View From The Top
Episodes
S9E2: A.G. Sulzberger Is Tuning Out the Cheers and the Jeers
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
“Being a reporter is the most fun an adult is allowed to have at work,” says A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher and chairman of The New York Times.&nb...
S8E13: GSB at 100: "The Moment"
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on View From The Top we’re sharing an episode of GSB at 100, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Bus...
S8E12: GSB at 100: "The Experience"
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on View From The Top we’re sharing an episode of GSB at 100, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Bus...
S8E11: Orlando Bravo on Doing the Work, One Deal at a Time
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
At 30, Orlando Bravo, JD/MBA '97, thought his private equity career might be over. “I did three deals and when the dot-com bubble burst two out of t...
S8E10: GSB at 100: "The Spirit"
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on [If/Then or View From The Top] we’re sharing an episode of GSB at 100, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate ...
S8E9: GSB at 100: “The Magic”
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on View From the Top we’re sharing an episode of GSB at 100, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Bus...
S8E8: Luis von Ahn Is Making Screen Time Count
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Luis von Ahn was a tenured professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who had sold a company to Google. “You were pretty set, a lot...
S8E7: Ken Griffin Still Checks His P&L
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Griffin heads the most profitable hedge fund in history. But Citadel’s founder and CEO is focused on the future — not the scoreboard. &nb...
S8E6: Aravind Srinivas Has All The Answers
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aravind Srinivas leads Perplexity — whose AI-powered search engine provides direct, sourced answers to any question you might ask it. On this e...
S8E5: Lisa Su Is Still Curious About How Things Work
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lisa Su, the chair and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), leads one of the world’s most influential technology companies, a pioneer in high-perfor...
S8E4: Doug McMillon Is Thinking Fifty Years Ahead
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Doug McMillon began his career unloading trucks. Forty years later, he’s Walmart’s president and CEO, a role he’s held for more than a decade.&n...
S8E3: Darren Walker on Finding Clarity and Purpose
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For more than a decade, Darren Walker has led the Ford Foundation — and has been singularly focused on inequality. Why? “Because I want littl...
S8E2: Leena Nair Refuses to Be the Last
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leena Nair doesn’t just talk about leadership — she redefines it. In a wide-ranging conversation with Ayesha Karnik, MBA ’25, Nair reflects on h...
S8E1: Roelof Botha Doesn’t Believe in “the Top”
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a candid conversation with Kailash Sundaram, MBA ’25, Roelof Botha, MBA ’00 — leader of one of the most influential venture capital firms in ...
S7E8: Hemant Taneja on Balancing Profit and Purpose
30 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"If there are two things that have been foundational to my journey, it's been learning, and it's been the importance of taking risk."Hemant Taneja, ma...
S7E6: Tara VanDerveer on Being a Coach, Teammate, and Trailblazer
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
1,216. That’s the total number of NCAA games won by Tara VanDerveer, making her the all-time winning coach in college basketball history. In additio...
S7E7: Daniella Pierson: Why Failure is the Measure of Success
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“It wasn’t luck. I worked every single second of the day – I was obsessed with it. I wanted independence for myself, for my family, and I d...
S7E5: Jensen Huang on How to Use First-Principles Thinking to Drive Decisions
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"You can learn how something can be done and then go back to first principles and ask yourself, 'Given the conditions today, given my motivation, give...
S7E4: Aicha Evans: "You Must Have The Irrational Belief That It Will Work Out"
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"My first piece of advice is only take the role if you are really interested in it. Startups are hard," says Aicha Evans, CEO of Zoox. "And when it's ...
S7E3: Neal Mohan, MBA ’05, From CEOs to Content Creators: Be True To Yourself
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"The secret sauce of being a successful creator on the platform is just being true to yourself. And that sounds sort of very cliché, but I wish someb...
S7E1: Sarah Friar, MBA ’00, On How To Make Strategic Career Risks
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“In companies, you don’t want just the product team thinking about the product; the finance team thinking about finance ... You want everyone all ...
S6E9: Jacqueline Novogratz, MBA ’91, on The Role of Storytelling in Investing
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"I've seen unbelievable change happen in places that the world sees as not investible. Part of storytelling is doing the work of investing so that peo...
S6E8: Jennifer Hyman On The Power of Relentless Optimism
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"Now also in that meeting, I asked her, 'Could you introduce me to a few of your friends? I’d love to meet with them and talk about this idea.' Beca...
S6E7: Shantanu Narayen: Generative AI Won't Replace Human Ingenuity
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“If you can create unreasonable expectations, people amaze you with their creativity.”In this View From The Top interview, Shantanu Nara...
S6E6: Brian Chesky on Crisis Management
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In April and March of 2020, as shelter-in-place mandates swept the globe and travel halted, bookings on Airbnb plummeted. With an 80% revenue loss,&nb...
S6E4: Cynt Marshall on Workplace Culture As The Measure of Success
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“You know what kind of culture you have by how your employees are feeling on Sunday night when they think about getting ready to go back to work on ...
S6E3: Tristan Walker, MBA '10, "Every Action Must Be Based in Your Values"
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"For me, the thing that stood out was my difference. I wasn’t chasing the thing that others were chasing. I was chasing the things that lived with m...
S6E2: Andy Dunn on Entrepreneurship, Bipolar Disorder, and Cofounder Divorce
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"If you want to build the future, don't look to the future. Look to something that's in the corner in the present." In this episode of View From ...
S6E1: Eric Yuan on Keeping Customers, and Employees, Happy
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"My number one priority is to make sure Zoom employees are happy. I believe if you have happy employees, you’re going to have happy customers." ...
S5E11: Tony Elumelu on "Democratizing Luck"
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Entrepreneurship is in my DNA. In my own life journey, I've come to appreciate the significance of entrepreneurship in transforming communities, in t...
S5E10: Gwynne Shotwell: Finding and Defining Your Team's "Big Moments"
15 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Figure out what the big moments where you can bring your teams together are. It cures a lot of ills. It really helps with morale. It's incredible for...
S5E9: Anne Wojcicki: There’s No Such Thing as the Perfect Dataset
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Alexandra Eitel, MBA ’22, sits down with Anne Wojcicki, co-founder and CEO of 23andMe to discuss breaking down inequality through genetics and how l...
S5E8: Sundar Pichai: "Reward Effort, Not Outcomes"
16 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"You have to encourage innovation. Companies become more conservative in decision making as you grow...be okay with failure and reward effort, not out...
S5E7: Dara Treseder, MBA '14: "If You Stand For Everything, You Stand For Nothing."
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"If you talk about and comment on everything, your voice becomes background noise ... It's important [for brands] to be clear what matters most to us ...
S5E6: David Vélez, MBA '12: "Position Yourself in the Scarcity, Not in The Oversupply."
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When David Vélez, MBA '12, moved to Brazil in 2008 to open a regional office for a private equity fund, he didn’t expect one of his biggest challen...
S5E5: Jessica Alba on the role of humility in entrepreneurship
12 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“You have to be very humble if you want to be an entrepreneur…know what you know and know what you don’t know.” In this episode of View F...
S5E4: Hamdi Ulukaya: Creating the Right Environment
25 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"People will give you credit, but 99% of it is not you,” said Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani, in a View From The Top interview on campus. “...
S3E5: Marcos Galperín and MercadoLibre: Pursue the Contrarian View
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
MercadoLibre e-commerce, the eBay of Latin America, is a $28 billion company. At its roots are three friends who met at Stanford GSB.In this View...
S5E2: Malala Yousafzai on How We All Can Inspire Change
08 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“My story is not an exceptional story. It could have been the story of any girl if their fathers and brothers had allowed them to speak out.”In th...
S5E1: Steve Kerr on the Importance of Work-Life Balance
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
"What I've found with our players, is that the guys who have the most balance in their lives, are the ones who know how to handle all this stuff the b...
S4E8: Thasunda Brown Duckett on Making Change Through the “Art of Possibility”
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this View From The Top interview, Thasunda Brown Duckett, president and CEO of TIAA, recalls her childhood experience moving from New York to Texas...
S4E7: Priscilla Chan: How We Can Do Better By Having Hope
21 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this View From The Top interview, Priscilla Chan, cofounder and co-CEO of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, shares the story of her refugee...
S4E6: Sonia Syngal on Leading the Gap Inc. Through the Pandemic
14 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the CEO of Gap Inc., Sonia Syngal’s brand is to create with audacity. In this View From The Top conversation with Adriann Negreros, MBA ’21, Sy...
S4E5: Beth Ford on Being the Champion of Your Own Career
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As the CEO of Land O'Lakes, Beth Ford connects her working-class Midwestern childhood with her success running a farmer-owned cooperative . In in this...
S4E4: Bozoma St. John on Showcasing Yourself — and the World
30 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Having lived in 4 countries by the age of 12 and growing up the only Ghanaian family in a predominantly white town in Colorado, Bozoma St. John had an...
S4E3: Rosalind Brewer: Find Your Voice and Don't Be Silent
23 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rosalind Brewer has a remarkable ability to see the big picture. She has led major organizations such as Sam's Club and Starbucks and identified ...
S4E2: Doordash CEO Tony Xu on Why Obsession With Detail Matters
16 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tony Xu, MBA ’13, says that immigrating from China at the age of five and moving around as a young kid taught him one of the keys to success —...
S4E1: Former TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot on Trusting Your Gut
09 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Founding Member of the SB Opportunity Fund and Former CEO of TaskRabbit, Stacy Brown-Philpot, MBA ’02, is leading the charge on diversity by tr...
S3E4: Ruth Zukerman: Emerging Stronger From The Storm
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Zukerman discovered spinning at a difficult crossroads in her life, and she was thrilled when it turned into her next entrepreneurial endeav...
S3E2: Stewart Butterfield: Salvaging The Good
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Born in a log cabin in British Columbia, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield studied Philosophy in college, taught himself to code, co-founded Flickr, and t...
S3E3: Stephen Curry: Shining in The Spotlight
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You may think you know Steph Curry the basketball player, but the star of the Golden State Warriors has been working to build an important legacy both...
S3E1: Rose Marcario: Environmentalism is For Everyone
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Outdoor retailer Patagonia is known for its outspoken environmental activism, and Rose Marcario is the driving force behind that message. She left beh...
Satya Nadella: Aligning Behind a Common Purpose
10 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Microsoft CEO since 2014, Satya Nadella has helped refresh an aging tech giant, pushing the company into artificial intelligence and cloud networki...
Oscar Munoz: Learn to Listen
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Oscar Munoz became CEO of United Airlines in 2015 — and almost immediately suffered a heart attack. He recovered to oversee the airline’s labor ne...
Dara Khosrowshahi: Driving Change at Uber
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Dara Khosrowshahi fled Iran and arrived in the United States, he was 9 years old, did not speak fluent English, and was unfamiliar with the cultu...
Ruth Porat: Invest for the Long Term
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ruth Porat has seen two financial crises up close: She had just started at Morgan Stanley in 1987 when the stock market crashed, forcing her to recons...
Ray Dalio: Seek Out Thoughtful Disagreement
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Investments, the most successful hedge fund in history. But he also made mistakes — and those mistakes helped him lear...
Michael Moritz: Look for Unexpected Opportunities
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How did a history major with no formal technical training become one of technology’s most successful investors? During a visit to Stanford Graduate ...
Phil Knight, MBA ’62: Never Give Up
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Selling sneakers from the back of his car, Phil Knight co-founded Nike with his college track coach in 1964. During a visit to Stanford Graduate Schoo...
Diane Von Furstenberg: The Most Important Relationship You'll Have is The One With Yourself
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Diane Von Furstenberg didn’t plan a career in fashion — she just wanted to earn her own money. Staying open to new ideas led to her starting the D...
Rahm Emanuel: Communicate Strength, Confidence, and Optimism
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to “moral victories,” Rahm Emanuel, the current mayor of Chicago and former White House chief of staff, will have none of it. “Our...
Jeffrey Katzenberg: Be Original, Be Unique, Be Risky
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Getting fired while seemingly at the apogee of a career would faze most executives. But it only took Jeffrey Katzenberg eight days to recover after be...
Ken Frazier: Diverse Boards Create Impactful Companies
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As CEO of one of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical company, Ken Frazier has pushed the firm to invest in treatments for serious diseases, particula...
Magic Johnson: Understand Your Customers and Over-Deliver
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Magic Johnson is known globally for his success as one of the all-time great NBA stars.. The Michigan native played 13 seasons for the LA Lakers befor...
Jeff Weiner: Defining Compassionate Leadership
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Weiner is intrigued by the future of work and the dramatic changes that have occurred in the workplace in recent years. Weiner has been the CEO o...
Sara Blakely: Share Your Failures
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Almost every entrepreneur in the U.S. knows the story of how Spanx started: Sara Blakely, then 27, was prepping for a party when she realized she didn...
Oprah Winfrey: Failure Is the Thing Moving You Forward
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Stop the crazy mind chatter in your head that tells you that you are not good enough,” said Oprah Winfrey during a visit to Stanford Graduate Schoo...
Mitt Romney: Why You Should Have More in Your Life Than Just Work
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Mitt Romney first talked to Bill Bain about joining Bain & Company, Romney was clear about one thing: “I have to have all day Sunday off. If th...
Sheryl Sandberg: Careers Aren't Ladders, They're Jungle Gyms
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a visit to Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2017, Sheryl Sandberg advised students against making a strict plan for their careers, because "...
Diverse Teams with Margaret Neale
11 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Diverse teams lead to more innovation. Stanford professor Margaret Neale talks with Stanford Insights about why it's so hard to create and maintain di...
The End of Privacy with Michal Kosinski
09 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
What does the end of privacy look like? Stanford GSB professor Michal Kosinski shares with Stanford Insights his optimistic vision of a world with les...
Authenticity with Glenn Carrol
20 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Consumers really care about authenticity, but what makes something the real deal? Stanford professor Glenn Carroll and Stanford Insights sit down to t...
Goal Setting with Szu-Chi Huang
16 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
How do you follow through with a goal when you're mid way there and motivation waivers? How can wellness trackers help you achieve your goals? Stanfor...