Full Disclosure with Roben Farzad
Roben Farzad
The business of culture. The culture of business. Policy; media & tech; entrepreneurs and more.
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Aug 30, 2019 • 59min
IT'S ELECTRIC !!!
Since taking delivery of his Model 3 sedan, normally skeptical investor Vitaliy Katsenelson has morphed into Vitaliy Tesla-nelson. The zippy electric car has his mind racing in Ludicrous Mode -- about the money-losing company and its controversial CEO, and the numerous disruptions and opportunities in Tesla's wake. He takes us for a ride.

Aug 27, 2019 • 53min
The Cisco Kid
Longtime Cisco CEO John Chambers on the lessons learned from growing a once-sleepy network-equipment maker into a hulking multinational that was once worth $555 billion. Chambers now runs venture capital firm JC2 Ventures.

Aug 16, 2019 • 59min
Blue Central
Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger (VA 07) on pressing matters local, regional, national and global -- from gun control to healthcare; China, Iran, Saudi Arabia; trade wars; and holding the Democratic center. In 2018, the former CIA officer became the first Democrat elected to her Congressional seat in 50 years -- and the first woman ever.

Aug 8, 2019 • 53min
Keya 3.0
How do you go from a call-center in India to cake-pop queen of Virginia to aspiring pop-up-dinner doyenne? All without spending a single dollar on marketing. The story of Keya Desai Wingfield.

Aug 2, 2019 • 59min
James Altucher: Reconstructionist
Dot-com riches. Collapse. So bankrupt he couldn't afford diapers for his kid. A mental breakdown. Drug binges at the Hotel Chelsea. Hitting rock-bottom. Reinventing (constantly). Helping others.

Jul 23, 2019 • 59min
Junketeer
Trash and junk guru Adam Minter on what we throw away and how we do it says about the new global economic order. He is author of Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale (2019) and Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade (2013).

Jul 19, 2019 • 59min
Terminal Velocity
Matt Winkler, co-founder and editor-in-chief emeritus of Bloomberg News, on 30 years of growing an idea with Mike Bloomberg (who he profiled for the Wall Street Journal) into a 2,700-journalist, 120-nation media empire.

Jul 12, 2019 • 59min
Salomon Daughter
The grit-paved journey of a Honduran immigrant who grew up in Flint, Michigan to the ranks of the country's top financial advisors. Dalal Salomon on her rise, setting out on her own during the Financial Crisis and the perils of the 2010's Bull Run. Her business partner Dan Ludwin joined the conversation.

Jul 4, 2019 • 52min
Blood. Sweat. Tears. Sugar.
How a high-school soccer coach leveraged social media and all-around resourcefulness to turn an abandoned used-car dealership into the Sugar Shack Donuts empire.

Jun 28, 2019 • 59min
The Wizard of Grand Rapids
Investor, author, Michigander and Fortune columnist Ben Carlson on this old, seemingly relentless bull market.


