
Rapid Response: Turning tears to action, w/Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill Johnson
“Hope is a practice. It comes from doing.” As the head of Planned Parenthood, Alexis McGill Johnson is regrouping in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to remove the federal right to safe a...
21 Juli 202228min

Drive full-speed at opportunity, w/AKQA’s Ajaz Ahmed
If you want to capitalize on an opportunity that you think could change the world, you need to drive full speed toward it. Back in 1994, when Ajaz Ahmed dropped out of college to start one of the firs...
19 Juli 202235min

Rapid Response: Waging a $1.4 trillion food fight, w/Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness
What’s the difference between an activist brand and an active brand? Impossible Foods CEO Peter McGuinness says that acting on your values defines a business — from climate change to Roe v. Wade. To u...
14 Juli 202227min

Harness the passion of internal factions, w/Padmasree Warrior of Fable, Cisco, Motorola
Every company has its own internal factions: engineers vs. designers, East Coast vs. West, IT vs. everybody. The trick is turning factionalism into healthy competition that propels you toward your sha...
12 Juli 202236min

Rapid Response: Volunteer for impact, w/AmeriCorps’ Michael Smith, live at the Social Innovation Summit
Volunteering and service are muscles that can close America’s divides and push social change. Speaking live at the 2022 Social Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., AmeriCorps’ new CEO, Michael Smith...
7 Juli 202225min

Sam Altman: Customer love is all you need
The true seed of scale is customer love, which you can’t buy, hack, or game. Sam Altman, former president of Y Combinator, scaled countless start-ups by focusing on this one idea: Finding 100 users wh...
5 Juli 202240min

Rapid Response: From ‘delusion’ to criminal justice revolution, w/Ameelio’s Zo Orchingwa
When a tech nonprofit competes against a $2 billion incumbent dominating the market, its odds are slim. But Zo Orchingwa took that bet, founding Ameelio, believing that access to communication and edu...
30 Juni 202227min

Michael Dell: Break it ’til you make it
The first stage of building up a business is to break things down. Michael Dell started a computer company in his dorm room by cracking open some early IBM PCs and figuring out what he could do better...
28 Juni 202233min





















