Every once in a while there’s a generational thinker that emerges from the most unlikely of places.
Someone capable of straddling the complexities of new industries without losing their grasp on historical and cultural perspectives. A person willing to forge new paths in new ways toward a brighter future for all.
Ed Catmull is one such generational thinker.
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Aug 31
Hunter Biden Is Out Of Secrets: A Story of Recovery, Exposure & Amends
Hunter Biden is a writer, painter, and lawyer who spent a decade being publicly dissected. We explore the trauma beneath the addiction, the anatomy of a relapse, guilt versus shame, and what happens when your covers are pulled so completely that nothing holds power over you anymo ... Show More
1h 33m
Aug 24
How Hellah Sidibe’s 3,350-Day Run Streak Rebuilt His Mind
Hellah Sidibe is a former professional soccer player, transcontinental runner, and now 3,349 consecutive days into a run streak. This conversation explores the tenets of the run streak and the architecture of Hellah's relentless positivity. We discuss gratitude, why abundance is ... Show More
1h 22m
Aug 20
Mindfulness, Meditation & Performance: Manoj Dias Live At The Rivian Performance House
Manoj Dias is a meditation teacher, author of "Still Together," and co-founder of the mindfulness studio Open. Recorded live in New York at Rivian's Performance House, we get into wellness as a secular religion, mindfulness as a choose-your-own-adventure, and what's underneath th ... Show More
1h 7m
Feb 2015
Pixar Founder, Ed Catmull on Creativity, Culture and Steve Jobs
<p>Do you remember being a kid and loving to draw? But at some point early on you learned that your art wasn't good enough? So you stopped.</p><br><p>What if you had learned a different story? That your art WAS good, that your ideas WERE valid, that your perspective WAS valued?</ ... Show More
1h 11m
Sep 2024
Co-Founder of Pixar, Ed Catmull: Fostering Creativity, Learning from Mistakes, and Pixar’s Unique Culture
<p>In this episode, Nicolai Tangen is joined by Ed Catmull, co-founder and former president of Pixar, and author of the highly acclaimed book "Creativity, Inc." Pixar has set the gold standard in animation with groundbreaking films like Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredible ... Show More
42m 41s
Nov 2020
Pixar & Disney: Spanning the Range
Disney dominates the film industry, but within the company itself the studios are a smaller fish in a big pond. How much pressure is there for the animated films to generate revenue beyond the box office? Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar and longtime executive at Disney, shares ho ... Show More
3m 55s
Mar 2021
How to Make a Masterpiece | Pete Docter
<p>We're all creatives, whether we think of ourselves that way or not. In so many aspects of your life, from planning your future to planning a meal to curating your social media, you need to be able to both envision and then execute. And how you work with your mind in these mome ... Show More
46m 58s
Nov 2022
Animating Pixar | The Benefactor | 1
Ed Catmull’s dream is to make the first ever computer-animated movie. But in 1986, Ed’s world is turned upside down when tech icon Steve Jobs purchases the animation studio he helped create. As co-founder of Pixar, Ed must fight to protect the integrity of his work, and keep his ... Show More
36m 21s
Nov 2025
Nothing Founder & CEO: Carl Pei – Reinventing Tech, Inspiring Creativity, & Building a Hardware Revolution
The Gstaad Guy sits down with Carl Pei, Founder & CEO of Nothing, to explore what it means to build a hardware company from scratch in an industry dominated by software giants. Known for making technology emotional, expressive, and fun again, Carl brings a perspective that blends ... Show More
1h 9m