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Bold Names
WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being...
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Inside PlayStation's Plans to Lead a $200 Billion Industry
Gaming is a $200 billion industry that dwarfs Hollywood — and PlayStation is at the center of it all. On this week’s episode of Bold Names, Sony Inter...
McLaren CEO Zak Brown On F1 And Business Strategy At 200 Miles Per Hour
What business lessons are forged at 200 miles per hour? On this week’s Bold Names, McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown joins Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins...
SPECIAL WSJ Tech Live: The Man Leading Trump’s AI Charge Against China (The Journal Podcast)
This week, we’re bringing you an episode of The Journal, produced by Spotify and the Wall Street Journal. In this episode, recorded at WSJ’s Tech Live...
Biden’s Antitrust Architect on How Big Tech Threatens U.S. Prosperity
Are we becoming a nation mined for our money, data, and attention? Author and legal scholar Tim Wu certainly thinks so. A key architect of President J...
The World’s Tech Giants Are Running Out of Power. This CEO Plans to Deliver
Electricity demand is exploding, fueled by the rise of artificial intelligence and an unprecedented wave of data center construction. Some experts war...
How Uber Plans to Win the Self-Driving Car Race
Driverless cars are no longer in the realm of science fiction. Nearly a decade after abandoning its own self-driving car unit, Uber is taking a hybrid...
Inside Visa’s Tech-Charged Future: From Crypto to AI
Every second, tens of thousands of transactions cross Visa’s global network. Last year alone, the company processed more than $13 trillion in purchase...
This Tech Founder's $1.3 Billion Company Is Taking On Apple and Samsung
Can a startup beat Apple and Samsung on their own turf? Carl Pei, the founder and CEO of Nothing, is betting on it. Growing up in Sweden, Pei was capt...
Why This Investor Says the AI Boom Isn’t the Next Dot-Com Crash
The artificial intelligence boom has sparked one of the costliest building sprees in history. By 2028, investment in chips, servers and data centers c...
The Google Exec Reinventing Search in the AI Era
Every day, billions of searches flow through Google, making it not just the world’s most popular search engine, but one of history’s most valuable pro...
Condoleezza Rice on Beating China in the Tech Race: 'Run Hard and Run Fast'
Condoleezza Rice’s experience navigating geopolitical tensions and uncertainty gives her a background few people have. The former secretary of state c...
The Google-Backed Startup Taking on Elon Musk in Humanoid Robotics
Who will take care of you in old age? Jeff Cardenas, the CEO and co-founder of Apptronik, says the answer is robots. The startup founder set out to bu...
How the U.S. Stacks Up to China’s ‘Engineering State’
The relationship between the U.S. and China is typically framed as competitive and even adversarial. Each superpower brings strengths and weaknesses t...
Why IBM's CEO Thinks His Company Can Crack Quantum Computing
After spending much of the 2010s in the doldrums, IBM has made something of a comeback in the past five years under the leadership of CEO Arvind Krish...
Bold Names Is Back
Every day, Wall Street Journal journalists talk with the most powerful, influential and interesting people. WSJ columnists Christopher Mims and Tim Hi...
From AI and Defense Tech, to Tariffs and the New Streaming Wars: The Best of Bold Names
WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins take a trip into the Bold Names podcast archives. They’ve covered everything from artificial intelligence and h...
Space Trucks: One Startup’s Plan to Get the U.S. Back on the Moon
Longtime space rivals Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are vying to reach outer space with their giant rockets. Meanwhile, an ecosystem of other space-related...
How Tubi Is Coming for Netflix and YouTube in the New Streaming Wars
Tubi is a free ad-supported streaming service that's gaining ground on big players like Netflix and Amazon. It has the largest content library of any...
Are AI Agents the Future of Business? Salesforce Is Betting $8 Billion on It
Informatica isn’t a household name, but it plays a crucial role in helping companies like Toyota and Unilever manage and organize vast amounts of data...
Encore: Could Amazon’s Zoox Beat Tesla and Waymo in the Robotaxi Race?
With Elon Musk’s Tesla piloting its robotaxi service in Austin, Texas and Waymo expanding, it’s the perfect time to revisit our interview with Zoox CE...
Tariffs, EVs and China: A CEO Insider’s View of the Car Business
For months, the complex global auto industry has grappled with the added challenge of navigating the Trump administration’s trade war. That gives Swam...
Why José Andrés Says We Need Leaders Who Believe in ‘Longer Tables’
José Andrés knows what it’s like to work under pressure. From managing the chaos of restaurant kitchens, to running a global business empire, to helpi...
How Microsoft’s AI Chief Defines ‘Humanist Super Intelligence’
Few people developing artificial intelligence have as much experience in the field as Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman. He co-founded DeepMind, helpe...
Booz Allen CEO on Silicon Valley’s Turn to Defense Tech: ‘We Need Everybody.’
Horacio Rozanski says he is obsessed with speed. As the CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton, a company that helps government agencies leverage the latest advan...
This CEO Says Global Trade Is Broken. What Comes Next?
Evan Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Altana, one of a few companies that have a global view and insight into the world’s supply chains. Think Linke...
This Company Has a Plan to Beat Neuralink at the Brain-Computer Interface Game
What if you could control computers with just a thought? Precision Neuroscience is one of several companies working to make that a reality. Michael Ma...
Venture Capitalist Sarah Guo’s Surprising Bet on Unsexy AI
What's next for artificial intelligence beyond autonomous agents and next-gen language models? Sarah Guo, the founder of venture capital firm Convicti...
How Zipline’s Drones Are Taking Off in the U.S. and Rivaling Amazon
After flying 100 million miles and making over 1.4 million deliveries using autonomous drones, Zipline CEO and co-founder Keller Rinaudo Cliffton is l...
70,000 Bets a Minute: How FanDuel’s Parent Is Winning at Sports Gambling
Peter Jackson, the CEO of Flutter Entertainment, leads a global sports betting empire. With the U.S.-based FanDuel as its crown jewel, he has a prime...
What This Former USAID Head Had to Say About Elon Musk and DOGE
Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former head of USAID, has spent his career on the frontlines of the fight against global pover...
Coming Soon: Bold Names Season Three
Every day, Wall Street Journal reporters talk with the most powerful, influential and interesting people. On the next season of WSJ’s Bold Names podca...
‘Businesses Don’t Like Uncertainty’: How Cisco Is Navigating AI and Trump 2.0
Few people sit at the nexus of business and politics like Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. As head of a company that makes much of the infrastructure underlyi...
Could Amazon’s Zoox Beat Tesla and Waymo in the Robotaxi Race?
When Aicha Evans took over robotaxi startup Zoox from its founders in 2019, she made two big moves: selling the company to Amazon for over $1.2 billio...
Palmer Luckey's 'I Told You So' Tour: AI Weapons and Vindication
Palmer Luckey, the founder of weapons manufacturer Anduril, was part of a minority in the tech sector that supported President Trump during his first...
Humanoid Robot Startups Are Hot. This AI Expert Cuts Through the Hype.
Ayanna Howard is dean of The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering, an IEEE Senior Member, and a top expert on two of the most hyped fields i...
Reid Hoffman Says AI Isn’t an ‘Arms Race,’ but America Needs to Win
LinkedIn co-founder and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Reid Hoffman is cautiously optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence. In his ne...
Why Bilt’s CEO Wants You To Pay Your Mortgage With a Credit Card
Bilt Rewards founder and CEO Ankur Jain took inspiration from American Express’s rewards programs when his company began offering people loyalty point...
Introducing: Bold Names
Every day, Wall Street Journal reporters talk with the most powerful, influential and interesting people. Now, we’re bringing some of those conversati...
The CEO Who Says Cheaper AI Could Actually Mean More Jobs
Cloud storage used to be a sleepy part of the computing world but, with artificial intelligence becoming cheaper than ever, the companies collecting a...
Why Elon Musk’s Battery Guy Is Betting Big on Recycling
JB Straubel was Elon Musk’s battery guy. Now he’s trying to turn what some see as trash into power for the electric vehicle revolution. Straubel was t...