The General Podcast

The General Podcast pairs founders, operators, executives, and creative minds for behind-the-scenes talk about building. No host and no script. Just craft, conviction, and real conversation between peers. Produced by The General Partnership. thegp.com

The General Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts The General Podcast, a business show with 12 episodes published.

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  Episode #9

  Brian Lovin (Notion) x Joey Flynn (OpenAI) on the myth of the design founder

  May 21, 202658 minS0

  <p>Brian is a designer at Notion, where he arrived after founding Campsite, a communication tool for distributed teams. Before that, he co-founded Spectrum, a community platform built for developer communities that was acquired by GitHub. </p><p><br></p><p>Joey co-founded Global Illumination, a studio that leveraged AI to build creative tools and games, which was acquired by OpenAI. Before OpenAI, he spent formative years at Facebook and Instagram, and worked on everything from iOS games to multiplayer worlds in the browser.</p><p><br></p><p>Before this conversation, Brian and Joey had never actually met, but t...

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  Episode #8

  Anna Binder (Asana) x Erica Galos Alioto (Retool) on the Chief People Officer job

  Mar 24, 202647 minS0

  <p>In this conversation, Erica Galos Alioto (Chief People Officer at Retool, formerly Grammarly) and Anna Binder (former Chief People Officer at Asana) sit down for a candid conversation about what it actually felt like to lead through the last five years of work, from the chaos of the pandemic to the whiplash of DEI to the existential questions raised by AI.</p><p>They start with the “supper club.” It was a small, trusted group of HR leaders who became each other’s professional lifelines during COVID, and use that foundation as a lens to unpack how the role of HR...

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  Episode #7

  Merrill Lutsky (Graphite) x Zach Lloyd (Warp) on building for engineers

  Dec 19, 202548 minS0

  <p>Merrill Lutsky is the co-founder and CEO of Graphite, a modern code review platform built for the AI era that was just acquired by Cursor. Zach Lloyd is the founder and CEO of Warp, the terminal with agents built in.</p><p><br></p><p>Zach and Merrill go way back—they worked together on Zach’s previous company. Now they’re each building core infrastructure for modern engineering teams, and running into many of the same challenges from different sides of development.</p><p><br></p><p>They talk about what’s actually changing inside engineering orgs right now: why...

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  Episode #6

  Bing Gordon (EA) x Stephen Piron (Pickford) on reinventing storytelling

  Dec 16, 202545 minS0

  <p>Bing Gordon joined Electronic Arts in its earliest days as Chief Creative Officer and helped build it into the gaming powerhouse it is today. He was one of the first believers that interactive media could be a true art form, and over his career he shaped iconic games like The Sims, Madden, and Farmville. Few people have thought harder about what makes a story truly work.</p><p><br></p><p>Stephen Piron is the founder of Pickford, a new kind of studio where the audience drives the plot in real time. His big idea is that if you...

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  Episode #5

  Chris Best (Substack) x Andrew Mayne (OpenAI) on the economics of culture

  Oct 14, 202539 minS0

  <p>Chris Best is the co-founder and CEO of Substack, the platform powering the rise of independent writers, podcasters, and thinkers. At Substack, Chris has reimagined what sustainable media looks like, putting creators at the center.</p><p>Andrew Mayne is the host of the OpenAI podcast and was previously the company’s first prompt engineer and science communicator, where he helped shape how people interact with and understand large language models in the earliest days of GPT-3. 3. He’s also a mystery-thriller novelist and the founder of Interdimensional, a company helping organizations deploy AI.</p><p><br>Together, they unpa...

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