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About the show

The pace of change in our culture is unprecedented and shows no signs of slowing. So what is most important to pay attention to when striving to innovate, create, and lead? From the team behind Masters of Scale, Rapid Response features candid conversations with today's top business leaders navigating real-time challenges. Hosted by the former editor-in-chief of Fast Company, Bob Safian.

Latest episodes

  • Airbnb’s bet on an IRL future, with Brian Chesky

    October 9, 2026 · 32 min

    This episode of Rapid Response first aired in 2025. Live on stage at Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky explores what role business could and should play in building the future. He shares his…

  • Kalshi vs. Everyone: Co-Founder Luana Lopes Lara on the lawsuits and the long game

    October 6, 2026 · 34 min

    Prediction markets incentivize truth. Everything else incentivizes clickbait. That's the core argument Luana Lopes Lara makes for Kalshi — the prediction market platform she co-founded that has gone from $5 billion to $22 billion in…

  • Meet Tilly Norwood and her creator: AI "actor," death threats, and new Hollywood

    October 2, 2026 · 29 min

    What happens when you interview an AI? Bob Safian found out, and while it didn't break out into Cantonese, it was stranger than he expected. This episode is split in two: first, a conversation with Eline van der Velden, the Dutch…

  • Halloween meets GLP-1s: Hershey’s candy Super Bowl, with CEO Kirk Tanner

    September 29, 2026 · 27 min

    The second a brand like Hershey stops being culturally relevant, says its CEO Kirk Tanner, you should be worried. He joins Rapid Response to explain exactly what he's doing to make sure that never happens. Tanner also reveals why GLP-1…

  • Chobani & Patagonia CEOs break down where values meet profit

    September 25, 2026 · 27 min

    This episode of Rapid Response first aired in 2025. Live on stage at Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco, Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert and Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya joined the New York Times’ David Gelles to explore the intersection of…

  • Rebranding in a war zone, with Prosper Global (formerly Mercy Corps)

    September 22, 2026 · 27 min

    The world has never faced so many humanitarian crises at once, and the systems built to respond to them are fraying. Tjada McKenna, CEO of Prosper Global — the organization long known as Mercy Corps — joins Rapid Response during UN General…

  • Pioneers of AI: The deep AI shifts that will reshape our lives

    September 19, 2026 · 38 min

    For nearly two decades, Amy Webb's annual Tech Trends Report was required reading for anyone trying to keep up with technology. But this year, Webb killed the report and replaced it with something more applicable for leaders in an AI…

  • Stop creating businesses. Buy one instead, with Codie Sanchez

    September 18, 2026 · 33 min

    Own or be owned. That's Codie Sanchez's ultimatum for anyone serious about their financial future. The founder of Contrarian Thinking and author of the new book Own or Be Owned returns to Rapid Response to make her most impassioned case…