People

Guest

Aaron Samuels

Founder and Managing Partner of Collide Capital.

Ali Abdaal

Cambridge-trained doctor who left medicine to build a productivity business on top of a YouTube audience

Alicia / The Luncheon Lawyer

Criminal defense attorney who explains federal trials, RICO cases

Amanda Sabreah

Brand strategist and creator who breaks down corporate decisions and brand moments into visually designed

Bad Bunny

Puerto Rican reggaeton artist who became the most-streamed musician on Spotify three years running while maintaining creative and business…

Ben Silverman

Hollywood producer and former NBC Co-Chairman who produced The Office (US) and Ugly Betty

Besidone Amoruwa

Meta Strategic Partner Manager who builds a parallel creator brand sharing platform-level insight about the creator economy

Bill Ackman

Hedge fund manager and founder of Pershing Square Capital Management whose high-profile activist bets

Guest

Brian Hollins

Co-founder of Collide Capital. Spent 6.5 years at Goldman Sachs across Investment Management, Investment Banking, and GS Growth Equity

Bruce Springsteen

Rock musician whose 50-year career produced some of the most enduring American songwriting of the 20th century

Chris Fizer

Book creator known as Chris Kinda Reads who built a viral audience around authentic enthusiasm for classic literature

Coltrane Curtis

Founder of Team Epiphany, the Brooklyn-based brand consultancy that pioneered creator-brand integration and influencer marketing before either term…

D'Vontay Friga

Former Ball's Life employee who founded TNC (The Next Chapter)

Damon Dash

Co-founder of Rocawear and Roc-A-Fella Records who drove the brand's luxury positioning in the late 1990s and early 2000s before Jay-Z bought out his…

Dan Carlin

Independent podcaster whose Hardcore History series

Dan Le Batard

Former ESPN host who left the network to build an independent sports media company, Meadowlark Media

Deante Kyle

Podcast host of Grits & Eggs who delivers a wide spectrum of Black cultural commentary, humor

Donyé Taylor

Marketing strategist and writer whose To Whom It May Concern newsletter analyzes brand decisions and cultural strategy with the precision and visual…

Drake

Canadian rapper and entrepreneur who became one of the most commercially successful recording artists of his era while building a corporate structure…

Elliot Wilson

Hip-hop media veteran who co-founded Rap Radar and edited XXL Magazine before joining Tidal as Editorial Director in 2017

Evan Shapiro

Media strategist and educator who developed the affinity economy framework

Gary Vaynerchuk

Serial entrepreneur who built VaynerMedia into a major digital agency and became one of the most prolific early voices about social media's…

Gavin Bennett

New York City entrepreneur who created Gen Champs

Gina Obeng

UK-based fitness creator and founder of Beats and Bands, a wellness concept combining amapiano, Afrobeats, and movement in a party format

Hailey Bieber

Model and entrepreneur who founded Rhode Skin in 2022 with three products and sold the brand to e.l.f.

Imani Ellis

Founder of CultureCon, the multi-day creative festival at the intersection of Black culture and entrepreneurship that grew from her one-bedroom…

Jack Dorsey

Co-founder of Twitter and Square (now Block) who acquired a majority stake in Tidal for $297M in 2021

Jackie Aina

Beauty creator who has documented inclusive makeup and skincare on YouTube since 2009

Jaeki Cho

Queens-raised food creator and founder of Righteous Eats who covers food as anthropology and culture rather than lifestyle content

Guest

Jamelia Donaldson

British entrepreneur and founder of Treasure Tress, a subscription box service for natural and textured haircare products focused on children of color

Jane Tate

Jason Calacanis

Angel investor, entrepreneur, and host of This Week in Startups who made early bets on companies including Uber and built a reputation as one of the…

Jay Tibbits

New York City-based fashion critic and cultural commentator specializing in menswear and men's grooming

Jay-Z (Shawn Carter)

Rapper and entrepreneur who built one of the most studied creator business portfolios in the world

Joe Budden

Rapper turned podcast entrepreneur who walked away from a Spotify deal to build one of the most successful independent media businesses in hip-hop…

Jonathan Jackson

Host of Due Dilly and the writer behind its research archive, covering the business mechanics of the creator economy

Jonathan Katz Moses

Creator and founder of KM Tools who built a mid-seven-figure woodworking business from a 120-foot shed

Juan Perez (OG Juan)

Longtime Jay-Z business associate and co-owner of the 40/40 Club who served as Director of Project Panther Bidco

Justin Bieber

Canadian pop star who became one of the most streamed recording artists in history and sold his pre-2021 catalog to Hypnosis Songs for $200M

Kai Cenat

Twitch streamer whose subscriber records and multi-week live events turned continuous streaming into a mainstream entertainment format

Kanye West

Rapper, producer, and fashion entrepreneur whose public battles over masters, fashion industry access

Katie Feeney

Content creator who built 14 million followers covering Penn State sports before ESPN hired her as the network's first-ever designated creator hire

Kelly Augustine

Bronx-based stylist and creative who has been working in inclusive beauty and fashion since before the industry had language for it

Kendrick Lamar

Pulitzer Prize-winning rapper and the first hip-hop artist to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show as a solo headliner

Kevin Hart

Comedian and actor who built HartBeat, a production and media company spanning film, television, stand-up touring, and branded content

Khaby Lame

Senegalese-Italian TikTok creator who became the most-followed account on the platform globally

Kyla Scanlon

Economist and writer who coined the term "Vibecession" to describe the gap between how people feel about the economy and what the data actually shows

Kylie Jenner

Media personality and founder of Kylie Cosmetics who turned her existing social media audience into a billion-dollar beauty brand

Lynn Margulis

Mary Meeker

Venture capitalist and former Wall Street analyst whose annual Internet Trends report became the most widely read document in tech for over a decade

Merck Mercuriadis

Former artist manager who founded Hipgnosis Songs Fund and made the argument that proven hit songs are a predictable, uncorrelated income stream

MrBeast

YouTube creator Jimmy Donaldson who built the most-subscribed individual channel on the platform by producing elaborate high-production challenges…

Nelly

St. Louis rapper who dominated early 2000s pop charts with crossover hits including Hot in Herre and Dilemma

Nicholas Craven

Canadian music producer known for his sample-heavy beatmaking style and his vocal opposition to algorithmic sample discovery tools

Nick Maggiulli

Data analyst and author of The Wealth Ladder who builds financial literacy content around real research and explicit methodology

Oren

Marketing and advertising educator who creates detailed instructional content on Instagram and YouTube comprehensive enough to substitute for a…

Pat McGrath

British makeup artist widely regarded as the most influential in the fashion industry who spent two decades doing editorial work for every major…

Professor Sky

Music professor and creator who is building a comprehensive course on Haiti's entire history through music

Professor Tom Yeh

Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder who explains neural networks and LLMs through hand-drawn pen-and-paper…

Recho Omondi

Journalist and founder of The Cutting Room Floor

Rihanna

Barbadian singer and entrepreneur whose Fenty Beauty launch with 40+ foundation shades forced the entire beauty industry to expand its shade ranges

Russell Simmons

Hip-hop business pioneer who co-founded Def Jam Records and built Phat Farm into a major streetwear brand

Selena Gomez

Recording artist and actress who founded Rare Beauty in 2020 around mental health advocacy and self-acceptance

Sherrese Clarke

Founder of HarbourView Equity Partners, a music IP investment firm that acquires stakes in culturally significant catalogs

Sinead Bovell

Futurist and podcast host of I've Got Questions who makes AI, geopolitics

Sir Lucian Grainge

CEO of Universal Music Group since 2011 who led the company's 2021 IPO on Euronext Amsterdam at a $50B+ valuation

Stephan Carter

CEO of Informa, the world's largest events and academic publishing company, who architected the acquisition of Ascential

Guest

Steve Loguidice

Revenue and audience growth executive with 23+ years in media who built sales operations at BuzzFeed during its distributed content peak and joined…

Taylor Swift

Pop artist and songwriter who became the most commercially successful live touring act of her era with the $1B+ Eras Tour

The Weeknd

Toronto R&B artist who became one of the most-streamed recording artists in the world and is pursuing a $1B credit facility backed by his streaming…

The-Dream

Songwriter and producer behind some of the most streamed songs of the 2000s and 2010s

Usher

R&B artist whose 2004 album Confessions became one of the best-selling records of its decade

Vanessa Rissetto

Registered dietitian who co-founded Culina Health in 2020 with Tamar Samuels

Vincent Nesi

Apparel industry veteran who founded Bugle Boy in the 1980s and then provided Rocawear with the overseas manufacturing relationships

Wolf Taylor

New York City-based audio engineer, camera operator, and podcast host of Halfway Up

Yancey Strickler

Former CEO of Kickstarter who developed the Artist Corporation (A-Corp) model

Zach Bia

Creator, DJ, and founder of Field Trip Records