Frustration is your friend, w/Houzz founder Adi Tatarko
Frustration is an important signal: it indicates an opportunity, a problem to be solved. And if your solution also builds a community, you've unlocked a path to scale. Adi Tatarko founded the online h...
20 Apr 202133min
Rapid Response: Can bankruptcy save movie theaters? with Alamo Drafthouse CEO Shelli Taylor
"It's 12 months of no meaningful revenue," says Alamo Drafthouse CEO Shelli Taylor. "And then last weekend was phenomenal." Taylor returns to the podcast to explain why the hip, culture-forward movie ...
15 Apr 202123min
Need to Know, w/Reid & Bob: GameStop, SPACs, gov't stimulus, and vaccines
"The future is sooner and stranger than you think," Reid Hoffman tells Rapid Response host Bob Safian in a frank, unfiltered conversation about the lessons of 2021 so far. "The rulebook will be changi...
13 Apr 202134min
Rapid Response: Delta CEO Ed Bastian: Turbulence, recovery, and risk
With 75% of U.S. customers saying they'll soon be vaccinated, Delta is embracing a new phase, opening up middle seats as of May 1. CEO Ed Bastian bet at the start of the pandemic that focusing on cons...
8 Apr 202135min
Beyond Meat's Ethan Brown: How to teach your customer
As the founder and CEO of Beyond Meat, Ethan Brown has spent years navigating misconceptions about plant-based foods. But smart entrepreneurs listen instead of arguing. Only by obsessing over what cus...
5 Apr 202143min
Rapid Response: The trampoline effect, w/ Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman
Revenue for Morning Brew's booming email newsletter operation dried up when the pandemic hit, but its audience remained devoted. Morning Brew CEO Alex Lieberman, who started the business with co-found...
1 Apr 202131min
Mark Cuban: What investors really look for
No one knows the fundraising game better than Mark Cuban, serial entrepreneur, investor, and star of Shark Tank. For founders, identifying the right source of capital, under the right terms, can provi...
30 Mar 202142min
Rapid Response: The business of democracy, w/Leadership Now's Daniella Ballou-Aares
In recent months, business leaders have been pressed to take public positions on politics in ways they never have before. That's good for business and good for democracy, says Daniella Ballou-Aares, c...
25 Mar 202132min
