Intelligence Squared: Business

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 Am...

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...

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

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 S...

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 Fi...

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...

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 po...

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-s...

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

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 th...

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 B...

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 'A...

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...

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 th...

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 co...

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 in...

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 h...

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 spee...

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;...