Ming Zeng, the chief strategy officer at Alibaba, talks about how the China-based e-commerce company was able to create the biggest online shopping site in the world. He credits Alibaba’s retail and distribution juggernaut to leveraging automation, algorithms, and networks to better serve customers. And he says in the future, successful digital companies wil ... Show More
Aug 19
How to Bring More Rigor to Your Long-Term Thinking
Amid great economic, political, and technological change, it can feel impossible to predict what might happen next. Nick Foster, a futurist and designer who has worked at Google X, Sony, and elsewhere, says that most of us struggle because we tend to fall into one pattern of thin ... Show More
32m 1s
Mar 2023
329: McKinsey's Venkat Atluri, How to thrive in the ecosystem economy
Welcome to Strategy Skills episode 329, an episode with a Senior Partner and the global leader in the Tech and Telecommunication practice at McKinsey and Company, Venkat Atluri. In this episode, we defined the emerging ecosystem economy and how most successful companies navigate ... Show More
57m 50s
Oct 2023
Bin Ren, CEO of SigTech On Potential Applications Of Generative AI And Democratizing Quant Trading
In the latest episode of Innovators' Exchange, Hiten Patel speaks with Bin Ren, the CEO and co-founder of SigTech, a leading provider of quant technologies. The discussion centers around democratizing access to quant trading strategies, the surge of retail investing, and the prof ... Show More
26m 46s
Mar 2017
Startup Artificial Intelligence Companies in China
Most of our recent investor interviews have been Bay area investors, like Accenture and Canvas, and we don't usually get to speak with investors overseas, particularly in Asia. This week, however, we interviewed Tak Lo, a partner with Zeroth.ai, an accelerator program and cohort ... Show More
23m 13s
Nov 2018
Investor, AI Pioneer Kai-Fu Lee on the Future of AI in the US, China - Ep. 72
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee has been at the center of artificial intelligence for decades. dr. Lee developed the world's first speaker independent continuous speech recognition system, selected as the most important innovation of the year by BusinessWeek, and that was back in 1988. In the thr ... Show More
33m 53s
Apr 2024
The Secrets of Brands Winning at Digital Marketing
In the noisy world of digital marketing, what can catapult a brand to "genius" status? Suzanne Schwartz, Senior Director Analyst in the Gartner for Marketing Leaders practice, delves into the findings of our annual Genius Brands report, which benchmarks the digital marketing perf ... Show More
22m 29s