Progress by Fifty Years

Justin Kan is a serial founder and investor. In 2007 he co-founded Justin.tv, the livestreaming platform he launched by broadcasting his own life around the clock from a camera strapped to his head. Four years later, the company pivoted into Twitch, which Amazon acquired for $970 million in 2014. He has since founded a string of companies. Today, Justin co-runs the venture firm Goat Capital while...

Christian Angermayer is a prolific entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and executive chairman of the Enhanced Games, the competition that lets athletes use performance-enhancing drugs under medical supervision. It hosted its inaugural event the day after this discussion was recorded. He is also the founder of Apeiron Investment Group, through which he invests billions across life scien...

Brian Armstrong is the co-founder and CEO of Coinbase, the largest legal crypto exchange in America. In 2012, Brian started Coinbase out of Y Combinator after reading the Bitcoin whitepaper, then took it public on Nasdaq nine years later. Today, Coinbase is worth over $50 billion and serves over 100 million users. He's since co-founded his second unicorn called NewLimit, a biotech company that’s e...

Steve Huffman is the Co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a network of online communities that is now one of the internet's primary engines for conversation, culture, and collective knowledge. At 22, Steve left Reddit, came back in 2015 when the company was in crisis, then took it public. Today, Reddit has two billion monthly visitors and five quarters of real profitability. In this conversation, Steve o...

Ryan Petersen is the founder and CEO of Flexport, the technology-driven freight forwarder that ranks amongst the top companies exporting ocean freight. In this conversation, Ryan and Scott move through sprawling, but connected territory: including Ryan’s “great man theory” of history, what tariffs are actually doing to global supply chains, and why René Girard’s thinking on role models might hold...

Keller Cliffton is the co-founder and CEO of Zipline, the world's largest commercial autonomous delivery system. Before Zipline, Keller was a scientist at Harvard. Today, Zipline serves 5,000 hospitals worldwide, saves 10,000 lives per year, and has completed over 2 million drone deliveries — everything from food to medical supplies across Japan, five African countries, and multiple cities in the...