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The Complete Interviews from Masters of Scale

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Alright, shall we Yeah yeah. After eight seasons and one hundred episodes. That was a long answer to your No, that was totally awesome. By popular demand, we're launching Masters of Scale the complete interviews. Quick side question, this won't be on the on the interview. Masters of Scale. Uncut, unedited. With the stories you'd never hear in the episodes.

Brian Chesky of Airbnb. Everything I'm about to say is true story. Michael might deny it. I I will remember it. I get in the room like, hey Mike, oh my god. He's sitting on the hotel bed in his tiny whiteies, but nothing else on. And there is a special about John Wilkes booth on the History Channel.

Tyra Banks. Yes, I gained weight and my butt got big, but it was still modeling, it was just modeling for people to like laugh. Peter Teal. It's always the joke we have, Reed, where you know you're sort of the the socialist and I'm the capitalist.

How much of that thinking was present? in the first meeting that you and I had with Zuckerberg, Parker. Yep, we're name dropping. Zuck is very articulate now. But back then there was a lot of staring at the desk. Not saying anything.

Sergey before Google started, before he had founded it. Susan Bojiski of YouTube. And I knew him because he was dating one of my previous roommates. Ninety minute interviews unlike any other you've heard. Plus the answers to our famous lightning round. one object from your childhood that you could never throw away. I had a uh

safety blanket as a three year old child. And I kept it till I was eighteen or nineteen. Wow. Didn't know that. Your smartest time saving hack. Making music. How does that a time saving hair?

Because time goes away. Uh What something? That's in your pocket beside your phone. I I live on an island so I don't have any pockets I just have a swimming costume on all day long. And I uh don't have any any shoes and socks on and r rar even have a T shirt on, so pockets are empty. Yes. Exactly. Masters of Scale, the complete interviews. Long awaited, long requested, unedited, and available now by subscription on Apple Podcasts.