Business Artistry with Nir Hindie

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050 - Mickey Drexler. Creativity Is Everything, in Anything.

2026-04-0901:06:31

Millard "Mickey" S. Drexler built Gap into a cultural brand, launched Old Navy, led J.Crew, and now chairs Alex Mill. He also spent 16 years on Apple's board — and played a pivotal role in shaping the Apple Store as we know it today. But this conversation isn't about the résumé. It's about how Mickey thinks. He leads through taste, instinct, and an obsessive attention to what a customer actually experiences. He'll tell you data doesn't design product. That most CEOs never talk to customers. T...

049 - Steve Hayden. Words That Move.

2026-03-1201:13:57

What does it take to create something that changes everything? In this episode, I sit down with Steve Hayden - the man who wrote the 1984 Apple commercial, still considered one of the greatest ads ever made. But this conversation goes far beyond that sixty seconds. We talk about where revolutionary ideas actually come from, what Steve Jobs was really like to work with, the disaster of 1985 that almost nobody talks about, and why the business world keeps choosing efficiency over creativity - e...

048 - Michael Naimark: What Artist-Explorers Know That Corporates Always Forget

2026-02-1201:10:11

What happens when an artist imagines the future decades before the rest of the world catches up? In this episode, Nir Hindie sits down with pioneering media artist and researcher Michael Naimark, whose work has shaped immersive and interactive media for more than forty years. If you’ve used Google Street View, you’ve seen the shadow of a project he helped create at MIT in the late 1970s: the Aspen Movie Map, a radically early experiment in “surrogate travel.” Michael’s career moved across som...

047 - Julie Martin: Before Silicon Valley, There Was E.A.T.

2026-01-2101:04:13

This episode dives into one of the most overlooked turning points in modern innovation: the moment artists and engineers decided to build the future together. Julie Martin, co-director of E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology), joins Nir Hindie for a deep exploration of the collaborations that shaped contemporary tech culture long before Silicon Valley existed. They unpack how the legendary “Nine Evenings” project brought together world-class artists and Bell Labs engineers to create perf...

046 - Andrew Zolli. New Humanism.

2021-12-0245:04

In this episode, Andrew Zolli, Chief Impact Officer at Planet, the imagery company, speaks about the initiative he leads, “Art as Planet.” We discuss what the role of art in communicating scientific vision is? How artists have been helping in shaping an innovative culture in a satellite company, and why should small startups launch their own artist in residence? Zolli is a technologist, strategic foresight expert, and author. In the past he was the primary creative and curatorial force behind...

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