David Senra
Conversations with the greatest living founders.
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June 21, 2026 • 95 mins
Steve Stoute is the founder of Translation, the marketing company behind some of the most iconic brand work of the past 25 years, and UnitedMasters, the independent music distribution platform he launched in 2017.
Stoute grew up in Queens in the 1980s, where hip-hop was his entire world. He worked his way into the music business, eventually managing Nas and becoming an executive at Sony and then Interscope under Jimmy Iovine.
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June 14, 2026 • 94 mins
Ed Catmull is the co-founder of Pixar and the former president of Disney Animation.
He grew up in 1950s Utah wanting to animate for Disney. Convinced he couldn't draw well enough, he studied physics and computer science at the University of Utah instead, landing in one of the great talent incubators in computing history. In 1972, he animated his own left hand—one of the first 3D computer renderings ever made. Since childhood...
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June 7, 2026 • 73 mins
Gustav Söderström is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Spotify, the world's largest streaming platform, with more than 760 million users across 180 countries.
He earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, founded Kenet Works in 2003 — a mobile community software company acquired by Yahoo! in 2006 — and later co-founded 13th Lab, an augmented reality startup acquired by Fa...
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May 31, 2026 • 83 mins
Ivanka Trump grew up on construction sites and in boardrooms, learning what it takes to be a builder. At just 22 years old, she started doing real estate for a Brooklyn developer. She notched small wins with construction crews and learned the trade.
Then came the launch of her own fashion brand — which reached over $800 million in annual sales — run simultaneously with the Trump Organization's real estate acquisi...
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May 24, 2026 • 83 mins
Rick Rubin grew up on Long Island obsessed with music — arena rock at 13, punk by high school, then hip-hop when it was still a street movement you could only hear at one club in New York City. The records coming out didn't sound like the club. They were made by professionals who didn't go to the club. So at 18, while a freshman at NYU, he made one himself — "It's Yours" with T La Rock. It sold 100,000 copies in 18 mont...
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May 17, 2026 • 99 mins
Strauss Zelnick has spent 40 years doing the same thing: finding where new technology is about to supercharge an old business, and getting there first.
He started at Columbia Pictures in 1983 running international TV distribution. When the company needed a "new media" person, they looked for the least valuable executive they could spare. That was Zelnick. New media in 1983 meant VHS cassettes. He took the assignment anyway.
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May 10, 2026 • 73 mins
Dana White grew up watching CEOs read canned statements written by lawyers. He decided early he would never do that.
When Lorenzo Fertitta and his brother bought the UFC in 2001 for $2M and handed White a small equity stake and the presidency, the company had five events a year, eight or nine fighter contracts, and no television deal. Previous owners had sold off the merchandise rights, the video library, and the video game licens...
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May 3, 2026 • 86 mins
Chapters
(00:00:00) The $6B Buyback That Made $60B
(00:02:15) Borrowing Money To Buy Back Stock At A Discount
(00:05:02) Why VCs Passed On AppLovin In 2012
(00:09:00) From App Discovery To Ad Platform
(00:14:45) Beating Google's AdMob With Performance Marketing
(00:19:30) No Board For Six Years
(00:30:12) The China Deal That Almost Blew Up
(00:37:45) The Convertible Note Pivot And KKR
(00:46:30) Buying Gaming Studios To Ge...
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April 26, 2026 • 87 mins
David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, the platform where tens of millions of people gather daily to play, build, and socialize inside user-generated virtual worlds.
Baszucki grew up in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, studied electrical engineering at Stanford, and in the late 1980s co-founded Knowledge Revolution with his brother Greg. There they built Interactive Physics, a 2D simulation that let students run physics exper...
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April 12, 2026 • 118 mins
Evan Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat.
At Stanford, he enrolled in the product design program. In 2011, in a class project, he and two classmates — Reggie Brown and Bobby Murphy — sketched out the idea for an app where photos disappeared. The insight was counterintuitive: in an era when everyone was obsessed with permanence and curation online, ephemerality might be the point....
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March 29, 2026 • 109 mins
Tony Xu is the co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, the largest food delivery platform in the United States.
Before he was a tech executive, he was a dishwasher. Xu was born in Nanjing, China, and immigrated to the U.S. at age four with parents who arrived with $200 in the bank. His mother had been a licensed doctor in China. In America, she waited tables at a Chinese restaurant in Illinois. Xu worked beside her, washing dishes. That e...
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March 24, 2026 • 110 mins
Eric Jorgenson is an investor, author, and the CEO of Scribe Media — best known for his mission to distill the ideas of the world's most consequential thinkers into books anyone can read.
Obsessed with the idea that the best way to understand a great mind was to read everything they'd ever said, Jorgenson spent years compiling Naval Ravikant's writing, podcasts, and interviews into a single coherent volume. The result &mdash...
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March 15, 2026 • 109 mins
Marc Andreessen is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of the most influential venture capital firms in the world.
Before he was an investor, he was a builder. At 22, Andreessen co-created Mosaic, the first widely used graphical web browser, then co-founded Netscape — the company that brought the internet to mainstream America. Netscape's 1995 IPO ignited the first great technology boom. Mic...
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March 1, 2026 • 109 mins
Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange and one of the most recognized names in the digital asset industry.
Armstrong founded Coinbase in 2012 alongside Fred Ehrsam, launching out of Y Combinator with a simple but ambitious goal: to make Bitcoin easy to buy, sell, and store for everyday people. At a time when acquiring cryptocurrency required navigating technically complex...
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February 15, 2026 • 141 mins
Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the software company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. Fried is widely regarded as one of the most influential voices in modern product development, remote work, and business philosophy.
He founded 37signals in 1999 as a web design consultancy, initially creating websites for clients while developing strong opinions about simplicity, clarity, and user-centered design. In 2004, the ...
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February 1, 2026 • 128 mins
Jimmy Iovine is the co-founder of Interscope Records, Beats by Dre, and the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy. Iovine is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the modern music industry.
Growing up in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, Iovine was raised in an Italian working-class family. He began working as a recording engineer in the early 1970s, and went on to engineer landmark albu...
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January 18, 2026 • 143 mins
Tobi Lütke is the co-founder of Shopify, where he has served as the company's CEO since 2008.
Under his leadership, Shopify grew from an online snowboard shop in Ottawa, Canada in 2004 to the world's leading e-commerce platform, powering over 4 million merchants in more than 175 countries. The company went public in 2015 at a $1.27 billion valuation and has since grown to a market capitalization exceeding $200 billion.
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January 4, 2026 • 101 mins
John Mackey is the co-founder of Whole Foods Market, where he also served as the company's CEO for 44 years (1980–2022). More recently, Mackey is the co-founder of Love.Life, a wellness company focused on a holistic approach to health. He is an entrepreneur, author and advocate for conscious capitalism who spent over four decades building the natural foods industry.
Under his leadership, Whole Foods grew from a single store ...
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December 21, 2025 • 125 mins
Patrick O'Shaughnessy is the Chairman Emeritus of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, the founder of Colossus, and the founder and CEO of Positive Sum. He is an investor, author, and podcaster who has devoted his career to understanding the world's best investors and entrepreneurs.
Under his leadership, Colossus has become one of the largest investing-focused podcast networks in the world, producing shows including the flagship Invest...
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December 7, 2025 • 98 mins
James Dyson is the founder and chairman of Dyson, a technology-led company present in 84 markets worldwide. He is an inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who has devoted his life to solving problems through new technologies.
Under his leadership, Dyson created some of the most iconic household products in the world: the bagless vacuum cleaner, the Airblade hand dryer, bladeless fans, and the Supersonic hair dryer. Around hal...
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