David Senra
Read bullet-point summaries of David Senra conversations on founders, executives, business biographies, strategy, taste, and ambition.
Episodes
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Building The World's First AI Software Engineer | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company that built Devin, an AI software engineer used by enterprises like Goldman Sachs, Mercedes, and
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Lessons from Working with Nas, Jay-Z, Kobe, LeBron, Steve Jobs & More | Steve Stoute
Leaving the music business for advertising
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Building Pixar, Working With Steve Jobs, and Cultivating Creativity | Ed Catmull
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and former president of Disney Animation, reflects on building a sustainable creative culture, working with Steve Jobs for 26
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How Spotify Competes With Apple, Google & Amazon — And Wins | Spotify Co-CEO Gustav Söderström
Spotify's co-CEO Gustaf Söderström on leadership, organizational design, and Spotify's strategy for competing with Apple, Google, Amazon, and others
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Ivanka Trump on Building an Authentic Life
Knowing yourself is the foundation of everything she does now
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The Simple Genius of Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin is one of the most influential music producers in history, having shaped the sound of hip-hop, rock, country, and pop across nearly five decades
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The Man Behind Grand Theft Auto 6: Strauss Zelnick
Strauss Zelnick's unlikely path to building Take-Two Interactive into a $40+ billion entertainment company — from a hostile takeover with no capital, through
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Dana White: Building the UFC & A Combat Sports Empire
Dana White built the UFC from a $2 million near-bankruptcy purchase into a multi-billion-dollar combat sports empire through fan-first instincts, relentless
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Bootstrapping a Business to $5 Billion in Free Cash Flow | AppLovin’s Adam Foroughi
Adam Foroughi’s journey with AppLovin (now a $140 B market‑cap ad platform)
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Roblox’s David Baszucki Built the Biggest Playground on Earth
David Baszucki’s journey from a physics‑simulation startup to building Roblox, the world’s largest user‑generated 3D playground – he leveraged early intuition
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Evan Spiegel, Snapchat: Building a Multi-Billion Dollar Company
Evan Spiegel discusses how his early education, personal philosophy, and admiration for innovators like Edwin Land shape Snap’s mission to build deeply
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Tony Xu of DoorDash: Surviving 1,000 Days of Startup Hell
Tony Xu recounts how DoorDash grew from a $9, 43‑minute MVP to a multi‑billion‑dollar logistics platform, illustrating the relentless focus on testing ideas
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How Elon Thinks
This episode dissects the core ideas from The Book of Elon: Elon Musk’s Most Useful Ideas in His Own Words, revealing how Musk’s unique mindset, operating
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Marc Andreessen: The World Is More Malleable Than You Think
Marc Andreessen discusses how the world is far more malleable than most people think, arguing that relentless effort and founder‑driven entrepreneurship are the
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Brian Armstrong: Iron in His Veins
This episode features Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong discussing how he builds political power for crypto, fights regulatory “lawfare,” and leads Coinbase with a
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Jason Fried: Your Only Competition Is Your Costs
The episode explores Jason Fried’s philosophy of building software products by making them for yourself first, keeping costs low, staying small, and focusing on
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Building Interscope Records & Beats by Dre | Jimmy Iovine
Jimmy Iovine reflects on a career that spans music, tech, and entrepreneurship, illustrating how fame, attention, and technology have reshaped the industry and
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Tobi Lütke: 21 Years of Building Shopify
Episode focus: Tobi Lütke reflects on 21 years of building Shopify, sharing his unconventional ideas about companies as social technology, the importance of
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John Mackey: 44 Years of Building Whole Foods
John Mackey’s 44‑year journey building Whole Foods Market – from a shirtless, hitchhiking hippie opening a tiny natural‑food store to a national grocery chain
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My Conversation With Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Founder of Colossus & Positive Sum | David Senra
This episode is a deep conversation with Patrick O’Shaughnessy, founder of Colossus, about his lifelong obsession with discovering and championing undiscovered
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James Dyson: 5,127 Prototypes
This episode explores James Dyson’s lifelong obsession with history, engineering, and relentless experimentation, tracing how his fascination with past
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CAA Co-founder Michael Ovitz: Failure Is Not an Option
This episode is a deep conversation with Michael Ovitz, co‑founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), exploring his experiences with legendary figures (Marc
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How Todd Graves Built Raising Cane's
This episode dives into the life and philosophy of Todd Graves, founder and CEO of Raising Cane’s, exploring how his relentless focus on a single product
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How Brad Jacobs Built 8 Billion-Dollar Companies
Brad Jacobs — a serial entrepreneur who built eight billion‑dollar companies by mastering long‑term trends, recruiting top talent, and treating problems as
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Michael Dell, Dell Technologies | David Senra
This episode is a deep, conversational interview with Michael Dell, founder of Dell Technologies, exploring how his lifelong obsession with puzzles, finance
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Daniel Ek, Spotify | David Senra
This conversation revisits a pivotal discussion from the previous year, exploring how Daniel Ek’s ideas—especially “optimizing for impact over happiness”—have
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Welcome to David Senra
Episode launch: David Senra introduces his new interview‑focused podcast, shifting from the “Founders” show (which examined historic entrepreneurs) to