Amjad Masad, the founder and CEO of Replit, sits down with Marina Mogilko to discuss how AI is revolutionizing the future of business and how solopreneurs can now build a $1B company in just a few years.If you’ve ever wondered how to launch your own AI-powered business, what vibe coding really means, or how AI is changing the rules of entrepreneurship, this episode is for you!

In this video, Alex Divinsky @TickerSymbolYOU‬⁠ is living off his investments — and in this interview, he reveals how to live entirely off an AI-driven investing strategy.

• The AI boom: are we in a bubble or not?
• His bold portfolio
• How to spot winners before Wall Street does
• The psychology of investing (why behavior = 90% of your returns)
• His advice for average investors who don’t want to spend 40 hours a week on research

If you’ve ever wondered how to survive market swings, avoid panic-selling, and actually enjoy investing, this conversation will give you a fresh perspective.

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Thomas Wolf, co-founder of Hugging Face, the leading platform for open-source machine learning models, datasets, and applications, joins us to talk about the future of open-source AI, how non-coders can build powerful apps, what it really means to “own” your AI-generated content, and how robotics and LLMs are reshaping our world—from startups to our kids’ education.We also dive into the future of jobs, open-source trust, vibe coding, and whether your next AI assistant will be a talking duck.

She started with YouTube workouts for 40 people — and ended up building two multi-million dollar apparel brands. In this honest, behind-the-scenes conversation, Cassey Ho (Blogilates) talks about content, community, AI theft, burnout, growth, and what it really takes to build something real in 2025.

In this episode, Marina Mogilko interviews Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub — the world’s largest platform for developers. He shares why now is the most exciting time to be a developer, how AI is reshaping developers work, how “vibe coding” changes everything, and what skills actually matter in the AI-powered future of work.

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In this powerful interview, we sit down with a world-renowned coach and entrepreneur Marie Forleo who walked away from Wall Street, turned down Vogue, and built a global business by following one simple rule: if it’s not a full-body yes — it’s a no.We talk about burnout, fear of irrelevance, financial anxiety, choosing freedom over prestige, and why success without alignment just isn’t worth it. If you’ve ever felt trapped by your own ambition, this one will hit home.

Chapters:

00:00 – Intro

00:42 – A better way to make big decisions

03:16 – How to know you’re on the wrong path

04:01 – The most important career advice you’ll hear

05:45 – When is it time to change your career?

08:23– The 80/20 rule for stress10:47 – “Bring the party”: reframing boring tasks

12:47 – What you need to continue and what do you need to drop 14:00 – Operating from Sustainability vs. Operating from Fear

15:48 – When you are mentally ready to say NO16:55 – Giving up prestige to follow your calling

18:40 – How to understand if this an emotional inner voice or logical inner voice 20:00 – How to practice hearing  your inner voice22:30 – Financial freedom and the fear of losing it

25:16 – Do you really need to stay hungry to succeed?

29:20 – What success looks like now

31:40 – Choosing not to have kids

34:48 – Shiny object syndrome and staying focused

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In this deep-dive conversation with Ankur Jain, founder of a $3.1B startup Bilt, we explore the untold truth behind building a company, solving real-world problems like housing, and how he’s hacking credit systems to help people save money and live better.

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Timestamps:

00:35 – How to stop flying economy using Ankur’s app (and how it actually works)

2:13 – $7,900 monthly rent – how much do you earn in rewards?

2:30 – Where can you spend your rewards

3:36 – How rewards convert to real dollars

4:08 – Why no one has done this before

5:20 – How COVID shaped his startup journey

6:18 – The ultimate entrepreneurship guide

7:18 – 2 years of hearing no

7:50 – He spent 18 months in Washington DC changing regulations from within

10:16 – Entrepreneurial mindset – prepare for everything to go wrong

11:12 – What happened to solving big problems?

12:34 – Housing crisis, mental health – why the government doesn’t fix it13:20 – Founders don’t want to solve problems anymore

13:49 – His mindset for building a $3.1B company

15:34 – The problem with raising money in Silicon Valley

17:37 – His upbringing: his parents’ American dream

19:43 – Startup life as a kid – growing up in an innovation environment

23:35 – Why NYC beats Silicon Valley for startups

26:07 – Starting a company? 2 things you must know

In this episode, we talk to Gaurav Munjal and Roman Saini, the founders of Unacademy — a $3B edtech giant that started as a simple YouTube channel. They share how they scaled to 100+ channels, built an AI-powered English learning app disrupting the industry, and grew without spending on ads. We dive into the highs and lows: layoffs, panic attacks, going public, and what it really takes to build a billion-dollar startup in the age of AI.

00:00 – Teaser

00:42 – From YouTube blog to $3B edtech unicorn

02:35 – Why they focused on YouTube for education

06:20 – How their AI app is disrupting Duolingo in just one year

09:20 – The depressing phase: no sleep and panic attacks

10:17 – How they earned $2M/year with zero ad spend

11:35 – IPO prep while losing $150M/year?

13:33 – Did they consider shutting down?

14:19 – Men don’t talk about it

16:02 – Are they replacing teachers with AI?

19:14 – How they started

21:52 – Decline in viewership when Roman stopped posting; 1000 teachers creating instead

22:40 – Netflix for education: managing 100+ channels

23:55 – How much it costs to run a single YouTube channel

25:42 – Their marketing strategy

26:50 – Why videos now get only 200–300 views

28:00 – Laid off teachers

29:27 – Advice for YouTubes

30:12 – Leave your ego behind: let others do the work too

31:35 – Moving to the U.S.

33:50 – What will happen in 5 years with AI

34:50 – Advice for first-time founders in 2025

For over two decades, Coco Rocha has defied fashion industry expectations, balancing her supermodel career with motherhood while working with top brands like Chanel and Vogue. Despite facing setbacks, including contract losses due to pregnancy and backlash over her TikTok presence, she became a key advocate for labor laws protecting underage models. As an entrepreneur, she founded the Coco Rocha Model Camp and co-owns Nomad Management, where she mentors and shapes the next generation of talent.

Timestamps:

00:00 – Teaser

00:42 – How she manages it all: the real support behind Coco

03:00 – The reality of working with her husband

06:15 – How to stay relevant for 20+ years in fashion 08:02 – People gravitate toward how you work, not how you look

08:26 – Will AI models replace humans?

09:10 – The skills AI can't replicate — how human models stay irreplaceable

10:47 – Models should learn from content creators 11:54 – 'There’s no traditional path anymore' — why aspiring models need to throw out the rulebook

13:21 – The backlash from the fashion industry over her TikToks

15:18 – The confession: "I’m actually a stay-at-home mom most of the time"

18:00 – "If you see me on an airplane, I’m crying"

19:33 – Why she chose to have 3 kids while still modeling

21:35 – She lost contracts because she got pregnant — the industry's brutal response to motherhood

22:23 – The law she helped pass that changed fashion forever

23:00 – The unexpected backlash that followed

24:08 – How she deals with hate and negativity

26:20 – The power of not responding right away

27:28 – Coco’s beauty & travel survival tips

29:25 – The craziest thing that happened to her on set 30:42 – What she’d tell her 15-year-old self

32:05 – 'Here’s where I see myself in 5 years'

Blake Scholl is the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the company revolutionising air travel with supersonic jets. Blake openly shares the mindset shifts that helped him overcome rejection and industry skepticism, transitioning from a software engineer at Amazon to leading an aerospace company valued at more than $1 billion.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Teaser

0:54 - His early career, 14 years in tech

2:12 - "People have to declare big things for big things to actually happen."

3:31 - Working at Amazon with Jeff Bezos, the lessons he learned there

7:38 - What led him to transition from a corporate job to starting Boom

8:20 - Why he quit his stable job at 33, with newborn twins and a toddler daughter

9:06 - How much money he saved for his startup 9:44 - How he managed his time with family while building a startup 10:30 - How he started a company without formal education

12:57 - How he moved from theory to practice

14:30 - Challenges in hiring the right people

15:50 - "When I told people I was building a supersonic jet, they said, 'Are you crazy?'"

17:18 - Why you shouldn’t listen to industry experts and should check the information yourself

19:20 - No one can tell you what you’re capable of, except yourself 19:56 - The failures that can turn out to be winning moments 20:33 - The hardest day at Boom

21:17 - 3 weeks from bankruptcy – What separates a successful founder from a failing one?

22:00 - Why 99% of startups fail

22:30 - How close they are to launching

24:00 - Legal bans and challenges that stopped them

26:12 - How everything can change in just 4 weeks

26:20 - How to navigate the challenge of 3x the carbon emissions that jets use

28:58 - The costs of flying on a supersonic jet

30:18 - Why increasing speed is important and how it can drive growth in other fields

32:45 - How he manages work-life balance while working at a startup

33:35 - "The world is really open to supersonic right now. We have to move fast. I haven't had a day off in 4 months."

34:40 - The story behind the Trump photo

37:00 - Advice for someone who’s stuck with their idea of building a startup but is facing obstacles

38:00 - Stop being afraid of failure 39:18 - What he would say to the younger version of himself