Sinopsis
A Roben Farzad production
Episodios
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Must Work Be So Miserable?
17/12/2018 Duración: 01h29sNew York Times best-selling author Dan Lyons on his latest book, Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us. Dan used to write for HBO's hit show "Silicon Valley" -- and was on staff at Forbes and Newsweek.
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Volatile Compounding
13/12/2018 Duración: 53minLegendary investor Tom Dorsey on the return of volatility to a market that he says flashes some similarities to 1987. In 2015, he sold his shop Dorsey, Wright & Associates to the Nasdaq for $225 million
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Breadwinner
28/11/2018 Duración: 54minPanera Bread founder and chairman Ron Shaich on the many ups and downs that went into growing the hit restaurant chain. He now manages Act III Holdings, a $300 million fund that invests in brands focused on long-term results.
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Facebook: Where Love and Hate Collide
18/11/2018 Duración: 53minToo big to boycott? Too developed to disrupt? Too sticky to uninstall? Facebook is that global social network that people both love to use and love to hate. Can Zuckerberg & Co just keep getting away with bad behavior?
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Blood, Sweat, Tears, Sugar
11/11/2018 Duración: 53minHow high school soccer coach Ian Kelley leveraged social media and all-around resourcefulness to turn an abandoned used-car dealership into the Sugar Shack Donuts empire.
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The Reformation of Josh Brown
02/11/2018 Duración: 53min10 years of the Reformed Broker: the financial crisis awakening and reinvention of Wall Street icon "Downtown" Josh Brown.
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Ace the Midterms (Live)
21/10/2018 Duración: 50minCBS chief Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes, NBC White House correspondent Geoff Bennett and ABC political director Rick Klein on the many moving parts of the 2018 midterm election. Recorded for an audience at Virginia's Museum of History and Culture.
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Chambers of Commerce
26/09/2018 Duración: 53minLongtime Cisco CEO John Chambers and co-author Diane Brady on the lessons learned from growing a once-sleepy Internet-equipment maker into a 75,000-employee multinational. Their book is Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World. Chambers now runs venture capital firm JC2 Ventures.
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Did Anything Really Change?
20/09/2018 Duración: 53minFormer Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker on the lessons learned -- and morals hazarded -- in the wake of the Great Meltdown of 2008.
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Juul Me Twice
14/09/2018 Duración: 53minJust as teen smoking visited record lows, Juul (a startup that's now valued at $15 billion) came out of nowhere to offer adolescents flavored, concentrated vape hits of nicotine. The FDA calls it a public-health crisis. We talked to marketing veteran Robin Koval of Truth Initiative about the tricky new battle to save teens from themselves.
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Ad-venturous Mom
09/09/2018 Duración: 56minKristen Cavallo, the first female CEO of the Martin Agency, on leading the 52-year old advertising shop out of its #MeToo crisis. We discussed the work-life juggle of single motherhood; the ad industry's nagging existential doubts; and -- swoosh! -- getting brands to actually stand for (or against) something.
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Risk Amnesia
02/09/2018 Duración: 50minFamily-office investment managers Brian Broadway and W. "Biff" Pusey, Jr. on the difficulty of preaching and adhering to risk-avoidance amid the longest bull market in U.S. history.
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Sree.0
19/08/2018 Duración: 40minWhen Sree Sreenivasan was laid off from NY's Metropolitan's Museum of Art, he famously broadcast his predicament over social media. After a tour as NYC's chief digital officer, the former journalism dean now travels the world to teach best practices for career mobility in the era of LinkedIn. Whether you love or hate your job -- or are somewhere in between -- you need to listen to this episode.
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The VA Mercury and America's Local News Crisis
10/08/2018 Duración: 48minBerkshire Hathaway, the company run by one of the planet's richest men, ultimately didn't rescue the Richmond Times-Dispatch -- one of Berkshire's many newspaper acquisitions. Two veteran journalists recently left that daily for the Virginia Mercury, a philanthropically backed not-for-profit publication taking a crack at the age-old riddle: How do you sustainably invest in quality local journalism?
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Saddam Hussein: My Role In His Downfall
02/08/2018 Duración: 32minAdnan Sarwar, a former British Muslim soldier, reflects on enlisting in the army and fighting in Iraq. "I realized," he wrote, "I felt freer in the army than I ever would in my parents'..house with an Asian cash-and-carry at one end and a mosque at the other. My comrades didn't judge me. They just wanted me to live my life."
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B(u)y the Book
24/07/2018 Duración: 39minAmazon, founded as a puny online bookseller, is now eyeing a $1 trillion market valuation. Border's is gone. Barnes & Noble is teetering. But independent bookstores are having a renaissance. We talk to Fountain Bookstore owner Kelly Justice and David Shuman, who crowdfunded a rescue of the decidedly analog indie Book People.
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Rethinking the Democrats
15/07/2018 Duración: 45minJohn Prideaux, U.S. editor of The Economist, on the many doubts and hard questions the Democrats face in the era of Pres. Trump and GOP domination of Capitol Hill. During Barack Obama's two terms in the White House, his party gave up more than 1,000 seats across Congress, state legislatures and governors' mansions. Where to now?
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RBG Goes to Hollywood
10/07/2018 Duración: 43minHow filmmaker Julie Cohen brought octogenarian Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the big screen in "RBG," one of this year's hit documentaries.
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The Resilience of Adele McClure
03/07/2018 Duración: 43minHow a girl who grew up hungry, frequently homeless and generally deprived of a normal childhood became student body president of her college of 32,000 -- and then a top policy adviser to Virginia's lieutenant governor. The story of Adele McClure.
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John Avlon Goes to CNN
24/06/2018 Duración: 43minThe ex-speechwriter for Mayor Rudy Giuliani and former editor-in-chief at the Daily Beast on discourse and journalism in the age of Trump -- on the very week he joins CNN ... and CNN joins AT&T. We're on Twitter @FullDRadio