Big tech is transforming every aspect of our world. But how, and at what cost? This season of Land of the Giants – The Disney Dilemma – focuses on Disney’s ability to weather the ups and downs of the business cycle and changing tastes and explores what has kept it successful for over 100 years. The entertainment giant has leveraged nostalgia and its intellectual property to build a beloved brand, but after an acquisition spree that included Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Fox, can it sus ...
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How do you make AI useful? While a lot of money and attention have been focused on foundational models and chips – the "picks and shovels" of AI – it takes a different skill set to create AI products that change the way we work, learn, and live. We’re seeing this in AI co-pilots, AI-first networks and marketplaces, and entirely reimagined software categories where AI is solving long-standing challenges in new ways. But how do they actually do it? Greylock partner and former product builder S ...
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Live Style Europe : is a monthly radio show presented by Live DMA, European non-governmental network representing over 3000 live music venues, clubs, and festivals in 16 different countries and working to support and to promote the condition of the European live music sector. Each month, we invite a live music expert from our network to discuss topics that caught the attention of the European music industry: from policies and regulations, over European cooperation projects up to initiatives ...
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Binky Griptite is well known to soul fans around the world as a founding member of the legendary Dap-Kings. If that’s news to you, Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings revitalized modern soul music with Sharon’s dynamic performances, and the Dap Kings’ vintage sound would eventually propel Amy Winehouse to superstardom and Sharon Jones to legendary status. All emceed by your Master of Ceremonies Binky Griptite. After Sharon’s passing in 2016, Binky turned his attention to his long held dream - a r ...
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Jumping into the world of entrepreneurship calls for strategic planning and careful preparation. It needs a lot of your attention for it to become profitable and successful. But sometimes, even with all your hard work, it still feels like you are accomplishing nothing. You continue to fall short on hitting your goals and earn just enough to get through. What can you do to get out of this hamster wheel? Welcome to Business Smarts, your guide on becoming a more intelligent entrepreneur who bri ...
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Auckland Family Lawyer Naomi Cramer prides herself on delivering comprehensive and expert legal services tailored to the diverse needs of families throughout New Zealand. Our esteemed team of Family Court Lawyers is dedicated to guiding clients through the intricate landscape of family law with unparalleled compassion, professionalism, and expertise. Whether you’re seeking a Family Lawyer in West Auckland, Manukau, South Auckland, or Auckland CBD, our seasoned attorneys stand ready to offer ...
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Taking Children Overseas Child Abduction Hague
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Guardianship and Decision-Making Under the Care of Children Act Under the Care of Children Act, both parents are generally recognized as guardians, meaning they share the duty of making key decisions concerning their child's life. This responsibility includes choices about the child's education, health care, religious upbringing, and notably, where…
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Streaming didn’t just change the way consumers watched movies and TV shows, it reconfigured how media giants operated, and how they saw themselves. If tech companies were disrupting old business models, perhaps Disney’s best move was to join the crowd. In our final episode, we look at how streaming has fundamentally changed Disney and prepared the …
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In NZ family law, a guardian is typically a child's parents; mother and father. They have the legal responsibility to make significant decisions for a child under 18 years old. This includes decisions about the child's upbringing, education, health, and welfare. Parents are typically the child's guardians, but others can be appointed by the court C…
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The Walt Disney Company has been led by eight different men in its century of existence. But few would object to the idea that only three have really mattered. Walt Disney, Michael Eisner, and Bob Iger have all made lasting impacts on the company, but how these executives went out also left an important impression. Why has Disney repeatedly struggl…
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Marvel and Star Wars are the crown jewels of Disney’s empire. They’re the highest-grossing movie franchises in history, with devoted fan bases and expansive IP universes, but right now, both are in a bit of a slump. As Disney asked for more and more content to satisfy its business needs, the creative process suffered, and these once mighty hit-maki…
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Family Law: Whats the difference between day to day care custody and contact
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day to day care custody and custody Family Law Understanding Day-to-Day Care, Custody, and Contact in NZ Family Law in NZ. The Care of Children Act 2004 defines day-to-day care, custody legal guardianship and contact; time spent with non-custodial parent Naomi Cramer a leading family lawyer offers expert guidance and representation to ensure your c…
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Auckland family Lawyer , experienced Family Court Lawyers for divorce, protection orders child custody legal advice Family Law Auckland Family Lawyer is dedicated to delivering a full spectrum of legal services tailored for families throughout New Zealand. Our proficient team of Family Court Lawyers is committed to guiding clients through the intri…
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Disney’s soul is arguably its animation studio, which has a 100-year track record of creating iconic characters and stories, and a distinct brand centered around “once upon a time.” Not so long ago, Disney produced films like "The Little Mermaid" and "The Lion King," catapulting animation into the mainstream while burnishing Disney's own brand as t…
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These days the Walt Disney Company is mostly a theme parks company. About 70 percent of its operating income comes from its parks and other experiences like Disney Cruises. But the parks do something else: they help the company attach itself to our emotions, memories, and identities. How can Disney continue to strengthen this relationship in an era…
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When you think about Disney, your first thought isn’t “cable television giant.” But Disney’s broadcast and cable television holdings, especially ESPN, helped turbocharge Disney’s growth over the last 30 years. It was a formula that worked extremely well – until now. As more and more consumers cut the cable cord, Disney must reckon with declining as…
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Balaji Srinivasan on Crypto as an AI Accelerant
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AI is great at making things up (and very quickly, in large quantities). Crypto excels at verifying what's real. How can the two technologies complement one another? Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan believes crypto can be an accelerant to AI development and adoption in finance, employment, government, and more by providing "proof of human" ver…
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Over the past 100 years, the Walt Disney Company has grown from a small animation studio to become one of the largest companies in the world, with an enviable history of creative and financial success. But as it's grown and acquired companies like Marvel, Pixar, and Lucasfilm, can its winning streak continue? What has Disney lost in the process of …
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Mustafa Suleyman on Defining Intelligence
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Getting AI to do what we want it to comes down to understanding how intelligence actually works. AI pioneer Mustafa Suleyman has been at the forefront of the technology through several major leaps forward, and believes we're getting very close to the day where AI fades into the background as it intelligently powers nearly everything we do on comput…
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While most other AI chat interfaces today are aimed at saving humans time, Replika is designed for the opposite. As one of the first AI "friends", the chatbot is designed for humans to spend quality time with, having meaningful conversations and fostering deep connections. When Eugenia Kuyda founded the company in 2017, she figured Replika would be…
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Guest episode hosted by Greylock partner Saam Motamedi. Just as app tracking transparency rules shut the door on targeted ads, AI opened up new channels of customer engagement and personalization. Fermat is built on the convergence of those two paradigm shifts. The company provides AI-powered tooling and infrastructure for distributed commerce busi…
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Perplexity's Aravind Srinivas on Disrupting Search with AI
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Our questions deserve more than the handful of blue links we’ve all come to expect from search engines. AI has made it possible to receive detailed, cohesive, and personalized answers to almost anything we want to ask. Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas breaks down how his company built the “answer engine” that is disrupting search. Srinivas believes …
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Microsoft's Jared Spataro on Rewiring How We Work
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Jared Spataro has been leading work modernization efforts for Microsoft for more than 15 years, helping to launch and scale products that enterprise organizations use every day while keeping up with the latest tech shifts. AI has made every part of his job move faster. Now, a little more than a year after the release of Microsoft's Copilot for 365,…
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Adept CEO David Luan on Upleveling Human Work
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Adept CEO and co-founder David Luan has been riding the LLM wave since the early days of the modern AI boom: an early OpenAI employee, he led the company’s engineering team before serving as the tech lead for Google Brain’s work on LLMs. He co-founded Adept in 2022 to develop multimodal agents built to work alongside humans in any profession. Belie…
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How could AI be the catalyst for the next wave of iconic networks? It helps to remember that regardless of the platform shift that gives rise to a new breed of networks, there are various components that must come together for them to actually work. From LinkedIn and Meta to Airbnb and TikTok, the fundamentals are the same: clear value proposition,…
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Building the AI Platform for Finance Teams
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The first episode of Product-Led AI, where Greylock investor Seth Rosenberg chats with builders putting the power of AI into products that people love. Fintech company Ramp has always been obsessed with time. The one-stop-shop financial operations platform was purpose-built to make businesses more efficient so they can focus on the work that really…
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In October 2022, Elon Musk made the world’s most expensive impulse purchase. His reasons for buying Twitter were murky at best, but in the story he tells now, he’s saving civilization. In the final episode of this season, we look at Twitter today, inside Elon’s fantasy. What happens when the world’s richest man buys the global town square - and ann…
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Twitter employees had always imagined the platform would be used for social good. Their idea was that free expression on the internet would lead to good things. But after the 2016 U.S. election, that notion would be put under stress. And Twitter would have to grapple with the question: what happens when its powerful superuser - who also happens to …
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Twitter was created by its users, who invented features like the retweet and hashtag. These features helped create vibrant communities like Black Twitter and Comedy Twitter, but eventually, some groups exploited Twitter’s virality in order to intimidate and harass others online. In this episode: how Twitter became the best and worst place on the in…
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Twitter began life as an accident. In the beginning, even its founders weren’t sure what it was: the internet’s town square, a real-time information source, or the next Facebook, maybe? Twitter's power has always been misunderstood -- by its leaders, by its users, and lately, by the world's richest person. Hosted by Peter Kafka (@pkafka) Be the fir…
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A year ago, in what was essentially the world’s most expensive impulse purchase, Elon Musk bought Twitter. That made him Twitter’s most important user. But he’s certainly not the only one to fall for its spell - a spell that promises attention, connection, and power. This season will explore why Twitter’s cultural and political influence far exceed…
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Tesla has spurred the EV revolution around the world, most notably in China. So why is the US so far behind on EV adoption, when it's the birthplace of Tesla? What went wrong here? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Vulture
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Seven years ago, Elon Musk stood on stage and said he “would consider autonomous driving to be basically a solved problem.” He also said Teslas could “drive with greater safety than a person right now.” That statement wasn’t true. But Musk has continued making this claim. Meanwhile, several other companies have made major strides on autonomous driv…
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“Please prepare yourself for a level of intensity that is greater than anything most of you have ever experienced before,” Elon Musk once wrote in an email to employees at Tesla. The subject line, “ultra hardcore,” also operates as an edict - go hard or go anywhere else. But this “ultra hardcore” philosophy has led to injuries, scandals and lawsuit…
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A few years ago Tesla owned roughly 80% of the EV market. But now, the company’s share is down to 60%. And some projections whittle it down even further - to just 18% - by 2026. It appears the competition has caught up… or has it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Vulture
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Not many people can name the original founders of Tesla. So how did two guys who wanted to build an electric car create a company synonymous with Elon Musk? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesBy Vulture
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Before Teslas were everywhere, they were playthings for the rich and famous. Building its first affordable car made Tesla a breakout success, but it nearly bankrupted the company. This is the story of how the Model 3 changed Tesla and the entire auto industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices…
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About a decade ago, Tesla did something extraordinary: it started making electric cars people actually wanted to drive. They were fast. They were high-tech, and eventually, Tesla reset the future of cars. Now, with the entire industry racing to go electric, can Tesla continue to lead the charge against the best carmakers in the world? ‘The Tesla Sh…
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This episode is conducted by Juliette with Live DMA, the European network for live music associations. Today's topic is resiliance, the capacity to adapt and transform in the face of change.By Live DMA
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Cafés culture et nuisance sonore - Collectif Culture Bar-Bars
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Un épisode spécial en français, sur le thème des nuisances sonores. Chloé Lebail du collectif culture Bar-Bars aborde avec nous la question des plaintes pour les bars-concerts situés en centre-ville.By Live DMA
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In this episode, Juliette analyzes the relationship between venues and their neighbours, and more specifically about noise complaints. What solutions exist to accomodate live music and peace with locals ?By Live DMA
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Looking ahead, where is dating headed? Is it leaning into artificial intelligence or dating chat bots? Or is it unplugging and trying to meet people the old-fashioned way – in real life? And with Gen Z skeptical of dating apps, will tech continue to manage the dating experience? Hosted by Sangeeta Singh Kurtz (@sangeetaskurtz) and Lakshmi Rengaraja…
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Welcome to the wide world of niche dating apps. There's an app for almost every group -- Muslims, vegans, the kink community, cat lovers, farmers, rock climbers, and many more. All aimed at helping specific communities find "their people." But do these apps work, and are they sustainable as a business? Hosted by Sangeeta Singh Kurtz (@sangeetaskurt…
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Bumble is the second most downloaded dating app in the U.S., behind Tinder. Dubbed the "feminist dating app," the "anti-Tinder" was designed to make dating feel better, safer, and less creepy for women. But does Bumble deliver on its promise? In today's episode, the story of how Bumble came to rival the power of Tinder and Match Group by harnessing…
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The Secret Algorithms That Control Your Love Life
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Dating app execs don’t like to explain how their matchmaking algorithms work– they’ll claim it’s too hard to explain, or that they just can’t talk about it, Fight Club style. But critics say that if daters really knew how basic the algorithms are, they might not put so much blind faith into them. In this episode, we dive into just how these algorit…
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Tinder, Hinge, OkCupid, The League. If you’ve ever wondered why using these different dating apps feels similar, it may be because they’re all owned by Match Group, the company that helped start online dating in the 90s, and now owns two-thirds of the dating app market. Today, Match is a dating app conglomerate with millions of users and over 45 br…
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When Tinder launched in 2012, it changed dating culture and our expectations around dating forever by leveraging the iPhone and gamifying the dating experience. But did the rise of dating apps make finding romance easier or harder, and what are the consequences of playing a game that never ends? Hosted by Sangeeta Singh Kurtz (@sangeetaskurtz) and …
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This season, The Verge and New York Magazine's The Cut trace the evolution of the multi-billion dollar dating app industry. Through conversations with industry leaders, experts, and users, hosts Sangeeta Singh Kurtz and Lakshmi Rengarajan explore the modern dating landscape forged by companies like Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge, and their impact on our…
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Welcome to the backstage of the European live music sector. In this episode, Juliette wants to dive into the world of amateur artists in Europe.By Live DMA
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The Art Of Public Speaking: How To Give A Speech That People Will Remember
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The art of public speaking can make or break an entrepreneur. From encouraging an investor to funding your business to inspiring employees’ performance to going live on social media - the style, substance, and impact you make are crucial to your business' success. This week, we will learn the basics of becoming a great public speaker. Love the show…
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Do You Have What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur? The Quick Questions You Must Ask Yourself
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Are you tired of working in a corporate job? Do you dream of owning and running your own business? Most of us do, but do you have what it takes to build and sustain a successful business? Before you do that, tune in to this episode and ask yourself some questions to guide you in your decision. Being a successful business owner requires investing yo…
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Days 13 To 21: Achieve Better Productivity In 21 Days – Part 3
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With the help of productivity tools and strategies, we can smoothly move along in this fast-paced world. Coming down for a final push, Cindy Brown covers days 13 to 21 of our productivity series. In this episode, she dives deep into batching similar tasks, scaling through the use of templates, and finding apps to enhance productivity. When you have…
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How To Be More Productive In 21 Days – Part 2
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Did you do your homework from last week? Do you have a master schedule and know the most productive parts of your day? Have you automated routine tasks? Cindy Brown shares more of her secrets in moving forward with creating a more productive life in being a more productive business owner. This week in "becoming a more productive you," we will learn…
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How To Be More Productive In 21 Days – Part 1
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We hear it all the time, “Work smarter, not harder.” It's vital to make every minute count when you are a business owner. But how can you become more productive and less exhausted? Cindy Brown shares her strategy for helping you drop your exhaustion every day. In this episode of Business Smarts, we will start a 3-part series to make you more produc…
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How Do You Know It’s Time For A Mentor, Mastermind Group, Or A Coach?
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As a small business owner, you already know it can be lonely at the top. Sometimes it’s alright to ask for help so that you can level up your business. Sure, as an entrepreneur you get to call all the shots. But if you’re like most business owners, there will be times when you wish you had the ear—and the wisdom—of someone who’s experienced the sam…
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Mark Zuckerberg has a vision for the future -- that in a few years, we’ll be living our digital lives in a blend of augmented and virtual reality. The metaverse. To pursue that vision, Zuckerberg’s renamed his entire company and invested billions of dollars in a bid to make Meta the leader of the next tech platform. In our season finale: what are t…
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