Breaking down the economic ideas we’ve all heard of but may not fully understand in under 15 minutes. In this new podcast from Intelligence Squared, host Nicola Walton is joined by an economics expert each week to take us through the terminology, statistics and stories of how economic forces shape our world and lives. Brought to you by Intelligence Squared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 26, 2021•5 min•Transcript available on Metacast My goal was never to just create a company. I wanted to build something that actually makes a really big change in the world.” – Mark Zuckerberg How did it all go wrong for Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook? How did a company that says it wants to bring people together become one of the most potent tools for polarisation in the world? According to The New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang, the missteps we’ve seen in the last five years are not an anomaly but an ...
Jul 16, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep 27•Transcript available on Metacast Unilever’s Chief Human Resources Officer Leena Nair is responsible for the 150,000 employees at the company. In this week's episode she speaks to Linda Yueh about how she is leading change on new employment models and preparing the workforce for lifelong learning to thrive in the world of work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 02, 2021•41 min•Ep 26•Transcript available on Metacast For generations, we’ve been taught there are two ways to succeed—either from talent or practice. In Decoding Greatness, award-winning social psychologist Ron Friedman illuminates a powerful third path—one that has quietly launched icons in a wide range of fields, from artists, writers, and chefs, to athletes, inventors, and entrepreneurs: reverse engineering. To find out more about the book click here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Decoding-Greatness/Ron-Friedman/9781982135799 See acast...
Jun 25, 2021•45 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast This week we're featuring a live online event we held with Chris Anderson the head of TED Talks about how he built one of the biggest platforms in the world and the power of ideas to change our thinking. The episode was hosted by broadcaster Samira Ahmed who also hosts Intelligence Squared's podcast series 'How I Found My Voice.' See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 17, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast To explain the power of anthropology to help us better understand the modern world, Financial Times journalist and bestselling author Gillian Tett joined us in this week's episode. Tett has a PhD in anthropology from Cambridge University and outlining the ideas in her acclaimed new book Anthro-Vision, she showed how we can identify what she calls the ‘webs of meaning’ that underlie consumers’ behaviour in very different cultures across the world. The episode was hosted by former editorial direct...
Jun 10, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode we're joined by Tim Fendley, founder and creative director of Applied Information Group a design practice dedicated to helping people navigate complex environments. He shares his wisdom on projects from London to Madrid, Google to Princeton, and discusses how we should think about physical space in the post pandemic world. The episode was hosted by Linda Yueh. The producer is Conor Boyle. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad c...
Jun 03, 2021•38 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Corporate boards are under great pressure. Scandals and malpractice at companies like GE, Theranos and WeWork have raised justified questions among regulators, shareholders, and the public about the quality of corporate governance. Boards face ever-louder demands to weigh in on questions of climate change, racial and gender equity, data privacy, and other social issues that range far beyond their traditional mandate: choosing the CEO and endorsing corporate strategy. In this week's episode econo...
May 12, 2021•38 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode we're featuring a live event from before the pandemic in which acclaimed author of 'Moneyball' and 'The Big Short', Michael Lewis joined us to discuss how Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky created the field of behavioural economics. Both were gifted young psychology professors: Kahneman a rootless son of holocaust survivors who saw the world as a problem to be solved; Tversky a voluble, instinctual blur of energy. The event was hosted by Stephanie Flanders head of Bloomberg...
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode Ron Biscardi CEO of iConnections speaks to Linda Yueh about the world of alternative investment and how he built a platform and community that connects investment managers and allocators. Ron has 25 years of experience in the alternative investment industry, and has closed over 20 seed deals and deployed over $600 million in capital. His achievements include building the world’s largest capital introduction conference which takes place annually in Miami Beach. In April 202...
Apr 22, 2021•41 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast In 2018 Amazon became the world’s second trillion dollar company after Apple: a remarkable success story for a company launched out of a garage in 1994. How did they achieve this? And how can others learn from this extraordinary success and replicate it? In this week's episode we're joined by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr two of Amazon's most senior executives in the last two decades. Their time at Amazon covered a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, A...
Apr 18, 2021•53 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode former chief economist at Spotify Will Page speaks to Linda Yueh about the near destruction of the music industry at the hands of online piracy and its subsequent recovery on the backs of digital streaming platforms. The story offers a trove of insights on how to confront the metamorphosis we are all facing in dealing with the Covid-19 era, as accelerating tech and economic changes reshape our work, our play and our very minds. To buy Will's new book Tarzan Economics click...
Apr 08, 2021•52 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode Shoshana Zuboff speaks to Ros Urwin about the rise of Surveillance Capitalism and how from personalisation to facial recognition our economic system of value has changed in the twenty-first century. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 02, 2021•49 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode we are joined by Govind Balakrishnan CEO and co-founder of audio journalism platform Curio, which has been backed by investors to the tune of $11 million. Curio partners with the likes of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, The Guardian and Wired to deliver their stories in audio form. Govind speaks to Manveen Rana senior investigative journalist at The Times and Sunday Times about his start-up journey and how audio is shaping the economy. To find out more about ...
Mar 26, 2021•32 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast With the exponential growth of companies like Spotify and Ayden can Europe finally rival the U.S and China as the world's leading tech hub? In this week's episode Mattias Ljungman CEO and Founder of Moonfire Ventures speaks to Linda Yueh about why Europe has the potential to dominate the next ten years of tech and what the major trends in the space are that we should all be looking out for from FinTech to NFT's. To find out more about Moonfire click here: https://www.moonfire.com/ See acast.com/...
Mar 19, 2021•47 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode we discuss the explosive rise of NFT's as well as the long terms trends in blockchain that will change how we do business and live our lives. Our guest is Sheila Warren, member of the Executive Committee and Head of Blockchain and Data Policy at The World Economic Forum. She's also the co-host of CoinDesk's Money Reimagined podcast. To listen to more podcasts from the World Economic Forum click here: https://www.weforum.org/focus/podcasts See acast.com/privacy for privacy ...
Mar 12, 2021•53 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode Georg Kell speaks to Linda Yueh about the dawn of autonomous finance and how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of investing. Georg and Linda also discuss the rise of conscious capitalism and how A.I can be a crucial component to transitioning to a green economy. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 04, 2021•41 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast In these uncertain times, we're exploring the concept of 'radical uncertainty' in this episode with Mervyn King, the former Governor of the Bank of England, alongside renowned economist John Kay and Jesse Norman MP. Mervyn and John are the co-authors of a new book titled Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making Beyond the Numbers, and in this episode they discuss the most successful - and most short-sighted - methods of dealing with an unknowable future using history, mathematics, economics and phil...
Feb 13, 2021•58 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speaks to Linda Yueh about 'Zombie Economics' and the most prevalent myths that still exist in economics today. If you enjoy today's episode please do share it and tell people to subscribe. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Feb 04, 2021•39 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast This week's episode features an event with Anand Giridharadas who came to the Intelligence Squared stage to explain what he calls the charade whereby wealthy CEOs, political leaders and do-gooder celebrities fight for equality and justice any way they can – except in ways that threaten the social order and their position at its pinnacle. He was in conversation with Anne McElvoy senior editor of the Economist and host of 'The Economist Asks' podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out ...
Jan 28, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode Anne Boden CEO of Starling Bank speaks to Linda Yueh about setting up her own bank. In this remarkable story Boden reveals how she broke through bureaucracy, tackled prejudice and successfully countered widespread suspicion to realise her vision for the future of consumer banking. She fulfilled that dream by founding Starling, the winner of Best British Bank at the British Bank Awards in 2018, 2019 and 2020, and in doing so has triggered a new movement that is revolutionis...
Jan 21, 2021•43 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, former Silicon Valley insider turned critic Wendy Liu speaks to Carl Miller about her personal experiences with the glamour and contradictions of the tech industry. In light of scandals like Cambridge Analytica and reports of degrading treatment toward third party contractors, Liu asks us to reimagine what tech could look like outside a system of shareholder value. Her new book 'Abolish Silicon Valley' is out now: https://bit.ly/2SnwVka See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-...
Jan 14, 2021•53 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's Intelligence Squared Business tech investor and political strategist Bradley Tusk speaks to Linda Yueh about how the world of investing has changed since the outbreak of Covid-19. From drone deliveries to autonomous vehicles Bradley speaks about what innovations are on the horizon and offers some advice for startups trying to make it in heavily regulated industries. To find out more about Bradley's podcast Firewall click here and subscribe: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fi...
Jan 08, 2021•55 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, David Epstein demonstrates why in most fields – especially those that are complex and unpredictable – generalists, not specialists are primed to excel. No matter what you do, where you are in life, whether you are a teacher, student, scientist, business analyst, parent, job hunter, retiree, you will see the world differently. You'll understand better how we solve problems, how we learn and how we succeed...
Dec 31, 2020•49 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast In this week's episode Zayna Aston, head of YouTube Communications for Europe, Middle East and Africa, speaks to Carl Miller about how Covid-19 has changed YouTube in 2020. Aston shares some of the biggest searches and trends on YouTube this year and discussed how businesses that previously relied on in-person contact have leveraged the platform to connect with audiences. They also spoke of the company's evolution in response to political content, touching on the U.S election between Biden and T...
Dec 24, 2020•49 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figures out a way to turn them into shoes (Allbirds). A former Buddhist monk decides the very best way to spread his mindfulness teachings is by launching an app (Headspace). A sandwich cart vendor finds a way to reuse leftover pita bread and turns it into a multimillion-dollar business (Stacy's Pita Chips). In this week's episode award-winning journal...
Dec 17, 2020•58 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature: it would make anything you captured look more beautiful. The cofounders cultivated a community of photographers and artisans around the app, and it quickly went mainstream. In less than two years, it caught Facebook's attention: Mark Zuckerberg bought the company for a historic $1 billion when Instagram had only thirteen employees. In this week's episode Sarah Frier au...
Dec 10, 2020•45 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In its earliest days, WeWork promised the impossible: to make the workplace cool. In episode one of Intelligence Squared Business Reeves Wiedeman tells the story of how WeWork attracted billions of dollars from some of the most sought-after investors in the world, to build a global empire. Based on more than two hundred interviews, Wiedeman's book Billion Dollar Loser chronicles the breakneck speed at which WeWork's CEO Adam Neumann built and grew his company. Culminating in a day-by-day account...
Dec 03, 2020•49 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast In our age of disruption and uncertainty, Covid-19 and climate change, the need to debate our economic future has never been more important. In this new weekly podcast from Intelligence Squared, we'll speak to business leaders, authors and public intellectuals about the future of capitalism and the trends changing the world of business. Guests will include Guy Raz, host of NPR's How I Built This; Anne Boden, CEO and founder of Startling Bank; Zayna Aston, YouTube Head of Communications for Europ...
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