Cornell Tech At Bloomberg Podcast

On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Zach Weinberg, Co-founder, President, & COO of Flatiron Health, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about Weinberg’s transition from food delivery and ad tech startups to one in healthcare, the long path to landing Flatiron’s first customer, the ways in which Roche and Flatiron can accelerate each other’s growth, how Flatiron’s data may lead to better patient outcomes, and how we might all contribute to the advancement of medicine.

On Tuesday, January 21, 2020, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Daniel Ramot, Co-founder & CEO of Via, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about Via’s place in the rideshare market, how Ramot’s Ph.D. in neuroscience was the perfect preparation for launching the company, why it chose to partner with cities to transform public transit, and where it might go next, as well as entrepreneurism.

On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Carolyn Childers, CEO and Co-founder of Chief, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about Chief’s mission and rapid growth, why its exclusive membership is also open to men, and what we all can do to help more women reach the C-suite.

Zachariah Reitano, CEO/Co-founder of Ro, talks about the formation of a healthcare company, addressing erectile dysfunction, concerns about increased regulation in healthcare, Ro's different brands and overlap, the limits and potential of telemedicine, and a lightning round and discussion on the CEO's dress code.

On Monday, September 16, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Joel Flory, CEO and co-founder of VSCO, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about the role of creativity in VSCO’s genesis and evolution, its unique position in a landscape of Snapchat filters and Instagram influencers, how the company uses artificial intelligence to identify the feelings that images evoke, why it chose to raise venture capital funding after achieving profitability, and the process of developing new digital tools that mimic analog film.

On Thursday, June 13, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Ganesh Srivats, CEO of Moda Operandi, in conversation with Emma Chandra, a Bloomberg Television and Radio reporter who covers the retail and consumer sectors. They talked about how Moda Operandi’s trunkshow model lets customers purchase any piece from a designer’s collection, enabling the company to play a direct role in determining which fashions shown on the runway actually make it into production.

On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured former Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson and Google VP of Product Management Bradley Horowitz in conversation with Caroline Hyde of Bloomberg Television. They talked about their career paths, strategies for driving innovation and product development within companies large and small, the importance of customer focus, how data breeds great products, the cultural differences between East Coast and West Coast tech, and how the tech industry has evolved from the ‘90s to today.

Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Rob Wiesenthal, co-founder and CEO of BLADE, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about his vision for BLADE’s future, how it has expanded the market for private flights, its plans to make urban air mobility a mass-market product, and also why a company known for helicopters and private jets offers its employees free electric scooters

Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Melanie Whelan, CEO of SoulCycle, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about the vision for SoulCycle’s future, how the brand inspires such devotion among its customers, what the company is doing to bring them the SoulCycle experience outside the studio, and why you shouldn’t call it a fitness company.

On Tuesday, February 12, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Shaun Stewart, CEO of New Lab, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about New Lab’s vision and future, why New York may be the place to scale a cutting-edge tech company, the promise and peril of self-driving vehicles, and Stewart’s transition from growing Airbnb’s vacation rental business and directing Waymo’s self-driving car project to creating a perfect destination for entrepreneurs in Brooklyn.