Inspired with Alexa von Tobel

Release Date

All Episodes

Cristóbal Valenzuela on How Runway's World Models Are Changing Storytelling

Runway founder and CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela grew up in Chile before moving to New York to study at NYU's ITP program, where the seeds of Runway were planted. Since co-founding the company in 2018, he has built it into one of the leading generative video AI companies in the world, ... Show more

. 52min 19sec

Dan Lorenc on Building Chainguard into a $3.5B Open Source Security Company

Chainguard founder and CEO Dan Lorenc is building the security layer the entire software industry should run on. After nearly a decade at Google working on open source infrastructure, Dan co-founded Chainguard in 2021 to solve a problem hiding in plain sight. 90 to 95 percent of ... Show more

. 50min 32sec

Teamshares CEO Michael Brown on Why Going Public Is Just the First Inning

Teamshares CEO Michael Brown is on a mission to address one of the biggest problems in the American economy. Millions of small businesses are owned by Boomers and Gen X approaching retirement, and most will never find a buyer. Teamshares buys these businesses from retiring owners ... Show more

. 48min 44sec

Replay: How Ben Lamm (Colossal Biosciences) is Bringing Back Extinct Species

What happens when humanity faces the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history? Serial entrepreneur Ben Lamm believes we need a backup plan. With a track record of building and exiting companies across AI, gaming, and conversational intelligence, Ben took on his most audacio ... Show more

. 58min 17sec

Taylor Francis on How Watershed Is Solving the Climate Crisis

Watershed CEO Taylor Francis is building the infrastructure for companies to decarbonize at scale. After building Stripe's climate program, he saw how technology could move the needle faster than policy alone and set out on his journey as a founder. With a 500 million ton CO2 red ... Show more

. 47min 9sec