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 Amazon covered a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Echo and Alexa, and Amazon Web Services to life. They speak to Linda Yueh about Amazon’s founding characteristics: customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence. To find out more about the book click here: https://bit.ly/32ohKfh 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 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 changes reshape our work, our play and our very minds. To buy Will's new book Tarzan Economics click here: https://bit.ly/2RjJsaH 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 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 Sunday Times about his start-up journey and how audio is shaping the economy. To find out more about Curio click here: https://curio.io/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 FinTech to NFT's. To find out more about Moonfire click here: https://www.moonfire.com/ 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 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 Economic Forum click here: https://www.weforum.org/focus/podcasts 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 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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-sighted - methods of dealing with an unknowable future using history, mathematics, economics and philosophy. 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 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 the Economist and host of 'The Economist Asks' podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices