Inflection Moments

David Goggins is a former Navy SEAL, ultra-endurance athlete, and author of  Can’t Hurt Me , known for pushing the limits of human resilience after a childhood marked by abuse, poverty, and racism. His episode on Inflection Moments follows how a 300-pound exterminator, stuck in a cycle of self-sabotage, decides to transform himself into one of the world’s toughest endurance athletes and a symbol o...

Brian Chesky is the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb, the platform that turned spare rooms and homes into a global marketplace and redefined how millions of people travel. His episode on Inflection Moments follows how an unemployed designer in San Francisco, trying to pay rent by hosting guests on air mattresses, ends up building one of the most disruptive companies in hospitality history.​Chesky’s st...

Sir James Dyson is the founder of Dyson, the technology company best known for its bagless vacuum cleaners, bladeless fans, and high-end hair tools that turned household appliances into objects of design and engineering obsession. His episode on Inflection Moments traces how a frustrated inventor spends years iterating through thousands of prototypes in near-obscurity before finally breaking the s...

Ben Francis is the founder and CEO of Gymshark, the fitness apparel brand he started from his parents’ garage in the UK and grew into a multi-billion-dollar global company by his late twenties. His episode on Inflection Moments follows how a teenage pizza delivery driver and amateur bodybuilder turns hand-sewn gym gear and YouTube hustle into one of the most recognisable direct-to-consumer brands...

Howard Schultz is the longtime CEO and architect of Starbucks, the company that turned a small Seattle coffee retailer into a global brand and mainstreamed the idea of the “third place” between home and work. His episode on Inflection Moments traces how a kid from Brooklyn public housing falls in love with Italian espresso bars, then spends decades willing Starbucks into a company that sells commu...

Michael Dubin is the co-founder and former CEO of Dollar Shave Club, the direct-to-consumer razor brand that exploded with a single low-budget viral video and later sold to Unilever for roughly $1 billion. His episode on Inflection Moments traces how a struggling improv comic and digital marketer turns a rant about overpriced razors into a disruptive subscription business that rewires how men (and...

Charlie Munger was the longtime vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett’s closest business partner, known for shaping one of the most successful investing records in history through his multidisciplinary thinking and insistence on a higher-quality style of investing. His episode on Inflection Moments follows how a Depression-era childhood, World War II service, a painful divorce, an...

Larry Ellison is the co-founder and longtime CEO and chairman of Oracle, the enterprise software and database giant that became one of the most valuable technology companies in the world and a backbone of corporate IT for decades. His episode on Inflection Moments traces how a college dropout, deeply influenced by Codd’s relational database paper, spots a shift long before incumbents do and bets h...

Frank Slootman is the former CEO of Data Domain, ServiceNow, and Snowflake, a three-time public-company leader known for taking enterprise software businesses from tens of millions to tens of billions in value. Each time, he steps into a good product with messy execution and turns it into a dominant category company through extreme focus, operational discipline, and a ruthless approach to prioriti...

Whitney Wolfe Herd is the founder and former CEO of Bumble, the dating and social app that put women in control of initiating conversations and went public with her as the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire CEO at IPO. Her episode on Inflection Moments follows how a 20-something co-founder leaves Tinder amid a very public harassment and discrimination lawsuit, gets written off by much o...

Nick Woodman is the founder and CEO of GoPro, the action camera company that turned point-of-view filming into a global phenomenon and once soared to an $11 billion valuation before crashing to near penny-stock status. His episode on Inflection Moments follows how a failed dot-com entrepreneur, coming off two blown startups and a five-month surf trip, hacks together a wrist-mounted camera so amate...

Reed Hastings is the co-founder and longtime CEO of Netflix, the company that reinvented movie rentals, then streaming, and now shapes how hundreds of millions of people watch TV and film around the world. His episode on Inflection Moments traces how a math teacher turned engineer builds Pure Software, stumbles hard as a first-time CEO, then uses those scars to architect one of the boldest pivots...

Melanie Perkins is the co-founder and CEO of Canva, the online design platform used by hundreds of millions of people and valued in the tens of billions of dollars. Her episode on Inflection Moments follows how a 19-year-old university tutor from Perth, frustrated by how hard traditional design tools were to use, turns a scrappy yearbook startup into the world’s default design platform.​Perkins’ j...

Jan Koum is the co-founder and former CEO of WhatsApp, the encrypted messaging app that grew to over a billion users and sold to Facebook for $19 billion. His episode on Inflection Moments traces how a Ukrainian immigrant on food stamps in Mountain View rewires global communication and ends up signing the acquisition papers on the door of his old welfare office. Koum’s journey runs from teaching h...

Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the company that created the modern GPU and became the infrastructure backbone of the global AI boom with a multi-trillion-dollar market cap. His episode on Inflection Moments traces how a Taiwanese-born immigrant who once cleaned toilets at a Kentucky boarding school ends up sketching a chip company on a Denny’s napkin, and then spends three decad...

Discover what truly separates extraordinary entrepreneurs from the rest. Inflection Moments digs deep into the pivotal decisions behind the world’s most successful founders, and reveals the thinking, strategies, and frameworks that sparked their biggest breakthroughs. In each episode, we dissect one of the most successful entrepreneurs in history to uncover the real turning points in their journey...