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  • Inside the C-Suite with Visa's CMO Frank Cooper on the NFL, AI, and Marketing

    Frank Cooper, the Chief Marketing Officer at VISA, joins Forbes senior writer Jabari Young on The Enterprise Zone at Nasdaq MarketSite. In the discussion, Cooper talks about VISA's shift away from its partnership with the NFL, the future of marketing, and reflects on his career journey—from Motown Records to stints at BlackRock and overseeing Pepsi's mega deal with Beyoncé.


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    54 min
  • Michael Phelps' New Chapter

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    We are honored to present the Forbes Under 30 Role Model Award to Michael Phelps, celebrating his unparalleled legacy of excellence and his transformative impact on global sports. Beyond his record-breaking achievements, this award recognizes his courageous leadership in mental health advocacy and his dedication to inspiring the next generation of champions.

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    24 min
  • Rewind: Bootstrapped To $1 Billion: How Lectric eBikes Is Dominating The Market

    How do you build a $1 billion direct-to-consumer business without relying on the traditional venture capital playbook? Forbes' Alex York sits down with Levi Conlow, co-founder and CEO of Lectric eBikes, to unpack how his company became North America’s largest e-bike brand. Despite a shrinking post-boom market, supply chain friction, and looming tariffs, Lectric continues to grow profitably by focusing on operational leverage, aggressive component negotiations, and a radically different approach to customer service.

    00:00 - Introducing Levi Conlow
    01:00 - Navigating Tariffs & Weeding Out the Competition
    03:25 - The Truth About the Post-Boom E-Bike Market
    05:30 - Acquiring Bankrupt Competitors & Deploying Capital
    08:38 - Why VC-Backed E-Bike Brands Fail (And Bootstrapping Wins)
    13:16 - Managing a Complex Global Supply Chain Amidst Tariffs
    15:25 - The Reality of Manufacturing: Why Reshoring Doesn't Work
    16:57 - Delivering Premium Quality at an Entry-Level Price Point
    19:47 - Negotiation Leverage: Forcing the Industry to Upgrade
    23:14 - Building a Powerhouse Team in Phoenix, Arizona
    26:36 - The ROI of Philanthropy: Clean Water & Foster Scholarships
    30:41 - Unconventional Leadership & Building an Elite Company Culture
    36:01 - Bouncing Back After Blowing The First $40k Investment
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    44 min
  • How SambaNova Is Challenging Nvidia With High Performance Inferencing Technology

    SambaNova CEO and Cofounder Rodrigo Liang sat down with Forbes to discuss the fundamental differences between traditional GPUs and data flow chips for AI inference. He also talks about the transition from human-centric AI use to the rise of autonomous agentic workflows and the necessity for low-latency hardware to support these complex, serial agent interactions.

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    33 min
  • Meet The $9 Billion AI Company Reimagining Vibe Coding

    Two years ago, Replit CEO Amjad Masad invited Paul Graham, the legendary cofounder of the startup incubator Y Combinator, to his home office near Palo Alto, California, to give Graham a sneak peek of Replit’s new and novel product: an AI agent that could write its own code. It was the first time Graham had seen what would become known as vibe coding. “The name hadn’t even been invented,” Graham recalls. 

    As the agent got to work building apps, Graham, a lifelong computer programmer, instinctively looked at the code. Masad scolded him, saying there was no need, arguing that the source code would only be an unimportant byproduct, and programming would now be done in English — a radical change for software engineers. “It was mind-bending,” Graham, one of Replit’s earliest investors, tells Forbes. “He’s bald with that beard, and I think he was actually wearing a black turtleneck. I felt like he was a Bond villain: ‘Hahaha! Don’t look at that code!’”


    Now vibe coding, of course, is everywhere, and Replit is looking to take it a step further. On Wednesday, the startup announced its new agent, simply called Agent 4, which aims to deliver a new type of interface for vibe coding. Like last time, Masad demoed the new agent to Graham at his home office in early March. After the meeting, Graham gushed about the product on X. “Amjad showed me Replit's latest stuff,” he posted. “They're about to redefine vibe coding in a way that will seem obvious in retrospect. A lot of the biggest ideas have that quality.”


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    35 min
  • How Sinead Gorey Built A Cult Fashion Brand Worn By Sabrina Carpenter

    Sinead Gorey is redefining the contemporary fashion space one drop at a time. In this interview with Alex York, the London-based designer breaks down how she went from a working-class background in Bromley to showing at London Fashion Week and styling icons like Sabrina Carpenter and Lady Gaga.

    00:00 - The ASOS Deal That Launched Sinead Gorey
    03:21 - Growing Up in London
    06:33 - The Anti-Fast Fashion Consumer & D2C Drop Models
    11:18 - Why Wholesale Is Failing Independent Brands
    14:16 - Organic Marketing & Styling Lady Gaga
    23:38 - Independent Labels vs. Legacy Luxury Houses

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    30 min
  • Why Claire Holt Left Hollywood For A Community Of 13 Million

    How does a star of global hits like The Vampire Diaries and H2O: Just Add Water transition from playing iconic supernatural characters to becoming a full-time creator with a social media following built on vulnerability and authenticity?

    On this episode of the Forbes Top Creator Show, host Steven Bertoni sits down with actress turned entrepreneur Claire Holt to deconstruct her "reverse trajectory": moving from the rigid schedules of traditional Hollywood to reclaiming autonomy as a powerhouse digital creator. Claire opens up about the terrifying but life-changing decision to stop hiding behind the characters she played and share her personal experiences online, and how a post with 40,000+ comments fundamentally shifted her relationship with her audience, transforming 13 million casual fans into a deeply connected community that acts as the primary engine for her business.
    Beyond content creation, Claire reveals the mechanics behind her new fashion brand, Saint Sirène, co-founded with Madeline Simmer. She explains why she refused outside capital to solve the elusive "perfect white tee" problem, and how she manages a high-velocity schedule that often starts with a 3:30 AM run.
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    0:19 From Australian Mermaid to Hollywood
    3:19 The Power of Supernatural Fandoms
    6:19 Using Twitter to Book Acting Gigs
    11:43 Quitting Hollywood for Motherhood & Freedom
    13:28 The Reality of Being Completely Exposed Online
    22:49 The Post That Changed Everything
    25:19 The 3:30 AM Routine & AI Scheduling
    31:47 Crowdsourcing the Perfect White T-Shirt
    38:38 Bootstrapping Saint Sirène
    40:47 Why Creators Are the New Hollywood
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    45 min
  • 2025 Rewind - How This Entrepreneur Raised $22 Million For Pasta Sauce Brand Sauz

    Troy Bonde and his cofounder, Winston Alfieri, are taking aim at America’s estimated $2.5 billion (sales) pasta sauce market. Their brand, Los Angeles–based Sauz, has attracted younger shoppers with creative combos like miso-garlic and hot honey marinara—flavors far from traditional red-sauce Italian-American cuisine. “We try to identify flavor trends across categories that are familiar enough that we don’t necessarily have to go educate consumers on,” says Bonde, Sauz’s CEO. The pair has raised nearly $22 million from VCs and is on track to make $15 million in revenue by the end of 2025. Bonde and Alfieri initially partnered during the pandemic making a hand sanitizer dispenser that doubled as a thermometer. To conserve cash, they lived on pasta. Soon, they grew tired of limited flavor options and, as Covid faded, pivoted from sanitizer to sauce. Today, their jars are sold in 8,000 retail locations such as Whole Foods, Sprouts and Target.

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    28 min

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