David Senra

Nov 4, 2026 · 58 min

Scott Kupor is the director of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which serves as the HR and talent agency for the federal government's roughly two million civilian…

Nov 1, 2026 · 1 h 7 min

Rafael “Raf” Vivas is a founding team member of AppLovin, the digital advertising and marketing company led by Adam Foroughi, where he has worked since 2011 in roles spanning…

Oct 28, 2026 · 1 h 11 min

Kenn Ricci is the chairman and largest shareholder of Flexjet, a fractional private jet company that operates more than 360 aircraft and is the largest Gulfstream operator in the…

Oct 25, 2026 · 1 h 7 min

Nik Storonsky is the co-founder and CEO of Revolut, a digital bank valued at $115 billion that is available in 38 countries. A former trader, he started Revolut with a card for…

Oct 18, 2026 · 1 h 20 min

Kurt MacAlpine is a partner and the CEO of Corient, which manages approximately $525 billion in client assets. He became a first-time CEO at 39, believes wealth management was…

Oct 14, 2026 · 1 h 11 min

Ben Wilson is the host of “How To Take Over The World,” which is one of my favorite podcasts. How To Take Over The World examines history’s greatest leaders and conquerors, and has…

Oct 11, 2026 · 1 h 12 min

Alexandr Wang is the chief AI officer of Meta and co-founder of Scale AI. We talk about the seven-month effort to build Muse, why Meta focused on personal AI agents instead of…

Oct 7, 2026 · 1 h 24 min

Ari Emanuel is the co-founder of Endeavor, executive chair and CEO of TKO, executive chairman of WME Group, and founder of MARI. We talk about his $4.2 billion bet on the UFC, the…

Oct 4, 2026 · 1 h 8 min

Jeremy Stern is the editor-in-chief of Colossus, where he writes long-form profiles of leading entrepreneurs and investors. He goes behind the scenes of his reporting on Mark…

Sep 30, 2026 · 1 h 2 min

Alexander Taubman is the co-founder and CEO of Long Lake, a company that buys established service businesses and uses AI to improve how they operate. He explains Long Lake’s $6.3…

Sep 27, 2026 · 1 h 30 min

Ronnie Fieg is the founder, CEO and creative director of Kith. At 13, he turned down an envelope of cash at his bar mitzvah to ask his cousin for a job, then spent 15 years working…

Sep 20, 2026 · 1 h 21 min

Peter Rahal is the co-founder of RXBAR, David Protein, and Medici Brands. After selling RXBAR for $600 million, he tried investing and quickly discovered he was miserable watching…

Sep 13, 2026 · 2 h 1 min

Luca Ferrari is a co-founder of Bending Spoons, the technology company he built with his partners by rethinking how software businesses should hire, operate and allocate capital…

Sep 9, 2026 · 1 h 11 min

Mati Staniszewski is the co-founder of ElevenLabs, an AI audio company he started in 2022 with his longtime friend Piotr Dąbkowski. He explains how a frustration with poorly dubbed…

Sep 6, 2026 · 1 h 16 min

Zach Dell is the co-founder of Base Power, an energy company on a mission to make electricity more affordable and reliable. His starting insight was that home batteries had the…

Aug 30, 2026 · 1 h 22 min

Doug Leone spent 26 years helping lead Sequoia Capital through successive eras of technological change. Born in Italy, he came to the United States without speaking English and…

Aug 26, 2026 · 1 h 24 min

Torsten Reil has spent his career working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, simulation and entrepreneurship. He began as a biologist studying neural networks and…

Aug 23, 2026 · 1 h 18 min

Sam Altman has spent his career at the intersection of startups, investing and artificial intelligence. He says he was fascinated by AI as a child in St. Louis, studied it in…

Aug 16, 2026 · 1 h 49 min

Travis Kalanick is best known for co-founding Uber and building it into one of the world’s largest transportation platforms. Before Uber, he spent years building Red Swoosh under…

Aug 12, 2026 · 1 h 18 min

Lulu Cheng Meservey is the founder of Rostra and one of the world's most trusted communication strategists, supporting companies such as Anduril, Shopify, Cognition, and Coinbase…

Aug 9, 2026 · 1 h 7 min

Michael Ovitz is the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the most powerful and influential talent agencies in Hollywood history, built on a revolutionary approach…

Aug 2, 2026 · 1 h 16 min

Micky Malka is the founder of Ribbit Capital and helped create Node, which he describes as the first digital art studio designed for digital artists. He calls himself “an…

Jul 26, 2026 · 1 h 42 min

David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) is the creator of Ruby on Rails and the co-founder of 37signals, the company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. He has spent 25 years building a…

Jul 19, 2026 · 1 h 48 min

Jeff Zalaznick is co-founder of Major Food Group, the hospitality company behind Carbone, ZZ's, Torrisi, The Grill, and The Pool. He has opened 77 restaurants and bars and 76 are…

Jul 12, 2026 · 59 min

Eric Glyman is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ramp, the financial-infrastructure platform valued at $44 billion used by over 70,000 businesses to run payments, expenses and…

Jul 5, 2026 · 1 h 12 min

Jonathan Ross is the founder of Groq and the inventor of the Google Tensor Processing Unit (TPU), now a senior executive at NVIDIA following the company's $20 billion partnership…

Jun 28, 2026 · 1 h 5 min

Scott Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Cognition, the company behind Devin, the world's first AI software engineer. Wu describes himself as "salty," a word he traces to second…

Jun 21, 2026 · 1 h 35 min

Steve Stoute is the founder of Translation, the marketing company behind some of the most iconic brand work of the past 25 years, and UnitedMasters, the independent music…

Jun 14, 2026 · 1 h 35 min

Ed Catmull is the co-founder of Pixar and the former president of Disney Animation. He grew up in 1950s Utah wanting to animate for Disney. Convinced he couldn't draw well enough…

Jun 7, 2026 · 1 h 14 min

Gustav Söderström is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Spotify, the world's largest streaming platform, with more than 760 million users across 180 countries. He earned a master's…

May 31, 2026 · 1 h 24 min

Ivanka Trump grew up on construction sites and in boardrooms, learning what it takes to be a builder. At just 22 years old, she started doing real estate for a Brooklyn developer…

May 24, 2026 · 1 h 24 min

Rick Rubin grew up on Long Island obsessed with music — arena rock at 13, punk by high school, then hip-hop when it was still a street movement you could only hear at one club in…

May 17, 2026 · 1 h 39 min

Strauss Zelnick has spent 40 years doing the same thing: finding where new technology is about to supercharge an old business, and getting there first. He started at Columbia…

May 10, 2026 · 1 h 13 min

Dana White grew up watching CEOs read canned statements written by lawyers. He decided early he would never do that. When Lorenzo Fertitta and his brother bought the UFC in 2001…

May 3, 2026 · 1 h 26 min

Chapters (00:00:00) The $6B Buyback That Made $60B (00:02:15) Borrowing Money To Buy Back Stock At A Discount (00:05:02) Why VCs Passed On AppLovin In 2012 (00:09:00) From App…

Apr 26, 2026 · 1 h 28 min

David Baszucki is the co-founder and CEO of Roblox, the platform where tens of millions of people gather daily to play, build, and socialize inside user-generated virtual worlds…

Apr 12, 2026 · 1 h 58 min

Evan Spiegel is the co-founder and CEO of Snap Inc., the company behind Snapchat. At Stanford, he enrolled in the product design program. In 2011, in a class project, he and two…

Mar 29, 2026 · 1 h 49 min

Tony Xu is the co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, the largest food delivery platform in the United States. Before he was a tech executive, he was a dishwasher. Xu was born in Nanjing…

Mar 24, 2026 · 1 h 50 min

Eric Jorgenson is an investor, author, and the CEO of Scribe Media — best known for his mission to distill the ideas of the world's most consequential thinkers into books anyone…

Mar 15, 2026 · 1 h 50 min

Marc Andreessen is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), one of the most influential venture capital firms in the world. Before he was an investor, he…

Mar 1, 2026 · 1 h 50 min

Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the publicly traded cryptocurrency exchange and one of the most recognized names in the digital asset industry. Armstrong…

Feb 15, 2026 · 2 h 21 min

Jason Fried is the co-founder and CEO of 37signals, the software company behind Basecamp, HEY, and ONCE. Fried is widely regarded as one of the most influential voices in modern…

Feb 1, 2026 · 2 h 8 min

Jimmy Iovine is the co-founder of Interscope Records, Beats by Dre, and the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy. Iovine is widely regarded as one of the most influential…

Jan 18, 2026 · 2 h 24 min

Tobi Lütke is the co-founder of Shopify, where he has served as the company's CEO since 2008. Under his leadership, Shopify grew from an online snowboard shop in Ottawa, Canada in…

Jan 4, 2026 · 1 h 41 min

John Mackey is the co-founder of Whole Foods Market, where he also served as the company's CEO for 44 years (1980–2022). More recently, Mackey is the co-founder of Love.Life, a…

Dec 21, 2025 · 2 h 6 min

Patrick O'Shaughnessy is the Chairman Emeritus of O'Shaughnessy Asset Management, the founder of Colossus, and the founder and CEO of Positive Sum. He is an investor, author, and…

Dec 7, 2025 · 1 h 38 min

James Dyson is the founder and chairman of Dyson, a technology-led company present in 84 markets worldwide. He is an inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who has devoted his…

Nov 23, 2025 · 2 h 7 min

Michael Ovitz is the co-founder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the most powerful and influential talent agencies in Hollywood history, built on a revolutionary approach…

Nov 9, 2025 · 2 h

Todd Graves is the founder and CEO of Raising Cane's, one of America's most successful and fastest-growing restaurant chains built on a radically simple concept that nearly…

Oct 26, 2025 · 2 h 3 min

Brad Jacobs is the chairman and CEO of QXO, Inc., and the founder of eight separate billion-dollar companies including XPO Logistics, United Rentals and United Waste. He is an…

Oct 12, 2025 · 1 h 31 min

Michael Dell is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Dell Technologies. He is an entrepreneur and technology executive widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in…

Sep 28, 2025 · 2 h 9 min

Daniel Ek is the co-founder and CEO of Spotify. Daniel Ek is an entrepreneur and technology executive widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in music, podcasting…

Sep 19, 2025 · 1 min

Nine years ago, I launched Founders. Today, I'm launching a new podcast called David Senra. The first episode goes live this Sunday, September 28. Subscribe wherever you watch or…