Tade Oyerinde shares how he’s built an online community college with competitive pricing, resources for students, and well-compensated professors.

A pioneer in the gig economy, Leah Solivan shares scale lessons from founding Taskrabbit and how her experience as an entrepreneur is shaping her as an early-stage investor.

Joanna Strober shares the stakes of ignoring perimenopause and menopause, how she secured $100 million in funding, and why she isn’t shy about leaning into controversy.

Sallie Krawcheck discusses Ellevest reaching $2 billion in assets under management and what the milestone indicates about the state of gender equity in 2024.

The high-flying Angel City Football Club is rising to a historic valuation in professional women’s soccer. Co-founders Kara Nortman and Julie Uhrman reveal the game-changing strategies behind this seismic shift.

Reid Hoffman joins Bob Safian to discuss OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool Sora, Sam Altman’s fundraising, Meta’s dramatic resurgence, and three catalysts driving the recent tech layoffs.

A range of scale leaders share their strategies for weathering the chorus of no’s.

Elan Lee reveals how he cultivated a community around Exploding Kittens by transforming casual colleagues, partners, and customers into key stakeholders.

Scott Harrison revisits the stories from his original episode of Masters of Scale, and shares the new lessons of scale he’s learned since.

Smart entrepreneurs know one of the secrets to scale is leveraging wisdom from others. (In fact, that’s the mission of this show!) But not all advice is right for you right now — and some can even be disastrous. As the founder of the proto-fintech platform LearnVest, Alexa von Tobel scaled her business by seeking advice from mentors and friends … and then, taking only the advice that served her mission. Following Alexa’s story, you’ll learn how to become a good advice detective, with the power to sort the transformative advice from the traps.

In June of 2020, executive producers June Cohen and Jordan McLeod sat down with comedian Stephen Colbert to discuss how, as host of The Colbert Report, Stephen pivoted a satirical run for U.S. president into a massive fundraiser for the nonprofit Donors Choose. They dive into how that presidential run came to be, and how Donors Choose helped Stephen solve the challenge of collecting “campaign contributions” without breaking federal election law. It’s a master class in “Yes-and”-ing your way to scale. Plus, Stephen describes daring his show’s parent company to stop him, when they tried to clip his electoral wings.

The tech industry and its investors have been captivated by the spell of the Unicorn for too long — and the ambitious goal of a billion-dollar valuation has done more harm than good. Instead, founders should aim to be resilient Dragons. That’s the view of Maëlle Gavet, who as CEO of early-stage investment business Techstars has unmatched insight into the hopes, dreams, and challenges of thousands of founders. Maëlle also shares her experience as a “Fixer and Scaler” and offers important lessons for all entrepreneurs, from pre-seed start-ups to corporate change agents.