Inside the ICE House

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants a safe harbor for crypto entrepreneurs. She spoke with ICE’s Brookly McLaughlin at Bakkt’s Digital Asset Conference about where Bitcoin and other digital assets fit in the Commission’s mission to foster prosperity and innovation within the confines of regulated markets. The episode kicks off with an update from Bakkt’s CEO Kelly Loeffler on the company’s mission to provide trusted and regulated infrastructure for institutional investors to broadly enter the crypto space.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Scott Goodson, founder and CEO of StrawberryFrog, is the author of Uprising: How to Build a Brand and Change the World by Sparking Cultural Movements. From Stockholm to Madison Avenue, we learn how Scott upended traditional advertising by tapping into societal undercurrents, helping brands, people -- and even an entire city -- launch cultural movements. We dive deep into the allure of President Trump’s MAGA message and how technology has changed marketing & politics forever.     Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house  

Entrepreneur and advertising legend Cindy Gallop is a trailblazer, and she’s not afraid to blow things up. Cindy takes us on a deep-dive into the challenges facing the advertising industry today, from a need for diversity and equal pay to sexual harassment, and the actions that can help solve them.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

It’s a long way from Olton, Texas to Washington, D.C., but CFTC Commissioner Dawn Stump finds herself right at home among the policymakers and regulators tackling the complex issues and opportunities brought before the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. Stump’s remarkable journey from agriculture to public service has taken her from an upbringing on a family farm to the corridors of power.                                                      Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

In the afterglow of Slack’s successful Direct Floor Listing, NYSE’s Vice Chairman John Tuttle visits the ICE House to unpack how this novel path to public ownership has become has become a popular path for some companies, and why the New York Stock Exchange is the only market for these unique transactions that bypass the traditional IPO process. Learn how the Direct Floor Listing uses the NYSE’s 227 years of experience to bring companies the advantages of being publicly traded in a brand new way.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Hamdi Ulukaya founded Chobani in 2005 and has grown the company into a global powerhouse brand using what he terms the “anti-CEO playbook.” He sat down with the NYSE’s Executive Vice Chairman Betty Liu to explain why he believes that focusing on a return on kindness and service leads to profitability and innovation. Hamdi discusses how he fell in love with business and what Chobani and the Tent Foundation, an organization he started in 2015, are doing to help the global refugee crisis.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

How is Darling Ingredients creating value from waste and giving nature a second life? If you ask Darling CEO Randy Stuewe, he’s convinced old oil is the new oil and his company is onto something bigger than Bitcoin. Our show this week is a deep dive into the world of agricultural processing, and a look into stretching resources farther than we could have ever imagined.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/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, and why he thinks digital assets will cause millennials to #DumpGold for bitcoin as the hedge of that generation. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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 about life after politics and why 80% of getting started starts with just showing up.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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 life of Dr. Frasier Crane.    Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house