Inspired with Alexa von Tobel dives headfirst into conversations with the most ambitious people on the planet. Host Alexa von Tobel, Founder and Managing Partner of Inspired Capital, gets under the hood of guests’ ambitions, from pivotal childhood moments to the critical advice that shaped their life paths. What does it take to be a true visionary, one who stares down monumental challenges with grit and resilience? Learn directly from those builders and problem-solvers whose determination is shaping a brighter, more inspired future.
Latest episodes
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59 min
Penny Pritzker on Microsoft, Harvard, and Building Inspired
Penny Pritzker grew up watching her family turn a motel chain into Hyatt, wrote her grandfather at 16 asking why he only talked business with the boys, and went on to serve as US S…
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43 min
How AI Is Rewiring Marketing with Profound’s James Cadwallader
James Cadwallader thinks the most important reader on the internet isn’t human anymore. When he asked ChatGPT for a better showerhead, it visited 65 websites. He expects that numbe…
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45 min
Boris Sofman Went from Leading Autonomous Trucking at Waymo to Building Bedrock Robotics
Boris Sofman has spent his entire career at the forefront of physical AI. He co-founded Anki, shipping more than 3.7 million consumer robots globally, before leading autonomous tru…
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53 min
Max Shaw and Brian Distelburger on Reinventing People Management with Windmill
Windmill co-founders Max Shaw and Brian Distelburger are building the AI-powered people platform for how companies develop and manage their talent. Founded alongside Mark Tanner, W…
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52 min
Cristóbal Valenzuela on How Runway's World Models Are Changing Storytelling
Runway founder and CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela grew up in Chile before moving to New York to study at NYU's ITP program, where the seeds of Runway were planted. Since co-founding the…
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51 min
Dan Lorenc on Building Chainguard into a $3.5B Open Source Security Company
Chainguard founder and CEO Dan Lorenc is building the security layer the entire software industry should run on. After nearly a decade at Google working on open source infrastructu…
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49 min
Teamshares CEO Michael Brown on Why Going Public Is Just the First Inning
Teamshares CEO Michael Brown is on a mission to address one of the biggest problems in the American economy. Millions of small businesses are owned by Boomers and Gen X approaching…
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58 min
Replay: How Ben Lamm (Colossal Biosciences) is Bringing Back Extinct Species
What happens when humanity faces the sixth mass extinction event in Earth's history? Serial entrepreneur Ben Lamm believes we need a backup plan. With a track record of building an…
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47 min
Taylor Francis on How Watershed Is Solving the Climate Crisis
Watershed CEO Taylor Francis is building the infrastructure for companies to decarbonize at scale. After building Stripe's climate program, he saw how technology could move the nee…
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43 min
Julia and Thomas Berolzheimer on Why the Future of Shopping Will Run Through Creators
Julia Berolzheimer and Thomas Berolzheimer have spent 15 years turning a fashion blog into one of the most powerful e-commerce brands in the creator economy. What started with a ca…
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52 min
Solace Founder Jeremy Gurewitz Raises $130M to Transform Healthcare Advocacy
Solace founder and CEO Jeremy Gurewitz is building a marketplace that connects patients with healthcare advocates—covered by insurance. After losing his mother to pancreatic cancer…
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49 min
Kevin Ryan, the Godfather of NYC Tech, on AI in the Decade Ahead
Kevin Ryan is known as the godfather of New York City tech. Over three decades, he's founded or backed companies worth more than $40 billion combined, including DoubleClick (acquir…
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38 min
How Flock Safety Became a $7.5B Crime-Fighting Company with Founder Garrett Langley
Flock Safety founder and CEO Garrett Langley is building the technology infrastructure to eliminate crime in America. A repeat entrepreneur who previously built and sold two compan…
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7 min
2026 Predictions: Physical AI, Quantum Computing & the Future of Work
Alexa is sharing her bold predictions for 2026, from physical AI transforming our crumbling infrastructure to quantum computing breakthroughs that will reshape innovation. With her…
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57 min
Mikey Shulman on Building Suno into a $2.5B AI Music Platform
Suno founder and CEO Mikey Shulman is building the future of music creation. A Harvard PhD physicist who led machine learning at Kensho before it was acquired by S&P Global, Mikey…
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50 min
Dylan Taylor on Building Voyager Technologies and the Future of Space Innovation
Dylan Taylor, founder and CEO of Voyager Technologies, is building the infrastructure that will define humanity's future in space. Through defense, space solutions, and Starlab, Vo…
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46 min
Axion Founder Daniel First on Solving the $4 Trillion Manufacturing Problem with AI
Axion founder Daniel First is building the command center for American manufacturing that detects product failures before they reach customers. His AI-powered observability platfor…
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60 min
Nate Berkus on What It Takes to Become the Best at Your Craft
Interior designer Nate Berkus is one of the most recognizable names in design. He started his firm at 24 with nothing but authenticity and hustle, building an empire spanning TV, b…
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46 min
May Habib on Building Writer into a $2B+ Enterprise AI Platform
Writer CEO May Habib is building the future of enterprise AI. Born in Lebanon as the oldest of eight kids, May grew up navigating chaos, multiple languages, and cultures, skills th…
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56 min
Rebuilding Healthcare from Scratch with Founder Alan Tisch of Atria Health Institute
Atria Health Institute founder Alan Tisch is rebuilding America's healthcare system from the ground up. After two near-death experiences in his mid-20s revealed how broken preventi…