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Announcing the Masters of Scale Summit

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Will be there with us October 20th through 22nd in San Francisco. If you're building something great, or you want to build something great, We want you there with us too. Join us at masters of scale dot com slash apply twenty six. That's mastersofscot com slash apply. Twenty six.

Hey listeners, it's Reed. I'm here with my co host, Bob Safian, and our executive producer, June Cohen. To bring you this short episode. With a very special announcement. Hey Reed.

Alright, so I'm super excited to join you both today. And as our listeners know well, our mission here at Masters of Scale is to democratize entrepreneurship. We love having conversations with scale leaders and co elevating each other's missions. We do, June, and we've grown the Masters of Scale podcast to eighty million downloads with hundreds of iconic guests, plus a best selling book. An executive ed course at Harvard Business School on the beloved daily learning app. All serving our global community of founders, funders, and leaders looking to innovate at scale.

And now we are extremely excited to tell you about the next big thing we have coming. Uh Drumroll, please. Masters of Scale Summit!

So June. What is the Masters of Scale Summit, and who is it for? Well read so Masters of Scale Summit. Is designed as our first moment of ignition for fast scaling future facing companies. Series B or higher. So this live event is really for the Sunicorns and the Unicorns. What you can expect is a three day journey of extraordinary innovative live stage programs that will spark your ideas, blow you away, and bring new learnings from scale leaders that you've never heard before.

And that's just the start. You can find the entire evolving program at masters of scale dot com slash Summit. Look, I think this is gonna be totally awesome. You guys have produced awesome events before, and I actually think this could be completely epic and very important for the ecosystem because the question about how you make these network connections is actually, in fact, how you succeed on this scale journey. So

When and where is it happening? So the inaugural Masters of Scale summit will be held October eighteenth through twentieth in San Francisco, and we are honored to bring this three day immersive event to you. Alongside our partners at Capital One Business, we are Always looking for ways together to serve the global community of entrepreneurs. It is designed uniquely for both the eight hundred leaders who are in the room.

And their teams back home. The idea is that we've all had the experience of being in the room at an event when we're sparked by an idea, and then have to figure out how to bring that idea back to our team with the excitement and resonance with which we heard it on stage. The summit is designed so that an entire team gets sparked. At the same time. So we're designing not just the stage program, but also a beautifully immersive live stream with a separate host, written takeaways that go out after each session. And this is a way to serve our entire audience at Masters of Scale so that everybody has a way of experiencing this event. At the same time, even though of course not everybody can be in the same room at once. Guevana, I'm just so excited about how all this is gonna come together, because this really is a new and different way of thinking about events that is gonna bring and deliver so much more.

For all sides, for those who are remote and those who are in person and I know I'm definitely gonna be there. I know Reed's gonna be there. June, how about can we give everybody a sneak peek at the program? Yeah, I'd love to. So the Masters of Scale summit is centered around

A single track stage program. There's no breakout sessions. Everybody sees every session. So there are eight Ninety minute stage sessions, unlike any you've seen before. So we're really pulling together. Unique original genre defining formats, including illuminating interviews and candid conversations both with and among scale leaders. Tech demos like Blake Shoal, the founder of Boom Supersonic, who will give us a sneak peek at the future of air travel.

Debates. Like the question of whether crypto or AI is the technology defining this era in business, and eye-opening explorations of the revolutions at our doorstep, like the rise of psychedelic medicine and scale colonization of Mars. Plus. Data visualizations, master talks, unforgettable performance. All designed to both widen your lens and spark.

your own ideas. That's our whole focus of this event is that it becomes transformative for everybody in the room and on the live stream. Oh, and then I'll add I'm super excited about the ways that both of you are going to come to life on stage. But Bob, I'm wondering if you would share some of the speakers in the stage program that you're particularly excited about. Goodness, so many confirmed speakers include Bill Gates. As well as Sati Nadella, Brian Chesky of Airbnb, model turned entrepreneur, Tyra Banks.

Dara Kosra Shahi of Uber. Angela Arant, Sally Krawchek, and Franklin Leonard who were all so memorable on Reed's terrific hundredth episode round table. Film producer Carry Hart, if you've seen Rogue one or The Last Jedi, you know her work. Ted Serandos at Netflix, Smeldy Hobson of Arial Investments and Starbucks.

Patrick Callson of Stripe. Honestly It's an embarrassment of riches, the full list is on the website and there'll be some great surprises too. Gonna be quite a gathering, isn't it, Rick? Yes, we've obviously selected some of our amazing guests.

From the podcast and from the courses of what we were doing. But we've also Invited some new Amazing people who will share super interesting journeys. Ones that you know I have thought. Hey.

The Silicon Valley folks and the tech community actually in fact has a learning here that they haven't yet really encountered. So We're trying to have that same energy, that same magic that we bring to the podcast. Now in person But also shared, of course, globally.

And in particular We've been designing this so that the folks who are tackling these kind of scale problems and These questions about how to bring their product or service to organization to the next level of scale. What would be the thing that would be both magical and very useful for them? So June.

What excites You about it. There are two things that really excite me about it, Reed. And the first thing is that You know, from the first moment even before we launch our very first episode of Masters of Scale with Brian Chesky of Airbnb. We knew that

One of our goals was to build an extraordinary global community of leaders. And we have heard so much from so many of you in the audience over time about what the show means to you, about what You get from it about what you'd like to contribute to it, and the idea and just the opportunity to bring people together in real time. Is so exciting to me because like nothing quite compares to like the electricity and the acceleration you get when you actually have human connection between people. And so much about the way we're designing this event is not just to get together and talk about big ideas, but to connect people on a human level, knowing that that is going to catalyze great things in. people's lives, in companies lives, and communities lives. So just the potential of bringing this community together, both in the room and then through the live stream in different ways around the world, that's the most exciting to me.

I am curious about what you're most looking forward to, Bob. Oh, I think it's the people. And it's the lessons, the insights, like the conversations we have on rapid response. We're gonna hear candid real time wisdom and perspective that's not just applicable in theory, but can help the way all of us lead and inform better decision making in the here and now. And I think this time is really a key time for doing it. Reeb, what do you think? We've talked about this.

We have. I mean, look, we've all are now emerging out of the pandemic asteroid that's hit the entire world. We've all been broadly in our own corners. We've had the Great reshuffle. of what's going on in industries and work. We've had the questions about what is the new normal? You know, an abnormal is the new normal and volatility is the new normal. And yet

There's nothing like Being in the same room. Talking to each other, going okay, let's sort this out together. And just like what makes these entrepreneurial journeys so amazing. is to say okay

Where are the opportunities to build something new better? Magical. What are the new patterns? Of getting the scale. What are the things that we preserve from our old lessons? And what are the things we go, ah, this is the new discovery, this is the new innovation, this is the new place to go, this is the new way to play, this is the new way to do this. And that You get the energy.

of being in the room together and talking to each other and obviously I for one of course have been super hungry about that in the room. reconnection. So building on that read, maybe I'll share how people can take part. There's a number of different ways that everyone can take part. And the first one is by taking part in the live stream. So the live stream is$99 for a single stream. You can also buy a pack of streams for your entire team, which we recommend. We are designing this event to be taken in.

Both in the room by leaders together and virtually by teams who are taking in at the same time. The stream of each ninety minute session will be available both in real time and on demand. So you have a lot of different options for how you take in the event. In every case, you will get written takeaways after each. session to figure out how to activate on the ideas and insights. The second way is to apply to attend. So because it is a small and curated event with a very specific ecosystem, attendance at the event is by invitation and application only. We have held About hundreds of spots for people who are applying from around the world, who we happen to not know yet, but who we would love to have take part. If that is you, if you are either the CEO or co founder of a fast scaling

Forward looking private company, the Sunicorn or Unicorn, or a C-suite executive or change agent executive at a global public company. This event is really design for you. There are other people who will really feel at home there as well. If you are the leader of a scale nonprofit. If you are an investor or board member, come take a look and apply to attend. You want to go to masterstofscom slash summit, you should know that the cost to attend is five thousand dollars per attendee. That includes all your meals over the days. We would love to see you there. And there's another way. Now, if you are a first-time entrepreneur and or leading your first scalable company, you can apply to have your conference pass underwritten by one of our partners. We're building a diverse global cohort of forty leaders with disruptive businesses that are ready to scale.

We are looking for people who are making a big ambitious swing at a goal that they have in the world. And we're looking for people who might be outside of our ordinary Silicon Valley and New York networks. We are looking for people who might often be overlooked as a group by the venture community. We want to hear from you whoever we are. And if that sounds like you. go to mastersofscom slash summit and select early stage company leaders in order to be considered for one of these competitive complimentary tickets. We've shared this with masters of scale guests and members just recently, and already applications are flowing in. So please apply now for the opportunity to be in the room. And if you can't get in the room this year, you can still get a ticket for the live stream experience, as I've said. And in fact, what a lot of organizations have told us is that they'd love to send their CEO to attend in person while buying streaming tickets for the rest of their team. Look, personally I know a bunch of different organizations that are having

The CO, founder show up and then streaming. For the event for their entire organization because It will be this magical combination. So Thanks.

June and Bob for joining me today. I can't Wait. to be with you in person and learn from the incredible group of scale leaders at Summit. Again, if you want to attend, go to. Master Scale.com

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