Roben Farzad

Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad

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The business of culture. The culture of business. Policy; media & tech; entrepreneurs and more.

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Roben Farzad

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Latest episode

Jul 5, 2026

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Episodes

Here Comes the Sun: Solar's Breakout 05.08.2016

Bert Green of SolarMill, an off-the-grid manufacturer, and Will Reisinger, an alt-energy attorney and former VA assistant attorney general, discuss the implications of the boom in solar power. Exciting stuff. on Twitter @FullDRadio | Facebook.com/FullDRadio

Talk Turkey to Me 28.07.2016

Caglar Somek of $16-billion investment shop TimesSquare Capital Management, talks about Turkey -- that vital bridge between Europe and the Middle East -- after its botched coup attempt. Twitter @FullDRadio

"YOU AGAIN?!" The View From Tim O'Brien 22.07.2016

Timothy O'Brien, editor of Bloomberg View and Bloomberg Gadfly and author of Trump Nation: The Art of Being the Donald. We talk the rise of Trump and world affairs. Follow on Twitter @FullDRadio

Michael Gayed on the Safety Bubble 14.07.2016

Michael Gayed of Pension Partners, for the hour. Follow on Twitter @FullDRadio Facebook at Facebook.com/FullDRadio. We're on iTunes at FullDRadio.com

£ucy Marcus on Br€xit 25.06.2016

Joining us from London on the morning after: Lucy Marcus, professor, writer, thinker and head of Marcus Venture Consulting. She talks about the many implications of Britain's vote to leave the EU. Follow on Twitter @FullDRadio

Hear this Guy Out 15.06.2016

Guy Spier, head of $175 million shop Aquamarine Capital and author of The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment. Twitter @FullDRadio

NPR Senior Business Editor Marilyn Geewax 08.06.2016

The economy according to NPR's Marilyn Geewax

An Evening with Chef Peter Chang 18.05.2016

The James Beard Award finalist tells us about his unlikely journey from poverty in Hubei, China to his U.S. restaurant empire. Taped at Richmond's historic Hippodrome Theater, where a sellout crowd enjoyed a four-course dinner prepared by Chang. Twitter @FullDRadio

The App That Changed the World 11.05.2016

Uber driver and entrepreneur Matt Donlon in studio with Uber addict Helayne Spivak, director of VCU's Brandcenter. We're @FullDRadio

What Are Words For? 29.04.2016

Joshua Topolsky (stealth mode digital exec) and NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik on print journalism's ancient struggle to make a digital living. We also talk the New York Times, Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, NPR and beards in Brooklyn. Twitter: @FullDRadio

Yahoothanasia 19.04.2016

Internet pioneer Yahoo! -- once worth $140 billion; its core business is now worth under $3 billion -- has reluctantly put itself up for sale. Activist investor Eric Jackson tells us where the company's board and management went wrong and what this says about the broader state of corporate governance. Twitter @FullDRadio

Young House LIVE 13.04.2016

Sherry and John Petersik -- "Young House Love" -- are bestselling DIY authors, accidental Internet business moguls and overall millennial badasses. Hear their story of reinvention ... at our first show from Richmond's historic Hippodrome Theater. Follow us @FullDRadio and on Facebook.com/FullDRadio

Reinventing Phil 23.03.2016

After 37 years as a prolific writer, editor and blogger at TIME and Fortune, Philip Elmer-DeWitt is going solo as Apple 3.0. We talk about the heyday of expense-account journalism, magazines' prolonged decline and the challenges of getting readers to shell out for your content. Also: bathrobes.

Tuesdays With Marty: Episode 2 16.03.2016

An hour around the world and across the headlines with one of my favorite journos: Marty Schenker, senior executive editor at Bloomberg News. We talk Election 2016, oil, China, markets, hedge funds, activism, real estate and the meaning of life.

Dr. Arnold Kim, Mac Daddy 09.03.2016

Paging the nephrologist turned MacRumors guru. We talk about his unlikely career pivot, all things Apple, blogging, bathrobes, Tesla, kidney stones and making money on content in 2000 vs 2016.

On "Hate-Selling" 25.02.2016

Frequent travelers Rafat Ali of Skift and Meg Riley of the Martin Agency lament the industry's record levels of passive-aggression -- and how technology and innovation are giving customers more leverage and new choices. Twitter.com/FullDRadio Facebook.com/FullDRadio

The Great 2016 Supermarket War 17.02.2016

Kroger. Whole Foods. Wegman's. Publix. Ahold Giant. Lidl. Aldi. Trader Joe's. AMAZON! Old regional monopolies, be damned. The supermarket industry is in an arms race to scratch and claw for single-digit profit margins. Why is this otherwise sedate and mature business suddenly in hyper-expansion mode? Is it a bubble? Consider the case of Richmond, VA -- perhaps the country's most supermarketed city...

Shooting the Bull$h*t with Jason Zweig 04.02.2016

Finally: veteran investing columnist Jason Zweig of the WSJ agrees to come on Full Disclosure. He talks about the markets, his career, Wall Street's rampant bullshattery and his handy little book, The Devil's Financial Dictionary. We're @FullDRadio on Twitter and Facebook.com/FullDRadio ...

Quit Your Job Without a Backup Plan 13.01.2016

Tess Vigeland, longtime Marketplace host, left her job, sold her belongings and is now traveling the world to reinvent. She authored the book Leap: Leaving a Job with No Plan B to Find the Career and Life You Really Want. We patched her in from Vietnam.

The No-Ply Economy 18.12.2015

Hyperinflation. Empty store shelves. A thriving black market for smugglers and dummy businesses. An angry street. Crippling debt. Five-cent gasoline. Welcome to the dystopian economy of Venezuela after Hugo Chavez. Craig Shealy of BlackCreek Group guest hosts.

One Nation, Under the Gun 06.12.2015

We're joined by Paul Barrett of BW, author of Glock: The Rise of America's Gun; and investor Craig Shealy, a lifelong hunter who owns several guns but refuses to join the NRA.

Venture Capital v 20.15 25.11.2015

Venture capitalist Mamoon Hamid, general partner and co-founder at Social Capital talks about his path to the industry, the path forward for technology, Yahoo, Tesla and the necessary audacity of startups like Uber and Airbnb.

What is Paris Telling Us? 17.11.2015

My guests are Tarek Masoud, professor at Harvard's Kennedy School and co-author of The Arab Spring: Pathways of Repression and Reform (2015); and Roberta Oster-Sachs, a former NBC News producer who covered the 9/11 attacks and frequented Paris.

Mad Women 07.11.2015

Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval, co-founders of ad giant (Publicis) Kaplan Thaler, talk about the state of advertising and their national bestseller GRIT to Great. Available on NPR One, iTunes, Stitcher and SoundCloud.

The Six Lives of Henry Blodget 21.10.2015

Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street Internet analyst who reinvented as a digital news mogul. On NPR One, WRIR, Stitcher and iTunes. Twitter @FullDRadio Facebook.com/FullDRadio

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