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Reid Hoffman
Artificial Intelligence
Climate Change
Openai
Education
Democracy
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Healthcare
Social Media
Entrepreneurship
Geopolitics
Job Displacement
Creativity
Mental Health
Drug Discovery
Trust
AI In Public Defense
Silicon Valley
China
Urbanization
Technology

What if, in the future, everything breaks humanity's way? Possible is an award-winning, weekly podcast that sketches out the brightest version of the future—and what it will take to get there. Hosts Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger explore what’s possible with forward-thinking leaders, deep thinkers, and ambitious builders across many fields, such as technology, art, education and healthcare. These co... more

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Carbon removal has gone from a niche climate concept to one of the world's most important challenges. Reid and Aria sit down with Nan Ransohoff, Head of Public Goods at Stripe and a leader behind Frontier, the advanced market commitment helping build... more

Reid and Aria explore what the coming wave of AI IPOs could mean for the future of technology, investing, and the broader economy. They discuss why public ownership may become an important way for society to participate in AI’s upside, where Reid see... more

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Reid sits down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella fresh off Microsoft Build 2026. The conversation goes wide: how AI is reshaping work, business, and society—and why the transformation sweeping through software development today is only a preview of wh... more

Before Kanjun Qiu raised $200 million from NVIDIA and others to build reliable AI agents, she was writing high-frequency trading algorithms to pay her way through MIT. Today she leads Imbue, an AI lab unusually focused on power, agency, and what it w... more

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Satya Nadella
Chairman and CEO of Microsoft
Microsoft
Episode: Satya Nadella on making human and token capital compound
Kanjun Qiu
Co-founder of Imbue, former Archive co-founder, AI researcher
Imbue
Episode: What it takes to trust AI | Kanjun Qiu
Taryn Fixell
COO and President
WaitWhat
Episode: How fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out.
Rachel Ishikawa
Senior Producer
Masters of Scale / WaitWhat
Episode: How fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out.
DeAngela Napier
Special Events Project Manager, Masters of Scale Summit
Masters of Scale Summit
Episode: How fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out.
Stephanie Stern
Senior Talent Executive
WaitWhat
Episode: How fast can you upskill in AI? We did a sprint to find out.
Reid Hastings
Netflix co-founder and former CEO; board member at multiple tech companies
Netflix; Anthropic; Microsoft; Bloomberg; Meta
Episode: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: stories, schools, superpowers
Sean Neville
Co-founder of Circle; founder of Catena Labs
Circle; Catena Labs
Episode: Should we give AI a bank account?
Ivan Zhao
Founder of Notion, designer and engineer
Notion
Episode: How Notion rebuilt for the age of AI

Hosts

Reid Hoffman
Host of the show
Aria Finger
Co-host and host of various formats; central to show's interviewing and editorial direction

Reviews

4.4 out of 5 stars from 269 ratings
  • Lose Aria Finger

    Reid is great, but removing this one from my feed until Aria is out. She is weak, her affect is silly, and the contrived vocal fry is like fingernails on a chalkboard….

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    ihatenicknames99
    United States2 months ago
  • Reid is in the Epstein files

    And I’m not listening to that

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    Hugo VDV
    Netherlands5 months ago
  • Spam recommendation

    Since Apple decided to spam my feed with this show and there is nothing I can do to disable it, I will leave a one star review.

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    Bongo boy vermin
    United States5 months ago
  • HOST IS CONSTANTLY MOANING INTO THE MIC😵‍💫

    Interesting subject matter but the male host is constantly moaning, maybe grunting while the guests are speaking. It’s so distracting that I couldn’t absorb the conversations. For a show that covers a lot of tech, one would think they’d utilize tools like the mute button for the mic track.

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    Maw Coops
    United States6 months ago
  • Great postcast

    Waiting for an episode of his episode in Epstein

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    1분 영어
    United States7 months ago

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Listeners praise thoughtful optimism about AI's future and the quality of guests.
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What it takes to trust AI | Kanjun Qiu
Q: What are the key challenges in making AI trustworthy and explainable?
The dialogue discusses moving beyond black-box models to capable, auditable agents, enabling inspection of decisions, data provenance, and open-source collaboration to build systemic trust.
What it takes to trust AI | Kanjun Qiu
Q: What is Imbue, and how does it aim to reshape AI with decentralization and openness?
Imbue seeks to decentralize power and enhance agency through open ecosystems of software, agents, and data, with a focus on trust, explainability, and local data usage to avoid centralized control and to promote competition.
What it takes to trust AI | Kanjun Qiu
Q: Tell us about the meditation retreat and how it influenced your thinking.
Kanjun explains that meditation retreat experiences shaped her understanding of awareness, attention, and how AI systems might emulate or diverge from these human processes, emphasizing the importance of inner regulation and perspective in designing reliable AI.
Satya Nadella on making human and token capital compound
Q: How will work change with AI and agents?
Work will shift toward an agentic, looped workflow where humans supervise and guide AI agents, with long-running agents requiring robust security, observability, and auditable traces to maintain control and enable scalable, reliable AI-enabled processes.
Satya Nadella on making human and token capital compound
Q: What should CEOs be doing around AI to stay competitive?
CEOs should lead with a deep understanding of their tech stack and the 'token capital' of their firm, building a governance framework that protects tacit knowledge and data, and visionarily steer the company toward a positive-sum AI strategy rather than just signaling an AI initiative.

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What is Possible about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Possible presents an optimistic yet critically engaged look at technology's trajectory, with a focus on AI's potential to reshape industries like healthcare, finance, and education. Episodes frequently explore how AI-enabled workflows, governance, and public policy intersect with business strategy, governance, and society, often featuring founders, researchers, and senior operators discussing real-world deployments, economic implications, and ethical guardrails. A notable through-line is balancing innovation with human-centered considerations, governance, and the role of institutions in steering technology for public good. The format combines long-form interviews with practical case studies and thoughtful reflections on how tech leadership ... more

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1. Satya Nadella
2. Kanjun Qiu
3. Taryn Fixell
4. Rachel Ishikawa
5. DeAngela Napier
6. Stephanie Stern
7. Reid Hastings
8. Sean Neville

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