90,000 Hours (Private)

You’ll spend 90,000 hours at work in your lifetime. How do you make that time count?90,000 Hours is a weekly podcast from the newsroom of The Ken that helps you navigate today’s changing world of work, where the traditional 40-year career is gone, entry-level jobs are being replaced by artificial intelligence, and staying relevant means constantly reinventing yourself.Hosted by Rahel Philipose, the show features conversations with the people creating, breaking, and rewriting the way we work.

90,000 Hours (Private) is a business podcast hosted by The Ken, with 17 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

The Ken hosts 90,000 Hours (Private), a business show with 17 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  Meet the fitness warrior: why ordinary professionals are training like elite athletes

  Jan 26, 202625 minS0

  <p>Over the last few years, something has shifted.</p><p>Run clubs. Triathlons.  Marathons. Hybrid races. </p><p>Ordinary professionals are training like athletes, travelling across the country to compete, and building entire social lives around endurance sport. Somewhere along the way, being an athlete became a badge of honour.</p><p>Founders started rewarding it. Networks are forged around it. </p><p>In this episode, we unpack the rise of what we are calling the “fitness warrior”. This is a new professional archetype where work follows the same logic as sport: optimise, train, perform.</p><p>You will hear fr...

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  Episode #15

  Bangalore is unsustainable. Here is how founders are building in smaller tech cities

  Jan 19, 202622 minS0

  <p>Being an employee in corporate urban India is living in a perpetual state of frustration. Long hours, followed by longer commutes. Add infrastructural issues to the mix. </p><p><br></p><p>It is a nightmare. But people stay on for opportunities and growth. </p><p><br></p><p>That script is now flipping. Smaller cities in India are attracting talent, GCCs, and investments. </p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, we tell you the stories of three cities: Mangalore, Vizag and Nagpur.  In Mangalore, we talk to a founder looking to make the region the “silicon beach of Ind...

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  Episode #14

  'What did you do over the weekend?': the interview questions founders care about right now

  Jan 12, 202628 minS0

  <p>“What would make you quit this job a year from now?”</p><p>“If you were an animal, what animal would you be?”</p><p>“How do you spend your weekends?”</p><p>Every founder and hiring manager has a set of off-script interview questions like these, the ones you don’t really prepare for.</p><p>Today, these questions matter more than ever. In a hiring process where CVs can be polished and prep can be automated, they are one of the few ways left to see how someone actually thinks, learns, and deals with uncertainty.</p><p>So what do fou...

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  Episode #13

  Why AI startups are rushing to hire a Forward Deployed Engineer

  Jan 5, 202628 minS0

  <p>There is a new kind of race within AI startups and companies to hire for an old role that lends itself perfectly to selling products powered by technology that is changing as we speak. </p><p>We are talking of the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE). The techie, consultant and product person all rolled into one. </p><p>Open AI created its FDE team early last year and Anthropic is rapidly growing its applied AI team, which includes FDEs and product engineers.</p><p>VC firm A16z calls its the “hottest” job in tech right now, while Salesforce says the ro...

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  Episode #12

  Career forecast 2026: Pyramid collapse, hiring woes, and being human in an AI world

  Dec 22, 202529 minS0

  <p>We started 90,000 Hours because we believe careers are at an inflection point. Nothing seems to be certain anymore as old rules are actively being thrown out of the window. As we wrap up five months of this podcast, our reporting and stories reflected just that. </p><p> <br>We have covered everything from how the American dream has shifted to how traditional networking has upended. </p><p>Across all these episodes, some themes showed up time and again. And before heading into 2026, we ask: </p><p><br>— What will replace the pyramid structure in organisations? </p><p>— What will the asses...

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