Exploring the minds behind fast-growing companies — the decisions, the pressure, the patterns, and the human cost of building something that endures.
Most podcasts ask how companies scale. This one asks why leaders behave the way they do when they do. What cognitive biases shape billion-dollar decisions? How does identity shift when your headcount doubles overnight?
The Psychology of Scale brings together founders, executives, investors, and researchers to unpack the mental models, blind spots, and human dynamics that make or break organizations at the edge of growth.
The most dangerous moment for a company isn't when it's failing — it's when the psychology of the founder can no longer contain the psychology of the organization.
— The Psychology of Scale
Michael is a strategist, writer, and thinker at the intersection of organizational psychology and high-growth business. He has spent years studying how the mental models of founders and executives shape — and sometimes distort — the companies they build.
Through The Psychology of Scale, Michael sits down with the leaders behind some of the most ambitious companies in the world to ask the questions that don't make the press release: the doubts, the pivots, the things they'd do differently, and the psychological patterns they've had to confront.
His conversations are known for their depth, candor, and intellectual rigor — cutting past the standard founder mythology to find the human story beneath.
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