A podcast about the inflection points that shaped some of the most significant companies of our time. Crucible moments are pivotal decisions... more
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Millions of Americans use their smartphones to invest and manage their finances every day—but before Robinhood started in 2013, finance... more
This episode takes us back to the earliest days of YouTube, as the founders explain why it was a longshot... more
Founder Matthew Rabinowitz opens up about the intensely personal journey that set him on a course to revolutionizing healthcare. A... more
Tony Xu and Miki Kuusi share insights from building two of the world's most successful delivery platforms—DoorDash and Wolt—which merged... more
DoorDash faced skeptics from the start. Grubhub, Delivery.com, and others were already addressing the restaurant delivery market when CEO Tony... more
The biggest enterprise software company to come out of Europe in the last decade didn’t come from London, Paris, Berlin... more
Reddit is one of the largest and most culturally influential sites on the internet—and its journey is one of the... more
MongoDB, founded in 2007, originally aimed to create a platform-as-a-service system with a new database layer. Facing competition from Google,... more
In 2004, bankrupt after the company where he’d previously worked had imploded, Fred Luddy decided to start over as a... more
In Season 1 of Crucible Moments, we heard from founders like PayPal’s Max Levchin, Block’s Jack Dorsey, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang... more