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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.
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- 5 days ago48 min
The race to privatize space without killing everyone
Space is increasingly the province of the private sector, as companies like Voyager Technologies build lunar landers, missile defense systems, and space stations for the US government. Voyager CEO Dylan Taylor joins Liz and Rohan to discuss the business of space, how to send data centers into orbit, and why we should go to Mars. “Everyone is in the space industry,” he argues, “they just don’t know it yet.” 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.
- 1 weeks ago52 min
Hasbro CEO on IP, nostalgia-maxxing, and the perils of Mr. Potato Head AI
Hasbro traces its toy-making roots to 1860. But it’s increasingly an IP powerhouse, mining its collection of characters and universes for movies, video games, and AI-generated content. Cocks tells Liz and Rohan about why adults are now the biggest toy buyers, the stunning success of “Magic: The Gathering,” and how AI will change toymaking. Plus: why Mr. Potato Head might become your customer service representative. 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.
- 2 weeks ago47 min
Orlando Bravo has never seen a market broken like this
Orlando Bravo has more riding on the software comeback than anyone in the world. As founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo, he oversees $172 billion of private-equity money, nearly all of it invested in corporate software. He tells Liz and Rohan why the SaaSpocalypse is over, why LBOs are so hard to do right now, and AI’s “giant sucking sound” in the capital markets. 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.
- 3 weeks ago45 min
Austan Goolsbee is worried about AI inflation
The prices of land, power, construction equipment, and the laborers to run them are soaring, thanks to the AI data-center boom. That inflation now threatens to spill over into the rest of the economy, the president of the Chicago Fed warns. Liz and Rohan sit down with Austan Goolsbee to discuss AI inflation, whether the hyperscalers even care about interest rates, and whether the Fed should care about a world where robots do all the jobs. 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.
- Oct 8, 202655 min
Blue Owl wants you to know private credit is doing just fine
Investors have been freaked out about private credit — what is it, why do I own it, and will it blow up? Liz and Rohan sit down with the co-CEOs of Blue Owl, the face of private-credit’s rise over the past decade, and the face of its troubles over the past year, to talk about whether investor jitters are overblown and where the firm goes from here (AI, obviously). 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.
- Aug 14, 202659 min
Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl on AI, streaming power, and why music royalties are the safest asset on Wall Street
Note: Liz joined Semafor media editor Max Tani on this week's episode of Mixed Signals from Semafor Media. You can listen to more Mixed Signals here. Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl joins Mixed Signals to explain what a record label actually does in a world where anyone can upload a song to Spotify. Max and Liz ask Robert why Warner struck a deal with AI music company Suno while Sony and Universal are still suing it, how he thinks about the nuclear-weapons-style leverage labels hold over streaming platforms, and why he thinks Netflix is leaving a massive opportunity on the table by ignoring music.
- Jul 21, 202636 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.
- Jul 14, 202639 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
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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.
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