Masters of Scale

Can democracy survive Big Tech? (with Nobel laureate Maria Ressa) | Masters of Scale Summit 2026

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Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa has spent years confronting disinformation and political pressure through her news organization, Rappler. In conversation with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger, Ressa explores the crises facing truth, accountability, and democracy, and what we can do to help defend them.

Topics: Introducing Maria Ressa · Winning in the Philippine Supreme Court · Maria's "two dictators": Duterte and Zuckerberg · Can Silicon Valley reform itself? · The three crises: truth, order, accountability · How AI hacked attention, intimacy and agency

Brain implants can now read your thoughts. Two experts debate who should control them | Summit 2026

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Live from Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco, Pioneers of AI host Rana el Kaliouby explores the extreme promise and privacy concerns of brain-computer interfaces with two leading experts: Matt Angle, CEO of the BCI developer Paradromics, and Nita Farahany, professor of law and philosophy at Duke and author of "The Battle for Your Brain."

Topics: The future of human-computer interaction · Inside the first clinical trial · Mapping the language center · The imminent rise of neurotechnology · The business model of neural data · Defining agency in a converged world

Eric Schmidt scores US vs. China: Who’s winning the AI race? | Masters of Scale Summit 2026

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Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, advisor to the Pentagon, and current CEO of Relativity Space, joins Rapid Response live from Masters of Scale Summit to give his most unvarnished assessment yet on the AI race between the US and China. He reveals that the gap he once estimated at two years has narrowed to six months.

Topics: Introducing Eric Schmidt · Why China has nearly caught up in AI · What the U.S. can learn from China · How open models reshape the AI race · A scorecard on the AI race between the U.S. & China · Why the AI race is not a zero-sum contest

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar & Reid Hoffman on where AI goes from here | Masters of Scale Summit 2026

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Guest: CFO Sarah Friar

Few companies have as much influence over AI’s trajectory as OpenAI. Masters of Scale host Reid Hoffman sits down with CFO Sarah Friar to understand the precipice of the moment we are in and the decisions that could shape what comes next for each of us.

Topics: Introducing Sarah Friar · What is the age of AI? · AI cyber risk and the PHP vulnerability fix · Pacing the frontier · Trust is earned: AI in healthcare · Managing risk to deliver on the mission

Rich Roll on his "crash course" in entrepreneurship

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Guest: David Goggins

Rich Roll’s popular podcast recently passed 1,000 episodes. He sat down with Masters of Scale host Jeff Berman to discuss his growing podcast network, why he’s ignoring the algorithm, and his tumultuous path from addiction to wellness and endurance athletics.

Topics: Introducing Rich Roll · 1,000 episodes: How the podcast started on a farm in Kauai · Hosting with integrity instead of chasing the algorithm · Breakout guests: David Goggins and Josh LaJaunie · Why Rich built a podcast network · How he picks hosts for the network

How Hipcamp's Alyssa Ravasio found a business model worth building

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Topics: Introducing Alyssa Ravasio · Turning founder frustration into company conviction · Learning to code and finding early demand · When customer backlash revealed a supply problem · Building a marketplace around private land supply · The moment host demand proved the model