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July 30, 2025 • 110 mins
Bob Pittman is the former CEO of MTV Networks and co-founder of MTV. Beginning his career in media at age 15 as an on-air radio announcer, he went on to play a central role in launching MTV in 1981, targeting a youth audience with music video programming. Throughout his career, Pittman has held executive positions at several prominent companies, including AOL Networks, Six Flags Theme Parks, Quantum Media, and Time Warner Enterpris...
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July 23, 2025 • 99 mins
Ian Astbury is the longtime frontman and founding member of The Cult. He began his music career in 1980, initially gaining recognition with the post-punk group Southern Death Cult. The band later evolved into The Cult, with guitarist Billy Duffy, bassist Jamie Stewart, and drummer Raymond Taylor Smith. Known for their blend of post-punk, gothic rock, and hard rock, The Cult released several successful albums throughout the 1980s an...
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July 16, 2025 • 65 mins
Alex Spiro is a partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and one of the most prominent trial lawyers in the United States. A Harvard Law School graduate, he serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Investigations, Government Enforcement & White Collar Defense Practice. Spiro has represented a wide range of high-profile clients—including Elon Musk and New York City Mayor Eric Adams—and has served as lead counsel in over 50 trials across...
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July 9, 2025 • 93 mins
Chris Carter is a television writer, producer, and director best known as the creator of science fiction series The X-Files. He began his screenwriting career at Walt Disney Studios in 1985 before moving to Twentieth Century Fox Television. There, he developed The X-Files, which ran for 11 seasons and earned him multiple Golden Globe Awards, Emmy Award nominations, and a Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcasting. Carter has crea...
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July 2, 2025 • 103 mins
Urs Fischer is a contemporary artist renowned for his experimental and highly unpredictable practice of sculpture, installation, painting, and photography. He often uses unconventional materials, such as wax, bread, and everyday objects, which he employs to explore themes of transformation, impermanence, and creative destruction, allowing his works to transform or decay over time. Fischer’s work, influenced by movements like Surrea...
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June 25, 2025 • 107 mins
Tobias Lütke is the founder and CEO of Shopify, an e-commerce platform that enables businesses to sell products online and in person. Channeling his background as a self-taught programmer, he built Shopify out of a need for e-commerce solutions while running an online snowboard shop. Under Lütke’s leadership, the company, founded in 2006, opened its platform to third-party developers in 2009, went public in 2015, and has grown to s...
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June 18, 2025 • 125 mins
Dan Reynolds is the lead vocalist and founding member of Imagine Dragons. Alongside guitarist Wayne Sermon, he founded the pop rock band in 2008, releasing their debut album, Night Visions, in 2012. From the album, hit single “Radioactive” won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance and achieved RIAA Diamond Status. As the frontman of Imagine Dragons, Reynolds has led the band through a string of Platinum and multi-Platinum albums, incl...
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June 11, 2025 • 82 mins
Gwyneth Paltrow is an Academy Award-winning actress and wellness entrepreneur. Spanning a career over three decades, she is celebrated for her performances in critically acclaimed films such as Shakespeare in Love, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and also in her recurring role as Pepper Potts in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Beyond acting, Paltrow is the founder and CEO of lifestyle brand Goop, and she has authored bestselling cookbooks ...
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June 4, 2025 • 116 mins
Jack Clark is the co-founder of Anthropic, an AI research company focused on building reliable and interpretable artificial intelligence systems. Before Anthropic, he was a policy director at OpenAI, where he shaped strategy, communications, and policy. With a background that spans journalism at Bloomberg, policy leadership, and deep involvement in AI governance, Clark has built a reputation for his expertise in AI safety, co-autho...
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May 28, 2025 • 101 mins
Benedikt Taschen is a publisher, contemporary art collector, and founder of TASCHEN, one of the world’s most successful international publishing houses. Starting from a comic book store in Cologne, Germany at age 18, he built a global brand by making visually striking, high-quality books accessible to a wider audience. Under Taschen’s leadership, the illustrated publications celebrate a wide range of themes, spanning art, architect...
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May 21, 2025 • 118 mins
David “Avocado” Wolfe is a prominent figure in the alternative health and wellness movement, best known for his advocacy of raw food diets, superfoods, and holistic living. He has dedicated over 30 years to exploring the world’s most potent foods and natural health practices. The best-selling author of books such as Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future, The Sunfood Diet Success System, and The Beauty Diet, Wolfe has also...
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May 14, 2025 • 97 mins
André Benjamin, popularly known as André 3000, is a rapper, singer, songwriter, producer, and actor best known as one half of the Southern hip hop duo Outkast. Described by Rolling Stone as “one of the genre’s most gifted lyricists,” André helped redefine Southern rap with classic albums like ATLiens, Aquemini, Stankonia, and the Grammy-winning Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, producing hits such as “Ms. Jackson” and “Hey Ya!” Beyond O...
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May 7, 2025 • 99 mins
David Mamet is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright, screenwriter, and director. He first gained acclaim in the 1970s with plays like Sexual Perversity in Chicago, American Buffalo, and later the landmark Glengarry Glen Ross, which earned him both a Pulitzer and a Tony nomination. A founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, Mamet’s prolific career spans theater, television, film, and essays. Mamet’s most recent play,...
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April 30, 2025 • 124 mins
Adam D’Angelo is the co-founder and CEO of Quora, the online question-and-answer platform. Before founding Quora in 2009, he was Facebook’s first Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering, playing a key role in the company’s early technological development. Aiming to provide more personalized and efficient responses to users’ questions on Quora, which is valued at $900 million, D’Angelo is now integrating artificia...
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April 23, 2025 • 99 mins
M. Night Shyamalan is a director, screenwriter, and producer. He first gained international acclaim in 1999 for his psychological thriller, The Sixth Sense, which earned six Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Best Picture. Over the next 24 years, he followed with a series of high-profile films including Unbreakable, The Village, Split, and most recently, Trap. With a distinctive directorial style, Shyamalan is b...
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April 16, 2025 • 161 mins
Palmer Luckey is an inventor, innovator, and the founder of Oculus VR and Anduril Industries. At 16 years old, he built Oculus’ first offering, the Oculus Rift VR headset, eventually selling the company to Facebook for $2 billion. He went on to establish Anduril Industries in 2017, a company focused on developing autonomous systems and AI solutions for military applications. Aiming to modernize the defense capabilities of the Unite...
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April 9, 2025 • 202 mins
Gene Simmons is the co-founder, bassist, and co-lead singer of KISS. Best known for his on-stage persona as “The Demon,” he became synonymous with the band’s theatrical performances and signature makeup. Offstage, Simmons built KISS into a global brand, with over 30 distinct tours spanning from the 1970s to their more recent “End of the Road World Tour.” He has been recognized for his contributions to music, inducted into the Rock ...
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April 3, 2025 • 138 mins
Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder and CEO of Perplexity AI, the world’s first generally available conversation answer engine. Founded in August 2022 with Johnny Ho, Andy Konwinski, and Denis Yarats, Perplexity delivers accurate, sourced answers to any question. Born and raised in Chennai, India, Srinivas moved to the U.S. in 2017 and earned a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also taught...
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March 26, 2025 • 84 mins
Mel Ziegler is the co-founder of Banana Republic and The Republic of Tea. In 1978, with $1,500 in savings and no prior business experience, he and his wife, Patricia Ziegler, launched Banana Republic, reimagining military surplus as stylish safari and expedition wear. After leaving the company, the duo went on to co-found tea company The Republic of Tea with Bill Rosenzweig. Ziegler is also the co-author of the memoir Wild Company:...
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March 19, 2025 • 89 mins
Malcolm Gladwell is a journalist, author, and speaker, best known for digging into the quirks of human behavior and the hidden forces behind everyday life. He is the bestselling author of eight books, including The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and his latest release, Revenge of the Tipping Point, which explore everything from snap judgments to why some people succeed more than others. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, ...
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