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Business is changing in subtle and seismic ways. Compound Interest from Semafor Business pairs journalists Liz Hoffman and Rohan Goswami with operators, experts, and innovators behind the world’s most consequential companies, decoding why big parts of the economy work the way they do. Sign up to get the Semafor Business briefing in your inbox. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter.
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- 1 weeks ago36 min
Why Walmart wants to get into fintech
America’s biggest retailer is quietly getting into banking. After trying and failing to crack financial services a few times, is back at it with OnePay, which has 7 million customers, $50 billion in annual payment flow — and virtually zero in acquisition costs. Piggybacking on Walmart’s 1.5 million employees and 150 million customers, it thinks it can succeed where other fintechs have floundered. Liz and Rohan talk to CEO Omer Ismail to find out whether the big box titan can really compete with the big banks.
- 2 weeks ago39 min
AI is coming for lawyers. Are they ready?
Big law firms have run the same playbook for 50 years: hire armies of young lawyers, bill their hours at steep rates, and funnel the money up to the partners. AI is about to upend that model. It can already do much of the grunt work that associates cut their teeth on and is coming for the sacred cow of Big Law — the billable hour. This week on Compound Interest, Liz and Rohan sit down with Rachel Proffitt, partner and CEO of the Silicon Valley-based Cooley, to talk about what the rainmakers of the future look like, the rise of AI-native law firms, and the paranoia sweeping the industry. Sign up to get the Semafor Business briefing in your inbox. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- 3 weeks ago47 min
Is the World Cup a raw deal for host cities? FIFA’s New York frontman disagrees.
The World Cup prints money — an estimated $10 billion this year. FIFA keeps almost all of it. The business case for the host cities shouldering much of the costs, however, isn’t so clear. New York-New Jersey Host Committee CEO Alex Lasry joins Liz and Rohan this week to break down what’s really in it for New York (and, ahem, New Jersey), why he thinks you can’t put a price on the opportunity, and the hypothetical logistical nightmare that keeps him up at night. He also reflects on his family’s time owning the Milwaukee Bucks to make the case for public funding of stadiums, and argues that more sports owners should prioritize the fan experience over the bottom line. Sign up to get the Semafor Business briefing in your inbox. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter. Image Credit: Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach/Shannon Stapleton/Bob Donnan-Imagn Images Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Jun 30, 202654 min
Silicon Valley’s go-to fixer on AI’s unfixable problem
One of Silicon Valley’s top political fixers, Bradley Tusk, built a career helping startups like Uber and FanDuel brawl their way to legitimacy — in his words, “legalize disruptive sh*t.” His message to AI companies: You have no idea what’s coming. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. This episode is commercial content produced by Semafor Global Studio with Amazon Business.
- Jun 23, 202657 min
Wall Street fell in love with your life insurance. Should you be worried?
Anant Bhalla had a front-row seat to Wall Street's takeover of the life insurance industry, which turned a sleepy corner of American finance into a multitrillion-dollar investment engine. Now, even he’s worried it’s gone too far. He talks to Liz and Rohan about “zombie” insurers, ratings shopping, and where the next big blowup will happen. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter.
- Jun 16, 202629 min
How Amazon Business made business buying smart by rebuilding its consumer platform for companies
In this special episode of Compound Interest, Semafor’s Chief Commercial Officer Rachel Oppenheim sits down with Todd Heimes, Vice President and General Manager at our season sponsor, Amazon Business. Todd and Rachel sit down to discuss how Amazon Business is reshaping how organizations buy. Heimes has been scaling Amazon since he started there in 1999, and has been growing Amazon Business since it started in 2016. His goal is to help organizations of all sizes save time and money by making business buying smarter, easier, and more strategic. Heimes discusses how the solution cuts the friction of age-old systems through immense selection, fast delivery, and a foundation built on customer obsession and earned trust. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. This episode is commercial content produced by Semafor Global Studio with Amazon Business.
- Jun 9, 202647 min
Klarna’s Sebastian Siemiatkowski on agentic commerce, credit cards, and financing everything
Klarna, best known as a buy now, pay later giant, came of age during the e-commerce boom. But as AI takes over everything, including our shopping, Liz and Rohan ask Sebastian about what an agentic commerce future means for his business, if Klarna will eventually become a bank, the truth about his AI customer service experiment, whether people should really be financing their DoorDash orders, and much more. Sign up to get the Semafor Business briefing in your inbox. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter.
- Jun 2, 202648 min
Anthony Pompliano thinks you're smarter than your financial advisor
Bitcoin evangelist Anthony Pompliano has reinvented himself as the champion of a new kind of investor: digitally native, high-net-worth, and deeply skeptical of Wall Street expertise. He joins Liz and Rohan to talk about his AI-powered CFO product, why he thinks independent investors outperform the pros, what's left in crypto worth caring about, and the uncomfortable politics of the Trump family's meme coin. Sign up to get the Semafor Business briefing in your inbox. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter.
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Business is changing in subtle and seismic ways. Compound Interest from Semafor Business pairs journalists Liz Hoffman and Rohan Goswami with operators, experts, and innovators behind the world’s most consequential companies, decoding why big parts of the economy work the way they do. Sign up to get the Semafor Business briefing in your inbox. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter.
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