Is Substack Notes a ‘Twitter clone’? We asked CEO Chris Best.
It is fair to say that Substack has had a dramatic week and a half or so, and I talked to their CEO Chris Best about it. The company announced a new feature called Substack Notes, which looks quite a ...
13 Apr 20231h 8min
Watching Silicon Valley Bank melt down from the front row with Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras
Brex CEO Henrique Dubugras found himself playing an important role during the Silicon Valley Bank collapse. Brex is what you might call a neobank — not a traditional bank but rather a financial servic...
4 Apr 20231h 2min
The surprisingly complex business of toys, with Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks
Chris Cocks is the CEO of Hasbro, a company that just turned 100 this year. Hasbro is a huge company, making everything from Transformers to Lincoln Logs to My Little Pony and Monopoly. It also makes ...
31 Mars 20231h 10min
Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter?
Today I’m talking to Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko. Mastodon is the open-source, decentralized competitor to Twitter, and it’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in this, our post-Elon era. The idea i...
28 Mars 20231h 16min
How to play the long game, with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien
Meredith Kopit Levien is the CEO of The New York Times, which is perhaps the most famous journalism organization in the world, and certainly one of America’s most complicated companies. The Times is ...
23 Mars 20231h 1min
Taylor Swift vs. Ronald Reagan: The Ticketmaster story
This special episode dives deep on Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, and how a handful of policy changes in the 1980s led to one firm so thoroughly dominating the live events business in the United States t...
21 Mars 202331min
‘The Goliath is Amazon’: after 100 years, Barnes & Noble wants to go back to its indie roots
In this installment of our Centennial Series on companies that are over 100 years old, we are talking to Barnes & Noble CEO James Daunt. The last few decades have thrown some hurdles in Barnes & Noble...
16 Mars 20231h 3min
Why Spotify wants to look like TikTok, with co-president Gustav Söderström
Gustav Söderström has worked at Spotify for a long time; his first big project was leading the launch of its mobile app back in 2009. That makes him the perfect company leader to talk to about Spotify...
14 Mars 202358min
