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Discover insights from 27 interviews with founders and CEOs leading teams of 10,000+ people.

27 Companies with 10,000+ Employees

Learn from founders and CEOs who have built successful businesses with teams of 10,000+ people

Satya Nadella
Technology

Satya Nadella

Chairman & CEO, Microsoft

Open versus closed models and enterprise AI

$20B/mo
4.8/5
B2B
B2C
Freemium
Subscription-based
Manufacturing
228,000+ employees
Redmond, Washington, USA
Started 1975

In this interview, Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, assesses the architectural divergence between open-weight and closed artificial intelligence models and explains why proprietary corporate evaluation benchmarks represent vital enterprise intellectual property. He discusses capital expenditure scaling across global data center infrastructure, engineered Zero-Trust agent containment frameworks, and enterprise software economics. Nadella shares authoritative executive insights on platform governance, hardware diversification, and maintaining cultural adaptability through generational technological platform transitions.

October 27, 2026Read Interview
Naveen Rao
AI

Naveen Rao

VP of Generative AI & Former CEO of MosaicML

$583M/mo
4.8/5
B2B
Subscription-based
12,000+ employees
San Francisco, California, USA
Started 2013

In this interview, Naveen Rao, VP of Generative AI at Databricks and former CEO of MosaicML, analyzes the explosive economics of artificial intelligence inference and the looming energy bottlenecks facing global computing infrastructure. He examines why traditional software valuation multiples are under existential pressure, how reinforcement learning reshapes reasoning architectures, and why embodied physical robotics will eclipse digital coding agents. Rao delivers rigorous executive perspectives on chip commoditization, foundation model specialization, and long-term enterprise AI defensibility.

October 26, 2026Read Interview
Mike Cannon-Brookes
SaaS

Mike Cannon-Brookes

Co-Founder & CEO

$350M/mo
4.5/5
12,000+ employees
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Started 2002

In this interview, Mike Cannon-Brookes, Co-Founder and CEO of Atlassian, discusses the practical integration of autonomous AI agents across modern enterprise collaborative workflows. He examines why software interfaces will endure alongside autonomous agents, the shifting economics of specialized foundational models, and corporate data governance. Cannon-Brookes delivers sharp executive guidance on cloud migration, product-led distribution, and scaling enduring enterprise software platforms.

October 22, 2026Read Interview
Jensen Huang
AI

Jensen Huang

Co-founder & CEO

Europe's sovereign AI and accelerated computing

$18B/mo
4.6/5
B2B
Manufacturing
50,000+ employees
Santa Clara, California, USA
Started 1993

In this interview, Jensen Huang, Founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA, addresses prevailing existential narratives surrounding artificial intelligence and outlines Europe's sovereign computing opportunities. He explains accelerated computing economics, regional semiconductor capacity, and enterprise data center modernization. Huang delivers decisive perspectives on AI safety governance, open ecosystem collaboration, and why physical industries will unlock the next multi-trillion-dollar economic transformation.

October 20, 2026Read Interview
Aneel Bhusri
SaaS

Aneel Bhusri

Co-Founder & CEO

$800M/mo
4.4/5
B2B
Subscription-based
21,000+ employees
Pleasanton, California, USA
Started 2005

In this interview, Aneel Bhusri, Co-Founder and CEO of Workday, unpacks the seismic impact of enterprise AI agents on global corporate labor and organizational architecture. He details Workday's aggressive re-founding strategy, product rationalization from 50 to 20 core AI agents, and corporate governance essentials. Bhusri offers candid guidance on workforce displacement, startup-velocity execution, and enduring SaaS leadership.

October 19, 2026Read Interview
Jensen Huang
AI

Jensen Huang

Co-founder & CEO

AI safety as an engineering problem

$18B/mo
4.6/5
B2B
Manufacturing
50,000+ employees
Santa Clara, California, USA
Started 1993

In this interview, Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, sits down with Anderson Cooper to address the most urgent questions surrounding AI safety, autonomous agents, and the role of government regulation. He argues that safety is fundamentally an engineering problem requiring accelerated investment in containment and monitoring systems rather than regulatory brakes, that existential AI risk claims by 2030 are not grounded in science, and that companies claiming their products are unsafe should simply stop shipping them.

October 01, 2026Read Interview
Vineet Nayar
Technology

Vineet Nayar

Former CEO

$5B/mo
3.7/5
B2B
218,000+ employees
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Started 1976

In this interview, Vineet Nayar, former CEO of HCL Technologies, challenges conventional ideas about managing people, the role of Indian IT in the AI era, and what it means to raise a generation of seekers rather than copers. He explains why leadership is about inspiring clock speed rather than managing headcount, why AI still has no real use cases, why India Inc. must stop copying the West, and why the real transformation India needs starts not in the boardroom but at the dining table.

September 29, 2026Read Interview
Ali Ghodsi
AI

Ali Ghodsi

Co-Founder & CEO

$583M/mo
4/5
B2B
Subscription-based
12,000+ employees
San Francisco, California, USA
Started 2013

In this interview, Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks, shares the unlikely story of how a reluctant professor became one of Silicon Valley's most respected CEOs. He explains his single-bottleneck focus strategy, how he built a world-class enterprise sales team with zero experience, how Databricks outmaneuvered Snowflake over four years, and why conflict-averse CEOs are the worst kind. He also reveals his view on AGI, why AI will take a decade to diffuse into enterprise, and his plan for eventually taking Databricks public.

September 23, 2026Read Interview
Larry Ellison
Technology

Larry Ellison

Co-Founder, Executive Chairman & CTO

$7.5B/mo
4.8/5
B2B
Subscription-based
160,000+ employees
Austin, Texas, USA
Started 1977

In this interview, Oracle co-founder, executive chairman, and CTO Larry Ellison explores his five-decade journey building one of the world's most formidable enterprise software giants. Ellison discusses his fierce competitive philosophy, the commercialization of relational databases, aggressive historical acquisitions, and Oracle's multi-hundred-billion-dollar infrastructure pivot into artificial intelligence. He also reflects on high-stakes rivalries, geopolitical partnerships, media expansion through Skydance, and his enduring pursuit of technological dominance.

September 14, 2026Read Interview
Simon Baloyi
Production

Simon Baloyi

President & CEO

$1.2B/mo
4.5/5
B2B
B2C
Manufacturing
28,000 employees
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Started 1950

In this interview, Sasol president and CEO Simon Baloyi discusses the operational turnaround of the global integrated chemicals and energy company. Baloyi details cross-functional collaboration between mining and the Secunda synfuels complex, the commissioning of the destoning plant to restore coal feedstock quality, and debt reduction toward three billion USD. He also outlines cost optimization targets, international chemical margins, and long-term corporate resilience.

September 07, 2026Read Interview
Ted Sarandos
Technology

Ted Sarandos

Co-CEO

$3.75B/mo
4.8/5
B2C
Subscription-based
16,000 employees
Los Gatos, California, USA
Started 1997

In this interview, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos discusses the platform's ten-year journey in India and its global expansion strategy. Sarandos explains how Netflix matches content with viewer tastes using recommendation algorithms, details their focus on organic growth over acquisitions, and outlines how Indian creators are leveraging artificial intelligence tools. He also shares insights on local creative empowerment, live events, co-CEO dynamics, and lessons from early entertainment distribution.

August 12, 2026Read Interview
Sanjeev Kumar
Agencies

Sanjeev Kumar

CEO

$15M/mo
4.4/5
B2B
Agency
50,000+ employees
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Started 1994

In this interview, DTSS CEO Sanjeev Kumar discusses the leadership principles behind managing a massive integrated facility management operations workforce of fifty thousand employees. Kumar explains how his engineering background and early career as an entrepreneur shaped his approach to problem-solving, details the structured corporate training pathways he established to build employee trust and dignity, and shares his advice on transitioning from operations to strategic CEO leadership.

August 11, 2026Read Interview