Intelligence Squared: Business
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Working Backwards: The Secrets of Amazon's Success
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018 Amazon became the world’s second trillion dollar company after Apple: a remarkable success story for a company launched out of a garage in 1...
Tarzan Economics: Lessons from Spotify, with Will Page and Linda Yueh
08 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode former chief economist at Spotify Will Page speaks to Linda Yueh about the near destruction of the music industry at the hands ...
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, with Shoshana Zuboff and Ros Urwin
02 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode Shoshana Zuboff speaks to Ros Urwin about the rise of Surveillance Capitalism and how from personalisation to facial recognitio...
The Audio Revolution, with Govind Balakrishnan and Manveen Rana
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we are joined by Govind Balakrishnan CEO and co-founder of audio journalism platform Curio, which has been backed by investors ...
Europe's Booming Tech Scene, with Mattias Ljungman and Linda Yueh
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the exponential growth of companies like Spotify and Ayden can Europe finally rival the U.S and China as the world's leading tech hub? In this we...
NFT's and Why Blockchain Means Business, with Sheila Warren and Carl Miller
12 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode we discuss the explosive rise of NFT's as well as the long terms trends in blockchain that will change how we do business and l...
The Dawn of Autonomous Finance, with Georg Kell and Linda Yueh
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode Georg Kell speaks to Linda Yueh about the dawn of autonomous finance and how artificial intelligence is shaping the future of i...
Radical Uncertainty, with Mervyn King and John Kay
13 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In these uncertain times, we're exploring the concept of 'radical uncertainty' in this episode with Mervyn King, the former Governor of the Bank of En...
Zombie Economics, with Paul Krugman and Linda Yueh
04 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode New York Times columnist Paul Krugman speaks to Linda Yueh about 'Zombie Economics' and the most prevalent myths that still exi...
What's Wrong with Philanthropy? Anand Giridharadas and Anne McElvoy
28 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This week's episode features an event with Anand Giridharadas who came to the Intelligence Squared stage to explain what he calls the charade whereby ...
How I Disrupted an Industry, with CEO of Starling Bank Anne Boden
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode Anne Boden CEO of Starling Bank speaks to Linda Yueh about setting up her own bank. In this remarkable story Boden reveals how ...
Falling Out of Love with Silicon Valley, Wendy Liu and Carl Miller
14 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, former Silicon Valley insider turned critic Wendy Liu speaks to Carl Miller about her personal experiences with the glamour and contr...
Investing During a Pandemic, with Bradley Tusk and Linda Yueh
08 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's Intelligence Squared Business tech investor and political strategist Bradley Tusk speaks to Linda Yueh about how the world of investing...
Why generalists are more successful than specialists
31 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Studying the world's most successful athletes, artists, musicians, inventors and scientists, David Epstein demonstrates why in most fields – especia...
YouTube in the Age of Covid-19, with Zayna Aston and Carl Miller
24 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this week's episode Zayna Aston, head of YouTube Communications for Europe, Middle East and Africa, speaks to Carl Miller about how Covid-19 has ch...
The Unexpected Paths to Success, with Guy Raz and Carl Miller
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Great ideas often come from a simple spark: A soccer player on the New Zealand national team notices all the unused wool his country produces and figu...
No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In 2010, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger released a photo-sharing app called Instagram, with one simple but irresistible feature: it would make anythin...
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In its earliest days, WeWork promised the impossible: to make the workplace cool. In episode one of Intelligence Squared Business Reeves Wiedeman tell...
Trailer: Intelligence Squared Business Coming Soon
27 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In our age of disruption and uncertainty, Covid-19 and climate change, the need to debate our economic future has never been more important. In this n...