Sophia Amoruso, Nasty Gal founder: I was out of my league
“I had hired a CEO for the last two years. The company was at a place where revenue had plateaued. I wasn’t someone who could look at a spre...
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20 of 1,963 episodesVadym Skibitsky, Ukrainian intelligence: We are fighting for survival
“We don’t have another way for surviving, because we are an independent state, it's our territory, it's our land, it’s our culture, it’s our...
Rene Haas, Arm CEO: AI demand won’t slow
“Let's go back to the timeframe with the internet building out. We didn’t have an issue that the internet 20 years later is not a valuable u...
Leah Solivan, TaskRabbit founder: How the gig economy falls short
“People just wanted to own the way they worked, but with that comes these institutional structures that have been built around the history o...
Daron Acemoglu, Economist: Liberal democracy is in crisis
BBC Newsnight presenter Paddy O’Connell speaks to Nobel Prize-winning economist Daron Acemoglu about why he thinks liberal democracy is in c...
Michelle Bachelet, UN Chief candidate: Time for a woman to lead
“For 80 years, we only have men [lead the UN] and I think it is not about women because she is a woman … The idea is a woman because she has...
Kristina Wilfore: Male anxieties being weaponised
“It's a distortion of real pressures. When I'm analysing trends around men…they are wanting to lean into what being a man means. In many cas...
Joe Ngai, McKinsey: Domestic rivalry drives Chinese firms
“More Chinese companies are put out of business by other Chinese companies. Chinese companies are not put out of business because of Western...
María Fernanda Espinosa, UN secretary general candidate: The UN risks becoming irrelevant
“Sometimes we confuse activity with impact. And here I think the way we measure results should be different. How many lives has the UN saved...
Mopreme Shakur on Tupac: The sensitive man behind the music
“I think Pac was actually traumatised by the poverty. You know, poverty can be very, very traumatic. Having no lights, having no food from t...
Hunter Biden: Father’s pardon not good for country
“Was it good for our Constitution? Was it good for the American people? Was it good for my dad's legacy? No, on all counts. It was not. All...
Celeste Saulo, WMO: Extreme weather is the new normal
“[This weather] is a new norm, and we need to make sure that we are prepared to deal with that…these extreme wildfires put more responsibili...
Dmitry Muratov, journalist: Putin can’t claim victory in Ukraine
"There are repressions, political repressions, against freedom of speech, against elections, against the rights of citizens to hold mass eve...
Yemi Alade, singer: I wanted to be a mega superstar
“I just knew that I wanted to be a mega superstar and I didn't know how…I feel like Africa chose me before I even chose Africa, and I feel m...
Sonam Wangchuk, Indian activist: Hunger strike for education reform
“This movement was by young people who had hardly anything to lose. We had no fear and that's what spread across the country and today peopl...
Carlos Acosta, dancer: Ballet is for everyone
“It's very important that we expose this work early on, so that people from different cultures see ballet as a way of a career. But in the 1...
Srinivasan Muralidhar: The trauma of Palestinian children
‘When it comes to humanitarian crisis, we should not allow children's future to be subject to geopolitics. We can't say that there are polit...
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Ghana’s Foreign Minister: Slavery scars our collective conscience
“The time has come for the international community to be honest, not to be hypocritical, not be selective, not engage in erasure, but to adm...
Sumant Sinha: Green tech to triumph over drilling
Leanna Byrne speaks to Sumant Sinha, the founder of ReNew, one of India's largest renewable energy companies about why he thinks green and c...
Gayton McKenzie, South African minister: Immigration unrest
“This is a legitimate concern of South Africans, where there’s illegal foreigners, people with no paperwork. No country in the world allows...