Rapid Response: Why Salesforce bought Slack, w/Salesforce's Bret Taylor
Salesforce's much-buzzed-about deal to acquire Slack for $28 billion goes back a decade, when Friendfeed founder Bret Taylor met Flickr founder Stewart Butterfield. Now Taylor is Salesforce's presiden...
17 Dec 202031min
Be a platform, w/Shopify's Tobi Lütke
The secret to massive scale? Be a platform. Build a virtuous cycle where everyone wins, and you’ll emerge the biggest winner of all. This is what Tobi Lütke did when he built Shopify – and then opened...
15 Dec 202032min
Rapid Response: Why take on a turnaround, w/Magic Leap’s Peggy Johnson
Why leave a storied tech icon to lead a troubled brand? As the pandemic deepened this summer, Peggy Johnson left a safe perch at Microsoft to take the helm of one-time startup darling Magic Leap, whic...
10 Dec 202027min
The secret power of onboarding, w/Canva's Melanie Perkins
Onboarding isn't just about employees. The often overlooked step-by-step process – to join a product or company – lays the foundation for everything that follows. No one knows this better than Melanie...
8 Dec 202043min
Rapid Response: Loneliness at work, w/Noreena Hertz
This is the loneliest century, says economist Noreena Hertz. Even before the pandemic forced us to stay home, loneliness was snaking its way through our lives, affecting everything from how we vote to...
3 Dec 202032min
Building bridges to scale, w/Kind’s Daniel Lubetzky
Scaling isn’t only about scaling UP – it’s about scaling OUT: to new products, new verticals, new customers. And to do this, you’ll need to build bridges. No one knows this better than Daniel Lubetzky...
1 Dec 202037min
Rapid Response: Balancing data with gut feeling, w/JetBlue's Joanna Geraghty
After record-shattering drops in revenue from Covid-19, JetBlue had to rethink every plan and every assumption. Joanna Geraghty, JetBlue's president and chief operating officer, shares how the airline...
25 Nov 202032min
Learn from every “no,” w/Walker & Company’s Tristan Walker
The best business ideas often seem laughable at first glance. So if you’re hearing a chorus of “no’s” – it may actually be a good sign. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Airbnb – they all sounded crazy befo...
24 Nov 202029min
