Airwallex's Jack Zhang on Fintech, Failure, and Growth
In 2020, Airwallex lost nearly half its revenue overnight. Today it's worth $11 billion. Jack Zhang reflects on the decisions that kept the...
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Why 80% of the Fortune 100 Chose Qualtrics | Ryan Smith
AI may change software overnight, but company building still takes time. Ryan Smith explains why, despite the pace of AI, “the race is going...
What It Takes to Build Software for 171,000+ Restaurants | Aman Narang
Great software companies often come from understanding pain points at a very deep level. On Grit , Aman Narang shares how Toast built trust...
What It Takes to Build a Generational Company | Anduril’s Trae Stephens
Founder quality becomes more important as startups become easier to build. Trae Stephens, co-founder of Anduril and partner at Founders Fund...
How AIG Is Reinventing Insurance With AI | Peter Zaffino
What does it take to run a company where the business is risk itself? In conversation with Joubin Mirzadegan, Peter Zaffino shares what the...
From Airbnb to Linear: How Karri Saarinen Redefined Product Design
In a market that hadn’t changed in decades, Linear didn’t win by being faster. They won by being more thoughtful. Karri Saarinen helped shap...
How Kevin Mandia Built the Most Trusted Name in Cybersecurity
What does security look like when attackers use AI better than you do? Armadin recently raised $200M to build for the “attacker of the futur...
The Silicon Valley Insider In The Pentagon | DoW Emil Michael
Emil Michael went from scaling Uber across 600 cities to rewiring the world's largest military. In the midst of the Pentagon-Silicon Valley...
How Sierra Is Pulling Ahead in the AI Race | Co-founder Bret Taylor
Few founders have seen Silicon Valley from every seat at the table. After co-creating Google Maps at Google, serving as CTO at Facebook, and...
The AI Era of Cybercrime: How Malwarebytes Is Evolving Its Security Stack | Marcin Kleczynski
What began as a 14 year old fixing infected computers became Malwarebytes, an 800 person cybersecurity company trusted by millions of custom...
The Truth Behind Automation Claims in Customer Support | Cresta CEO Ping Wu
Can you scale customer support without burning out agents or frustrating customers? Ping Wu shares how Cresta combines AI and human intellig...
The Safest Dollar on the Internet | Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire
USDC closed the gap between software and law in modern finance. On Grit, Jeremy Allaire discusses how fully reserved, dollar backed digital...
Why We’re Only Using 1% of AI | Glean CEO Arvind Jain
Glean has grown into a $7.2B company by giving employees AI assistants and agents that extend their capabilities. CEO Arvind Jain is back on...
The Grittiest Conversations of 2025: AI, Business & Beyond
In this recap episode, we highlight the best moments from our 2025 interviews and reflect on the ideas that defined the year. Featuring: Dav...
How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader
What happens when AI becomes your most influential referrer? As consumers turn to ChatGPT for answers, James Cadwallader and his team at Pro...
How Snap Plans to Win the AR Race | Evan Spiegel on Spectacles
Turning down a $3B offer from Facebook is a bold move for any young CEO. Evan Spiegel shares how Snap’s early dream was to stay independent...
The Pull to Build: Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit and Starting Roadrunner
What does it take to go from advising founders to becoming one? On this week’s special Reverse Grit episode, we flip the script and put our...
Building Cloudflare for the Next 50 Years | Co-founder Cloudfare Michelle Zatlyn
Fifteen years in, it can still feel like “we’re just getting started.” Michelle Zatlyn , co-founder of Cloudflare, returns to Grit with Joub...
She Sold Her Startup for $500 Million, Here’s Her Next Idea
Screens have pulled families apart. Brynn Putnam set out to bring them back together with Board, the world’s ‘first face-to-face game consol...
Synthetic Data and the Future of AI | Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez
How do companies like Salesforce and Dell scale intelligence across every cloud? Aidan Gomez, co-founder and CEO of Cohere, explains how the...