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Today: #14 in Society & Culture on our combined chart.
Today: #103 in Society & Culture, United Kingdom on our combined chart.
Today: #44 in Society & Culture, Canada on our combined chart.
Today: #106 in Society & Culture, Australia on our combined chart.
Today: #69 in Society & Culture, Germany on our combined chart.
Today: #95 in Society & Culture, Brazil on our combined chart.
Today: #61 in Society & Culture, Mexico on our combined chart.
Today: #51 in Society & Culture, New Zealand on our combined chart.
Today: #51 in Society & Culture, Ireland on our combined chart.
Today: #9 in Society & Culture, India on our combined chart.
Today: #56 in Society & Culture, Philippines on our combined chart.
Today: #37 in Society & Culture, South Africa on our combined chart.
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Ranking history · United States
Latest daily rankings: Oct 31. New rankings will appear after the next update.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 31 | #40 | #9 | #7 |
| Oct 30 | #30 | #6 | #8 |
| Oct 29 | #34 | #6 | #6 |
| Oct 28 | #39 | #8 | #6 |
| Oct 27 | #30 | #3 | #4 |
| Oct 26 | #37 | #7 | #6 |
| Oct 25 | #33 | #5 | #6 |
| Oct 24 | #38 | #6 | #5 |
| Oct 23 | #30 | #4 | #4 |
| Oct 22 | #35 | #5 | #73 |
Latest episodes
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After The Builders: On Dario & Daniela Amodei and Mustafa Suleyman
October 30, 2026 · 48 minEpisodes three and four of The Builders with Walter Isaacson explore two poles of the AI safety debate through interviews with Daniela and Dario Amodei, co-founders of Anthropic, and Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. Joining…
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Mustafa Suleyman: AI Should Serve Humanity, Not Replace It
October 29, 2026 · 52 minAs a co-founder of DeepMind, Mustafa Suleyman helped launch the modern AI race. Now, he’s challenging the way it’s being built. As CEO of Microsoft AI, Suleyman believes the technology needs to be harnessed to transform medicine, energy…
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Dario & Daniela Amodei: "This Is Gonna Determine the Fate of Nations and the Future of Humanity”
October 27, 2026 · 40 minDario and Daniela Amodei, the siblings behind Anthropic, left OpenAI to pursue a different, “more human” approach to the technology. Their promise is to put AI safety and ethics at the center of the tech race… but with an IPO around the…
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After The Builders: On Musk and Thiel
October 23, 2026 · 50 minCurious how those chronicling Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are feeling about their appearances on The Builders? There's an episode of TechStuff for that. Host Oz Woloshyn is joined by his Kaleidoscope co-founder Mangesh Hattikudur to talk…
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Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator As Hard As Possible” on AI
October 22, 2026 · 58 minPeter Thiel has become one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in tech. He’s a visionary investor who recognizes transformative ideas before everyone else. But he’s also seen as a shadowy figure whose network has accumulated…
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Elon Musk: "Humans Won't Be in Control" When AI Becomes Smarter Than Us
October 20, 2026 · 40 minElon Musk has spent his career turning improbable ideas into companies that reshape the world. To some, the entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX is an engineering genius whose ambitions have transformed electric cars and space travel. To…
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ON MUSK Episode Four: What is Musk's Legacy?
October 17, 2026 · 44 minAs a teaser to our upcoming series The Builders-- which kicks off with an interview with Elon Musk, we're re-airing our critically acclaimed 2023 podcast On Musk, Walter Isaacson's behind-the-scenes telling of writing the Elon Musk…
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ON MUSK Episode Three: Storytelling and Hot Takes
October 16, 2026 · 45 minAs a teaser to our upcoming series The Builders-- which kicks off with an interview with Elon Musk, we're re-airing our critically acclaimed 2023 podcast On Musk, Walter Isaacson's behind-the-scenes telling of writing the Elon Musk…
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ON MUSK Episode Two: Demons
October 15, 2026 · 44 minAs a teaser to our upcoming series The Builders-- which kicks off with an interview with Elon Musk, we're re-airing our critically acclaimed 2023 podcast On Musk, Walter Isaacson's behind-the-scenes telling of writing the Elon Musk…
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ON MUSK Episode One: Genius
October 14, 2026 · 32 minAs a teaser to our upcoming series The Builders-- which kicks off with an interview with Elon Musk, we're re-airing our critically acclaimed 2023 podcast On Musk, Walter Isaacson's behind-the-scenes telling of writing the Elon Musk…
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Coming Soon! The Builders
October 6, 2026 · 2 minWhose imagination do you want to live in? In this new series, bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson sits down with the most consequential names in AI and tech to understand the futures they're racing to build. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alex…
About the show
Whose imagination do you want to live in? In this new series, bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson sits down with the most consequential names in AI and tech to understand the futures they're racing to build. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Fei-Fei Li, Dario and Daniela Amodei, and more open up about their ambitions, what frightens them, how they think about humanity, and what drives them to build so big and so fast. The conversations are intimate, charming, and sometimes chilling. But mostly, they're impossible to dismiss. Because whether or not you agree with them, it's their imagination we're all starting to live in.
ABOUT THE HOST
Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He is a professor of history at Tulane University and previously served as CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair and CEO of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023.IN THIS SEASON
Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, xAI)
Peter Thiel (Founders Fund, PayPal, Palantir)
Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft AI, DeepMind)
Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei (Anthropic)
Garry Tan (Y Combinator)
Alex Karp (Palantir)
Palmer Luckey (Anduril, Oculus)
Jared Isaacman (NASA, Shift4)
Fei-Fei Li (Stanford, World Labs)
Bill Gates (Microsoft, Gates Foundation)