Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale is a business podcast and media brand owned and produced by WaitWhat, the media company founded and led by former TED executives June Cohen and Deron Triff. In 2017, Masters of Scale launched as a business and leadership podcast occasionally hosted by Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn and partner at Greylock Partners. Masters of Scale aims to “democratize entrepreneurship” and has since extended into multiple podcasts, a learning app, a book., and events, including the Masters of Scale Summit.
Podcast guests have included President Barack Obama, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Huffington Post & Thrive Global founder Arianna Huffington, and Ariel Investments co-CEO Mellody Hobson.
History
Executive producers Deron Triff and June Cohen approached Reid Hoffman with the idea for the podcast, pitching it as a way of "sharing his ideas on scale in a way that could, well, scale." The first episode of Masters of Scale, featuring Airbnb CEO and cofounder Brian Chesky, aired on May 3, 2017.In 2018, Masters of Scale was the first American media program to commit to a 50/50 gender balance for guests. Hoffman told Quartz: "Silicon Valley prides itself on being a meritocracy, but the data shows it's not. launched with and maintained our commitment to a 50/50 gender balance of guests on each season. It's important to not just talk about this topic, but to take action... set an example."
In March 2020, the team behind Masters of Scale launched a spinoff podcast, Masters of Scale: Rapid Response, on the Masters of Scale feed, to cover the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the business community. Hosted by Bob Safian, former Editor of Fast Company, the series has expanded beyond covering the pandemic, offering guidance from business leaders making decisions in turbulent situations. These podcast episodes tackle such issues as managing through crisis, the challenges of rebuilding, and changes to leadership.
In 2021, the Masters of Scale Courses app launched. The courses are rooted in the experience and insights of Reid and well-known entrepreneurs and leaders. Also in 2021, the Masters of Scale Complete Interviews became available exclusively to members in the app.
In September 2021, the Masters of Scale book was published.
In October 2022, the inaugural Masters of Scale Summit was held in San Francisco, California.
Podcasts
Each classic episode of Masters of Scale is rooted in one of host Reid Hoffman's counterintuitive theories on how companies scale. Over the course of each episode, guests share their scale journey alongside insights and additional analysis from Hoffman that support the theory statement. Each episode is scored with original sound design.A typical episode of Masters of Scale features the scale story of a founder or co-founders. The story is further contextualized through additional cameo guests. These cameo guests come from a wide spectrum of backgrounds, and have included Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, Hall of Fame sportscaster Dick Stockton, National Geographic explorer Andrés Ruzo and Olympic runner Natasha Hastings.
Masters of Scale: Rapid Response episodes track real-time insights from business leaders who are navigating fast-changing situations, such as global health crises, political unrest, and economic uncertainty. In each episode, host Bob Safian, editor at large of Masters of Scale and the former Editor of Fast Company, interviews a guest with extensive experience and insights related to the topic at hand. Episodes have featured guests such as award-winning chef José Andrés, Las Vegas Raiders' President Sandra Douglass Morgan, Delta CEO Ed Bastian, Leadership Now Project's founder and CEO Daniella Ballou-Aares and Moviepass founder Stacy Spikes.
Masters of Scale Episodes
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 11 | "Escape the Competition" with Peter Thiel of PayPal | 11/8/2017 |
| 12 | "Look For The Ideas That Come At You Sideways" with Diane Greene of Google and Vmware | 11/10/2017 |
| 13 | "The Big Pivot" with Stewart Butterfield of Slack Technologies | 11/15/2017 |
| 14 | "The Infinite Learner " with Barry Diller of IAC | 12/6/2017 |
| 15 | "Learn to Unlearn " with Barry Diller of IAC | 12/13/2017 |
| 16 | "Build a More Human Internet" with Caterina Fake of Flickr and Yes Ventures | 1/24/2018 |
| 17 | "Customer Love is All You Need" with Sam Altman of OpenAI & Y Combinator | 1/31/2018 |
| 18 | "How To Build Your Company To Last" John Elkann of Fiat | 2/7/2018 |
| 19 | "How To Price Your Product To Scale" with Payal Kadakia of ClassPass | 2/14/2018 |
| 20 | "Never Underestimate Your First Idea" with Ev Williams of Medium and Twitter | 2/21/2018 |
| 21 | "How To Do Good And Do Good Business " with Howard Schultz of Starbucks | 3/7/2018 |
| 22 | "How to Find Your Big Idea" with Sara Blakely of Spanx | 3/21/2018 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 23 | "Keep Humans In the Equation" with Stacy Brown-Philpot of TaskRabbit | 7/11/2018 |
| 24 | "How to Kill Your Bad Ideas" with Mark Pincus of Zynga | 7/25/2018 |
| 25 | "How to Make the Star Employees You Need" with Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, Google, and Lumi Labs | 8/8/2018 |
| 26 | "Keep it Simple While Scaling Big" with Kevin Systrom of Instagram | 9/6/2018 |
| 27 | "How to Build Trust Fast" with Daniel Ek of Spotify | 9/19/2018 |
| 28 | "What Great Founders Do At Night" with Arianna Huffington of Thrive Global | 10/3/2018 |
| 29 | "When to Ignore Conventional Wisdom" with Danny Meyer of Shake Shack & Union Square Hospitality Group | 10/22/2018 |
| 30 | "The Elusive Formula for Great Hiring" with Aneel Bhusri of Workday | 11/5/2018 |
| 31 | "The Millennial Episode" with Brit Morin of Brit + Co | 11/19/2018 |
| 32 | "To Scale, You Must Master The Art of Storytelling" with Scott Harrison of charity: water | 12/18/2018 |
| 33 | "Let Your Customers Be Your Scouts" with Julia Hartz of Eventbrite | 1/8/2019 |
| 34 | "Make Everyone A Hero: The Reid Hoffman Story " with Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners | 1/22/2019 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 35 | "Make Everyone A Hero: The Reid Hoffman Story " with Reid Hoffman of Greylock Partners | 2/26/2019 |
| 36 | "Check your Blindspot" with Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest | 3/12/2019 |
| 37 | "Take Bigger Risks" with Shellye Archambeau of Nordstrom & MetricStream | 3/26/2019 |
| 38 | "Open or Closed? The Answer is Both" with Joi Ito of The Chiba Institute of Technology | 4/30/2019 |
| 39 | "The Case for Bootstrapping" with Ben Chestnut of Mailchimp | 5/21/2019 |
| 40 | "Bringing A Culture Back From The Brink" with Dara Khosrowshahi of Uber | 6/5/2019 |
| 41 | "Entrepreneurship as a Second Act" with Gwyneth Paltrow of Goop | 7/2/2019 |
| 42 | "Small Changes With Big Impact" with Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble | 7/18/2019 |
| 43 | "Embrace the Gatekeepers" Anne Wojcicki of 23andMe | 8/1/2019 |
| 44 | "Take On Goliath — And Win" with Drew Houston of Dropbox | 9/5/2019 |
| 45 | "LIVE! Patience or Speed? Both" with Tory Burch of Tory Burch LLC | 10/17/2019 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 46 | "Make it Epic" with will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas | 10/31/2019 |
| 47 | "How to Accelerate History " with Bill Gates of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 11/7/2019 |
| 48 | "How to Set the Drumbeat" with Jeff Weiner of LinkedIn | 11/15/2019 |
| 49 | "How to Embrace Conflict" with Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates | 11/26/2019 |
| 50 | "LIVE! Find Your Trojan Horse" with Robert F. Smith of Vista Equity Partners | 12/5/2019 |
| 51 | "How to Solve an Impossible Challenge" with Megan Smith former Chief Technology Officer of the United States | 12/13/2019 |
| 52 | "The Biggest Success Story You Haven't Heard " with Bill Gates of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | 12/20/2019 |
| 53 | "What's the Hidden Business Behind Your Business?" with Jennifer Hyman of Rent the Runway | 1/9/2020 |
| 54 | "When to Zoom In, When to Zoom Out" with Josh Silverman of Etsy | 1/23/2020 |
| 55 | "Be a Platform" with Tobi Lütke of Shopify | 2/13/2020 |
| 56 | "How to Start a Revolution" with Wences Casares of Xapo | 2/27/2020 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 57 | "How to Unite a Team " with Angela Ahrendts of Apple & Burberry | 5/12/2020 |
| 58 | "How to Unite a Team " with Angela Ahrendts of Apple & Burberry | 5/19/2020 |
| 59 | "A Masterclass in Crowdsourcing" Luis von Ahn of Duolingo | 5/26/2020 |
| 60 | "Build. Measure. Learn." with Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" | 6/16/2020 |
| 61 | "The Power of Small Goals" with Stephen Colbert and Charles Best of DonorsChoose | 6/30/2020 |
| 62 | "The 4 Core Principles of Crisis Management" with Ellen Kullman formally of Carbon and DuPont | 7/7/2020 |
| 63 | "Be a Painkiller AND a Vitamin" with Clara Shih of Hearsay Social | 7/28/2020 |
| 64 | "Why Your Company Needs New Rituals" with Shishir Mehrotra of YouTube and Coda | 8/18/2020 |
| 65 | "How to Turn Skeptics into Fans" with John Foley of Peloton | 8/25/2020 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 66 | "How to Build Authentic Connection at Scale" with Trevor McFedries & Lil Miquela of Brud | 9/29/2020 |
| 67 | "How to Find – and Keep – True North" with Susan Wojcicki of YouTube | 10/6/2020 |
| 68 | "To Scale, Find the Right Values" with Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia | 10/13/2020 |
| 69 | "The Empathy Flywheel" with Sarah Friar of Nextdoor | 10/20/2020 |
| 70 | "How to Sell Without Selling" with Phil Knight of Nike | 11/10/2020 |
| 71 | "How to Find Hidden Value that Others Miss" with Franklin Leonard of The Black List | 11/17/2020 |
| 72 | "Building Bridges to Scale" with Daniel Lubetzky of Kind | 12/1/2020 |
| 73 | "The Secret Power of Onboarding" with Melanie Perkins of Canva | 12/8/2020 |
| 74 | "How to Master Your Emotion" with Sam Harris of Making Sense | 1/26/2021 |
| 75 | "How to be the Steward of Your Idea" with Rana el Kaliouby of Smart Eye & Affectiva | 2/2/2021 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 76 | "The Secret to Big Leaps" with Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Group | 2/23/2021 |
| 77 | "How Acquisitions Become an Ecosystem " with Bob Iger of Disney | 3/2/2021 |
| 78 | "Personal Brand Power" with Tyra Banks of Bankable Productions | 3/9/2021 |
| 79 | "How Acquisitions Become an Ecosystem " with Bob Iger of Disney | 3/23/2021 |
| 80 | "What Investors Really Look For" with Mark Cuban of Shark Tank | 3/30/2021 |
| 81 | "How to Teach Your Customer" with Ethan Brown of Beyond Meat | 4/5/2021 |
| 82 | "Frustration is Your Friend" with Adi Tatarko of Houzz | 4/20/2021 |
| 83 | "When the Moment Chooses You " with President Barack Obama | 5/11/2021 |
| 84 | "How to Adapt to Changing Rules " with President Barack Obama | 5/18/2021 |
| 85 | "How Mentorship Provides an Edge" with Alex Rodriquez of A-Rod Corp | 5/25/2021 |
| 86 | "Build the Right Flywheel" with Wendy Kopp of Teach for America and Teach for All | 6/8/2021 |
| 87 | "Make Room for Magic" with J.J. Abrams of Bad Robot Productions | 6/15/2021 |
| 88 | "Asking the Uncomfortable Questions" with Michael Seibel of Y Combinator | 6/29/2021 |
| 89 | "How to Accelerate Expertise" with Mellody Hobson of Ariel Investments and Starbucks | 7/6/2021 |
| 90 | "The Beauty of Emphasizing the Obvious" with Katia Beauchamp of Birchbox | 7/27/2021 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 91 | "Why We Need Re-Founders" with Satya Nadella of Microsoft | 8/31/2021 |
| 92 | "How Setbacks Create Momentum" with Robert Reffkin of Compass, Inc. | 9/14/2021 |
| 93 | "How to Unlock Your Team's Creative Potential" with Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo | 9/28/2021 |
| 94 | "No Data, No Scale" with Sheila Lirio Marcelo of Care.com | 10/5/2021 |
| 95 | "Make Your Customer the Star" with Jessica Alba of The Honest Company | 10/12/2021 |
| 96 | "Focus on the Scale that Your Customers Can't See" with Beth Ford of Land O'Lakes | 11/9/2021 |
| 97 | "Build a better board" with Mellody Hobson, Lisa Shalett, & Shishir Mehrotra | 11/16/2021 |
| 98 | "How Redefining Boundaries Drives Performance" with Paul Polman of Unilever | 12/7/2021 |
| 99 | "Leap Before You Look" with Marc Lore of Jet.com | 1/11/2022 |
| 100 | "Lessons That Matter Most: What We've Learned From 100 Episodes of Masters of Scale" with Brian Chesky, Tyra Banks, Angela Ahrendts, Sallie Krawcheck, & Franklin Leonard | 1/15/2022 |
| 101 | "Always Be Recruiting" with Paul English of Kayak | 1/18/2022 |
| 102 | "Don't Predict the Future. Create It" with Natalie Massenet of Net-a-Porter | 2/1/2022 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 103 | "How to Harness Risk" with Stacey Abrams of The New Georgia Project | 3/8/2022 |
| 104 | "How to Partner Like a Shark " with Daymond John of FUBU and Shark Tank | 3/15/2022 |
| 105 | "How to Partner Like a Shark " with Daymond John of FUBU and Shark Tank | 3/22/2022 |
| 106 | "Chobani's Secret to Scale: Tap into Community" with Hamdi Ulukaya of Chobani | 4/5/2022 |
| 107 | "The Refounder Mindset " with Bill Ford of Ford | 5/10/2022 |
| 108 | "The Refounder Mindset " with Bill Ford of Ford | 5/17/2022 |
| 109 | "Extraordinary Leaps Need Solid Foundations " with Stéphane Bancel of Moderna | 5/24/2022 |
| 110 | "Extraordinary Leaps Need Solid Foundations " with Stéphane Bancel of Moderna | 5/31/2022 |
| 112 | "Improving Human Dignity is an Engine of Scale" with Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins of Promise | 6/21/2022 |
| 113 | "Break It ’til You Make It" with Michael Dell of Dell | 6/28/2022 |
| 114 | "Harness the Passion of Internal Factions" with Padmasree Warrior of Fable, Cisco, and Motorola | 7/12/2022 |
| 115 | "Drive Full-Speed at Opportunity" with Ajaz Ahmed of AKQA | 7/19/2022 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 116 | "How to Take Creative Leaps — and Land Them" with Tony Fadell of Future Shape | 8/16/2022 |
| 117 | "The Wrongness Playbook " with Jack Conte of Patreon | 8/30/2022 |
| 118 | "The Wrongness Playbook " with Jack Conte of Patreon | 9/6/2022 |
| 119 | "Why Mission Matters More Than Products" with Saeju Jeong of Noom | 9/27/2022 |
| 120 | "Think Like an Intrapreneur" with Linda Yates of Mach49 | 10/11/2022 |
| 121 | "Let Waypoints Guide You" with Chris Urmson of Aurora | 11/1/2022 |
| 122 | "Brand While You Build" with Neil Blumenthal & Dave Gilboa of Warby Parker | 11/8/2022 |
| 123 | "Build the Right Incentives" with Cindy Mi of VIPKid | 12/6/2022 |
| 124 | "The Co-Founder Effect" with Stephen Hawthornthwaite & Roth Martin of Rothy's | 12/20/2022 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 125 | "The Essential Playbooks — and When to Use Them" with John Chambers of Cisco | 1/10/2023 |
| 126 | "When to Seek Advice and When to Ignore It" with Alexa von Tobel of LearnVest and Inspired Capital | 1/31/2023 |
| 127 | "Dare to Make Unexpected Moves" with David Droga of Droga5 and Accenture Song, a division of Accenture | 2/28/2023 |
| Episode | Title | Airdate |
| 128 | "Harness Fear to Drive Innovation " with Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records | 5/31/2023 |
| 129 | "Harness Fear to Drive Innovation " with Jimmy Iovine of Interscope Records | 6/6/2023 |
| 130 | "Better Metrics for Better Culture with Mitch Kapor and Dr. Freada Kapor Klein of Kapor Capital | 6/20/2023 |
| 131 | "Better Metrics for Better Culture with Mitch Kapor and Dr. Freada Kapor Klein of Kapor Capital | 6/27/2023 |
| 132 | "Build Your Culture Like a Product" with Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot | 7/11/2023 |
| 133 | "Re-skill for AI, w/PwC's Tim Ryan" | 07/13/2023 |
| 134 | "Prepare for where AI is headed next, w/Reid Hoffman & Bob Safian" | 07/18/2023 |
| 135 | "Focus on the scale that your customers can't see, w/Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford" | 07/25/2023 |
| 136 | "Ron Howard: Evolve your vision" | 08/15/2023 |
| 137 | "Brian Grazer: Scale your curiosity" | 08/29/2023 |
| 138 | "Eileen Fisher: Keep it simple to make it timeless" | 09/6/2023 |
| No. | Title | Guest | Original release date |
| 551 | "The science of fresh starts" | Katy Milkman | 2 January 2025 |
| 552 | "Kicking off 2025: five bold AI predictions" | Dr Rana el Kaliouby | 7 January 2025 |
| 553 | "Redefining work–life balance" | Neha Ruch | 21 January 2025 |
| 554 | "Scaling solutions for the climate crisis" | Vinod Khosla | 23 January 2025 |
| 555 | "Reid Hoffman on AI ‘Super-agency’" | Reid Hoffman | 28 January 2025 |
| 556 | "Inclusive leadership remix" | Emma Grede, Mellody Hobson, Angela Ahrendts | 30 January 2025 |
| 557 | "Putting Starbucks back on top" | Brian Niccol | 4 February 2025 |
| 558 | "Disrupting hair-color" | Amy Errett | 6 February 2025 |
| 559 | "Pivot crossover: Hoffman, Swisher & Galloway on the AI news cycle" | Kara Swisher, Scott Galloway, Reid Hoffman | 7 February 2025 |
| 560 | "From Nike to Bud Light to Tubi: Super Bowl LIX ad lessons" | Dara Treseder | 11 February 2025 |
| 561 | "Building a network of mentors" | Ryan Williams | 13 February 2025 |
| 562 | "Can Rivian avoid the EV speed bumps?" | RJ Scaringe | 18 February 2025 |
| 563 | "A more compassionate capitalism" | Davis Smith | 20 February 2025 |
| 564 | "Egg prices, avian flu & golden yolks" | Russell Diez-Canseco | 25 February 2025 |
| 565 | "Leveraging AI at Adobe" | Shantanu Narayen | 27 February 2025 |
| 566 | "Oscars 2025: what Hollywood’s future looks like" | Janice Min | 4 March 2025 |
| 567 | "How Anastasia Soare built a beauty empire" | Anastasia Soare | 6 March 2025 |
| 568 | "Non-profits vs Trump’s funding cuts" | Stacy Palmer | 11 March 2025 |
| 569 | "Solving start-up puzzles" | Christina Cacioppo | 13 March 2025 |
| 570 | "From ‘Trump bump’ to ‘Trump slump’" | Sarah Levy | 18 March 2025 |
| 571 | "Live from SXSW: the messy path to success" | Mike & Kass Lazerow | 20 March 2025 |
| 572 | "Public radio vs DOGE" | Katherine Maher | 25 March 2025 |
| 573 | "Climate-change ‘codeswitching’ for business" | Julia Collins | 27 March 2025 |
| 574 | "From data-breach scandal to AI darling" | Sridhar Ramaswamy | 1 April 2025 |
| 575 | "Creating cancer cures: Reid Hoffman’s new venture" | Reid Hoffman | 3 April 2025 |
| 576 | "When big law firms won’t defend themselves" | Rachel Cohen | 8 April 2025 |
| 577 | "The business case for wellness" | Cesar Carvalho | 10 April 2025 |
| 578 | "Finding opportunity in volatility" | Scott Strazik | 15 April 2025 |
| 579 | "Why happier vets mean healthier pets" | Steven Eidelman | 17 April 2025 |
| 580 | "José Andrés: leadership lessons from the kitchen" | José Andrés | 22 April 2025 |
| 581 | "Replay: Frustration is your friend" | Adi Tatarko | 24 April 2025 |
| 582 | "Marc Lore wants an AI super-app for meals" | Marc Lore | 29 April 2025 |
| 583 | "Disrupting healthcare hiring" | Dr Iman Abuzeid | 1 May 2025 |
| 584 | "Musk & DOGE: inside 100 days of chaos" | Katie Drummond | 6 May 2025 |
| 585 | "A $630 million first-time founder exit" | Niki Christoff | 8 May 2025 |
| 586 | "Banishing burnout – replay" | Arianna Huffington | 10 May 2025 |
| 587 | "One trait every leader needs today" | Gen. Stanley McChrystal | 13 May 2025 |
| 588 | "Why we keep failing to eradicate disease" | John Green | 15 May 2025 |
| 589 | "The enterprise AI revolution" | Aaron Levie | 20 May 2025 |
| 590 | "Esther Perel: better relationships at work" | Esther Perel | 22 May 2025 |
| 591 | "Olipop’s gutsy play to dethrone Coke & Pepsi" | Ben Goodwin | 27 May 2025 |
| 592 | "Why great storytellers thrive in business" | Frank Patterson | 29 May 2025 |
| 593 | "Reid Hoffman on AI’s environmental risks" | Reid Hoffman | 31 May 2025 |
| 594 | "Sports biz at a crossroads" | Sarah Spain | 3 June 2025 |
| 595 | "Simon Sinek on identifying great leaders" | Simon Sinek | 5 June 2025 |
| 596 | "Crypto’s future after Trump" | Laura Shin | 10 June 2025 |
| 597 | "Is Dude Perfect the next Disney?" | Andrew Yaffe | 12 June 2025 |
| 598 | "Advice for grads in the age of AI" | Multiple guests | 14 June 2025 |
| 599 | "Trump vs Musk, Zuckerberg’s ‘super-intelligence’ & more" | Reid Hoffman | 17 June 2025 |
| 600 | "How to raise $172 million for the under-invested" | Stacy Brown-Philpot | 19 June 2025 |
| 601 | "Empowering frontline leaders in war zones" | Dr Samantha Nutt | 24 June 2025 |
| 602 | "Building a $1.5 billion real-estate empire" | Spencer Rascoff • Austin Allison | 26 June 2025 |
App
The Masters of Scale Courses app features exclusive courses, podcast episodes, and bonus content for subscribed members.The Masters of Scale courses are short-form audio courses aimed at building an "entrepreneurial mindset." According to the website, each course covers an overarching core business topic, e.g. branding, pivots, mission, and consists of multiple Daily Practices. All Daily Practices are approximately 10 minutes long and include relevant excerpts from an interview with an industry leader, along with new additional commentary and insights from Reid Hoffman. At the end of each Daily Practice, an Action Item is provided so that learners can apply what they learned from the course to their own work.
In 2022, the app received a Webby Award for Best Education & Reference App.
Book
Released in September 2021, Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs is based on the podcast and contains anecdotes and learnings gleaned from the hundred plus podcast interviews. The book aims to "tease out and distill the essential attributes of people who start and grow businesses." A review published by Business Insider notes that while translating from a podcast to book should lead to "unsatisfying" results, the book "manages to work" due to the "combined impact of the stories." It became a Wall Street Journal Bestseller in October 2021.Event
The inaugural Masters of Scale summit was held in San Francisco, California from October 18–20, 2022.The audience, who attended in person or via livestream, consisted of a wide range of companies in all stages of growth, leaders across industries, executives of non-profit and cultural organizations, investors, artists, and the media.
Stage sessions centered on themes such as, the art of pivoting, technological revolutions, creative innovations, holistic wellness, humanity & culture, diversity & inclusion, and disruption, and “the discussions ranged from the power of psychedelics to the joys of rural life.” The sessions included interviews, presentations, and group conversations, as well as featured live performances by a variety of performing artists.
Speakers included 15 Percent Pledge founder Aurora James, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, Tyler Perry Studios founder and CEO Tyler Perry, Turning Red film director and Pixar animator Domee Shi, Microsoft co-founder and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Bill Gates, and Imagine Entertainment co-founder Ron Howard.
Awards
As of January 2023, Masters of Scale has won a total of 32 podcast industry nominations, including 13 wins. The wins include the 2018 Webby Award for Best Business Podcast, the 2023 Signal Award for Best Commute Podcast and the 2022 Webby Award for Best Individual Episode, for the episode with President Barack Obama.| Award | Year | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
| Webby | 2023 | Best Episode: Business | Rapid Response: Transforming an idea into a movement overnight, w/Black Women For Black Lives co-founder Tokunbo Koiki | Honoree | |
| Webby | 2023 | Best Episode: Business | Masters of Scale - Daymond John, Part 1: How to Partner Like a Shark | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Gateway Podcast - Individual Episodes | Chobani's Secret to Scale: Tap into Community, w/Founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Most Innovative Audio Experience - Individual Episodes | J. J. Abrams: Make Room for Magic | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Editing - Individual Episodes | J. J. Abrams: Make Room for Magic | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Commute Podcast - Shows | Masters of Scale | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Commute Podcast - Individual Episodes | Tyra Banks: Personal Brand Power | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Episode: Creativity & Marketing | Daymond John, Part 1: How to Partner Like a Shark | Nomitated | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Episode: Self-Improvement & Self-Help | Improving human dignity is an engine of scale, w/Promise CEO Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Episode: Writing | Stacey Abrams: How to Harness Risk | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Episode: Business | Stacey Abrams: How to Harness Risk | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Podcast Ad | Masters of Scale & Capital One: Mama Aunties Vegan Goodies | Won | |
| Signal | 2023 | Best Podcast Ad | Masters of Scale & Capital One Business: Aparna Sarin | Won | |
| Signal | 2022 | Best Technology Podcast | Masters of Scale | Won | |
| Webby | 2022 | Best App: Education & Reference | Masters of Scale Courses App | Nomitated | |
| Webby | 2022 | Best User Experience: Education & Reference Apps | Masters of Scale Courses App | Nomitated | |
| Webby | 2022 | Best App: Learning & Education | Masters of Scale Courses App | Honoree | |
| Webby | 2022 | Best Individual Episode - Overall | Masters of Scale Podcast Episode: President Barack Obama: When the moment chooses you, part 1 | Won | |
| Webby | 2022 | Best News & Politics Podcast | Masters of Scale Podcast Episode: President Barack Obama: When the moment chooses you, part 1 | Won | |
| Webby | 2022 | Podcasts - Best Individual Episode | Masters of Scale - How to Accelerate Expertise, with Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO of Ariel Investments, Chair of Starbucks | Honoree | |
| Webby | 2022 | Podcasts - Best Podcast Ad | Masters of Scale x Capital One: Village Market | Honoree | |
| Webby | 2022 | Best Education & Reference App | Masters of Scale Courses App | Nomitated | |
| Ambies | 2022 | Best Business Podcast | Masters of Scale | Nomitated | |
| Ambies | 2021 | Best Scriptwriting, Nonfiction | Masters of Scale | Won | |
| Webby | 2021 | Best Podcast: Business | Masters of Scale | Won | |
| Webby | 2021 | Podcasts - Best Podcast Ad | Hubspot - The Culture Code | Nomitated | |
| Webby | 2020 | Best Podcast: Business | Masters of Scale | Nomitated | |
| Webby | 2020 | Best Podcast: Live Recording | Masters of Scale | Nomitated | |
| Webby | 2019 | Best Podcast: Business | Masters of Scale | Nomitated | |
| Webby | 2019 | Best Podcast: Writing | Masters of Scale | Nomitated | |
| Discover Pods Awards | 2019 | Business Podcast | Masters of Scale | Nomitated | |
| Webby | 2018 | People's Voice Winner for Best Business Podcast | Masters of Scale | Won |