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Out of Office

Bloomberg

Join us for unconventional conversations about life and leadership in Out of Office, hosted by Mallika Kapur. Tune in to hear newsmakers talk about things they don't get asked about in the o...

Episodes

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Listen Now: Misconception

Reality TV stars are freezing their eggs on camera. Lawmakers in DC are debating federal protection for IVF. Hundreds of millions of dollars...

1:00Aug 11, 2024

BNP Asset Management CEO: Making Mistakes is a Law of Nature

Sandro Pierri had no clue what mutual funds were when he first ventured into the world of finance. Today, the boy who grew up in a small Ita...

26:59Jun 29, 2023

John Chambers: Former Cisco Chief on Leadership Lessons from a Child

A legend in the tech industry, the former CISCO CEO reveals why a chat with a young girl at a work function turned out to be a pivotal momen...

34:15Jun 1, 2023

Julia Hartz: Eventbrite CEO on Activating Her Mamma Bear

At the start of the pandemic, Julia Hartz realized she might lose everything she had spent 14 years building. So the co-founder and CEO of E...

38:25May 11, 2023

Bobbi Brown's Second Act: A Clean Makeup Brand That's Distinctly Bobbi

More than 30 years ago, a new mom, tinkered with creating lipsticks from her bedroom in a New York City suburb, found a chemist who manufact...

35:27Apr 20, 2023

CFA’s CEO on The World’s Toughest Exam and More

In the early days of her career, Marg Franklin took the formidable CFA exam. It didn’t go according to plan. An exhausted new mother, she do...

33:53Mar 23, 2023

One Night in a Manila Slum Sparked a Global Movement

When Hugh Evans was 14, he spent one night in a Manila slum as part of a school trip. Surrounded by crawling cockroaches and rancid garbage,...

44:50Mar 9, 2023

A Celebrity Chef in Earthquake-Ravaged Turkey

Hours after the earthquake that flattened parts of Turkey and Syria, celebrity chef and founder of World Central Kitchen, José Andrés turned...

15:26Feb 24, 2023

Sixty Thousand on the Waitlist: Why Women Are Flocking to This Club

Carolyn Childers grew up in a town so small it had no traffic lights. Now, the club she co-foundered - Chief - connects more than 20,000 wom...

32:01Feb 9, 2023

LL Bean’s Great Grandson and Company Chairman Takes us Inside the Outdoor Business

Over 100 years ago, L.L. Bean combined leather with rubber to create a unique shoe that would keep his feet warm when he went fishing. The r...

38:40Dec 8, 2022

Dropbox CEO: On Work, Guitars and Steve Jobs

Dropbox is best-known for its service that lets consumers easily sync files between computers. At least, that's how began 15 years ago. Toda...

45:22Nov 24, 2022

Serial Entrepreneur: The Many Lives of Marc Lore

Marc Lore founded two e-commerce startups and sold them for $550 million and $3.3 billion before spending the last five years running Walmar...

49:15Sep 29, 2022

Catherine Powell: My Super Power? Vulnerability

Catherine Powell draws on her tenure at Disney - and now Airbnb - to explain how vulnerability translates into courage. The head of hosting...

39:38Sep 8, 2022

Jim Rogers: The Secret to Profitable Investing? Be Boring

Jim Rogers grew up poor in a town so small that his phone number consisted of one digit: 5. He was desperate to see the world. He gave himse...

30:59Aug 4, 2022

Lavanya Chari: Crushing it with Empathy

“You are not aggressive enough.” That’s the feedback banker Lavanya Chari was given early in her career. Over the years, she learned that be...

31:51Jul 21, 2022

Patrick Spence: The CEO of Sonos on Supporting Underdogs and Fighting Giants

When Patrick Spence joined Research in Motion, few people had heard of the company. That was before it became a global sensation as the make...

38:33Jun 23, 2022

John Chambers: Former Cisco Chief on Leadership Lessons from a Child

A legend in the tech industry, the former CISCO CEO reveals why a chat with a young girl at a work function turned out to be a pivotal momen...

33:54Jun 9, 2022

From Bankruptcy to a Billion Dollar Business

Jim Weber has been the chief executive of Brooks Running since 2001. In his newly released book, "Running With Purpose," Weber talks about h...

37:38May 5, 2022

Kağan Sümer: Building Europe’s Fastest Unicorn

From bread-baking to DIY home renovation, many people started new activities during the pandemic. Kağan Sümer started a new company. Ov...

36:47Apr 21, 2022

Women at Work: An Honest Chat with Luminary’s CEO

The pandemic has been rough on everyone, but women in particular have suffered as they try to juggle Zoom calls with their endless responsib...

47:53Mar 31, 2022