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From the real-world impact of AI and the rise of operator-investors, to the growing influence of women and underestimated founders in the funding landscape. Sarah breaks down what’s happening beyond Silicon Valley, explore how capital and media now move together, and spotlight the billion-dollar ideas driving the next wave of innovation.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups
Getting Users Hooked & Regaining Control of Your Attention with Nir Eyal
You're holding yourself back and don't even know it.
A ping on your phone takes you out of a conversation with a friend. At the office, a colleague interrupts your work on a project. At home, screens intrude on time with your partner.
Your goals don’t get done and it feels like someone (or something) is constantly pulling you away from what you really want to do.
Why does it seem we’re no longer in control of our attention or our lives?
How different would your life be if you were “indistractable”?
In today's conversation, I sit down with WSJ Best-Selling Author, investor & legend Nir Eyal who shatters the narrative that the problem is our gadgets, but a symptom of a deeper dysfunction, as he examines in his book 'Indistractable'.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups
Scaling a $4.2Bn Global Business with Nicole Sahin, G-P
While scaling globally seems often to be part of the 'Billion Dollar Plan', it is hardly as simple as it is thought to be. Nicole Sahin who founded and scaled G-P, a global PEO leader from an idea to over $4Bn in value chats with me in Davos on her thoughts on the future of work, the challenges of globalization and some of her own hard lessons in scaling.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups
The Non-Political Leader with Global CEO LEGO, Deloitte
The 'non-political' company leader.
In 2020/2021, we saw feathers ruffled when leaders like those from Google Coinbase declared certain "political activism" was a distraction.
Employees walked out since of course, in many ways, we're in a generation that have been told to bring "our full selves to work", including our belief systems.
But how do we as leaders, manage what feels like a double bind?
I ask global leaders,
Niels B. Christiansen, CEO of the LEGO Group,
Stanley Bergman Chair of Henry Schein,
Joseph Ucuzoglu, Global CEO Deloitte to weigh in at #Davos2023 World Economic Forum.
Here's what they said, do you agree?
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth
Quiet Quitting, Leading with Clarity with Silvia Wiesner, Former MD, Unilever
PEOPLE LEAVE FOR BAD LEADERS.
'Quiet quitting', demands for the 4-day workweek: what a spoiled generation!
Tune in to what Silvia Wiesner (She/Her) former MD at Unilever has to say about the billion-dollar question leaders are asking:
"What does the next generation of the workforce want?"
And yes, so much more as we give you an inside look of Davos 2023 we just returned from.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups, Venture Capital
The Cost of Influence & Billion Dollar Ambitions with Vivy Yusof, Fashion Valet Group
FashionValet.com, an online marketplace that once stocked over 400 brands across Southeast Asia, became a major regional player in the fashion industry but, by 2022, she had wound the venture down, shifting her focus to her own in-house modest fashion brands, dUCK and Lilit. The silver lining? By 2022, Yusof had built a network of 14 physical stores across Malaysia and Singapore and sold more than 3 million scarves from just one of her brands. Today, we unpack Vivy’s journey, the cost of building a brand around herself, her regret on not acting on her gut and her BILLION DOLLAR AMBITIONS for her next decade in the modest fashion industry.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups, Venture Capital
Building World-Class Brands & Rising with Authenticity with Eric Toda
Exiled from the only place she knew to be home, Iranian singer, Gola (Golazin) shares her story on how her first hand experiences of life under the oppressive Iranian Regime shaped her as a fearless, international women’s rights advocate. Fighting everyday to have her voice heard since female solo singers are not allowed to release songs or perform publicly in Iran, Gola shows us what pushing boundaries and true bravery means; and how at the edge of your deepest fear could lay your greatest potential.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups, Venture Capital
Scaling Yourself As CEO with Kim Yao
Exiled from the only place she knew to be home, Iranian singer, Gola (Golazin) shares her story on how her first hand experiences of life under the oppressive Iranian Regime shaped her as a fearless, international women’s rights advocate. Fighting everyday to have her voice heard since female solo singers are not allowed to release songs or perform publicly in Iran, Gola shows us what pushing boundaries and true bravery means; and how at the edge of your deepest fear could lay your greatest potential.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth, Startups, Venture Capital
Reinventing Your Career At Every Age, Leveraging Diversity
Exiled from the only place she knew to be home, Iranian singer, Gola (Golazin) shares her story on how her first hand experiences of life under the oppressive Iranian Regime shaped her as a fearless, international women’s rights advocate. Fighting everyday to have her voice heard since female solo singers are not allowed to release songs or perform publicly in Iran, Gola shows us what pushing boundaries and true bravery means; and how at the edge of your deepest fear could lay your greatest potential.
- Billion Dollar Moves Episodes, Personal Growth
Turning Fear to Power: Exiled Iranian Singer Gola
Exiled from the only place she knew to be home, Iranian singer, Gola (Golazin) shares her story on how her first hand experiences of life under the oppressive Iranian Regime shaped her as a fearless, international women’s rights advocate. Fighting everyday to have her voice heard since female solo singers are not allowed to release songs or perform publicly in Iran, Gola shows us what pushing boundaries and true bravery means; and how at the edge of your deepest fear could lay your greatest potential.