Be a painkiller AND a vitamin, w/Clara Shih (Hearsay Systems)
Some products are vitamins and some are painkillers – the best, though, are both. This is what Clara Shih, founder and CEO of Hearsay Systems, learned in the early years of her software startup. To su...
28 Jul 202033min
Let fires burn w/Selina Tobaccowala (Evite, SurveyMonkey, Gixo)
It's the opposite of what you were taught. The best entrepreneurs — they let fires burn. Knowing which problems NOT to solve is as critical as knowing how to solve them. We're revisiting this episode ...
21 Jul 202034min
Rapid Response: Building a bridge over troubled waters, with Spelman College president Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell
How to keep students learning – and building their vital lifelong community bonds – in the middle of a pandemic? This is the question for Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, president of Spelman College. Late ...
18 Jul 202041min
Strategy Session: How transparent should you be with your board? How do you boost morale in dark days? Is it time to blitzscale?
How do you take smart risks, how can you be transparent – but inspiring – with your board and your team, how do you keep up morale in what seem like the darkest days, and what does the future of blitz...
14 Jul 202028min
Rapid Response: Inside PayPal's $530M plan to close the racial wealth gap, with CEO Dan Schulman
The pandemic has hurt many businesses – but PayPal isn't one of them. PayPal has boomed as e-commerce has swelled, with stock up more than 50% this year and a huge new demographic joining the platform...
11 Jul 202030min
Rapid Response: What it will take for tech and Hollywood to be anti-racist, w/Color Of Change's Rashad Robinson
There's no quick fix to 400 years of oppression, says Color Of Change president Rashad Robinson. One of the largest racial justice organizations in the US, Color Of Change works with decision-makers i...
9 Jul 202032min
The 4 core principles of crisis management, w/Ellen Kullman (DuPont, Carbon)
To survive a crisis, you have to double down on who you already are as a company. This is something Ellen Kullman knows, having led DuPont through the 2008-2009 financial crisis, and taken the CEO rol...
7 Jul 202036min
Rapid Response: A new playbook for new times, w/Ford Foundation president Darren Walker
"This was like 1918, 1929 and 1968 in one week," says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. With the pandemic, economic crisis, and civil unrest all coming together after George Floyd's dea...
2 Jul 202026min
