Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
Today I’m talking to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko. Mastodon is the open-source, decentralized competitor to Twitter, and it’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in this, our post-Elon era. The idea i...
28 Mar 20231h 16min
How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
Meredith Kopit Levien is the CEO of The New York Times, which is perhaps the most famous journalism organization in the world, and certainly one of America’s most complicated companies. The Times is ...
23 Mar 20231h 1min
Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: The Ticketmaster story
This special episode dives deep on Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and how a handful of policy changes in the 1980s led to one firm so thoroughly dominating the live events business in the United States t...
21 Mar 202331min
‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots
In this installment of our Centennial Series on companies that are over 100 years old, we are talking to Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt. The last few decades have thrown some hurdles in Barnes & Noble...
16 Mar 20231h 3min
Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström
Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. That makes him the perfect company leader to talk to about Spotify...
14 Mar 202358min
Can Xerox reinvent itself for another 100 years?
Intro: Steve Bandrowczak, the CEO of Xerox, an iconic company that got started all the way back in 1906 as a manufacturer of photo paper and is, of course, best known for pioneering the copy machine. ...
9 Mar 20231h 3min
How Reddit is getting simpler — and dealing with TikTok, with chief product officer Pali Bhat
Pali Bhat joined Reddit from Google about a year ago — he’s actually Reddit’s first-ever chief product officer, which is pretty surprising considering that Reddit is a series of product experiences: t...
7 Mar 202359min
Podcasting? Radio? It’s all one big opportunity for iHeartMedia digital CEO Conal Byrne
We taped this episode live at Hot Pod Summit. That’s our conference for the podcast industry. We have a whole newsletter for podcasters. It’s called Hot Pod, written by our very own Ariel Shapiro. Hot...
28 Feb 20231h 6min
