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Grab’s rise from rideshare to superapp in Asia, with Anthony Tan
Duration: 00:28:35
September 2, 2025
- Grab pivoted its business model during the pandemic by shifting drivers to food delivery services to offset losses in ride-hailing.
- Flexibility offered by Grab's super app strategy allowed the company to adapt quickly to changing consumer demands.
- Grab is set to go public on Nasdaq via a SPAC merger, potentially raising $4 billion and valuing the company at $40 billion.
Hollywood’s hottest AI partner, with Runway’s Cristóbal Valenzuela
Duration: 00:33:11
August 26, 2025
- Runway's initial AI creative tools were built on experimentation and passionate curiosity, leading to the realization that the company was "founded" by its own work.
- Founder Chris Valenzuela believes being an "outsider" to Silicon Valley, due to his background in art and film, allows for reasoning from first principles and merging different domains to foster creativity.
- Valenzuela emphasizes the importance of learning by doing and constant iteration, stating that models are not a moat and speed of change is crucial for success in the AI field.
How design drives successful companies, with Sarah Stein Greenberg
Duration: 00:34:19
August 21, 2025
- The Stanford D School emphasizes human-centered design as an approach to creative problem-solving applicable across various fields and challenges in today's rapidly changing world.
- Building psychological safety and genuine human connection, even in remote work environments, is crucial for fostering creativity, open-mindedness, and effective collaboration within teams.
- AI can be leveraged to augment human creativity through tools like generative case studies and reflection prompts, helping individuals and teams prepare for future scenarios and challenges by rehearsing creative responses under uncertain circumstances.
Inside one of the world’s greatest fundraising operations
Duration: 00:35:12
August 7, 2025
- A key fundraising challenge is finding new sources of funds when relying on the same network becomes unsustainable and existing fundraising events only yield limited returns.
- The speaker recommends leveraging personal skills and talents to create a tangible product, such as a solo piano CD, to generate funds and provide value to supporters.
- Creating the smaller piano CD served to cover immediate expenses and maintain momentum for the animal rescue CD project, illustrating a strategy of utilizing smaller wins to achieve a larger fundraising goal.
The new art and science of marketing, with Known’s Ross Martin and Kern Schireson
Duration: 00:32:13
July 31, 2025
- The agency recombined traditionally siloed marketing functions like media, research, and creative to provide clients with unified and more effective solutions, addressing the disconnect that often leads to lost fidelity and poorer results.
- Known emphasizes a unique company culture defined by kindness and a high internal standard, fostering collaboration and shared success among employees, which they identified as essential after a challenging period of remote work.
- Known views major platforms such as Instagram as AI already, and leverages its proprietary "Skeptic" technology to help larger firms navigate the increasingly complex AI-driven landscape, assisting with optimization and strategic brand placement.
How to create a ‘transcendent’ career, with author Suzy Welch
Duration: 00:33:38
July 24, 2025
- Susie Welch's book "Becoming You" focuses on understanding your values, aptitudes, and interests to find your "area of transcendence", or purpose.
- Values differ from virtues, as values are personal choices that drive actions while virtues are universal principles; it is critical to identify your individual values because conflicting values can cause unrecognized stress and unhappiness.
- There is a generational misalignment in values between Gen Z, who prioritize self-care and creative expression, and older corporate leaders, which may lead to tension despite potential strategies to bridge the gap, like "tours of duty".
Reid Hoffman’s favorite board game for business leaders
Duration: 00:27:11
July 17, 2025
- Reid Hoffman attributes his strategic thinking to an early interest in board games like Avalon Hill’s Tactics II and fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons.
- The key insight is that the strategic thinking developed through gaming can be purposefully translated and applied to real-world scenarios like founding companies or executing projects.
- A critical element for parents is encouraging children to transfer lessons learned from games to other aspects of their lives, fostering more robust learning.
How a summer job grew into an ice cream empire, with CEO Ben Van Leeuwen
Duration: 00:32:44
July 10, 2025
- Van Leeuwen Ice Cream started with a $60,000 investment, utilizing outsourced production and a repurposed truck to sell artisanal ice cream on the streets of New York City.
- The company strategically uses unusual flavors like Kraft Mac & Cheese to generate buzz and introduce customers to their broader, high-quality ice cream offerings without traditional advertising.
- From its humble beginnings, Van Leeuwen has expanded to nearly 50 scoop shops and widespread wholesale distribution, driven by a focus on quality ingredients and a commitment to maintaining its distinct brand ethos.
PBS fights for its future, with President & CEO Paula Kerger
Duration: 00:27:07
July 8, 2025
- PBS faces potential funding cuts that could significantly impact smaller, community-based stations reliant on federal support.
- PBS is actively exploring different partnership models, including with streaming services, to ensure future content delivery and financial stability.
- Despite political pressures and potential financial challenges, PBS is committed to upholding its mission and values, including investigative journalism and diverse programming, even if difficult decisions are required.
How to raise $172M for the underinvested, with Stacy Brown-Philpot
Duration: 00:33:00
June 19, 2025
- Transitioning from operator to investor required a period of intense self-reflection, including a silent retreat, to define her own expectations and purpose.
- Despite external pressures to take CEO roles, Brown-Philpot launched Cherry Rock Capital to uniquely address the capital access gap for underinvested entrepreneurs.
- As a board member, asking the right questions is more valuable than giving advice, recognizing that the CEO has deeper operational context.