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 @…
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. For Engineering/Tech jobs: http://bit.ly/23gXZzd
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.
On Tuesday, February 12, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Shaun Stewart, CEO of New Lab, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about New Lab’s vision and future, why New York may be the place to scale a cutting-edge tech company, the promise and peril of self-driving vehicles, and Stewart’s transition from growing Airbnb’s vacation rental business and directing Waymo’s self-driving car project to creating a perfect destination for entrepreneurs in Brooklyn.
On Tuesday, January 29, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Anjali Sud, CEO of Vimeo, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They discussed Vimeo’s shift from a media company to a technology company, why they chose to focus its business on creators rather than viewers, Sud’s experience running a company within Barry Diller’s IAC, how platforms that Vimeo previously competed with have become its partners, and the next online video you should watch.
On Tuesday, December 11, 2018, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Beth Comstock, former CMO & Vice Chair of GE, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about how she managed innovation within one of the largest and oldest companies in America, why the job no one wants is sometimes the most exciting one, her experiences working with Jack Welch and Jeff Immelt (and twice declining offers from Steve Jobs to work for Apple), what GE can do to reinvent itself again, and how we all can prepare for the inevitable acceleration of change.
On Tuesday, November 13, 2018, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Robin Hayes, CEO of JetBlue, and Bonny Simi, President of JetBlue Technology Ventures, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about the innovations that are shaping the future of the travel industry, the challenges of engaging startups as a corporate VC, and the importance of identifying opportunities to create better customer experiences.
On Monday, October 22, 2018, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Anthony Casalena, founder and CEO of Squarespace, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about the process of building the company, why it was headquartered in New York City, the challenges of being a sole founder, and the current landscape of entrepreneurship.
In this discussion about the importance of maintaining a personal user experience while scaling a multi-channel e-commerce business, Shan-Lyn Ma talks about breaking into the $300 billion global wedding industry and becoming its fastest-growing company.
Panel on the NYC Venture Capital Landscape with Lerer Hippeau's Eric Hippeau, EXPA's Naveen Selvadurai and FirstMark Capital's Catherine "Kit" Ulrich. In this panel discussion, several of New York’s most successful venture capitalists discuss a range of topics such as how to hire the right types of superheroes to go above and beyond for your brand.
In this discussion about editorial content in social media and making products accessible to consumers, Eva Chen discusses why Instagram has become the platform of choice for the fashion industry.
Panel on Women in Venture Capital with Beth Ferreira, Managing Director at FirstMark Capital, Ellie Wheeler, partner at Greycroft and Rebecca Kaden, partner at Union Square Ventures. In this panel discussion, three female VC leaders talk about the New York venture capital landscape and the importance of diversity in a corporate org chart and the obstacles that female founders face.
In this discussion about the future of digital health and how to shape a profitable insurance company that still focuses on people, Mario Schlosser discusses the complex world of American health care.
In this discussion about workplace culture, Miguel McKelvey talks about the shifting perspectives of what an office should be, as well as WeWork’s ambition, expansion and valuation.
Panel on The Future of Education & Work with Jake Schwartz, co-founder/CEO of General Assembly, Leah Belsky, VP of global enterprise development at Coursera, and Jeremy Snepar, founder/CEO of New York Code + Design Academy (moderated by Scarlet Fu) In this panel discussion about how education and business adapt to the changes that technology creates, three entrepreneurs discuss the importance of creativity and adaptability when facing these challenges.
In this discussion about professional motivation and understanding consumer behavior, internet personality and bestselling author Gary Vaynerchuk looks at innovation and entrepreneurship through an unorthodox lens.
Brian S. Cohen, Chairman, New York Angels and Founding Partner, New York Venture Partners (interviewed by Scarlet Fu) In this discussion about what angel investors look for when choosing to invest and how to project the future ramifications of certain investments, Brian S. Cohen, Chairman of New York Angels and Founding Partner, New York Venture Partners, addresses these subjects head on in a conversation with Scarlet Fu.
Following a screening of the movie "Generation Startup," we chatted with three entrepreneurs (two of whom are featured in the film) - Andrew Yang, Founder of Venture for America (now a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate), Labib Rahman, Product Manager at IPC Systems and Kate Catlin, Founder of Flock - about what it takes to build the next generation of startups.
In this discussion about content distribution and the skills needed by the next generation of storytellers, John Martin shares his vision for how television networks should be growing.
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.
Panel on Female Entrepreneurship with Nadia Boujarwah, co-founder/CEO of Dia&Co, Brit Morin, co-founder/CEO of Brit + Co and Katia Beauchamp, co-founder/CEO of Birchbox In this panel discussion about how female entrepreneurs can empower themselves while also building and scaling their businesses, these CEOs offer insights rooted in their own ups and downs.
In this discussion about e-commerce strategies and how to build lasting relationships with customers, Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker shares some of his secrets for disruption.
In this discussion about the evolving intersection of hospitality and technology, Danny Meyer talks about shaking up - and shaping - the restaurant of the future. (Interviewed by Vonnie Quinn)
How do startups meet crises with ingenuity? Entrepreneurs on the bumpy road to profitability: take note. (Interviewed by Vonnie Quinn)
Ron Conway, the "Godfather of Silicon Valley" and Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson discuss trends in venture capital beyond Silicon Valley and New York City.
What will unlock the next great disruption? Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya shares his ideas in this candid chat.
It's not hard to make a link shortener, as Bitly's Mark Josephson shares. The trick is doing it at scale, in order to provide marketers with the insights they need.
Discover how Foursquare's location intelligence services extend well beyond social networking.
Early-stage tech entrepreneurs face many nuanced problems. Sam Altman shares useful insights gleaned from the many companies incubated through Y Combinator.
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