The AI race to save American science and reshape medicine forever
Renee Wegrzyn spent her career building the future of American science — including ARPA-H, the White House agency created to accelerate health breakth...
Pioneers of AI: OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux doesn’t want humans to be an ‘afterthought’
Thibault “Tibo” Sottiaux is OpenAI’s head of Product & Platform, making him responsible for the AI tools used by more than a billion users worldwi...
Building a marketplace from scratch, with Hipcamp founder Alyssa Ravasio
Alyssa Ravasio loves using ‘coyote trickster energy’ to get more people to put down their technology. Her camping marketplace, Hipcamp, has grown into...
Kalshi vs. Everyone: Co-Founder Luana Lopes Lara on the lawsuits and the long game
Prediction markets incentivize truth. Everything else incentivizes clickbait. That's the core argument Luana Lopes Lara makes for Kalshi — the predict...
Don't be boring: KCRW's Jennifer Ferro on building a brand people love
Jennifer Ferro is the former board chair of NPR and president of Southern California’s iconic public radio organization: KCRW. Ferro talks with host J...
Halloween meets GLP-1s: Hershey’s candy Super Bowl, with CEO Kirk Tanner
The second a brand like Hershey stops being culturally relevant, says its CEO Kirk Tanner, you should be worried. He joins Rapid Response to explain e...
Rapid Response: Stop creating businesses. Buy one instead, with Codie Sanchez
Own or be owned. That's Codie Sanchez's ultimatum for anyone serious about their financial future. The founder of Contrarian Thinking and author of th...
How to build a billion-dollar sports team from scratch, with Golden State Valkyries’ Jess Smith
When Jess Smith became employee number one for the Bay Area’s WNBA expansion team, the future was a blank slate. Now, the Golden State Valkyries brand...
Rebranding in a war zone, with Prosper Global (formerly Mercy Corps)
The world has never faced so many humanitarian crises at once, and the systems built to respond to them are fraying. Tjada McKenna, CEO of Prosper Glo...
Brené Brown & Reid Hoffman on the skills every leader needs now
Author and researcher Brené Brown joined host Reid Hoffman on stage last year in San Francisco for the 2025 Masters of Scale Summit. She reveals insig...