MasterClass: how to get over a stutter and attract A-listers like Anna Wintour and Martin Scorsese, with Founder & CEO David Rogier

When you’re first dreaming up a business idea, you imagine it at its best - as if your execution was perfect and your resources unlimited. When your friends ask at a dinner party, you say you’ll have Gordon Ramsey teaching cooking and Christina Aguilera teaching singing. Your friends laugh, you cheers each other - and carry on with your meal. But in the case of today’s guest, David Rogier, he’s turned that dream into a reality.

Everyone thought he was mad, and pointed it out to him at various stages, but here we are with MasterClass, valued at $2.75b last year according to CNBC - and with the craziest line up of teachers you’ll ever see in one place. 

How has David pulled it off? 

And all this from a man who was bullied as a child over his stutter. 

We talk about:

• His grandparents meeting in Auschwitz
• Getting over his stutter
• How to choose which business to launch
• How he started Masterclass
• The real art of storytelling
• The hardest things he’s ever done
• Why he kept going when everybody told him to stop

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