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Welcome to the Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg Podcast! Each episode features wide-ranging discussions with tech's top entrepreneurs, investors, and thought leaders about the most pressing issues facing them and the industry. The conversations were originally recorded as part of the monthly Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg Speaker Series, which convenes students from Cornell Tech, Bloomberg employees, and members of New York’s tech community at Bloomberg’s Global Headquarters in New York City. Now, they're available to you!
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In this discussion about problem-solving through technology, the ever-changing media landscape, and the future of online content, Ben Lerer shows why he’s a leader in digital media.
On Thursday, September 30, 2021, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Kate Ryder, Founder & CEO of Maven, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Quicktake. During this conversation, they discussed how reporters and entrepreneurs require similar skills, why starting a healthcare company without experience in the legacy industry can be an advantage, what the COVID-19 pandemic did to transform telemedicine, and how maternal care and fertility treatment became ideal markets for disruption.
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On Thursday, August 12, 2021, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Jessica Lin, General Partner & co-founder, Work-Bench, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television and Bloomberg Quicktake. During this conversation, they discussed how a soccer ball informed Lin’s approach to enterprise software, why she once wore a GoPro camera at work, how she and her team of venture capitalists play matchmaker between Fortune 500 companies and startups, and why New York City is the perfect location in which to start an enterprise technology company.
On Tuesday, July 13, 2021, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Gustav Söderström, Chief R&D Officer, Spotify, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. During this virtual conversation, they discussed how music piracy inspired Spotify’s initial insights, how Spotify develops products for home, mobile, and auto, how users’ music listening and sharing habits changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, why live audio apps are finally having a moment, and how Spotify became the research and development arm for the entire music industry.
On Wednesday, April 7, 2021, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Brad Svrluga, co-founder and General Partner of Primary Venture Partners, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. During this virtual conversation, they discussed how Primary’s geographic focus has become one of its calling cards, why location still matters when remote workforces have become the norm, what Svrluga looks for in founders and what founders should look for in investors beyond just capital, how COVID-19 has affected Primary’s portfolio companies, and the future Svrluga sees for entrepreneurs and startups in New York.
On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Lisa Lewin, CEO of General Assembly, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. During this virtual conversation, they discussed how taking a class as a student at General Assembly ultimately led Lewin to the company’s top post, how COVID-19 reshaped the landscape of online education, General Assembly’s role in defining and democratizing access to the most in-demand jobs, and what the future of work will look like in a post-pandemic world.
On Thursday, February 18, 2021, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partner of Harlem Capital, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. During this virtual conversation, they discussed Tingle’s first forays into investing before he entered graduate school, how he thinks of diversity as an asset class, the dual cultural and financial returns on his investments, what he looks for in founders and venture partners, and the impact of COVID-19 on his VC firm’s investing.
On Thursday, December 17, 2020, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Ragy Thomas, Founder & CEO of Sprinklr, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. During this virtual conversation, they discussed Sprinklr’s work across a range of industries, how the company has kept its teams together while working remotely, what COVID-19 has meant for social media, brand marketing and customer engagement in 2020, and how Sprinklr is helping to combat digital disinformation.
On Monday, November 23, 2020, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Niraj Shah, co-founder, CEO and Co-Chairman of Wayfair, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. During this virtual conversation, they discussed Shah’s persistence as an entrepreneur, the role that Cornell played in launching his career, his nearly two-decade leadership of Wayfair, and how he’s helped the company navigate and thrive during the current global pandemic.
On Wednesday, October 28, 2020, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Alexa von Tobel, Founder and Managing Partner of Inspired Capital, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. During this virtual conversation, von Tobel and Fu discussed von Tobel’s decision to leave school to start LearnVest in the middle of a recession, her transition from entrepreneur to investor, why she’s committed to fostering diversity in New York City’s startup ecosystem while also making investments across the U.S., and why she thinks moments of crisis are good times to build a business.
On Wednesday, September 9, 2020, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Josh Silverman, CEO of Etsy, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. During this virtual conversation, Silverman discussed his career from the first dot-com boom to the current pandemic, how he mobilized Etsy’s sellers to meet the Covid-19 crisis, the role that social responsibility plays at the company, and why customers are now considering it for their everyday purchases.
On Tuesday, February 25, 2020, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Zach Weinberg, Co-founder, President, & COO of Flatiron Health, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about Weinberg’s transition from food delivery and ad tech startups to one in healthcare, the long path to landing Flatiron’s first customer, the ways in which Roche and Flatiron can accelerate each other’s growth, how Flatiron’s data may lead to better patient outcomes, and how we might all contribute to the advancement of medicine.
On Tuesday, January 21, 2020, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Daniel Ramot, Co-founder & CEO of Via, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about Via’s place in the rideshare market, how Ramot’s Ph.D. in neuroscience was the perfect preparation for launching the company, why it chose to partner with cities to transform public transit, and where it might go next, as well as entrepreneurism.
On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Carolyn Childers, CEO and Co-founder of Chief, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about Chief’s mission and rapid growth, why its exclusive membership is also open to men, and what we all can do to help more women reach the C-suite.
On Monday, October 28, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Zachariah Reitano, CEO and Co-founder of Ro, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about Ro’s founding and rapid growth, its ambition to be patients’ first stop for a broad range of healthcare needs, how and why it addresses stigma in very public advertising campaigns, and how it discovered a massive market by focusing on conditions that many have, but few discuss.
On Monday, September 16, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Joel Flory, CEO and co-founder of VSCO, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about the role of creativity in VSCO’s genesis and evolution, its unique position in a landscape of Snapchat filters and Instagram influencers, how the company uses artificial intelligence to identify the feelings that images evoke, why it chose to raise venture capital funding after achieving profitability, and the process of developing new digital tools that mimic analog film.
On Thursday, June 13, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Ganesh Srivats, CEO of Moda Operandi, in conversation with Emma Chandra, a Bloomberg Television and Radio reporter who covers the retail and consumer sectors. They talked about how Moda Operandi’s trunkshow model lets customers purchase any piece from a designer’s collection, enabling the company to play a direct role in determining which fashions shown on the runway actually make it into production.
On Wednesday, May 1, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured former Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson and Google VP of Product Management Bradley Horowitz in conversation with Caroline Hyde of Bloomberg Television. They talked about their career paths, strategies for driving innovation and product development within companies large and small, the importance of customer focus, how data breeds great products, the cultural differences between East Coast and West Coast tech, and how the tech industry has evolved from the ‘90s to today.
Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Rob Wiesenthal, co-founder and CEO of BLADE, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about his vision for BLADE’s future, how it has expanded the market for private flights, its plans to make urban air mobility a mass-market product, and also why a company known for helicopters and private jets offers its employees free electric scooters
Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Melanie Whelan, CEO of SoulCycle, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about the vision for SoulCycle’s future, how the brand inspires such devotion among its customers, what the company is doing to bring them the SoulCycle experience outside the studio, and why you shouldn’t call it a fitness company.
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