Hollywood’s hottest AI partner, with Runway’s Cristóbal Valenzuela

Masters of Scale

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management, Reid Hoffman, Mindset, Diversity & Inclusion, Jeff Berman, Bob Safian, Startups

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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AI tools are disrupting all types of creative content, and Runway AI is a pioneer making major waves in Hollywood. It’s partnering with the likes of Disney and Netflix to revolutionize production. Runway’s co-founder & CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela joins Rapid Response to dissect the company’s breakneck growth, the risks and responsibilities of AI tool makers, and how AI is redefining both business expectations and our notion of creativity. Cristóbal also reveals why he rebuffed advances from Meta for a highly lucrative acquisition, and how AI video is just a stepping stone to an entirely new media format — one more expansive and transportive than we can realistically comprehend today.

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0:00.0	Real leaders don't back down when the stakes are high. They innovate. They push forward,
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0:36.9	Is your AI built for everyone, or is it built to work with your businesses' data?
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0:47.9	have more accurate AI instead of just more of it.
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0:59.4	If you look at the history of art, like every time there's a breakthrough in technology,
1:03.4	there's a breakthrough in art, and that helps understand the world better. It helps artists communicate
1:07.9	things they never could communicate before. Change is hard. You're afraid of it.
1:12.7	These are very unpredictable times for the good and the bad.
1:16.0	I think the best state of mind is to understand that, yeah, change is the only constant these days.
1:35.3	That's Chris Valenzuela, CEO of Runway, the AI Video Tools Pioneer.
1:41.9	If you haven't seen the videos being created via AI today, you're missing some extraordinary stuff.
1:47.3	You're also missing out on one of the most contentious areas of AI impact, from Hollywood studios to the marketing world.
1:49.2	While Runway has competitors like Google's V-O-3 and OpenAI SORA, the company is experiencing
1:56.2	breakneck growth.
1:57.6	It has high-profile partnerships with the likes of Netflix and Disney, and its tools are being adopted by individual creators as well as everyday people.
2:06.6	In our conversation, Chris talks about how AI is redefining both business expectations and our notion of creativity.
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