

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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Nov 18, 2018 • 54min
Facebook: Where Love and Hate Collide
Too big to boycott? Too developed to disrupt? Too sticky to uninstall? Facebook is that global social network that people both love to use and love to hate. Can Zuckerberg & Co just keep getting away with bad behavior?

Nov 11, 2018 • 53min
Blood, Sweat, Tears, Sugar
How high school soccer coach Ian Kelley leveraged social media and all-around resourcefulness to turn an abandoned used-car dealership into the Sugar Shack Donuts empire.

Nov 2, 2018 • 54min
The Reformation of Josh Brown
10 years of the Reformed Broker: the financial crisis awakening and reinvention of Wall Street icon "Downtown" Josh Brown.

Oct 21, 2018 • 50min
Ace the Midterms (Live)
CBS chief Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes, NBC White House correspondent Geoff Bennett and ABC political director Rick Klein on the many moving parts of the 2018 midterm election. Recorded for an audience at Virginia's Museum of History and Culture.

Sep 26, 2018 • 53min
Chambers of Commerce
Longtime Cisco CEO John Chambers and co-author Diane Brady on the lessons learned from growing a once-sleepy Internet-equipment maker into a 75,000-employee multinational. Their book is Connecting the Dots: Lessons for Leadership in a Startup World. Chambers now runs venture capital firm JC2 Ventures.

Sep 20, 2018 • 53min
Did Anything Really Change?
Former Richmond Fed president Jeffrey Lacker on the lessons learned -- and morals hazarded -- in the wake of the Great Meltdown of 2008.

Sep 14, 2018 • 54min
Juul Me Twice
Just as teen smoking visited record lows, Juul (a startup that's now valued at $15 billion) came out of nowhere to offer adolescents flavored, concentrated vape hits of nicotine. The FDA calls it a public-health crisis. We talked to marketing veteran Robin Koval of Truth Initiative about the tricky new battle to save teens from themselves.

Sep 9, 2018 • 57min
Ad-venturous Mom
Kristen Cavallo, the first female CEO of the Martin Agency, on leading the 52-year old advertising shop out of its #MeToo crisis. We discussed the work-life juggle of single motherhood; the ad industry's nagging existential doubts; and -- swoosh! -- getting brands to actually stand for (or against) something.

Sep 2, 2018 • 51min
Risk Amnesia
Family-office investment managers Brian Broadway and W. "Biff" Pusey, Jr. on the difficulty of preaching and adhering to risk-avoidance amid the longest bull market in U.S. history.

Aug 19, 2018 • 41min
Sree.0
When Sree Sreenivasan was laid off from NY's Metropolitan's Museum of Art, he famously broadcast his predicament over social media. After a tour as NYC's chief digital officer, the former journalism dean now travels the world to teach best practices for career mobility in the era of LinkedIn. Whether you love or hate your job -- or are somewhere in between -- you need to listen to this episode.