Forbes Talks

Ben Lerer’s Group Nine Media consists of Thrillist (which he founded), NowThis, The Dodo and Seeker. The content is largely video and it’s sticky. Lerer says Group Nine is the #1 publisher on Facebook Watch with over 5 billion monthly video views. According to Nielson, its audience is overwhelmingly in its 20s, a coveted demographic. Hear Lerer talk about the future of media, developing business models for online media sites and his positive take on the changes FB is promising to make.

Jim Breyer has his hands in many pots. From helping to choose a new president for Harvard University to running his VC company, Breyer Capital, Breyer has developed a keen eye for talent and investments that pay off. As one of the first investors in Facebook (bought at .05 cents a share), hear his insider’s take on that social network, his favorite qualities in an entrepreneur and lots of talk about AI, the tech field he says is growing at a speed heretofore unseen.

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Jim Breyer has his hands in many pots. From helping to choose a new president for Harvard University to running his VC company, Breyer Capital, Breyer has developed a keen eye for talent and investments that pay off. As one of the first investors in Facebook (bought at .05 cents a share), hear his insider’s take on that social network, his favorite qualities in an entrepreneur and lots of talk about AI, the tech field he says is growing at a speed heretofore unseen.

As he tells it, Ron Shaich has overseen six iterations of Panera Bread over the last 36 years he’s been running the company. It started out as a cookie store in downtown Boston. Now, Panera franchises cover the U.S. serving fresh bread, soups, salads, sandwiches and sweets. Hear Shaich talk about his pioneering days of fast-casual food, how he made smart, painful decisions to grow the company and why, when the company was public, he never focused on the stock price.

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As he tells it, Ron Shaich has overseen six iterations of Panera Bread over the last 36 years he’s been running the company. It started out as a cookie store in downtown Boston. Now, Panera franchises cover the U.S. serving fresh bread, soups, salads, sandwiches and sweets. Hear Shaich talk about his pioneering days of fast-casual food, how he made smart, painful decisions to grow the company and why, when the company was public, he never focused on the stock price.

Andrew Mason shares how he came up with the idea for the trailblazing juggernaut, Groupon, how the company hurt itself and his latest and greatest -- Descript, a company he founded to help people in the audio business both transcribe and audio edit their recordings fast and affordably (without looking at audio waveforms -- just words).

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Andrew Mason shares how he came up with the idea for the trailblazing juggernaut, Groupon, how the company hurt itself and his latest and greatest -- Descript, a company he founded to help people in the audio business both transcribe and audio edit their recordings fast and affordably (without looking at audio waveforms -- just words).

Laura Behrens-Wu had no interest in entrepreneurism nor shipping – and yet here she is, entrepreneur supreme, as cofounder and CEO of Shippo, a company dedicated to ease up the complicated, costly yet necessary field of getting stuff where it needs to go. Shippo has big customers, like eBay Canada, but it mostly caters to small and medium size businesses, like ecommerce stores operating out of bedrooms. The company has recently raised $30 million and is zipping along with 65 employees. Hear Behrens-Wu talk about the setbacks, the inspiration and lessons learned as she dived into the very thing she never knew she wanted to do.

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Laura Behrens-Wu had no interest in entrepreneurism nor shipping – and yet here she is, entrepreneur supreme, as cofounder and CEO of Shippo, a company dedicated to ease up the complicated, costly yet necessary field of getting stuff where it needs to go. Shippo has big customers, like eBay Canada, but it mostly caters to small and medium size businesses, like ecommerce stores operating out of bedrooms. The company has recently raised $30 million and is zipping along with 65 employees. Hear Behrens-Wu talk about the setbacks, the inspiration and lessons learned as she dived into the very thing she never knew she wanted to do.

Brad Katsuyama is the CEO of IEX, the newest stock exchange in the U.S. Katsuyama made a big splash when he outed the traditional exchanges for their practice of high-speed trading, that to his mind ultimately hurt the everyday investor. Hear Katsuyama share the latest about IEX, his daring choice to start a new stock exchange and his thoughts on whether regulation is a good or bad thing.

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