Inside the ICE House

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...

IHOP and Applebees, the big names of Dine Brands Global (NYSE: DIN), are woven into the fabric of American culture and communities across the globe. Steve Joyce, its CEO, dropped anchor at the Exchange to share how the company navigates past changing tastes with revamped menus, technology-aided service, and viral marketing campaigns. At the core of Steve’s success, a focus on the people and his br...

Longview, Texas is the point of origin of what was, during World War II, the longest petroleum pipeline ever built in the world. The Big Inch, as it was known, carried over 261 million barrels of crude oil to the East Coast from 1943 to 1945, fueling the efforts to win the war. Longview is also the point of origin of Scott Hill, CFO of Intercontinental Exchange, who left the Friday Night Lights of...

This episode of SLICE Uncut brings listeners the full conversation between NYSE Executive Vice Chairman Betty Liu and SAP’s Cloud Business Group President Jennifer Morgan on integrating cloud solutions, the impact of SAP’s acquisition of Qualtrics, and how to best manage teams from 1 to 1000. Slice is a media collaboration between ICE and Cheddar that helps the audience cut through the noise to ge...

Sen. David Perdue of Georgia is relatively new to Washington, but has decades of experience in the private sector working in the U.S. and China, including serving as CEO of both Reebok and Dollar General (NYSE:DG). Sen. Perdue was seen as a turnaround specialist before hearing the call to public service in 2014, but orchestrating a turnaround in Washington, D.C. might be his biggest feat of all.  ...

The executive producers behind Reid Hoffman’s popular podcast, Masters of Scale, share how they cracked the code of creating unique content and are breaking the podcast mold. 2019 is shaping up as an important year for the medium’s growth with transactions such as Spotify’s (NYSE:SPOT) combined $340 million dollar acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor. The deal brings big money into an industry that,...

Venture capital legend Marc Andreessen hailed Jennifer Tejada’s hiring at PagerDuty (NYSE: PD) as “like adding octane to jet fuel,” and her company’s IPO took off using afterburners. Jennifer joined us fresh from ringing the first trade bell to share her career trajectory -- which spanned from Ohio, to Australia, to the open ocean to, eventually, Silicon Valley -- and her secrets of success.    In...

Our 100th Episode drops amid a stampede of unicorns. In the past weeks, PagerDuty (NYSE:PD), Pinterest (NYSE:PINS), and Jumia (NYSE:JMIA) joined the herd of tech companies emerging into the public markets. In the wings are Uber (NYSE:UBER) and Slack (NYSE:SK). Joining us today is Jose Cobos, a former Navy SEAL and investment banker who now helps growing tech and biotech companies navigate the wate...

ICE Futures Europe President Stuart Williams has watched the futures industry grow from its nascent days to modern times. Today, ICE Futures Europe is home to futures and options contracts for crude oil, interest rates, equity derivatives, natural gas, power, coal, emissions and soft commodities. For those hedging against the future cost of jet fuel, a change in interest rates, or the cost of elec...

Chris Burggraeve’s career has included stints at iconic global brands including Proctor & Gamble (NYSE:PG), Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), and spent five years as the Chief Marketing Officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD). He joined the podcast to discuss his recently released book, Marketing is Finance is Business: How CMO, CFO, and CEO cocreate iconic brands with sustainable pricing power in the new G...

Financial analyst Rich Repetto is like a baseball scout, half sabermatrician absorbing all kinds of data, half evaluator of on-field style. Instead of projecting the potential of an athlete, he forecasts a company’s future performance with loads of investment capital at stake. Rich took a break from interpreting how companies he follows fared in the first quarter to break down his own analytical p...

How will human judgement and Artificial Intelligence merge to make business decisions both instinctive and data driven? Genpact (NYSE:G) and its CEO NV “Tiger” Tyagarajan are charting a path to “Instinctive Enterprise” that will transform the way you work and how companies function. He joins the podcast to discuss how digitization, AI, and other emerging technologies are forcing companies, from re...

Pitting a profit-driven hedge fund manager against a power-hungry U.S. Attorney, and making the fictitious scene seem shockingly lifelike, is a weekly work of art on Showtime’s BILLIONS. David Levien, one of the show’s creators and showrunners, makes it look effortless. What’s the secret sauce, four seasons in? The devil is in the details. This week’s episode is a lesson in character building, loc...

What does it take to keep the engines of capitalism running, while simultaneously developing state of the art technology to transform global markets? Diving into this racy topic are Mayur Kapani, Chief Technology Officer at Intercontinental Exchange, along with Sridhar Masam and Alexei Lebedev, Head of Technology and Chief Software Architect, respectively, at the New York Stock Exchange. Find out...

How did Harmit Singh, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE: LEVI), find himself at the helm of a multi-billion dollar apparel company and standing atop the New York Stock Exchange bell podium, helping take the 165-year-old American icon public? “Play outside of your comfort zone,” he says. Hear Singh’s take on retail re-imagination, innovation, immigrati...

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, joined Intercontinental Exchange Chairman and CEO Jeff Sprecher on stage at FIA Boca to talk agriculture, technology, commodities, and the Trump White House. Born into a farming family in Bonaire, Georgia, Sonny’s veterinary career was disrupted by a foray into politics. He served 11 years in the Georgia State Legislature and two terms as its Govern...

Alan Murray, President & CEO of Fortune, has been at the helm of the media company through changing seasons. Put in charge during the Time, Inc. days, he steered it through Meredith Corporation’s (NYSE:MDP) purchase of the storied brand. After Fortune’s sale to Chatchaval Jiaravanon in 2018, Murray leads an independent company for the first time, on its 90th year of operation. He shares his vision...

Legendary lacrosse player Paul Rabil, founder and chief strategy officer of the newly formed Premier Lacrosse League, is disrupting the way pro sports leagues are organized and make money. Lacrosse, North America’s oldest and fastest growing sport, is up 35% in participation since 2012, and the PLL is poised to capitalize on its growth. Backed by venture capital and driven by social media and digi...