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Crucible Moments is a podcast about the pivotal decisions and inflection points that shaped some of the most important companies of our time.

Palo Alto Networks ft Nir Zuk & Nikesh Arora – The Grudge That Transformed Cybersecurity

Bolt ft. Markus Villig – From Bootstrapping in Estonia to a Global Leader in Mobility

Supercell ft Ilkka Paananen – How an Early Pivot Led to ‘Clash of Clans’ and ‘Brawl Stars’

Zipline ft Keller Cliffton – Reinventing Delivery with Instant Drone Transport

Nubank ft. David Vélez: An Outsider Upends the Brazilian Banking System

Dropbox ft. Drew Houston – How the Cloud Pioneer Reinvented Itself

Robinhood ft. Vlad Tenev – Reinventing Finance for a New Generation

YouTube ft. Steve Chen – 18 Months That Changed the Internet

Natera ft. Matthew Rabinowitz – A Personal Mission That Led to a Biotech Revolution

DoorDash ft. Tony Xu – The “Wrong” Moves That Built a Giant

UiPath ft. Daniel Dines – From Bootstrapping in Bucharest to One of Software’s Biggest IPOs

Reddit ft. Steve Huffman – The Making (and Remaking) of the Front Page of the Internet

MongoDB ft. Dev Ittycheria – How an Early Pivot Catalyzed an Open Source Movement

ServiceNow: From Starting Over at 50 to Dodging a $150B Mistake

Nvidia: An Overnight Success Story 30 Years in the Making

23andMe: How the DNA Pioneer Took On the FDA and Redefined Health Tech

Jawbone: The Rise and Fall of the First Wearable Technology Company

HubSpot: An Underdog Helps Invent Modern Marketing—and Then Takes on Goliath

Eventbrite Reinvented Live Events—Only to Reinvent Itself in a Pandemic

Block: A Controversial Hack Week Project Becomes the #1 Financial Services App

Airbnb: Building (and Rebuilding) User Trust to Revolutionize Travel

PayPal: A Merger of Enemies That Reshaped Silicon Valley