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David Senra
Conversations with the greatest living founders.
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Managing $525 Billion by Rethinking Wealth Management | Kurt MacAlpine, Corient
Corient, now managing about $525B across 15 jurisdictions, applies a professional-services partnership to wealth management, with roughly 3,000 employees on one compensation plan and one P&L.Its roughly 50-deal engine targets founders approaching a $3–5B scale ceiling; the September 2–3, 2025 announcement of acquisitions of Europe’s largest and second-largest UHNW wealth-management businesses advances MacAlpine’s global ambition.
Lessons from Napoleon, Steve Jobs, Joan of Arc & Other Leaders | Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson’s stage-four metastatic neuroendocrine carcinoma had an initial one-year prognosis; chemotherapy pushed it back, and he is starting tarlatamab.His framework is breaking trade-offs: NeXT faltered pursuing every priority, while Jobs’s iPod accepted feature gaps for user experience.Tarlatamab’s durability is unclear; clinical trials may follow, and he is exploring a custom mRNA vaccine to enhance it.
Creating Muse: The Fastest-Growing AI Product Since ChatGPT | Alexandr Wang, Meta
Muse is Meta’s bet that personal agents—not coding or enterprise AI—can become the next major consumer AI category, leveraging its consumer distribution and 3.5 billion daily users.After an early-2026 Opus 4.5/OpenClaw catalyst, seven months of evaluations across more than 100 behaviors produced Musepark 1.3, while disclosed users remain only “millions”; reliability and escalating trust are key growth signals.
Channeling Rage, Rolling Calls & Building an Entertainment Empire | Ari Emanuel, WME & TKO
Ari Emanuel’s $4.2 billion UFC acquisition bet on scarce live sports compelling platforms to pay, despite Fox’s sale, AT&T’s blocked deal, Comcast’s disinterest and Amazon’s withdrawal.By expanding ESPN’s initial $300 million, eight-event package into 10 events plus pay-per-view, he secured a seven-year agreement approaching $4 billion, while TKO and MARI extend the thesis but financing and timing remain risks.
How Mark Zuckerberg, Palmer Luckey, Josh Kushner & Scott Wu Think | Jeremy Stern
Zuckerberg’s durable edge is methodical, founder-controlled compounding: Meta can pair 20 years of distribution across its apps with owned infrastructure and attention, even as critics call it behind in AI.Luckey’s costly early Trump support and Wu’s apparent refusal to sell point to conviction and independence as differentiators, while defense technology’s record in Israel and Ukraine remains unresolved.
From HOA Management to $4B in Revenue & $6.3B Deal for Amex GBT | Alexander Taubman, Long Lake
Long Lake’s announced $6.3 billion take-private of American Express Global Business Travel turns 111 years of trust, high-90s logo retention, and 100%+ dollar retention into an AI distribution thesis.Nexus reuses 70-80% of its infrastructure and cuts HOA email work to 5-10 minutes.Travel is an immediate test, while productivity-led growth and execution shape the path beyond $4 billion of expected revenue next year.
Building the Streetwear Empire Kith | Ronnie Fieg
Kith’s rare private, no-wholesale, no-licensing structure gives Ronnie Fieg control over brand presentation, while founder-led product development spans 5,000+ styles annually.Fieg caps e-commerce’s share by matching digital growth with physical stores, benchmarks pricing against prior seasons rather than rivals, and is planting seeds in hospitality and padel despite product’s stronger economics today.
Building One of the Fastest Growing CPG Companies in History | Peter Rahal of David Protein & RXBAR
David has reached two years with Rahal citing this year's revenue as “over 400 million” and “300 million” across bars, frozen food, ready-to-drink beverages, and candy.Epogee vertical integration secured a patented modified triglyceride after David represented about 90% of sales and supply, but contracts, litigation, antitrust claims, and 300–400% growth make supply execution the key variable as the company expands toward Nestlé-scale ambition.
Inside Bending Spoons: Finding Talent, Leveraging AI & Driving Operational Excellence | Luca Ferrari
Bending Spoons is a buy-to-hold-forever operator, producing $3B in run-rate revenue at 54–55% adjusted operating income margins through acquisitions and deep integration.Evernote's headcount fell from 350 to about 20, while revenue now exceeds $100M and product velocity is at least three times faster, demonstrating the operating model's leverage.Diagram and Alt Spooner point to further productivity gains, while fewer, larger deals and the unresolved IPO timeline remain important execution signals to monitor.
Building One of AI’s Fastest-Growing Companies | Mati Staniszewski, ElevenLabs
ElevenLabs is positioning itself as an audio research lab with a platform, applying its models only where they offer a unique advantage and avoiding intelligence, knowledge work, and programming.Agents and creators are the largest revenue lines, with Palantir-style forward-deployed engineers turning Deutsche Telekom from a marketing podcast into call-center and in-network translation agents.Management acknowledges its pure-research edge may fade against big labs, making the 20,000-voice marketplace and 12-month push toward emotional AI conversation key developments to monitor.