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The Builders

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8 episodes
Last episode
October 22, 2026
Charts
Apple No. 6 · Pocket Casts — · Audible —

No. 10 on Across the charts in Politics & Social Sciences, and on 1 other chart here.

What it is

Whose imagination do you want to live in? In this new series, bestselling biographer Walter Isaacson sits down with the most consequential names in AI and tech to understand the futures they're racing to build. Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Fei-Fei Li, Dario and Daniela Amodei, and more open up about their ambitions, what frightens them, how they think about humanity, and what drives them to build so big and so fast. The conversations are intimate, charming, and sometimes chilling. But mostly, they're impossible to dismiss. Because whether or not you agree with them, it's their imagination we're all starting to live in.

ABOUT THE HOST Walter Isaacson is the bestselling author of biographies of Elon Musk, Jennifer Doudna, Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein. He is a professor of history at Tulane University and previously served as CEO of the Aspen Institute, chair and CEO of CNN, and editor of Time. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2023.

IN THIS SEASON Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX, xAI) Peter Thiel (Founders Fund, PayPal, Palantir) Mustafa Suleyman (Microsoft AI, DeepMind) Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) and more!

Latest episodes

  1. After The Builders: On Musk and Thiel October 23, 2026 · 50 min
  2. Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator as Hard as Possible” on AI October 22, 2026 · 58 min
  3. Elon Musk: "Humans Won't Be in Control" When AI Becomes Smarter Than Us October 20, 2026 · 40 min
  4. ON MUSK Episode Four: What is Musk's Legacy? October 17, 2026 · 44 min
  5. ON MUSK Episode Three: Storytelling and Hot Takes October 16, 2026 · 45 min

On the charts

Charting now — best position 1 on Apple Podcasts · Society & Culture, reached October 22, 2026. Seen on 5 charts over 7 days of readings, the first on October 18, 2026.

1 73 1 October 18, 2026 October 24, 2026 October 18, 2026 — position 48October 19, 2026 — position 53October 20, 2026 — position 73October 21, 2026 — position 24October 22, 2026 — position 1October 23, 2026 — position 1October 24, 2026 — position 1
Apple Podcasts · Society & Culture — position by day.
ChartBestDaysLast seen
Apple Podcasts · Society & Culture 1 7 days October 24, 2026
Pocket Casts · Society & Culture 1 5 days October 24, 2026
Apple Podcasts top 100 5 3 days October 24, 2026
Across the charts in Politics & Social Sciences 10 3 days October 24, 2026
Across the charts 28 3 days October 24, 2026

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