Inside the ICE House

Dan Rosensweig’s early days in in the workforce taught him the fundamental skills of cold-calling, building connections and putting in the hard work needed to succeed. On our show, Dan explains how he uses those same skills in his role as CEO of Chegg, where’s he’s helping create the future of education technology and fighting to make education more accessible for everyone.   Inside the ICE House:...

Stephen Schwarzman co-founded The Blackstone Group in 1985 with just $400,000 in seed capital, split between him and Pete Peterson. That got them business cards and an empty office on Park Ave. Raising the next billion would be the hardest, a path paved by rejection, even by their best friends. Blackstone’s eventual rise, becoming the largest alternative investment firm in the world, with $545 bil...

Doug Foley, leader of human resources and administration at Intercontinental Exchange, has helped to evolve a global workforce that has grown seven-fold through acquisitions and organic growth during his 11 years with the company. Like the head of player personnel for a major sports team, one secret to his success is by serving as the company connector and leveraging a variety of technology tools...

Hours after extending the contract of running back Ezekiel Elliot to record deal, and minutes after ringing the NYSE Opening Bell, Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones settled in for a visit Inside the ICE House to preview the Centennial NFL Season and share his secrets of betting against “conventional wisdom.” Jerry’s $90 million investment in Zeke pales in comparison to the $1.6 billion he put up to acquir...

David Faber, co-anchor, along with Jim Cramer and Carl Quintanilla, of CNBC’s Squawk on the Street, has spent over a quarter century breaking the biggest business blockbusters on Wall Street. From a humble start sparring with self-doubt, Faber has become the chronicler who dives deep into companies and their stories, from Bernie Ebbers downfall at WorldCom to Rupert Murdoch’s $71 billion sale of t...

David Hornik, General Partner at August Capital, one of the world’s top VC firms, has constructed a storied career -- and an amazing track record of investments -- out of being curious. It started with a love of music, with a detour through the intricacies of law and criminology, and has helped build him into one of the most successful VC investors in Silicon Valley. Hornik’s annual Lobby Conferen...

Stuart Frankel, Chairman & Co-Founder of Stuart Frankel & Co., made a promise to his father to read the Wall Street Journal every day, teaching himself the ins & outs of the market. Seeing an inefficiency he could exploit, he launched his renowned firm, now run by his sons Andrew and Jeffrey, with a focus on customer service & connecting clients to the NYSE Trading Floor.  The Frankels look back a...

Trabue Bland, President of ICE Futures U.S., offers a masterclass on the rapidly changing energy and environmental markets, the current landscape of agricultural commodities, and why sometimes you need to summit a mountain more than once. With his roots in Natchez, Mississippi, Trabue’s career has crisscrossed the north and south as he helped build and lead ICE’s offerings of a wide range of futur...

Alan Masarek thinks the world is on the precipice of a communication explosion that will forever change how consumers and businesses interact.    Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

The rapid ascent of Uber (NYSE: UBER) from nascent idea to a global brand for ridesharing, food delivery, and scooter-sharing, among much more, brought legal challenges that peaked in 2017. That’s when CEO Dara Khosrowshahi lured Tony West from PepsiCo to lead the company’s legal department for the stretch drive toward Uber’s May 2019 IPO. With that chapter done, Tony discusses Uber’s future, whic...

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants a safe harbor for crypto entrepreneurs. She spoke with ICE’s Brookly McLaughlin at Bakkt’s Digital Asset Conference about where Bitcoin and other digital assets fit in the Commission’s mission to foster prosperity and innovation within the confines of regulated markets. The episode kicks off with an update from Bakkt’s CEO Kelly Loeffler on the company’s missio...

Scott Goodson, founder and CEO of StrawberryFrog, is the author of Uprising: How to Build a Brand and Change the World by Sparking Cultural Movements. From Stockholm to Madison Avenue, we learn how Scott upended traditional advertising by tapping into societal undercurrents, helping brands, people -- and even an entire city -- launch cultural movements. We dive deep into the allure of President Tr...

Entrepreneur and advertising legend Cindy Gallop is a trailblazer, and she’s not afraid to blow things up. Cindy takes us on a deep-dive into the challenges facing the advertising industry today, from a need for diversity and equal pay to sexual harassment, and the actions that can help solve them.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

It’s a long way from Olton, Texas to Washington, D.C., but CFTC Commissioner Dawn Stump finds herself right at home among the policymakers and regulators tackling the complex issues and opportunities brought before the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Stump’s remarkable journey from agriculture to public service has taken her from an upbringing on a family farm to the corridors of power.   ...

In the afterglow of Slack’s successful Direct Floor Listing, NYSE’s Vice Chairman John Tuttle visits the ICE House to unpack how this novel path to public ownership has become has become a popular path for some companies, and why the New York Stock Exchange is the only market for these unique transactions that bypass the traditional IPO process. Learn how the Direct Floor Listing uses the NYSE’s 2...

Hamdi Ulukaya founded Chobani in 2005 and has grown the company into a global powerhouse brand using what he terms the “anti-CEO playbook.” He sat down with the NYSE’s Executive Vice Chairman Betty Liu to explain why he believes that focusing on a return on kindness and service leads to profitability and innovation. Hamdi discusses how he fell in love with business and what Chobani and the Tent Fo...

How is Darling Ingredients creating value from waste and giving nature a second life? If you ask Darling CEO Randy Stuewe, he’s convinced old oil is the new oil and his company is onto something bigger than Bitcoin. Our show this week is a deep dive into the world of agricultural processing, and a look into stretching resources farther than we could have ever imagined.   Inside the ICE House: http...

Bitcoin was trading at $3,122 last December, so why is the cryptocurrency now 4X that price seven months later? We pose the question to a pioneer in cryptocurrency investing, Barry Silbert, founder and CEO of Digital Currency Group. DCG has invested in over 140 companies that Barry believes will help usher in the future of digital assets. He shares how he found crypto, where the space is headed, a...

William Hague is the former UK foreign secretary and a former leader of Britain’s Conservative Party who now serves, among many other roles, as a member of the Board of Directors of Intercontinental Exchange. We join Lord Hague in London to assess the state of his party as it approaches leadership elections and Britain’s future untethered to Europe after Brexit. Along the way, Lord Hague tells us...

Kelsey Grammer’s most recent stage role was Don Quixote in Man of La Mancha, a man on a quest to dream the impossible dream. The Cheers and Frasier star is on a real life quest to brew great beer from his Faith American Brewery in his beloved Catskills of Upstate New York. He sidled up Inside the ICE House to talk about his career, past and present, and the possibility of another chapter in the li...

This episode of Inside the ICE House offers SLICE Uncut, the extended conversation between NYSE Executive Vice Chairman Betty Liu and John Chambers, Founder & CEO of JC2 Ventures and Chairmen Emeritus of Cisco. John talks about his career, his VC firm, and his vision to create jobs as AI and digitization replace traditional work. Slice is a collaboration between ICE and Cheddar that uncovers the t...

Even when he’s on hiatus from BILLIONS, it’s impossible to keep up with Brian Koppelman. As the Co-Creator of Showtime’s hit series set in the high altitude of New York’s financial enclaves, and host of his podcast, The Moment, the prolific reader, writer, and tweeter can opine knowledgably on just about everything. Join us as we dive into his just-wrapped fourth season, how his writers’ room gets...

Healthcare spending accounts for 18% of the U.S. Economy and growing. What is not growing fast enough is the number of healthcare providers.  The country is facing the reality that it will have a shortage of 122,000 doctors by 2032, particularly in rural America. Fresh off his quarterly earnings call, Jason Gorevic, CEO of Teladoc Health (NYSE:TDOC), stopped by the library to enlighten us on how T...

Scott Kupor’s career at the legendary VC firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has brought him face to face with 1000s of entrepreneurs looking for an investor. In his debut book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Scott takes us inside the world of Venture Capital to find out what VCs are looking for and most importantly what you should ask yourself and potential investors. Scott’s ability to distill down a lifetim...

All eyes are on the California coast this week as the U.S. Open Championship once again finds its home at the Pebble Beach Golf Links. We’re inside the ICE House with Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner, talking about the sport’s past, present, and future -- and the business that surrounds it. Rich fell in love with golf on his father’s golf center in Allentown, Pennsylvania and has a gift for bringing the...