actress, MostlySane | 7 | 3 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Ranveer Allahbadia Co-Founder & Host, BeerBiceps | 7 | 3 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Nuseir Yassin Founder & CEO, Nas Company | 7 | 3 | 5/10 | 1 |
| Howard Marks Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ruchir Sharma Chairman, Rockefeller International | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Carl Pei Founder & CEO, Nothing | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ghazal Alagh Co-Founder, Mamaearth | 7 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nithin Kamath Founder & CEO, Zerodha | 7 | 3.3 | 2.3/10 | 3 |
| Tanmay Bhat Co-founder, Moonshot | 7 | 3.5 | 3.3/10 | 4 |
| Kishore Biyani Co-founder, The Foundery | 7 | 4 | 3/10 | 3 |
| Akshata Murty Co-founder & Trustee, The Richmond Project | 7 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Brett Adcock Founder & CEO, Figure AI | 7 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Bryan Johnson Founder, Project Blueprint | 7 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ronnie Screwvala Chairperson & Co-Founder, upGrad | 7 | 4.5 | 4/10 | 2 |
| Neal Mohan CEO, YouTube | 7 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Mukesh Bansal Founder & CEO, Nurix AI | 6 | 2 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Zorawar Kalra Founder & Managing Director, Massive Restaurants | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Pooja Dhingra Founder and CEO, Le15 Patisserie | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Nikos Christodoulides President, Republic of Cyprus | 6 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Mati Staniszewski Co-founder & CEO, ElevenLabs | 6 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| HE Omar Sultan Al Olama Minister of State for AI, UAE | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sunita Narain Director General, Centre for Science and Environment | 6 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Rajan Anandan Managing Director, Peak XV Partners | 6 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Navya Naveli Nanda | 6 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Raj Shamani Founder, House of X | 6 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Ajay Bijli Managing Director, PVR INOX Ltd. | 6 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Riyaaz Amlani Founder and Managing Director, Impresario Entertainment & Hospitality | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Vidit Aatrey Co-founder and CEO, Meesho | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sujeet Kumar Co-Founder and Board Member, Udaan | 5 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Martin Escobari Co-President, General Atlantic | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| G. V. Prasad Co-Chairman and Managing Director, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories | 5 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Rajiv Juneja Vice Chairman & Managing Director, Mankind Pharma | 5 | 3 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Shantanu Deshpande Founder & CEO, Bombay Shaving Company | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Sharma Co-Founder and CEO, Micromax Informatics | 5 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Tarun Mehta Co-founder & CEO, Ather Energy | 5 | 3.5 | 1.5/10 | 2 |
| Aprameya Radhakrishna Angel Investor & Entrepreneur | 5 | 3.7 | 2.7/10 | 3 |
| Umang Bedi Co-Founder and CEO, VerSe Innovation | 5 | 3.7 | 2.7/10 | 3 |
| Karthik Reddy Co-founder and Managing Partner, Blume Ventures | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Prashanth Prakash Founding Partner, Accel | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 2 |
| Kaivalya Vohra Co-Founder & CTO, Zepto | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Aadit Palicha Co-Founder and CEO, Zepto | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Ananth Narayanan Founder and CEO, Mensa Brands | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Gaurav Munjal Co-founder & CEO, Unacademy | 5 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Varun Mayya Founder & CEO, Aeos | 5 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Chetan Maini Co-Founder and Chairman, SUN Mobility | 5 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Vijay Subramaniam Founder & Group CEO, Collective Artists Network | 5 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Niko Bonatsos Early-Stage Venture Capitalist | 5 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Irfan Razack Chairman and Managing Director, Prestige Group | 5 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Amit Khatri Co-Founder, Noise | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Sidhant Bhargav | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Abhishek Khaitan Managing Director, Radico Khaitan | 4 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Navroz Dubash Professor, Princeton University | 4 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Jay Kotak Co-Head of Kotak811, Kotak Mahindra Bank | 4 | 4 | 4/10 | 1 |
| Ning Zhu Professor | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matthew C. Klein Founder and Publisher, The Overshoot | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nitish Mittersain Founder & Managing Director, Nazara Technologies | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Sean Hyunil Sohn CEO, KRAFTON India | 4 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Puneet Goyal | 4 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Sajith Sivanandan CEO & Managing Director, Tata Digital | 4 | 5 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nirupa Shankar Joint Managing Director, Brigade Group | 4 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Karan Virwani CEO, WeWork India | 4 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| M. N. Anucheth DIGP & Commissioner, DIPR Karnataka | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| B. Dayananda DGP, Internal Security Division, Karnataka Police | 3 | 2 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Marco Stagliano Co-Founder and CEO, Another-1 | 3 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Kun Tang Leader, HiNa Battery | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Bhakti Modi CEO and Co-founder, Tira | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Matt Chitharanjan Co-founder & CEO, Blue Tokai Coffee Roasters | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Rahul Reddy Leader, Subko | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Minakshi Singh Co-founder & CEO, Sidecar | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Shuchir Suri Co-founder, Gin Explorers Club | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Manish Poddar Founder & Creative Director, The House of Rare | 3 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Jitendra Chouksey Founder and CEO, Fittr | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Animesh Agarwal Founder & CEO, 8Bit Creatives | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Joseph Kim Founder & CEO, Lila Games | 3 | 4 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Chaitanya Gulati | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Suraj Shenoy Founder & CEO, Goa Brewing Co | 2 | 3 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Mirik Gogri Managing Partner, Spectrum Impact | 2 | 3 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Suruchi Rao Co-founder & CEO, Ossus Biorenewables | 2 | 4 | 2/10 | 1 |
| Nikunj Kothari Partner, FPV Ventures | 2 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Debargo "DD" Das | 2 | 5 | 3/10 | 1 |
| Dr. Jayanthi | 1 | 3 | 1/10 | 1 |
| Vikram Pai Co-founder and CEO, ReferRush | 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.