Mike Hodgkinson

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The Morissa Schwartz interview: AI and the new media landscape

1 week ago | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers To those who contend that the publishing business is no less fractured than our broadly polarized media allegiances — post-literate digital natives in one tribe, regressive champions of the analog in the other — Morissa Schwartz offers a layer of connective and restorative tissue.
Leadership masterclass: Nike, Jordan, and James Baldwin

2 months ago | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers In the foreword to George Raveling’s 2025 book, What You’re Made For, Michael Jordan writes: “I’m proud to call George a mentor and a friend … We can all learn from him.” It’s a testimonial that speaks volumes to anyone interested in leadership, success, and — frankly — the game of life.
How poker and Kobe shaped a Silicon Valley leader

2 months ago | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers A 2020 survey by Ernst & Young noted that “94% of C-suite women have played sports.” This revealing statistic applies to Webflow CEO Linda Tong even though, by her own admission, she was “a perpetual winner of the ‘most improved’ award” on the high school sports field.
Why the medium is still the message

Jan 13, 2025 | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers As CEO of Yondr — maker of the anti-distraction, lockable cellphone pouch favored by Bob Dylan, Rihanna, Chris Rock, and a growing number of high-school head teachers worldwide — Graham Dugoni exposes the core of one of our age’s most pressing questions: How can we get the most from technology while minimizing the downsides?
Why 2025 will take us closer to the “Turing horizon”

Jan 6, 2025 | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers A decade ago, years before GPT and LLM became household acronyms, agentic AI pioneer Chetan Dube led the creation of the conversational AI platform Amelia. Back then, Amelia’s closest competition was IBM’s Watson. Following the 2024 acquisition of Amelia by SoundHound AI, Dube made his mission the delivery of “the most human AI the enterprise world has ever known,” as founder and CEO of Quant.
Tactical leadership: The “Navy SEALs” of Airbnb

Oct 21, 2024 | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers Dave Stephenson — Chief Business Officer at Airbnb — has made a habit of staying ahead of the curve. After shelving early plans to become an architect, and then training as an engineer, he joined Amazon when it was “this little bookstore in Seattle” before moving to his current employer where, as CFO, he was instrumental in navigating through the pandemic via a record-breaking IPO.
The nuances of “founder mode”: Boundaries and empowerment

Oct 16, 2024 | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers Ukrainian-American Semyon Dukach arrived in the US as a child refugee in 1979 and graduated from MIT in the early 90s. After building his reputation in startups and angel investing — not to mention a side hustle in professional blackjack following his exploits with the MIT Blackjack Team — he became a founding partner of One Way Ventures (established in 2017), which invests in immigrant-founded businesses.
“Humanity strikes back”: The 5th industrial revolution

Sep 23, 2024 | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers Mike Bechtel is in the business of “helping today’s leaders arrive at their preferred tomorrows slightly ahead of schedule” — an elegant translation of his official job title: chief futurist with Deloitte Consulting LLP.
“Humanity strikes back”: The 5th industrial revolution

Sep 23, 2024 | flipboard.com | Mike Hodgkinson

5 hours agoIntroducing a tub-thumping op-ed in the Mail yesterday, Robert Jenrick quoted Orwell: ‘England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.’ Mr Jenrick’s thesis is a familiar one. It is that ‘England’s political and media elite’ (he didn’t get …
Leadership essentials: “Inspire, motivate, and cultivate”

Sep 9, 2024 | bigthink.com | Mike Hodgkinson

Learn from the world’s biggest business thinkers Nobody knows for sure who will ultimately fulfill the vast commercial promise of genetic medicine, but a lot of very smart people have high hopes for Scribe Therapeutics. CEO Benjamin Oakes was a researcher in Jennifer Doudna’s CRISPR laboratory long before her 2020 Nobel Prize win, back when precise genetic engineering had barely cracked the chrysalis of science-fiction.