Rapid Response: Build government back – better, w/Jen Pahlka (Code for America, USDR)
In the US, local governments are leading the response to COVID-19 – making decisions and gathering data at a speed and scale never before seen. And many of them are asking Jen Pahlka for help. The fou...
23 Apr 202037min
Rapid Response: Remote teams as an intentional choice, w/Wences Casares of Xapo
Many of us will be working remotely for a long time to come. So: How do you turn March's temporary scramble into a long-term benefit? Bitcoin pioneer Wences Casares runs a fully distributed company at...
22 Apr 202015min
Rapid Response: Target’s Brian Cornell: “I want to see retail survive this”
Every day in a pandemic is different, and that’s true for people and for corporations. CEO Brian Cornell has promised Target will keep its doors open. To do that, Target is becoming "a good student," ...
20 Apr 202025min
Rapid Response: TaskRabbit's Stacy Brown-Philpot: “A pandemic doesn’t see money.”
TaskRabbit remains open for business, says CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot. As the magnitude and severity of the pandemic became clear – and as workers across the U.S. were furloughed and services cut – TaskR...
18 Apr 202033min
Rapid Response: Lyft’s John Zimmer: How to keep an essential business running
Everything starts with transportation, says John Zimmer, co-founder and president of Lyft. And even though ride sharing is sharply down, transportation remains key – for essential workers and for our ...
16 Apr 202027min
Rapid Response: A playbook for when "there’s no playbook," w/CEO Ellen Kullman (Carbon, DuPont)
How do you survive a crisis? You create your own trajectory, says Ellen Kullman. And she knows: In her former role, she became CEO of the chemical engineering giant DuPont in 2008, just ahead of the f...
14 Apr 202027min
Rapid Response: Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: "Crisis is pushing us back to our roots"
As the pandemic hit, Airbnb was preparing for an IPO. Within a matter of days, everything changed dramatically, as travel worldwide screamed to a halt. “I felt like I was captain of a ship and a torpe...
13 Apr 202034min
Rapid Response: Fast pivots for changing needs w/DonorsChoose Charles Best
People are altruistic – even more so in times of uncertainty. This is what Charles Best, founder and CEO of DonorsChoose, has learned through 20 years of leading his nonprofit through the terrorist at...
7 Apr 202018min
