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Grit explores what it takes to create, build, and scale world-class organizations. It features weekly episodes highlighting the leaders who are pushing their companies to make a difference. This series is hosted by Joubin Mirzadegan, go to market operating partner at Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm investing in history-making founders.

The Silicon Valley Insider In The Pentagon | DoW Emil Michael

40 mins; March 23, 2026

How Sierra Is Pulling Ahead in the AI Race | Co-founder Bret Taylor

72 hours 38 mins; March 09, 2026

The AI Era of Cybercrime: How Malwarebytes Is Evolving Its Security Stack | Marcin Kleczynski

63 hours 9 mins; February 23, 2026

The Truth Behind Automation Claims in Customer Support | Cresta CEO Ping Wu

43 mins; February 09, 2026

The Safest Dollar on the Internet | Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire

65 hours 32 mins; January 26, 2026

Why We’re Only Using 1% of AI | Glean CEO Arvind Jain

58 mins; January 12, 2026

The Grittiest Conversations of 2025: AI, Business & Beyond

41 mins; December 29, 2025

How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader

50 mins; December 22, 2025

How Snap Plans to Win the AR Race | Evan Spiegel on Spectacles

71 hours 3 mins; December 15, 2025

The Pull to Build: Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit and Starting Roadrunner

74 hours 5 mins; December 08, 2025

Building Cloudflare for the Next 50 Years | Co-founder Cloudfare Michelle Zatlyn

58 mins; December 01, 2025

She Sold Her Startup for $500 Million, Here’s Her Next Idea

72 hours 27 mins; November 24, 2025

Synthetic Data and the Future of AI | Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez

71 hours 40 mins; November 17, 2025

From Yext to Roam: Howard Lerman’s Second Act

85 hours 47 mins; November 10, 2025

Rebuilding Front for the AI Era | CEO Dan O’Connell

59 mins; November 03, 2025

ElevenLabs’ Vision for Voice Interfaces | CEO Mati Staniszewski

64 hours 38 mins; October 27, 2025

95% Faster Video Production with Synthesia | Victor Riparbelli

68 hours 17 mins; October 20, 2025

From Idea To Impact: How Gamma Is Redefining Presentations | Grant Lee

70 hours 4 mins; October 13, 2025

Leadership Lessons From Snowflake’s Sales & Marketing Duo | Chris Degnan and Denise Persson

83 hours 13 mins; October 06, 2025

The Man Who Builds for the Decade Ahead | Founder of Google X, Waymo, and Udacity

73 hours 22 mins; September 29, 2025

How WordPress Became a Web Giant | Automattic Founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg

70 hours 16 mins; September 22, 2025

The Central Nervous System for Modern Business | Confluent CEO Jay Kreps

77 hours 32 mins; September 15, 2025

Airtable’s AI Reboot with CEO Howie Liu

67 hours 17 mins; September 08, 2025

Inside the Mind of the World’s Most Optimistic CEO

69 hours 48 mins; September 01, 2025

How Dropbox Beat Big Tech in the Cloud Wars

92 hours 34 mins; August 25, 2025

Building High-Impact Sales Teams | Dan Lee and Nooks

58 mins; August 18, 2025

Shishir Mehrotra on Building Tools Creators Love

89 hours 58 mins; August 11, 2025

How Notion Reimagined Productivity Tools | Ivan Zhao

88 hours 36 mins; August 04, 2025

The Travel Giant Built on Billions of Reviews | Steve Kaufer on TripAdvisor

72 hours 56 mins; July 28, 2025

The Expert Network Behind Handshake AI’s Model Training w/ Garrett Lord & Mamoon Hamid

62 hours 0 mins; July 21, 2025

How Plaid Turned a Failed $5.3B Deal with Visa into Momentum | Zach Perret (Plaid)

64 hours 28 mins; July 14, 2025

Episode 250: AI Special Featuring Sierra, Harvey, Windsurf & More

54 mins; July 07, 2025

How Imprint Is Reinventing Credit Cards for Modern Brands | Daragh Murphy

55 mins; June 30, 2025

GitLab’s CEO on Why the Next Great Developer Might Not Write Code | Bill Staples

65 hours 16 mins; June 23, 2025

Stord’s Plan to Take on Amazon’s Logistics Advantage | Sean Henry

58 mins; June 16, 2025

Family, Focus, and 350M Users: Inside Zoom with Eric Yuan

74 hours 47 mins; June 09, 2025

Bret Taylor’s Journey Leading Salesforce, Sierra & OpenAI

89 hours 48 mins; June 02, 2025

Inside Aurora’s Push to Make Autonomous Trucking Real | Chris Urmson

90 hours 38 mins; May 26, 2025

From Scaling Cisco to Seeding AI: John T. Chambers on Speed, Strategy, and Reinvention

87 hours 8 mins; May 19, 2025

How Matt Murphy Made Marvell Essential to AI and Cloud

85 hours 7 mins; May 12, 2025

HubSpot CEO on the Future of SaaS, AI, & Leading Through Change

77 hours 15 mins; May 05, 2025

From White House to Wall Street: David Rubenstein

71 hours 10 mins; April 28, 2025

No Reset Button: Reinventing Amplitude in a Post-AI World (Spenser Skates)

77 hours 16 mins; April 21, 2025

Flexport’s Third Act: Winning in a Broken Global Trade System

103 hours 28 mins; April 14, 2025

Brex 3.0: Inside the Radical Turnaround with Pedro Franceschi

95 hours 0 mins; April 07, 2025

From India to Silicon Valley: The Jay Chaudhry & Zscaler Story

56 mins; March 31, 2025

The Unlikely Path to Building a Billion-Dollar Gov Tech Company | Zac Bookman

76 hours 13 mins; March 24, 2025

Bootstrapped to $12B: Mailchimp’s Ben Chestnut on Life After the Exit

71 hours 11 mins; March 17, 2025

Meet the Man Who’s Making Supersonic Flight Possible Again | Blake Scholl

88 hours 45 mins; March 10, 2025

#232 CEO NetApp, George Kurian: New Chapters

58 mins; March 03, 2025

#231 CEO & Co-Founder Harvey, Winston Weinberg w/ Ilya Fushman: Worthy Sacrifices

65 hours 44 mins; February 24, 2025

#230 Co-founder & CEO, Wolt & Head of DoorDash International, Miki Kuusi: The Next Mountain

81 hours 51 mins; February 17, 2025

#229 Former CEO Activision Blizzard, Bobby Kotick w/ Bing Gordon: Change the Game

111 hours 32 mins; February 10, 2025

#228 Co-Founder Alinea & Tock: Selling Experience

80 hours 7 mins; February 03, 2025

#227: CEO & Founder Axon, Rick Smith: Push Risk

75 hours 41 mins; January 27, 2025

#226 President & COO Coinbase, Emilie Choi: Through the Storm

60 hours 11 mins; January 20, 2025

#225 CEO Lattice, Sarah Franklin: Trailblazer

72 hours 1 min; January 13, 2025

#224 CTO & Co-Owner 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson: Perfect Flow

94 hours 11 mins; January 06, 2025

#223 Great Stories and Gritty Advice for 2025

65 hours 5 mins; December 30, 2024

#223 CTO & Co-Owner 37signals, David Heinemeier Hansson: Perfect Flow

94 hours 11 mins; December 30, 2024

#222 CEO San Francisco Giants, Larry Baer: Winning Plays

71 hours 17 mins; December 23, 2024

#221 CEO & Chairman Sony Pictures, Tony Vinciquerra: Into the Fire

68 hours 34 mins; December 16, 2024

#220 Former CEO Amazon Worldwide Consumer, Jeff Wilke: Exponential

75 hours 27 mins; December 09, 2024

#219 CEO Tanium, Dan Streetman: Critical Responsibility

64 hours 33 mins; December 02, 2024

#218 CEO Etsy, Josh Silverman: Second Acts

69 hours 52 mins; November 25, 2024

#217 CEO & Co-Founder Codeium, Varun Mohan w/ Leigh Marie Braswell: Limitless

60 hours 30 mins; November 18, 2024

#216 Founder Khan Academy, Sal Khan: Dangerously Curious

46 mins; November 11, 2024

#215 COO Rippling Matt MacInnis: Learn the Engine

65 hours 2 mins; November 04, 2024

#214 Former CEO Hulu & WarnerMedia Jason Kilar: No Labels

90 hours 24 mins; October 28, 2024

#213 CEO & Co-Founder Loom Joe Thomas w/ Ilya Fushman: After the Exit

57 mins; October 21, 2024

#212 Founder Magic Leap & SynthBee Rony Abovitz: Underdog

94 hours 3 mins; October 14, 2024

#211 CEO & Co-Founder Klarna, Sebastian Siemiatkowski: Country Cousin

69 hours 8 mins; October 07, 2024

#210 CEO & Co-Founder Huntress Kyle Hanslovan w/ Ev Randle: Deep Roots

68 hours 29 mins; September 30, 2024

#209 Former President & CEO Ford, Mark Fields: All Cylinders

75 hours 27 mins; September 23, 2024

#208 CEO & Co-Founder Patreon, Jack Conte: Crowd Surfer

69 hours 11 mins; September 16, 2024

#207 Co-Founder & Chairman Zynga, Mark Pincus: Speed of Play

73 hours 49 mins; September 09, 2024

#206 CEO & Founder Rivian, RJ Scaringe: Electrified

57 mins; September 02, 2024

#205 CEO Snowflake, Sridhar Ramaswamy: Visibility

67 hours 14 mins; August 26, 2024

#204 Founder & Former CEO Blue Bottle, James Freeman: After the Exit

67 hours 13 mins; August 19, 2024

#203 CEO Niantic, John Hanke: Buried Ships

69 hours 17 mins; August 12, 2024

#202 Chairman of Qualcomm, Mark McLaughlin: The Right Pitch

73 hours 24 mins; August 05, 2024

#201 CEO Lyft, David Risher: The Ride

76 hours 25 mins; July 29, 2024

#200 CEO & Co-Founder Together AI, Vipul Ved Prakash w/ Bucky Moore: Super Cycle

55 mins; July 22, 2024

#199 CEO & Co-Founder Klaviyo, Andrew Bialecki: High Slope

60 hours 23 mins; July 15, 2024

#198 CEO & Co-Founder Wayfair, Niraj Shah: Homeward

54 mins; July 08, 2024

#197 CEO, Chairman & Founder Zscaler, Jay Chaudhry: No Attachment

43 mins; July 01, 2024

#196 CEO & Co-Founder Braze, Bill Magnuson: Principles of Change

57 mins; June 24, 2024

#195 CEO Salesforce AI, Clara Shih: Above the Clouds

45 mins; June 17, 2024

#194 CEO & Founder Sunshine, Marissa Mayer: Innovative Instincts

85 hours 50 mins; June 10, 2024

#193 Former CEO Nextdoor, Sarah Friar: Four Circles

77 hours 17 mins; June 03, 2024

#192 CTO & Co-Founder Discord, Stanislav Vishnevskiy: Ship It

63 hours 34 mins; May 27, 2024

#191 CEO & Co-Founder Intercom, Eoghan McCabe: Second Beginning

59 mins; May 20, 2024

#190 Co-Founder Cost Plus Drugs, Mark Cuban: Mavs to Meds

46 mins; May 13, 2024

#189 Co-Founder Watershed, Taylor Francis: Worthy Missions

60 hours 3 mins; May 06, 2024

#188 CEO & Co-Founder Synthesia, Victor Riparbelli w/ Josh Coyne: Gorilla in the Room

59 mins; April 29, 2024

#187 President & COO of AG1, Kat Cole: Wings to Supplements

60 hours 22 mins; April 22, 2024

#186 COO Asana, Anne Raimondi: Recovering Perfectionist

66 hours 26 mins; April 15, 2024

#185 CEO & Founder Netskope, Sanjay Beri: The Trenches

54 mins; April 08, 2024

#184 Former CEO & Co-Founder Sun, Scott McNealy: In the Piñata

78 hours 3 mins; April 01, 2024

#183 CEO & Co-Founder Harness, Jyoti Bansal: Three-Layered Cake

59 mins; March 25, 2024

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