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Millions of customers have explored their genome with 23andMe. But when the company started in 2006, the idea of consumer DNA testing was heresy to the medical establishment. The FDA once even ordered 23andMe to stop selling its health testing

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Nov 2nd, 2023 36m 26s

Co-founders Hosain Rahman and Alex Asseily, and Chief Creative Officer Yves Behar, recount the meteoric rise and fall of Jawbone. One of the most innovative companies of the mid 2000s, Jawbone pioneered wearable technology with UP, the first wr

HubSpot ft. Brian Halligan & Dharmesh Shah - How an underdog helped invent modern marketing, and then took on Goliath

Oct 19th, 2023 32m 38s

Founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah reveal how they took a blog started as a hobby and turned the ideas behind it into a $20+ billion success. In 2006, HubSpot upended traditional approaches to marketing by taking advantage of the the nas

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Oct 5th, 2023 44m 49s

What happens to an events company when every event is canceled? “Even if you have spent 14 years building something, it could truly be gone in 14 days.” After working tirelessly to revolutionize how live events are organized, this was the reali

Block ft. Jack Dorsey - A controversial hack week project becomes the #1 financial services app

Sep 21st, 2023 37m 22s

CEO Jack Dorsey reflects on Block’s origins and defining moments with host Roelof Botha. Dorsey founded Square in 2009 with a clear vision: economic empowerment for all. Their dongle that turns iPhones into credit card readers was just the sta

Airbnb ft. Brian Chesky - Battling a copycat clone and rebuilding user trust to revolutionize travel

Sep 7th, 2023 39m 19s

As Airbnb took off in the early 2010s, Brian Chesky remembers worrying, “this is just one accident away from being a dead idea.” That accident finally came in 2011 when a host’s apartment was ransacked. It set off a period of soul searching tha

PayPal ft. Max Levchin - A merger of enemies that reshaped Silicon Valley

Sep 7th, 2023 46m 49s

PayPal was the defining tech company of its generation, with alumni going on to start YouTube, Tesla, Yelp, LinkedIn, among many others. But the company nearly didn’t make it. The PayPal of today only exists because of how its team navigated ea

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Introducing "Crucible Moments"

Aug 30th, 2023 3m 39s

A podcast about the inflection points that shaped some of the most important companies of our time. Crucible moments are pivotal decisions that determine your trajectory. Hear from founders like Jack Dorsey of Block, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, and

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