Episodes featuring David Senra
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Chris Williamson talks with David Senra about 14 patterns he has found across history's greatest founders and entrepreneurs, covering focus, environment, and how to avoid self-sabotage.
Jeff Zalaznick talks with David Senra about building a 77-restaurant empire, including Carbone and the Four Seasons, with a 99% survival rate.
David Senra talks with Ramp co-founder Eric Glyman about building a financial operating system that saves businesses money and time rather than encouraging them to spend more.
Jonathan Ross, CEO of Groq, talks with David Senra about building an AI inference company through a near-death cash crisis to a $20B NVIDIA deal.
Scott Wu, founder of Cognition, talks with David Senra about building Devon, an AI software engineer targeting enterprise customers like Goldman Sachs and the U.S. government.
Steve Stoute joins David Senra to discuss how he left the music industry in 1999 to reshape brand marketing around culture, and how United Masters gives artists direct ownership of their work.
TBPN hosts John Coogan, Jordi Hays, Derek Thompson, Renee Haas, David Senra, and Jake Paul discuss Midjourney's move into medical imaging, AI talent shifts, and self-optimization culture.
Ed Catmull joins David Senra to discuss how Pixar built a creative culture that sustained excellence over decades, including counterintuitive lessons from working with Steve Jobs.
Ivanka Trump joins David Senra to talk about career pivots, self-knowledge, and the mission-driven ventures she is building after stepping back from public life.
David Senra talks with Rick Rubin about how great creators sustain excellence over decades through editing, constraints, and keeping ego out of their work.
David Senra talks with Strauss Zelnick, CEO of Take-Two Interactive, about how he took over a failing video game company in 2007 and grew it from a $700M to $35B business.
David Senra breaks down how Dana White turned a $2 million near-bankrupt UFC into a $20+ billion empire through product obsession, early tech adoption, and radical loyalty.
Adam Foroughi joins David Senra to explain how AppLovin reached a $150 billion market cap with just 400 employees through contrarian bets on buybacks, hiring, and vertical integration.
David Senra breaks down how David Baszucki built Roblox into a $30+ billion platform over 20 years by betting on user-generated content, network effects, and long-term infrastructure.
Evan Spiegel talks with David Senra about why he turned down Facebook's $3 billion offer and how he built Snapchat around ephemeral communication as a core design principle.
David Senra talks with Tony Xu about how DoorDash grew from a $9 website run by its founders to a logistics giant by focusing on overlooked markets and constant experimentation.
David Senra and Eric Jorgenson discuss Jorgenson's book The Book of Elon, covering the core thinking and operating principles behind how Musk builds companies.
David Senra interviews Marc Andreessen about what makes great founders, how industries consolidate into barbells, and why he built a16z the way he did.
David Senra talks with Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong about building the world's largest crypto exchange, fighting the SEC, and his belief that crypto can fix broken global financial systems.
David Senra talks with 37signals co-founder Jason Fried about building products you use yourself, keeping costs low and the company small, planning day by day, and why "enough" beats endless growth.