The General Podcast

The General Podcast

The General Podcast pairs founders, operators, executives, and creative minds for behind-the-scenes talk about building. No host and no script. Just craft, conviction, and real conversation between peers. Produced by The General Partnership. thegp.com

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August 25, 2026 43 mins

Eric Simons, co-founder and CEO of Bolt, and Jon Noronha, co-founder and CPO of Gamma, join The General Podcast to discuss building two of AI's fastest-growing products. They share how years of investment in foundational technology positioned both companies for the AI boom, why Bolt was able to scale so quickly after launch, and how Gamma adapted as AI reshaped the market around it.

Together, they discuss the advantages and drawback...

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To cap off season one of The General Podcast, we asked long-time friends and collaborators— Reid Hoffman and John Lilly—to sit down for a wide-ranging conversation about networks, company-building, investing, AI, and the relationships that shape a life’s work.


Reid is the co-founder of LinkedIn, a longtime partner at Greylock, and one of the most influential builders and investors in technology. He recently co-...

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Brian is a designer at Notion, where he arrived after founding Campsite, a communication tool for distributed teams. Before that, he co-founded Spectrum, a community platform built for developer communities that was acquired by GitHub. 

Joey co-founded Global Illumination, a studio that leveraged AI to build creative tools and games, which was acquired by OpenAI. Before OpenAI, he spent formative years at Facebook and Instagram...

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In this conversation, Erica Galos Alioto (Chief People Officer at Retool, formerly Grammarly) and Anna Binder (former Chief People Officer at Asana) sit down for a candid conversation about what it actually felt like to lead through the last five years of work, from the chaos of the pandemic to the whiplash of DEI to the existential questions raised by AI.

They start with the “supper club.” It was a small, trusted group ...

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Merrill Lutsky is the co-founder and CEO of Graphite, a modern code review platform built for the AI era that was just acquired by Cursor. Zach Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Warp, the terminal with agents built in.

Zach and Merrill go way back—they worked together on Zach’s previous company. Now they’re each building core infrastructure for modern engineering teams, and running into many of the same challenges fr...

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Bing Gordon joined Electronic Arts in its earliest days as Chief Creative Officer and helped build it into the gaming powerhouse it is today. He was one of the first believers that interactive media could be a true art form, and over his career he shaped iconic games like The Sims, Madden, and Farmville. Few people have thought harder about what makes a story truly work.

Stephen Piron is the founder of Pickford, a new kind of studio...

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Chris Best is the co-founder and CEO of Substack, the platform powering the rise of independent writers, podcasters, and thinkers. At Substack, Chris has reimagined what sustainable media looks like, putting creators at the center.

Andrew Mayne is the host of the OpenAI podcast and was previously the company’s first prompt engineer and science communicator, where he helped shape how people interact with and understand large la...

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Claire Hughes Johnson (former COO at Stripe) and Gretchen Howard (former COO at Robinhood) join The General Podcast for a rare, candid conversation about what it really means to operate at the highest levels inside two of the most ambitious fintech companies of the past decade. 

Both left safe jobs to take bets that looked “crazy” from the outside. Both joined hyper-growth startups without the COO title, built trust...

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Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every, a media company built around writing, software, and AI. With a tiny team, they put out a daily newsletter, build products, and run a consulting arm, all while staying weird and experimental. Dan’s one of the most thoughtful writers on how AI is reshaping creativity, business, and what it means to build.

Alex Konrad is the founder of Upstarts, a newsletter about the next breakout ...

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Christina Farr, longtime healthtech journalist and now advisor, investor, and editor-in-chief of Second Opinion Media, sits down with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of "The Emperor of All Maladies," oncologist, and founder of Manas AI.

In this expansive conversation, they explore the current and future role of AI in medicine. Sid offers a typology for how LLMs are showing up in clinical practice and scient...

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Katie Dill, Head of Design at Stripe, and Randy Hunt, Head of Design at Notion, sit down to swap stories in the first episode of The General Podcast. This is a conversation between two of the most thoughtful design leaders in tech, covering everything from building taste into products to maintaining creative conviction inside fast-scaling orgs. They discuss how to protect what makes design great, what designers uniquely bring to th...

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