Inside the ICE House

Coronavirus, the 2020 election cycle, and volatility be damned, Jim Cramer knows there is always a Bull Market somewhere. He launched CNBC’s Mad Money 15 years ago this week, with the mission to “come out every night to help level the playing field, so you can try to have a fighting chance against the big boys, the fat-cat hedge fund managers who think they own the market.” He sat down to reflect on the show, his career from Philly to Harvard to the floor of the NYSE, and share his expertise on understanding the current market uncertainty.

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Of the thousands of firms listed on the NYSE, only 26 can have a single letter ticker symbol, and Jacobs (NYSE: J) has one of them. The new ticker symbol and new name (it was formerly Jacobs Engineering Group) reflects the firm’s transformation under its Chair & CEO, Steve Demetriou. He was a recent guest of Betty Liu on Slice, part of ICE’s Insights Platform, to discuss how Jacobs reimagined its future built around a commitment to sustainability and diversity that will allow Jacobs to “PlanBeyond” today.

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Get the robot in here, STAT! Surgery is going digital by leveraging artificial intelligence, telemedicine, and big data to bring cutting edge care to patients across the globe. David Fischel is CEO of Stereotaxis (NYSEAMERICAN:STXS), one of the companies leading this sea change. He dropped by the NYSE to talk about the company’s advancements, including bringing Genesis, a new robotic magnetic navigation technology, to market. David also forecasts the future of machine-augmented medicine and how Stereotaxis provide the tools that surgeons will need in the operating rooms of the future.

You may be shocked that, even in our digital age, 90% of businesses still rely on paper checks. Rene Lacerte started Bill.com to disrupt that by unchaining data from the filing cabinet. Bill.com’s cloud-based software allows businesses, regardless of their technical savvy, to automate the back office and focus on serving their customers. He joined the podcast on the day of Bill.com’s IPO to explain why entrepreneurship is a family affair, and why persistence is the key genetic trait of the Lacerte clan.  

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Adam Higginbotham last year published the New York Time Best Seller, Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster, now available in paperback. Based on over a decade of work, Adam’s writing reveals what it was like to be in the Reactor 4 Control Room and life in Pripyat on April 26, 1986. The conversation explores why the truth was so hard to find, the cause of the myths that endure, and why he is fascinated by when the intersection of man and technology goes wrong.

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The rebellious Italian Sculptor Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) helped shape the futurism movement and today’s guest, Aryeh Bourkoff, is nothing if not a futurist. The Founder and CEO of LionTree runs an independent investment bank focused on the digital economy and creative industries. Last week, we turned our NYSE Library over to Aryeh, also the host of KindredCast, to tape an episode with our own NYSE President Stacey Cunningham. Turning the tables, we now bring you our conversation with Aryeh on the landscape of tech and media and why the 2020s will be the “Clash of the Titans.”

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This show was first released on KindredCast’s own feed, but, thanks to our friends at KindredMedia, we’re re-releasing it to share with our listeners. As part of a special two-episode arc, LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff interviewed our own Stacey Cunningham. You’ve heard her on our show before, but never quite like this, now nearly two years on the job. Tune in next week as we turn the microphones around and have Aryeh as our guest.

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About 30% of natural gas in the U.S. passes through pipelines owned by Williams, which is undergoing a transformation under President & CEO Alan Armstrong, who was appointed to the top job in 2011. Alan was a recent guest of Betty Liu on Slice, part of ICE’s Insights Platform, where she he talked to him about the role of technology in the energy sector and what it takes to lead an evolving company. Their conversation was condensed for the Slice broadcast. Here’s their full uncut conversation.

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As co-CEO of TPG Capital, Jon Winkelried oversees a sprawling portfolio and $119 billion under management, with operational teams spread across 17 offices around the world. He found himself at the NYSE recently, in conversation with Christina Minnis, Global Head of Acquisition for Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS), the firm Winkelried left in 2009 as co-president. They talk at the NYSE Board Advisory Council Networking Summit about what it takes to serve on a board and why TPG, which has taken stakes in more than 400 companies, ties its comp directly to improving diversity. 

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By the time you hear this episode, you may have already abandoned your New Year’s Resolutions. That’s okay with Planet Fitness (NYSE: PLNT), whose doors are always open to everyone. Chris Rondeau, the company’s CEO, gave us a training session on why the Planet’s inclusive culture & franchise model is his secret sauce. And he would know. He started with the company at the front desk of its very 1st location & was on the Bell Podium this January, now as its CEO to celebrate the opening of the 2,000th Planet.

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