Inside the ICE House

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, as recently as 2017, had a combined revenue that was $26 million less than Spotify’s investment.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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.    Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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 waters -- from Series A through public listing -- from his perch at NYSE West in San Francisco.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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 electricity, Stuart’s business is a one-stop shop.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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 Galactic Age.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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 process, what he’s looking for in 2019, & why he jockeys for the first question during quarterly earning calls.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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 retail to healthcare to Formula-E racing teams, to rethink the way they operate and serve their customers.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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, location scouting, and defying the odds - all straight out of the Bobby Axelrod playbook.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

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 their career paths brought them together to build, operate, and oversee the technology that allows an exchange to process more than 100,000 messages in the blink of an eye.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

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, immigration, and why technology and sustainability is helping fuel future growth for Levi Strauss.   Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house