In this episode of One of One, Darren speaks with Frank Blake, former chairman and CEO of The Home Depot.

Frank stepped into the CEO role at Home Depot at a moment of profound uncertainty. It was early 2007, the housing market was beginning to unravel, and culturally, the company had lost touch with the values that once defined it. Frank had never aspired to be a CEO, and yet he was asked to lead one of the largest retailers in the world through one of the most turbulent periods in its history.

Over the next eight years, Frank restored Home Depot's customer first culture. He paused new store openings to reallocate capital toward improving the customer experience, and led with a deeply unconventional philosophy that the CEO belongs at the bottom of the organization, pushing purpose upward rather than letting authority cascade down. This episode explores how to lead in crisis, the truth revealed by capital allocation, the discipline of focus, and what it really means to serve an organization.

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One of One is produced by Darren Gold, Emily Shaw, and Karen Welsh. Engineering by Aja Simpson.

In this episode of One of One, Darren speaks with Jarek Kutylowski, founder and CEO of DeepL.

DeepL is a pioneering AI company serving hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world. Born in Poland and raised between Poland and Germany, Jarek experienced firsthand the challenges and beauty of bridging languages and cultures. Trained as a computer scientist, he saw early on how AI could transform communication, and he spent the past eight years building DeepL into a global leader in applied AI. DeepL achieved market dominance as a startup in a category that could easily have been owned by the large technology incumbents, and Jarek offers a masterclass in strategic counter positioning. He's evolved DeepL’s culture as it scaled, preserving its research roots while becoming a global commercial powerhouse. And now Jarek's leading DeepL into its second act, a courageous expansion beyond language translation into the broader world of agentic AI.

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One of One is produced by Darren Gold, Emily Shaw, Talia Deer, and Karen Welsh. Engineering by Aja Simpson.

In this episode, Darren speaks with Vishal Ghotge, CEO of Kiva.org.

Over the past 20 years, Kiva's platform has crowdfunded over $2.4 billion in interest free microloans to over 5 million entrepreneurs around the world, with a 96% repayment rate. In this episode we hear about Vishal's origins growing up in Mumbai, then coming to the US for his graduate education, holding product roles at Microsoft, Groupon, Payscale and Remitly, and ultimately paving the way for his first CEO role at Kiva. We touch on the impact of Vishal's deep meditation practice and commitment to self-awareness, his belief that growth at Kiva is a moral obligation, and the touching stories of entrepreneurs whose lives and communities have been transformed by the organization he leads.

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One of One is produced by Darren Gold, Emily Shaw, Talia Deer, and Karen Welsh. Engineering by Aja Simpson.

In this episode of One of One, Darren speaks with Jeff Cohen, CEO of Fruit of the Loom.

Jeff's career has been extraordinary. He spent over 20 years in senior roles at American Express, GE, and Home Depot, which he calls a masterclass in brand process and culture. Later, he ran multiple mid-cap businesses, including Larson-Juhl, a Berkshire Hathaway company, where Darren had the privilege of serving on his advisory board with UPS CEO Carol Tomé, and former Home Depot CEO Frank Blake. Today, as part of Berkshire Hathaway, he chairs six companies and is CEO of three of them: Fruit of the Loom, Larson-Juhl, and Star Furniture. This is a conversation about leadership, transformation and legacy told by someone who has quietly and consistently built extraordinary results while staying true to timeless principles.

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One of One is produced by Darren Gold, Emily Shaw, Talia Deer, and Karen Welsh. Engineering by Aja Simpson.

In this episode of One of One, Darren speaks with Albert Ko, CEO of Auctane. Al began his career at Intuit, where he was shaped by formative mentors and experiences that continue to influence how he leads today. Later, as CEO of Early Warning, he helped scale Zelle into one of the leading peer to peer payment platforms in the world, transforming how millions of people move money. Today, as CEO of Auctane, he leads a global company at the very heart of e-commerce, powering the way goods get shipped and delivered across the globe.

What stands out about Al is not just the scale of what he has accomplished, but the way he's done it. Shaped by remarkable mentors, he leads with humility, resilience, and a deep sense of responsibility. And at the center of his philosophy is the belief that companies thrive when employees are truly engaged, when people feel connected, inspired, and proud to be part of the mission. This conversation is a rich exploration of leadership, reinvention and the lessons we carry from those who've guided us along the way.

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One of One is produced by Darren Gold, Emily Shaw, Talia Deer, and Karen Welsh. Engineering by Aja Simpson.

In this episode of One of One, Darren speaks with  Scott Harrison, founder and CEO of charity: water.

Raised in a deeply religious household, Scott left home at 18 to spend a decade as a successful nightclub promoter in Manhattan, only to wake up one day and realize his life was empty. That reckoning launched him on a journey from the excesses of Manhattan nightlife, to spending two years in the poorest country in the world, to eventually founding charity: water. Scott not only set out to solve one of the largest global health problems - the lack of clean drinking water - but to reimagine the model of philanthropy itself.

They discuss the moment that sparked Scott’s transformation, his bold vision for providing clean drinking water to everyone on the planet by the end of his life, and his extraordinary ability to sustain energy and conviction over two decades.

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One of One is produced by Darren Gold, Emily Shaw, Talia Deer, and Karen Welsh. Engineering by Aja Simpson.

In this episode of One of One, Darren speaks with Dennis Woodside, CEO of Freshworks. Dennis has had an extraordinary career journey, including beginning as a corporate lawyer, a consultant at McKinsey, a senior executive at Google, COO of Dropbox, and president of Impossible Foods. Today he leads Freshworks, an AI enabled software company focused on disrupting and powering the next generation of customer service and IT service management functions.

They discuss highlights from Dennis’s illustrious career, his unique ability to attract and grow top talent, and how his long history as an endurance athlete has shaped who he is and how he leads.

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One of One is produced by Darren Gold, Emily Shaw, Talia Deer, and Karen Welsh. Engineering by Aja Simpson.

What does it take to turn your business into a masterpiece? In this episode of One of One, Darren speaks with Charles Spinosa and Christopher Davis, a co-author and contributor, respectively, to the incredible book, Leadership as Masterpiece Creation. The book invites leaders to think about themselves and the companies they are building as masterpieces: works of art, worthy of admiration. The book boldly and courageously advocates for a contrarian model of leadership and business building.

This isn’t your typical business conversation. How often do you hear St. Augustine, Milton, Shakespeare, Nietzsche and Heidegger referenced as guidance for how to lead more effectively? Listeners are invited to be patient, listen closely, and ask “What would it look like if I were building a true masterpiece?”

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One of One is produced by Darren Gold, Emily Shaw, Talia Deer, and Karen Welsh. Engineering by Aja Simpson.