Episodes featuring David Senra
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David Senra talks with Revolut founder Nik Storonsky about his drive to make Revolut the number one bank in 100 countries, and why he thinks founder-led, data-driven companies beat banks run by professional CEOs.
David Senra talks with Kurt MacAlpine, CEO of Corient, about building a $525 billion wealth manager by applying a professional services partnership model to an industry he says is built on misaligned incentives.
David Senra talks with Ben Wilson, host of How to Take Over the World, about patterns from history's greatest leaders and how Wilson applies them after a stage four cancer diagnosis.
Alexandr Wang, Meta's AI lead, joins David Senra to explain how Muse became the fastest-growing consumer AI product since ChatGPT by prioritizing reliability and user trust over raw capability.
David Senra talks with Ari Emanuel about building WME and TKO through relentless cold-calling, bold acquisitions like the $4.2 billion UFC deal, and hard-won lessons about ego and rest.
Writer Jeremy Stern talks with David Senra about spending months profiling Zuckerberg, Palmer Luckey, Josh Kushner, and Scott Wu to understand who they actually are beyond their companies.
Alexander Taubman explains how he built Long Lake into a $4B+ revenue company by buying established businesses and using AI to boost productivity, ending with a $6.3B deal for Amex GBT.
Ronnie Fieg, founder of Kith, talks with David Senra about building a global streetwear brand by obsessing over product quality and customer experience instead of chasing growth.
David Senra talks with Peter Rahal, who sold RXBAR and then built David Protein to over 400 million in run-rate revenue in two years. They cover branding, pain tolerance, buying a key supplier, and organizing for speed.
David Senra talks with Luca Ferrari, CEO of Bending Spoons, about how the company acquires and transforms apps using a small team, unconventional hiring, and proprietary internal tools.
Mati Staniszewski of ElevenLabs talks with David Senra about building a fast-growing AI voice company, staying independent, and the operational choices behind their growth.
Zach Dell, founder of Base Power, joins David Senra to discuss building a residential battery company that treats the grid as an optimization problem and customers as long-term partners.
David Senra talks with Sequoia's Doug Leone about how to stay dominant over decades by constantly remaking yourself, picking only the best opportunities, and reading people well.
Torsten Reil of Helsing talks with David Senra about how AI and autonomous systems are reshaping modern warfare and what it takes to build a serious defense company in Europe.
David Senra talks with Sam Altman about how OpenAI pursued AI when most thought it was impossible, and what startup and research lessons shaped that bet.
David Senra talks with Travis Kalanick about building Uber, his new robotics venture Adams, and what it takes to grow a company under constant pressure.
David Senra talks with Lulu Cheng Meservey, who runs comms for founders at Anduril, Shopify and Cognition, about why she thinks traditional PR is dead and how founders can build movements by going direct.
CAA founder Michael Ovitz tells David Senra why he is busier than ever at this stage of life, how AI lets him work across many fields, and how outworking rivals built CAA.
David Senra talks with Ribbit Capital founder Micky Malka about rejecting labels, playing the infinite game, backing authentic founders like Revolut's Nick, building with Walmart, and why reputation and time matter most.
David Senra talks with David Heinemeier Hansson, co-founder of 37signals, about building profitable software without investors. DHH argues that constraints, keeping products simple, cutting costs and staying...