From Some of My Best Friends Are: Everything Dope Comes from Chicago
While we’re off celebrating the new year, here’s an episode from another Pushkin show: Some of My Best Friends Are… Hosts Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Ben Austen, two best friends from the South Side of...
29 Dec 202243min
Flying on Battery Power
Anders Forslund is the co-founder and CEO of Heart Aerospace. Anders' problem is this: How do you build a commercial airplane that can fly on battery power -- and win the approval of regulators around...
15 Dec 202226min
Bringing Back the American Hoodie
Bayard Winthrop is the founder and CEO of American Giant. Bayard's problem is this: How do you make clothes in America -- and compete in a global economy? Today's show is about the future of American ...
8 Dec 202230min
How to Save the Most Lives
Farzad Mostashari is the co-founder and CEO of Aledade. Farzad's problem is this: How can we pay doctors to keep us healthy, rather than treating us after we get sick? People have been struggling to s...
1 Dec 202238min
From Story of the Week with Joel Stein: Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse
This bonus episode is from Story of the Week with Joel Stein, a new Pushkin podcast. On Story of the Week, journalist Joel Stein chooses an article that fascinates him, convinces the writer to tell hi...
29 Nov 202213min
The Investors Everybody Ignored
Sallie Krawcheck is the founder and CEO of Ellevest, an investment firm for women that has over $1 billion in assets under management. In her career in finance, Sallie was often one of the only women ...
24 Nov 202231min
Sam Bankman-Fried Revisited
In May of this year, we interviewed Sam Bankman-Fried, the young billionaire philanthropist who started the crypto exchange FTX. Last week, in a matter of a few days, FTX collapsed and filed for bankr...
16 Nov 202225min
Machiavelli's Tips for Getting Ahead at Work
Stacey Vanek Smith is the author of "Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace." Her problem is this: How do women get ahead in a workplace that is stacked ag...
10 Nov 202235min
