1,000–10,000 Employees

In this interview, Marco Palmieri, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Piquadro, traces his entrepreneurial trajectory from selling handmade leather bags from his car trunk in 1987 to establishing a listed luxury conglomerate generating 198 million USD annually. He outlines the strategic fusion of traditional Italian craftsmanship with functional technology, negotiating high-stakes acquisitions of heritage European houses including The Bridge and Lancel, and navigating banking crises. Palmieri shares enduring lessons on manufacturing autonomy, operational resilience, and revitalizing rural manufacturing communities.

In this interview, Sir Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder and CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate in Chemistry, warns that societal institutions remain underprepared for the rapid arrival of artificial general intelligence. He discusses five-to-ten-year AGI timelines, agentic cyber defense preparations, and the economic disruption parallels of Engels' Pause. Hassabis shares essential insights on scaling AlphaFold for global disease eradication, pioneering multimodal Gemini architectures, and governing planetary-scale technologies with scientific rigor.

In this interview, Dario Amodei, Co-Founder and CEO of Anthropic, outlines the scientific trajectory toward superintelligent artificial intelligence and details the mechanics of Constitutional AI. He analyzes empirical compute scaling laws, mechanistic model interpretability, and the severe biological and cybersecurity risks facing humanity. Amodei provides critical leadership insights on organizational governance, navigating commercial rivalry, and decoupling human purpose from economic labor in a post-AGI world.

In this interview, Rahul Vohra, Founder and CEO of Superhuman, explores why superficial AI integrations fail to retain software users and outlines frameworks for embedding generative intelligence into daily productivity workflows. He discusses the evolution of email infrastructure, game design mechanics in SaaS development, and customer acquisition economics. Vohra delivers pragmatic operational insights on maintaining product-market fit, enterprise security challenges, and scaling premium subscription software in competitive markets.

In this interview, Sam Altman, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenAI, explores the practical trajectory toward artificial general intelligence and the imperative of human agency in governance. He discusses scaling compute infrastructure, recursive model self-improvement, and structural economic shifts across global labor markets. Altman shares candid perspectives on leading frontier AI development, organizational resilience under public scrutiny, and why enduring cognitive thinking skills remain indispensable for tomorrow's leaders.

In this interview, Sam Altman discusses the accelerating pace of artificial intelligence, the realities of preparing OpenAI for a public offering while preserving its nonprofit mission, and navigating civilizational safety risks. He reflects on executive departures during hypergrowth, international non-proliferation cooperation, and the urgent necessity of mental health guardrails. Altman shares personal insights on public scrutiny, fatherhood, and maintaining grounded conviction while steering unprecedented technological progress toward broad human benefit.

In this interview, Dr. Kai Yu, founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, sits down with Nicolai Tangen, CEO of the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, to break down China's leadership in autonomous driving. He explains how his company powers one out of every three intelligent passenger vehicles in China, outlines his strategic roadmap toward hands-off, eyes-off, and mind-off driving by 2035, and shares why high-barrier automotive computing creates defensible, enduring business models.

In this interview, Brian Chesky, co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, sits down with Marina Mogilko to detail Airbnb's transformation into an AI-native company. He breaks down why conversational chatbots fail at travel and comparison shopping, how intelligent software agents will replace static apps, and the launch of over 700 new features. Chesky also reveals his ruthless daily creative routines, the discipline of high-volume idea generation, and why focused builders will thrive in the emerging AI landscape.

In this interview, Ronnie Fieg, founder, CEO, and creative director of Kith, opens up 15 years of his brand's archive and shares stories he has never told publicly. From growing up stocking shelves in Queens to building one of the most culturally influential lifestyle brands in the world, Ronnie breaks down how authentic taste, obsessive product devotion, and zero paid advertising built a global empire worth an estimated 1 billion USD entirely through self-funding and creative conviction.

In this interview, Alex Karp, co-founder and CEO of Palantir Technologies, argues that major AI labs are quietly steering toward government nationalization to escape unlimited civil and criminal liability. He breaks down the sovereign AI movement Palantir co-launched with Nvidia, explains why enterprise clients are furious about IP migration through closed token-based models, discusses battlefield AI ethics and the US-China technology race, and warns that an extreme wealth divide driven by AI could trigger dangerous political instability on both the far right and far left.

In this interview, Rahul Vohra, founder and CEO of Superhuman, unpacks how to build, scale, and sell a startup with clarity and precision. He shares his three-axis acquisition framework, the origins of the product-market fit engine, how AI is now driving 20 percent of new Superhuman users through Claude, and why charging customers from day one is non-negotiable. He also reflects on six failed businesses, founder-market fit, and what separates world-class founders from everyone else.

In this interview, Tobi Lütke, founder and CEO of Shopify, shares how AI agents and a company-wide culture shift are reshaping the future of work. He reveals how River, Shopify's internal AI colleague, now co-authors roughly 50% of all pull requests, and why human judgment, taste, and responsibility remain irreplaceable. Lütke also explores intuition, long-term thinking, the dangers of short-term incentives, and how affirmations and personal malleability shape both leadership and life.