C-Suite Unscripted with Maggie McGrath

In this episode of Forbes C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits down with Puja Brown, the newly appointed CTO of Tribe AI. Puja shares how her company is stepping between frontier models and Fortune 1000 enterprises to turn raw AI capabilities into tangible business outcomes.

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What does it take to lead technology at some of the world’s most complex organizations? Atefeh "Atti" Riazi, Chief Information Officer at Hearst, sits down with Forbes’ Maggie McGrath to discuss her vast career journey—from spearheading the rollout of the New York City MetroCard and running cyber-peacekeeping at the United Nations, to navigating the COVID-19 pandemic at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Riazi offers a profound perspective on the current AI boom, and she also discusses Hearst’s partnership with OpenAI.

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Can AI handle the complexities of human emotion? Gijo Mathew, Chief Product Officer at Spring Health, joins Forbes editor Maggie McGrath to discuss the "promises and perils" of AI in mental healthcare. As the industry grapples with allegations of AI-induced tragedies, Spring Health is leading the charge by open-sourcing a new safety standard.

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Maggie McGrath sits down with Laureen Meroueh, the PhD engineer and founder of Hertha Metals looking to reinvent how steel is made for the first time since 1850.

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What if a QR code could solve the most annoying part of dining out: waiting for the check? In this episode of Forbes' C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits with Christine de Wendel, co-founder and CEO of sunday. Launched just five years ago, sunday has disrupted the POS system and revolutionized the restaurant checkout experience, processing over $5 billion in transactions by allowing guests to pay their bills in seconds from their phones, and enabling restaurants to turn tables faster than ever.

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In this episode of C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits down with Shuo Wang, the billionaire co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Deel, to break down the playbook behind one of the fastest-growing tech companies in history. Wang shares her remarkable journey from moving to the U.S. at 16 and running a local flea market stall to studying mechanical engineering and robotics at MIT. She pulls back the curtain on how Deel rapidly scaled past $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue, revealing how they pivot effectively, manage an entirely distributed global workforce via Slack, and deploy thousands of Claude licenses to empower internal teams.

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At just 30 years-old, Luana Lopes Lara has achieved what most founders only dream of: she is the world's youngest female self-made billionaire and the cofounder of Kalshi, a regulated prediction market platform that is currently seeing up to $4 billion in trading volume a week. In this episode hosted by Maggie McGrath, she explains the pivotal moment the company decided to sue the U.S. government to legalize election betting (and won), how her grueling training as a Bolshoi ballerina prepared her for the intense, grueling hours of startup life and why the platform is now aggressively expanding into perpetual futures to disrupt traditional finance.

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How do you build a $600 million business in a crowded market without giving up control of your company? Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with Ron Rudzin, Founder and CEO of Saatva, to discuss how he bootstrapped a luxury e-commerce mattress brand with just $350,000. Rudzin breaks down his contrarian business playbook: why he flat-out rejected the "bed in a box" craze, how he successfully expanded into highly profitable brick-and-mortar "viewing rooms," and why he decided to vertically integrate his U.S. manufacturing. Rudzin also reveals the strategy behind Saatva's massive sponsorship for the upcoming LA 2028 Olympics.

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Are you implementing AI to solve a problem, or just adding technology to a broken workflow? Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with Teresa Barreira, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Publicis Sapient, to discuss the dangers of committing "random acts of AI." Teresa shares how her team successfully automated 80% of their daily tasks by building over 100 custom AI assistants—allowing her workforce to focus on the 20% of high-value work that only humans can do.

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Raw Sugar Living CEO Michael Marquis sits down with Forbes’ Maggie McGrath to discuss the brand's recent major restage, the logistics of keeping clean beauty under $10 despite inflation, and the hidden supply chain strategies that actually drive sustainability. Marquis also opens up about his career—which began as a financial analyst at Johnson & Johnson before transitioning to marketing and leading J&J’s global brands (including Clean & Clear). He also shares his best leadership advice, including why he writes a newsletter and how a "Make Me Move" list helped make the jump from J&J to Raw Sugar.

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