Rapid Response: BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: Record-high audience, record-low revenue
BuzzFeed audience is at record highs. But the pandemic's economic effects have crushed the bottom line. BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti shares how his company is making hard decisions to bui...
6 Kesä 202031min
Bonus: Reid’s 2020 Commencement Speech: In a crisis, steer toward the emerging opportunities
New graduates 🎓are like entrepreneurs — standing on the edge of that cliff, ready to build their own plane and fly. But what if the blue skies and calm winds disappear? In a commencement speech for 2...
3 Kesä 202028min
Rapid Response: Danny Meyer, 10 weeks later: How to revive restaurants
"Being the first to close is one thing. But I don't want to be the last to open,” says iconic restaurateur Danny Meyer in his second Rapid Response interview. After shutting his iconic New York City r...
30 Touko 202037min
Rapid Response: How "startup DNA" helped One Medical respond to Covid, with CEO Amir Rubin
Since One Medical’s IPO in January, CEO Amir Rubin has been forced to constantly adapt to the coronavirus pandemic, as healthcare needs, expectations, and behaviors shifted. From telemedicine to Covid...
28 Touko 202037min
A masterclass in crowdsourcing, w/Duolingo's Luis von Ahn
Crowdsourcing is more than a group of people interested in the same cause, it’s a way to tap skills – and scale – that you don’t have. And when it works, it can be the rocket fuel that launches you to...
26 Touko 202039min
Rapid Response: How Warby Parker is making decisions in uncertainty, with CEO Neil Blumenthal
"It's like getting hit in the face over and over and over,” says Warby Parker co-CEO Neil Blumenthal. But “crisis brings out clarity.” At Warby, planning for the future has meant leaning into the pres...
23 Touko 202031min
Rapid Response: Leading with your gut, w/Lifeway Foods CEO Julie Smolyansky
Tapping both personal experience and intuition, Lifeway CEO Julie Smolyansky has embraced action amid uncertainty. Before the pandemic reached full throttle, Lifeway stockpiled seven weeks worth of pr...
21 Touko 202028min
How to unite a team, Part 2 w/Angela Ahrendts of Burberry, Apple
In Part 2, Angela arrives at Apple, which feels like another planet after her years in fashion. In never-before heard stories, Angela shares how she learned the language of tech (the physical store is...
19 Touko 202031min
