AI and High-Performance Computing are driving the global economy—and leaders, from chips to data centers, are trying to keep up and get ahead of the growth curve. The next generation of semiconductor companies, like NVIDIA, have become the poster child of the AI boom, with the microchips and technology that make it all possible. Our guest for this episode of the Reboot Chronicles Show is making waves in how chips need to be designed, manufactured, and integrated at scale in the future.With the bedrock of tech, Moore’s Law, slowing down, Silicon Box CEO, BJ Han has been busy revolutionizing semiconductor integration with a next-gen platform called Chiplet technology. With massive investments from Intel, Tata and many others, his team is building a $2 billion facility in Singapore, and a $3.6 billion facility in Italy. Listen in for the inside scoop on how technology is being reshaped to meet global demand, what’s next in the semiconductor driven world we all rely on, and much more.

Do you have Growth Gems? Dr. Anish Shah, Group CEO and MD of the Mahindra Group does—a lot of them. Mahindra Group is one of the world’s largest and most admired multinational companies with diverse businesses in 20 industries which employ over 260,000 people in 100 countries.

With over $25B in annual revenue, the organization has a broad federation of companies across industry sectors, from cars, SUVs, trucks, motorcycles, technology, energy, logistics, to hospitality, real estate, financial services, and agriculture—and is also the world’s largest tractor company by volume. Under his leadership, the group has been rebooting itself into a global growth and innovation machine across the globe, and receiving the Economic Times Company of the Year award. Listen in or watch to learn why Anish believes purpose drives profits, what’s next in his 20 market categories, why you need tech leadership in your businesses, and how to prioritize your most important “growth gems”.Listen, Watch, and Subscribe wherever you get podcasts or at RebootChronicles.com

When you think about retail giants, you might picture big-box behemoths like Walmart or Amazon, which happen to be two of the largest companies in the world. You shop with them one too many times and it begins to feel like you have more boxes in your home than purchased products. But quietly—and impressively—Tractor Supply Company has carved out its own rural empire that customers love. With 2,500 stores, 50,000 employees, and $15B in annual revenue, it’s not just a “tractor store.” It’s a lifestyle destination for what their Chief Merchandising Officer Seth Estep calls “Life Out Here.”On this episode of The Reboot Chronicles Podcast, we sat down with Seth to learn how Tractor Supply is merging its values around community and innovations to serve rural America. All with the goal of not losing what made their brand popular in the first place, and some other surprises.

The vitamin and supplement market has exploded in popularity and consumers are overwhelmed with all the claims they are bombarded with online, instore and on TV. The good news—people are more interested in their health and wellness now more than ever. However, they are growing more confused and even skeptical about product choices and who they should trust.

At the epicenter of this explosion is Thorne, a science-backed health and wellness provider, trusted and used by over five million consumers, 50,000 healthcare professionals, and 1000 sports teams. We checked in with CEO Colin Watts to see how the company is doing, since being acquired by top consumer growth private equity group L Catterton, who brought Colin in to reboot Thorne into a billion-dollar company.

Listen in to this transformation-in-progress episode of The Reboot Chronicles Show, with a CEO back-stage pass, with insights on how to build trusted brands, increase quality while scaling, improving customer loyalty, why the health and wellness sector is growing and where we are headed next.

Founded in the 1800’s, Avon has been through many reboots in its storied direct selling history—but nothing like the one it is going through now. Unlike most old brands, the organization provides lessons and roadmaps that leaders can deploy across consumer and B-to-B sectors.Avon is part of Natura & Co, a multi-billion-dollar group that combined has more than 200 million clients, 7 million dedicated Consultants and Representatives, 900 stores and franchises, and 22,000 employees around the world. Avon’s CEO, Kristof Neirynck, joins us on this episode to unpack one of the world’s boldest reboots with untold stories that you can use now. This purposeful community-oriented brand is deploying the power of not just “or” but “and”—as in how many reboot cylinders can your company fire on at the same time.What does AND look like? With a goal of driving growth and innovation, it is not just upgrading their traditional direct selling models—that would have been too easy with ineffective results, like other MLM brands have experienced. Instead they have transformed into an aggressive omnichannel platform. Everything from modernizing direct selling, embracing technology, and digitizing the brand to going big on omni-channel, and resetting the brand to reflect the 21st century consumer trends.Listen in on how he encourages people to challenge the past, take smart risks, shift the culture with accountability, think smaller and make things much simpler—and why more CMOs will be taking on CEO roles in the back end of the decade.

The vast ocean of AI has become challenging for some companies, while being THE driving force in other organizations innovation strategies across sectors. You could call it an Innovation Crisis. The world’s top companies and governments need better partners who can help them navigate these choppy waters and seize the growth opportunities ahead. In some sectors—it is going to be eat or be eaten.To provide some insider knowledge on how major players are approaching these opportunities, tech. guru and Infosys Chief Technology Officer, Rafee Tarafdar , joins this episode of The Reboot Chronicles. With 300,000 employees operating in 56 countries and over $19B in revenue, Infosys is a titan in digital transformation, AI deployment and other critical growth-path platform development.Watch or listen as Rafee unpacks the challenges of bringing AI to scale, lessons for businesses and CEOs, how Infosys faced those issues by doing it in-house first, and how many of the world’s largest companies are becoming AI-first businesses.

In this Special Extended Edition of The Reboot Chronicles Ted Leonsis joins us with untold stories you will only hear here.

Ted is founder, chairman, and CEO of Monumental Sports & Entertainment, one of the largest integrated sports and entertainment companies that has the most diverse partnership groups in all of sports. The billion-dollar group includes eight teams, like the NHL’s Capitals, the NBA’s Wizards, and the WNBA’s Mystics; five venues including the Capital One Arena in Washington DC; and massive media, esports, and betting platforms—and other ventures changing the industry.

An early Internet pioneer, Ted was Vice Chairman and President of AOL, and cofounded Revolution Growth with Steve Case. A board member at Groupon and American Express, he also serves on the board of governors for the NBA, NHL, and WNBA—helping them reboot the next generation of sports, media, entertainment, and technology.

Watch or listen as we unpack impactful and entertaining lessons you can use to reboot your business, why he bucked the trend and sold his AOL holdings, how he is upgrading Washington DC—and where he almost dropped the Stanley Cup.

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This week’s Reboot Chronicles Show is our second episode coming to you from #ZohoDay25, Zoho’s annual Analyst gathering in Austin Texas. With top global business and financial analysts and CxOs from the world’s top corporations, this invite-only conference, with top speakers from around the world, debuts the hottest technology, AI trends, what people want, and what’s coming next.

One conference speaker is IFFCO CIO Jaroslaw Pietraszko. The multibillion-dollar UAE leader is the most diversified multinational group in the Middle East, employing 15,000 people, in 50 countries, representing 85 nationalities who manage a portfolio of 80 brands, in over 100 markets. Watch or listen in as Jaroslaw shares the latest enterprise trends, innovation challenges, what’s next in the global consumer goods industry—and what its like to reboot yourself and move to Dubai.

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This week’s Reboot Chronicles Show is coming to you from #ZohoDay25, Zoho’s annual Analyst gathering in Austin Texas. With top global business and financial analysts and CxO’s from the world’s top corporations, this invite-only conference debuts the hottest technology, AI trends, what people want, and what’s coming next.

Most companies are frantically rebooting their growth plans to meet the realities of fierce AI enabled competition. Though many are focused on how to be more competitive, or provide better experiences for their customers, the telecom sector has often lagged behind. Companies can no longer just provide broadband and mobile services to stay ahead, they have to do more. A lot more. Things like seamless connectivity among devices and even smart homes are table stakes in the hyper-competitive home and office automation enablement landscape.

One company, Telus Communications, is giving customers what they want. One of the world’s largest telecom companies, with 140,000 employees and approx. 20 million customers that generate over $20B in annual revenue, Telus provides commonsense reboot lessons that CxO’s can use now. VP Christopher Smith joins us on this episode of the Reboot Chronicles, for a behind the scenes preview of what he and his colleagues are doing to reboot and expand the category—and how he made the personal transition from startups to corporate life.

As we head into the second half of the decade chock-full of massive change and innovation, The Reboot Chronicles wanted to know how higher education will reboot itself to not just meet our global challenges—but lead the way. While AI has broken the rules of growth and innovation, supercharging most business sectors whether they wanted it or not, most of our institutions are not riding the wave or even keeping up—except for a few.

One of America’s top universities that is ahead of the pack, bucking the trends, and hitting on all cylinders is Vanderbilt University. Vanderbilt's top dog, Chancellor Daniel Diermeier, joins us on this action packed episode with a behind the scenes tour of how they are rebooting higher education and preparing to teach future innovators to make an impact.

An internationally renowned political scientist, management scholar, and visionary business leader, under Daniel’s leadership Vanderbilt has been on a tear, with its endowment booming to $10B and over $1B in external research funding, setting record for licensing revenues—surpassing traditional innovation leaders Stanford and MIT. Listen in as we unpack how he is breaking down culture walls and empowering people with the right to win to drive radical collaboration—and his personal reboot that may help you decide to follow your heart.

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