Ep 94: Nils Leonard, Alex Goat, Mohan Ramaswamy and Spencer Baim

"Owned By No One - Part 1".

I’m just back from the Cannes Lions festival of creativity and recorded some podcasts while I was there. This is the first of them.

The topic is the idea of Nils Leonard - founder of Uncommon and a guest on "Fearless” a couple of years ago.

Creativity requires risk and uncertainty. Two attributes that the business world has developed powerful resistance to. Want to try something new? In a publicly traded company, you’ve got to convince the c-suite, the board, the analysts and the shareholders. That’s a lot of institutional antibodies.

What then of the flip side of ownership? When you own the company yourself? Does that more easily produce the conditions in which creativity and innovation can thrive?

In this conversation I’m joined in the Vice Penthouse overlooking the Croisette in Cannes by three people who have previously been guests on ˜Fearless’ - Nils Leonard of Uncommon, Alex Goat of Livityand Mohan Ramaswamy of Work & Co. And by Spencer Baim, who is the Chief Brand Officer of  Vice Media.