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Rapid Response: A new playbook for new times, w/Ford Foundation president Darren Walker
"This was like 1918, 1929 and 1968 in one week," says Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. With the pandemic, economic crisis, and civil …
5 years, 8 months ago
Stephen Colbert + DonorsChoose's Charles Best — The power of small goals
Startups are audacious. They’re big. They’re world-changing. But you can’t achieve scale on day one. Sometimes the best way to achieve that monumenta…
5 years, 8 months ago
Rapid Response: Burning cash, accepting turbulence w/Delta CEO Ed Bastian
A surprisingly candid and upbeat interview on the industry hardest hit by the pandemic. Delta saw seat bookings fall to less than 5% of normal, had 4…
5 years, 8 months ago
Liberating the human spirit, w/Robert F. Smith (Vista Equity, Morehouse Commencement), Recorded live at Summit LA 2019
Every great founder has a second purpose — something outside their main business they're trying to get done in the world. And every successful compan…
5 years, 8 months ago
Rapid Response: How business can engage against racism, w/Shellye Archambeau (MetricStream, Nordstrom, Verizon)
What can your business do right now in the struggle against racism? More than you think, says Shellye Archambeau, former CEO of MetricStream, now a b…
5 years, 8 months ago
Build. Measure. Learn, w/Eric Ries of The Lean Startup and the LTSE
Forget writing that business plan. Design an experiment instead. So many products and companies fail because the assumptions in their beautiful busin…
5 years, 9 months ago
Rapid Response: GM's Mary Barra: "Going ventilator fast"
GM is now reopening auto plants, after shutting them in March, temporarily reducing pay for 69,000 employees, and making a fast pivot to produce mask…
5 years, 9 months ago
Strategy Session: The post-pandemic business, w/questions from Village Global and co-host Bob Safian, editor-at-large
How do you find new markets when your old ones stall? How do you stay agile when your team is overwhelmed? And do constraints always lead to creativi…
5 years, 9 months ago
Rapid Response: BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti: Record-high audience, record-low revenue
BuzzFeed audience is at record highs. But the pandemic's economic effects have crushed the bottom line. BuzzFeed co-founder and CEO Jonah Peretti sha…
5 years, 9 months ago
Bonus: Reid’s 2020 Commencement Speech: In a crisis, steer toward the emerging opportunities
New graduates 🎓are like entrepreneurs — standing on the edge of that cliff, ready to build their own plane and fly. But what if the blue skies and ca…
5 years, 9 months ago