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Rapid Response

Urgent insights from the best in business

The pace of change in our culture is unprecedented and shows no signs of slowing. So what is most important to pay attention to when striving to innovate, create, and lead? From the team behind Masters of Scale, Rapid Response features candid conversations with today’s top business leaders navigating real-time challenges. Hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company, Bob Safian.

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You’re a media company now
Media Executive Barbara Peng
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Media Executive Barbara Peng
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The AI race to save American science
Transfyr’s Renee Wegrzyn
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Transfyr’s Renee Wegrzyn
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Kalshi vs. Everyone
Kalshi’s Luana Lopes Lara
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Kalshi’s Luana Lopes Lara
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Meet Tilly Norwood and her creator
Engine’s Elia Wallen
Particle 6’s Eline van der Velden
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Engine’s Elia Wallen
Particle 6’s Eline van der Velden
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Halloween meets GLP-1s
Engine’s Elia Wallen
The Hershey Company’s Kirk Tanner
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Engine’s Elia Wallen
The Hershey Company’s Kirk Tanner
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Rebranding in a war zone
Prosper Global’s Tjada D’Oyen McKenna
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Prosper Global’s Tjada D’Oyen McKenna
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Stop creating businesses. Buy one instead.
Contrarian Thinking’s Codie Sanchez
Engine’s Elia Wallen
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Contrarian Thinking’s Codie Sanchez
Engine’s Elia Wallen
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Simplifying your work-life in the AI era
Axios’ Jim VandeHei
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Axios’ Jim VandeHei
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On's 16-year overnight success
On’s David Allemann
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On’s David Allemann
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NFL Kickoff: The biggest stories of the '26-27 season
Reporter Michele Steele
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Reporter Michele Steele
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When AI agents do your shopping, everything changes
Shopify’s Jess Hertz
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Shopify’s Jess Hertz
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Inflation, recession, and Trump’s attacks
Chicago Fed’s Austan Goolsbee
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Chicago Fed’s Austan Goolsbee
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How Snoop Dogg, Comic-Con, and cold calls are growing USA Fencing
USA Fencing’s Phil Andrews
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USA Fencing’s Phil Andrews
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What the jobs report isn't telling you
Upwork’s Hayden Brown
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Upwork’s Hayden Brown
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Watch Duty's toughest fire season yet
Watch Duty’s John Mills
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Watch Duty’s John Mills
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Google’s exodus, Spider-Man’s odyssey, Taco “Hell,” and more
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The new rules of brand building
Wieden+Kennedy’s Neal Arthur
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Wieden+Kennedy’s Neal Arthur
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Byron Allen’s vision for BuzzFeed, Starz, and beyond
Allen Media Group’s Byron Allen
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Allen Media Group’s Byron Allen
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Serena Williams on winning in business
Starfire Ventures’ Serena Williams
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Starfire Ventures’ Serena Williams
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No legacy, no playbook, no problem
Toronto Tempo’s Teresa Resch
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Toronto Tempo’s Teresa Resch
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Spiking fuel, summer travel & a blunt reality check on AI
Delta’s Ed Bastian
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Delta’s Ed Bastian
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OpenAI’s Critterz blowback: Year zero for Hollywood
Director Nik Kleverov
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Director Nik Kleverov
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The quiet reinvention of a $42b business
Canva’s Cameron Adams
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Canva’s Cameron Adams
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The race to help Venezuela
Amazon’s Bettina Stix
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Amazon’s Bettina Stix
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Relevance is a sport
Gap’s Richard Dickson
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Gap’s Richard Dickson
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Cannes Lions’ battle of the brands
Autodesk’s Dara Treseder
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Autodesk’s Dara Treseder
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A bipartisan fight for workers in the age of AI
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo
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Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo
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$300m in year two. The controversy came free.
David Protein’s Peter Rahal
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David Protein’s Peter Rahal
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The U.S. at 250: The case for reckoning and rebuild
Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer
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Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer
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The unseen stakes of this World Cup
U.S. Soccer Federation’s JT Batson
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U.S. Soccer Federation’s JT Batson
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World Cup kickoff: Goals, greed, and geopolitics
ESPN’s Sam Borden
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ESPN’s Sam Borden
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A radical fix for the broken book business
Authors Equity’s Madeline McIntosh
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Authors Equity’s Madeline McIntosh
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The race no one can win: AI’s anti-human crisis
Center for Humane Technology’s Aza Raskin
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Center for Humane Technology’s Aza Raskin
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AI warfare and the race for a million-drone army
Shield AI’s Brandon Tseng
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Shield AI’s Brandon Tseng
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Why success destroys the companies we love
Author Eric Ries
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Author Eric Ries
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Uber's swerve on gas prices, hotels & a driverless future
Uber’s Andrew Macdonald
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Uber’s Andrew Macdonald
Is America losing its scientific edge? (with Transfyr’s Renee Wegrzyn)
Is America losing its scientific edge? (with Transfyr’s Renee Wegrzyn)
Can Hershey last another 132 years? Its CEO on the two things it'll take
Can Hershey last another 132 years? Its CEO on the two things it'll take
Rethinking humanitarian aid: Why survival isn't enough (Prosper Global CEO Tjada McKenna)
Rethinking humanitarian aid: Why survival isn't enough (Prosper Global CEO Tjada McKenna)
Codie Sanchez: Don't start a business. Buy one.
Codie Sanchez: Don't start a business. Buy one.
Axios CEO: Delete 25% of work that's pure waste (with Jim VandeHei)
Axios CEO: Delete 25% of work that's pure waste (with Jim VandeHei)
NFL Kickoff: The science gets more damning, but the money keeps growing (with Michele Steele)
NFL Kickoff: The science gets more damning, but the money keeps growing (with Michele Steele)
What changes when AI agents do the shopping? (with Shopify's COO Jess Hertz)
What changes when AI agents do the shopping? (with Shopify's COO Jess Hertz)
Chicago Fed President dishes on inflation, recession and Trump’s attacks (Austan Goolsbee)
Chicago Fed President dishes on inflation, recession and Trump’s attacks (Austan Goolsbee)