Bold Names
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Bold Names

by The Wall Street Journal

WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being made in the C-suite and beyond.

51 episodes
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1
The SEAL Turned CEO: Brandon Tseng on the AI-Powered Future of War
31:24 Mar 13, 2026
2
The AI Agent in Your Pocket: Qualcomm’s CEO on the Future of Mobile
27:42 Mar 6, 2026
3
Can Zillow’s 'Super App' Fix a Broken Housing Market?
28:59 Feb 27, 2026
4
Why Cigna’s CEO Is Confident We Can Fix American Healthcare
25:52 Feb 20, 2026
5
Encore: Can IBM Beat Microsoft and Google in the Quantum Computing Race?
35:57 Feb 13, 2026
6
‘We Sell Scarcity:’ How Lamborghini Continues to Stay So Cool
25:01 Feb 6, 2026
7
How SAP's CEO Is Remaking the European Tech Giant For The Age Of AI
25:50 Jan 30, 2026
8
How Athletic Brewing Sells Beer for a Post-Alcohol Generation
26:21 Jan 23, 2026
9
How Corning Is Using Trump’s Tariffs To Its Advantage
30:15 Jan 16, 2026
10
Affirm’s Max Levchin: Why ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Beats Credit Cards
26:47 Jan 9, 2026
11
Even More Bold Names in 2026
1:51 Jan 2, 2026
12
Encore: This CEO Says Humanoid Robots Are The "Space Race" of Our Time
32:31 Dec 26, 2025
13
SPECIAL WSJ’s Take On the Week: How This Fed Hawk Views the Economy, Inflation, AI and Jobs
39:39 Dec 23, 2025
14
The Boldest Ideas of 2025 — And What’s in Store for 2026
24:03 Dec 19, 2025
15
Inside PlayStation's Plans to Lead a $200 Billion Industry
26:05 Dec 12, 2025
16
McLaren CEO Zak Brown On F1 And Business Strategy At 200 Miles Per Hour
30:55 Dec 5, 2025
17
SPECIAL WSJ Tech Live: The Man Leading Trump’s AI Charge Against China (The Journal Podcast)
22:59 Nov 28, 2025
18
Biden’s Antitrust Architect on How Big Tech Threatens U.S. Prosperity
36:23 Nov 21, 2025
19
The World’s Tech Giants Are Running Out of Power. This CEO Plans to Deliver.
31:21 Nov 14, 2025
20
How Uber Plans to Win the Self-Driving Car Race
31:03 Nov 7, 2025
21
Inside Visa’s Tech-Charged Future: From Crypto to AI
28:18 Oct 31, 2025
22
This Tech Founder's $1.3 Billion Company Is Taking On Apple and Samsung
29:42 Oct 24, 2025
23
Why This Investor Says the AI Boom Isn’t the Next Dot-Com Crash
31:06 Oct 17, 2025
24
The Google Exec Reinventing Search in the AI Era
33:56 Oct 10, 2025
25
Condoleezza Rice on Beating China in the Tech Race: 'Run Hard and Run Fast'
35:05 Oct 3, 2025
26
The Google-Backed Startup Taking on Elon Musk in Humanoid Robotics
31:46 Sep 26, 2025
27
How the U.S. Stacks Up to China’s ‘Engineering State’
38:25 Sep 19, 2025
28
Why IBM's CEO Thinks His Company Can Crack Quantum Computing
35:19 Sep 12, 2025
29
Bold Names Is Back
3:11 Sep 5, 2025
30
From AI and Defense Tech, to Tariffs and the New Streaming Wars: The Best of Bold Names
48:03 Aug 29, 2025
31
Space Trucks: One Startup’s Plan to Get the U.S. Back on the Moon
50:17 Aug 8, 2025
32
How Tubi Is Coming for Netflix and YouTube in the New Streaming Wars
47:14 Aug 1, 2025
33
Are AI Agents the Future of Business? Salesforce Is Betting $8 Billion on It
40:50 Jul 25, 2025
34
Encore: Could Amazon’s Zoox Beat Tesla and Waymo in the Robotaxi Race?
40:40 Jul 18, 2025
35
Tariffs, EVs and China: A CEO Insider’s View of the Car Business
41:29 Jul 11, 2025
36
Why José Andrés Says We Need Leaders Who Believe in ‘Longer Tables’
35:12 Jul 9, 2025
37
How Microsoft’s AI Chief Defines ‘Humanist Super Intelligence’
43:00 Jul 2, 2025
38
Booz Allen CEO on Silicon Valley’s Turn to Defense Tech: ‘We Need Everybody.’
38:04 Jun 27, 2025
39
This CEO Says Global Trade Is Broken. What Comes Next?
37:56 May 23, 2025
40
This Company Has a Plan to Beat Neuralink at the Brain-Computer Interface Game
35:17 May 16, 2025
41
Venture Capitalist Sarah Guo’s Surprising Bet on Unsexy AI
35:39 May 9, 2025
42
How Zipline’s Drones Are Taking Off in the U.S. and Rivaling Amazon
32:52 May 2, 2025
43
70,000 Bets a Minute: How FanDuel’s Parent Is Winning at Sports Gambling
32:23 Apr 25, 2025
44
What This Former USAID Head Had to Say About Elon Musk and DOGE
32:55 Apr 18, 2025
45
Coming Soon: Bold Names Season Three
2:00 Apr 11, 2025
46
‘Businesses Don’t Like Uncertainty’: How Cisco Is Navigating AI and Trump 2.0
31:12 Mar 21, 2025
47
Could Amazon’s Zoox Beat Tesla and Waymo in the Robotaxi Race?
32:50 Mar 14, 2025
48
Palmer Luckey's 'I Told You So' Tour: AI Weapons and Vindication
31:07 Mar 7, 2025
49
Humanoid Robot Startups Are Hot. This AI Expert Cuts Through the Hype.
31:07 Feb 28, 2025
50
Reid Hoffman Says AI Isn’t an ‘Arms Race,’ but America Needs to Win
30:11 Feb 21, 2025
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