After nearly 30 years building Netflix, co-founder and former chairman Reed Hastings stepped down from the board of directors this past June. His departure came at a tumultuous time in Hollywood and at Netflix itself. On top of the fallout from its failed bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix has also been struggling with stagnating engagement and slowing revenue growth, prompting a big C-Suite shakeup and a mass layoff earlier this month. In this episode of On with Kara Swisher, Swisher talks to Hastings live on stage at Masters of Scale Summit 2026, discussing Netflix’s future and why Reed remains bullish on AI’s future, especially when it comes to education.

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This episode originally ran Monday, October 26 on the podcast “On with Kara Swisher.”

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When truth is under attack, how do you fight back? Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa has spent years confronting disinformation and political pressure through her news organization, Rappler. In conversation with Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger, Ressa explores the crises facing truth, accountability, and democracy, and what we can do to help defend them.

Her new book is The Fight Back: A Citizen's Guide to Standing Up to Dictators.

This conversation was recorded live as part of Masters of Scale Summit on October 21, 2026 at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco.

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The AI race between the US and China is the defining competition of our age. Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, advisor to the Pentagon, and current CEO of Relativity Space joins Rapid Response live from Masters of Scale Summit to give his most unvarnished assessment yet. He reveals that the gap he once estimated at two years has narrowed to six months. Schmidt also takes on the open source question that’s keeping Silicon Valley up at night, explains why kicking China’s best PhD students out of the country is one of America’s dumbest own goals, and shares the one thing he believes could keep this from becoming a zero-sum game — even if the current political environment makes it nearly impossible.

This conversation was recorded live as part of Masters of Scale Summit on October 22, 2026 at the Presidio Theatre in San Francisco.

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