Minus One
Episodes
The AI Cybersecurity Crisis Is Here | Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks CEO)
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nikesh Arora, CEO of Palo Alto Networks, joins South Park Commons partner Aditya Agarwal to discuss the cybersecurity crisis currently unfolding—and...
How Replit Is Enabling a New Wave of Million-Dollar Founders | Amjad Masad & Haya Odeh
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Amjad Masad and Haya Odeh, cofounders of Replit, join South Park Commons Partners Aditya Agarwal and Ruchi Sanghvi to share what it really took to bui...
Anthropic CTO on AI Safety in the Age of Exponential Growth | Rahul Patil
09 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As AI models become more powerful, safety is emerging as one of the defining challenges of our time. Rahul Patil, CTO at Anthropic, joins SPC Partner...
Elad Gil: Silicon Valley’s Most Dangerous Startup Advice
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Elad Gil, investor and author of High Growth Handbook, sits down with South Park Commons Partner Aditya Agarwal to challenge some of Silicon Valley’...
What Gamma ($2B Unicorn) Learned that Most Founders Get Backwards | Grant Lee
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Lee, cofounder and CEO of Gamma, joins South Park Commons General Partner Jonathan Brebner to discuss how his AI storytelling platform is taking...
We Asked DoorDash’s CEO If AI Competitors Scare Him
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
When Tony Xu cofounded DoorDash 13 years ago, he was rejected by more than 100 investors. Today, it’s a $70B+ behemoth dominating the delivery indus...
Andrew Yang: AI's "Job-Killing Tsunami" + Why He'll Pay You Not to Use Your Phone
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, Andrew Yang warned that automation would destabilize society by displacing millions of jobs. Eight years later, he says the crisis is no long...
You Don't Need "Passion" to Build a $1B+ Company | Pilot CEO Waseem Daher
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
"I think the mission basically doesn't matter."Waseem Daher, CEO of Pilot (and South Park Commons alum), has a contrarian theory about w...
Betting an Entire Company on AI, Bubble or Not | Render CEO Anurag Goel
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does it feel like to bet your company on AI when everyone's talking about a bubble?Anurag Goel, CEO of Render and former employee #8 at Strip...
How Asking ‘Why?’ Changes What You Build | Kunal Shah
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most things Kunal Shah says, turn into quotes that are shared across a cross-section of worlds — whether that is the startup and tech ecosystem, or ...
From -1 to Meesho | Before the IPO | How Vidit Aatrey & Sanjeev Barnwal Built for Bharat
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is the story behind all the IPO headlines. In this episode of Minus One, Vidit Aatrey talks to Prateek Mehta about the high-conviction journey o...
How a $3 Trillion+ Company Thinks About AI | Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If there’s one person to listen to truly grasp the scale and intent of technology and where we’re headed, it’s Kevin Scott.The Microsoft CTO joi...
Mission Before Startup: Gokul Rajaram’s Playbook for Founders
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Having been a key part of building Google and Meta, and helping scale DoorDash and Block, Gokul Rajaram joins Aditya Agarwal to share his principles a...
Nandan Nilekani | On Building Digital India — the Next Population-Scale Opportunity
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to know what it’s like to be the architect of nations, not just platforms - you ask a man like Nandan Nilekani.In this episode of Minus ...
The Most Underrated Unicorn Founder In Silicon Valley | Tuhin Srivastava
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SPC alum Tuhin Srivastava sits down with Aditya Agarwal to break down how a failed four-year startup, plus early chapters in finance and biotech, shap...
Scaling India's Payments: How PhonePe Built for 500-Million+ Users
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rahul Chari is a leader in India’s tech evolution, from building Flipkart’s foundations, to architecting PhonePe’s planet-scale platform. Simply...
Scaling a Founder-First Community | Ruchi Sanghvi & Aditya Agarwal
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After years of operating at scale at companies like Facebook and Dropbox, Ruchi Sanghvi, founding partner of South Park Commons, and Aditya Agarwal, G...
Selling Pulse to LinkedIn & Scaling Notion Globally | Akshay Kothari
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Akshay Kothari has built tools that transform the everyday by making technology feel effortless, like Pulse and Notion.He joins Aditya Agarwal to shar...
-1 to Extreme Conviction in India’s EV Market | Tarun Mehta & Ather Energy
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tarun Mehta, co-founder and CEO of Ather Energy, joins Prateek Mehta, to unpack how Ather lived the “minus one” philosophy. By taking risks, locki...
Inside Early Facebook with Andrew Bosworth: Culture, Ads, and AR Glasses
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook’s early culture was chaotic, fun, and fueled by a belief that "you can just do things."Andrew Bosworth, Meta CTO, joins Aditya Ag...
The Man Betting on Institutional Reform | Joe Lonsdale and 8VC
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After building companies that made their mark, Joe Lonsdale launched 8VC to tackle institutional decay, backing ambitious startups and encouraging the...
Building Great Companies, Not Just Good Ones | Mukesh Bansal
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to build great companies? Mukesh Bansal, founder of giants like Myntra and Cure.fit, and now building at the frontier of deep tech w...
Robinhood, Space, and the American Dream | Baiju Bhatt
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Baiju Bhatt helped millions learn to invest through Robinhood. He’s since taken the leap to aerospace with his new company Aetherflux. Baiju joins A...
What the Smartest People in AI Are Missing | Gary Vaynerchuk
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do brands like PepsiCo and Chanel convert consumer attention into real business growth?Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia and multiple New York T...
Google, Facebook, Then Sierra | Bret Taylor
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“If there's one lesson I wish I could give my younger self, it's to focus less on the technology and more on the customer need.”Bret Taylo...
The Man Behind India's First Unicorn | Naveen Tewari of InMobi
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to build a global ad-tech company from India? In this episode, Naveen Tewari, Founder & CEO of InMobi and Glance, gets candid about ...
The Physics of Good Judgment | Rana Adhikari
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rana Adhikari, winner of the 2019 New Horizons in Physics Breakthrough Prize, joins Aditya Agarwal to discuss his 'minus one' journey as an ex...
The Designer Who 'Liked' Everything | Soleio
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Minus One, Facebook’s second designer, Soleio shares how he helped build the emotional layer of the internet and is now backing t...
Silicon Valley, Capital & Globalization | Balaji Srinivasan
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Balaji Srinivasan, angel investor and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Network State, joins Aditya Agarwal on Minus One to challenge prev...
David Baszucki: Roblox, Minus One, Digital Economy, & the Metaverse
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Minus One, host Dylan Itzikowitz sits down with Roblox’s chief blocksmith to trace a minus one to zero prototype that evolved int...
AGI, Sci-Fi, and Storytelling | Neal Stephenson, Ken Liu, & more
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What unfolds when those who imagine the future sit across from those building it?In this special SPC panel, worlds converge. Sci-fi legends Neal Steph...
The Origin Story of Facebook, Quora & OpenAI | Adam D’Angelo
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In conversation with Aditya Agarwal, Adam D’Angelo reflects on his early days at Facebook, the founding of Quora, his early conviction in OpenAI, an...
History, AI & Technology’s Shared Trajectory | Niall Ferguson
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
During his three-decade career in academia, Niall Ferguson has explored the critical inflection points that have shaped the course of history — and ...
Why I Backed OpenAI, AGI, & the Zero to One Team | Vinod Khosla
02 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Minus One, Vinod Khosla joins Aditya Agarwal to reflect on his four-decade journey shaping Silicon Valley.They discuss making high-...
How Blake Scholl Went to Mach Speeds: The Boom Supersonic Story
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Minus One, Aditya Agarwal and Jonathan Brebner sit down with Blake Scholl, who went from Groupon product leader to founder & CE...
CEO of Microsoft on AI Agents & Quantum
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
While he hardly needs an introduction, few leaders have shaped the future of technology quite like Satya Nadella.He stepped into Microsoft’s top job...
Kirsten Green’s $500M Bet on Consumer AI
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kirsten Green, founder of Forerunner Ventures and 8-time Midas List investor, sees the next wave of breakout brands emerging at the intersection of sh...
How to build a $5 billion+ company in India | Bhavish Aggarwal
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From launching Ola as a ride-hailing startup to expanding into EVs, AI, and now a third shot at food delivery, Bhavish Aggarwal has remained in relent...
Scott Belsky, Building Adobe & the Future of Design
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Belsky, Adobe’s Chief Strategy Officer & EVP of Design & Emerging Products (and previous Co-founder at Behance), joined us in NYC. Fin...
Alexandr Wang, Scale AI, & the Startup Hunger Games
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Wang shares how he navigated the existential angst of early company building to emerge as a leader in AI infrastruct...
Mike Krieger, from Instagram to Anthropic
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Krieger is the Co-founder and former CTO of Instagram and recently joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer. He joined Aditya to discuss how he'...
Lindsay Kaplan, Founding Chief & Storytelling At Scale
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsay Kaplan is the Co-founder & Chief Branding Officer at Chief, the world’s largest network of senior women executives. She joined us in per...
Mike Schroepfer, Leading Facebook & Scaling Up Climate Tech
30 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Schroepfer is the Co-founder of climate tech fund Gigascale Capital and the former CTO of Facebook. He joined SPC in person to share how he went ...
Kevin McCarthy & Why Politics Is A Brutal Profession
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin McCarthy, former Republican Congressman from California and Speaker of the US House of Representatives, shares how he unexpectedly found himself...
Tyler Cowen, Emergent Ventures & Cultivating Talent
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few people have thought as much about finding and cultivating talent than Tyler Cowen. The economist, prolific author, and Co-founder of Emergent Vent...
Jessica Lessin, The Information, and Media in the Age of AI
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SPC founder Ruchi interviewed Jessica Lessin live for the story on how she decided to found a media company in the age of AI, journalism's relatio...
Reid Hoffman & the AI-Native Future
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Serial founder and prolific investor Reid Hoffman shares the winding journey that took him from the PayPal mafia to founding LinkedIn to investing in ...
Scott Wu, Cognition, & Creating an AI Programmer
28 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
SPC alum and Cognition AI Co-founder Scott Wu shares how he went from gold medal winning competitive programmer to founding an AI lab that automates c...
Kanjun Qiu, Imbue, & Agency in the Age of AI
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Imbue Co-founder and SPC alum Kanjun Qiu shares her journey from Dropbox to becoming a founder, why she thinks play is a key part of human and AI agen...
Luis von Ahn, Duolingo & the Unhinged Owl
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Duolingo Co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn shares his journey from creating CAPTCHA, founding a multi-billion dollar language learning app, and how his ...
Mark Zuckerberg on Llama, AI, & Minus One
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How did Mark Zuckerberg turn Facebook into Meta? Why does he think open source is the future of AI? And how has he maintained a Minus One mindset at h...
Lloyd Blankfein & Leadership During Crisis
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As the former CEO of Goldman Sachs from 2006 to 2018, Lloyd Blankfein was a main character in the most eventful economic period of recent history. Alo...
Ashton Eaton, Olympic Glory & What Comes Next
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a two-time Olympic gold medal winning decathlete, Ashton Eaton is one of the few people who ever held a legitimate claim to the title "most at...