Local veggies, national scale: Sweetgreen co-founders
What started with three college friends looking for a healthy lunch in D.C. grew into Sweetgreen, a fast-growing restaurant business focused on salads and grain bowls. From a tiny 500-square-foot stor...
2 Maj 202436min
Rapid Response: Meet your kid’s new AI tutor, w/Khan Academy founder and CEO Sal Khan
Khan Academy first rocked the education world with online video. Now Khan Academy CEO and founder Sal Khan has gone all-in on AI, convinced that it has immense potential to democratize and improve edu...
30 Apr 202424min
Rapid Response: Fighting media's reality distortion, w/Axios CEO Jim VandeHei
Every day we’re inundated with news and opinion pieces about America’s hopeless division — but is this really true? Axios CEO Jim VandeHei joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to bust what he sees as ...
25 Apr 202427min
Preserve start-up spirit at scale: Techstars’ Maëlle Gavet
Maëlle Gavet is the CEO of Techstars, a pre-seed investor focused on early-stage entrepreneurs. It boasts a market cap of $111.6 billion, and supports founders in programs that span from Tokyo to Lago...
23 Apr 202430min
Rapid Response: How Star Trek prospers against Netflix and Disney+, w/Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman
The streaming wars have reached a new inflection, as Netflix and Disney+ jostle for position, and in the process disrupt post-strike Hollywood. Paramount+ invested heavily in blockbuster veteran Alex ...
18 Apr 202428min
How AI adds to human potential: (LIVE) with Scale AI’s Alex Wang and Intel’s Lama Nachman
Generative AI is advancing at a breakneck pace, prompting questions on risk and opportunity, from content creation to personal data management. In a special live recording, we delve into the ways AI c...
16 Apr 202427min
Rapid Response: How optimism fuels the economy, w/U.S. Chamber of Commerce CEO Suzanne Clark
Is the state of the U.S. economy good or bad right now? Stock markets have soared, but consumers remain wary. Are CEOs and investors deluding themselves? Or do Main Street Americans expect too much? S...
11 Apr 202426min
The healthy, conscious capitalist, w/Whole Foods Market co-founder John Mackey
John Mackey, co-founder and former CEO of Whole Foods Market, started in the grocery business as a Texas undergraduate seeking the keys to a happy life. The self-described “hippie” opened one natural ...
9 Apr 202431min
