Rapid Response
The pace of change in our culture is unprecedented and shows no signs of slowing. So what is most important to pay attention to when striving to innovate, create, and lead? From the team behind Masters of Scale, Rapid Response features candid conversations with today's top business leaders navigating real-time challenges. Hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company, Bob Safian.
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 341
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Reintroducing... Rapid Response
The pace of change in our culture is unprecedented and shows no signs of slowing. So what is most important to pay attention to when striving to innovate, create, and lead? Rapid Response features ca…
00:01:45 |
Fri 03 May 2024
Meet your kid’s new AI tutor, w/Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan
Khan Academy first rocked the education world with online video. Now Khan Academy CEO and founder Sal Khan has gone all-in on AI, convinced that it has immense potential to democratize and improve ed…
00:24:11 |
Tue 30 Apr 2024
Fighting media's reality distortion, w/Axios CEO Jim VandeHei
Every day we’re inundated with news and opinion pieces about America’s hopeless division — but is this really true? Axios CEO Jim VandeHei joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to bust what he sees as…
00:27:12 |
Thu 25 Apr 2024
How Star Trek prospers against Netflix and Disney+, w/Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman
The streaming wars have reached a new inflection, as Netflix and Disney+ jostle for position, and in the process disrupt post-strike Hollywood. Paramount+ invested heavily in blockbuster veteran Alex…
00:28:19 |
Thu 18 Apr 2024
How optimism fuels the economy, w/U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark
Is the state of the U.S. economy good or bad right now? Stock markets have soared, but consumers remain wary. Are CEOs and investors deluding themselves? Or do Main Street Americans expect too much? …
00:26:03 |
Thu 11 Apr 2024
2024 is the most significant time in human history, w/PBS host & futurist Ari Wallach
We are biologically wired to focus on the near-term, and that’s often a good thing. But in this moment — with global conflict, fast-evolving tech, and climate change dominating our present — we need …
00:30:10 |
Thu 04 Apr 2024
Bracing for a possible TikTok ban, w/fitness entrepreneur Cassey Ho
If the U.S. government bans TikTok, a generation of content creators and brands who have built businesses on the platform will be radically disrupted. With 17 million social followers — 3.5 million o…
00:21:46 |
Thu 28 Mar 2024
Riding the Ozempic wave, w/RO CEO Zach Reitano
Rabid demand for weight-loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy is altering US society and transforming the healthcare industry. Rapid Response host Bob Safian guides us through the upheaval and lessons, …
00:26:54 |
Thu 21 Mar 2024
Who really won The Oscars, w/The Black List founder Franklin Leonard
The Oscars aren’t just Hollywood’s biggest night. The ceremony and the scrutiny around it captures the trends and evolving values of American culture. Rapid Response host Bob Safian digs into the bus…
00:29:29 |
Tue 12 Mar 2024
Landing on the moon, w/Intuitive Machines CEO Steve Altemus
In tackling our own moonshots, few businesses can offer inspiration like Intuitive Machines. When the company’s Odysseus lander touched down on the moon on February 22, Intuitive Machines became the …
00:25:14 |
Thu 07 Mar 2024
OpenAI’s $7 trillion plan, Apple’s Vision Pro, and more, w/Reid Hoffman and Bob Safian
Will OpenAI’s new text-to-video tool Sora revolutionize content creation? In this episode of Masters of Scale, Reid Hoffman joins Bob Safian to discuss Sam Altman’s fundraising, Meta’s dramatic resur…
00:25:24 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Battling cyber attacks and deepfakes with AI, w/Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson
Cyber war is raging, and the culprit is AI. Poppy Gustafsson, CEO of cybersecurity firm Darktrace shares new, proprietary info about how cybercrime has become professionalized across the Dark Web, an…
00:29:09 |
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Super Bowl ads: Lessons from Beyoncé, J. Lo and Taylor, w/Autodesk's Dara Treseder
The on-field Super Bowl went down to the wire, but the TV ads battle was a rout. That’s what one of the ad world’s most influential leaders, Autodesk chief marketing officer Dara Treseder, tells Rapi…
00:28:44 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Inside Reid's meeting with President Biden, w/Reid Hoffman and Bob Safian
President Biden is the first president to face the full force of the AI revolution. In this special episode, Reid Hoffman joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian for an exclusive inside look into the cl…
00:13:17 |
Tue 23 Jan 2024
What’s wrong with the remote vs. in-office debate? w/Atlassian's Scott Farquhar
The backlash against remote work is in full swing, with 90% of CEOs reportedly rewarding in-office workers with more promotions and raises. But to Scott Farquhar, co-CEO of Atlassian, that’s a big mi…
00:28:17 |
Thu 18 Jan 2024
5 memorable lessons from 2023
There’s no better way to prepare for 2024 than to look back at the year that was. 2023 offered a slew of challenges and opportunities, from AI mania to inflation to Taylor Swift obsession. In this sp…
00:29:21 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
Inside Intel’s AI ambitions, w/CEO Pat Gelsinger
The AI boom in 2023 left Intel chasing rival Nvidia, whose chips — and shares — have been in high demand. Like other laggards amid this year’s AI mania, Intel is now fighting back, announcing the fir…
00:21:28 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Navigating a leadership crisis, w/Web Summit CEO Katherine Maher
How do you restore confidence after a high-profile leadership uproar? Web Summit’s new CEO Katherine Maher joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to discuss taking over after the sudden, forced resigna…
00:26:58 |
Thu 30 Nov 2023
Remix: Scott Harrison & charity: water, 5 years later
In the five years since Scott Harrison’s first appearance on Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman, the nonprofit organization he founded, charity: water, has scaled 5 times over. In this episode, he an…
00:30:11 |
Tue 28 Nov 2023
GaryVee wants your attention, w/VaynerMedia’s Gary Vaynerchuk
In our attention economy, what does it take to capture the cultural zeitgeist? VaynerMedia’s Gary Vaynerchuk – or GaryVee – joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to preach the need for widespread empa…
00:33:20 |
Thu 16 Nov 2023
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