Inside the ICE House

Scott Kupor’s career at the legendary VC firm, Andreessen Horowitz, has brought him face to face with 1000s of entrepreneurs looking for an investor. In his debut book, Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Scott takes us inside the world of Venture Capital to find out what VCs are looking for and most importantly what you should ask yourself and potential investors. Scott’s ability to distill down a lifetime of experience will open the benefits of venture capital to everyone, coast to coast and everywhere in between. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

All eyes are on the California coast this week as the U.S. Open Championship once again finds its home at the Pebble Beach Golf Links. We’re inside the ICE House with Golf Channel’s Rich Lerner, talking about the sport’s past, present, and future -- and the business that surrounds it. Rich fell in love with golf on his father’s golf center in Allentown, Pennsylvania and has a gift for bringing the game to life, whether reporting from the PGA Tour or just playing a round with a couple of brothers from the Midwest. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

IHOP and Applebees, the big names of Dine Brands Global (NYSE: DIN), are woven into the fabric of American culture and communities across the globe. Steve Joyce, its CEO, dropped anchor at the Exchange to share how the company navigates past changing tastes with revamped menus, technology-aided service, and viral marketing campaigns. At the core of Steve’s success, a focus on the people and his brands, keeping an eye on growth, both organically and, perhaps, with an acquisition or two. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Longview, Texas is the point of origin of what was, during World War II, the longest petroleum pipeline ever built in the world. The Big Inch, as it was known, carried over 261 million barrels of crude oil to the East Coast from 1943 to 1945, fueling the efforts to win the war. Longview is also the point of origin of Scott Hill, CFO of Intercontinental Exchange, who left the Friday Night Lights of East Texas for Austin, then global capitals like Tokyo and Paris, and now Atlanta, in a career spanning far beyond finance. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

This episode of SLICE Uncut brings listeners the full conversation between NYSE Executive Vice Chairman Betty Liu and SAP’s Cloud Business Group President Jennifer Morgan on integrating cloud solutions, the impact of SAP’s acquisition of Qualtrics, and how to best manage teams from 1 to 1000. Slice is a media collaboration between ICE and Cheddar that helps the audience cut through the noise to get to the truth of what entrepreneurs, disruptors and brands are doing to change our way of life, and our future. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Sen. David Perdue of Georgia is relatively new to Washington, but has decades of experience in the private sector working in the U.S. and China, including serving as CEO of both Reebok and Dollar General (NYSE:DG). Sen. Perdue was seen as a turnaround specialist before hearing the call to public service in 2014, but orchestrating a turnaround in Washington, D.C. might be his biggest feat of all. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

The executive producers behind Reid Hoffman’s popular podcast, Masters of Scale, share how they cracked the code of creating unique content and are breaking the podcast mold. 2019 is shaping up as an important year for the medium’s growth with transactions such as Spotify’s (NYSE:SPOT) combined $340 million dollar acquisitions of Gimlet and Anchor. The deal brings big money into an industry that, as recently as 2017, had a combined revenue that was $26 million less than Spotify’s investment. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Venture capital legend Marc Andreessen hailed Jennifer Tejada’s hiring at PagerDuty (NYSE: PD) as “like adding octane to jet fuel,” and her company’s IPO took off using afterburners. Jennifer joined us fresh from ringing the first trade bell to share her career trajectory -- which spanned from Ohio, to Australia, to the open ocean to, eventually, Silicon Valley -- and her secrets of success. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Our 100th Episode drops amid a stampede of unicorns. In the past weeks, PagerDuty (NYSE:PD), Pinterest (NYSE:PINS), and Jumia (NYSE:JMIA) joined the herd of tech companies emerging into the public markets. In the wings are Uber (NYSE:UBER) and Slack (NYSE:SK). Joining us today is Jose Cobos, a former Navy SEAL and investment banker who now helps growing tech and biotech companies navigate the waters -- from Series A through public listing -- from his perch at NYSE West in San Francisco. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

ICE Futures Europe President Stuart Williams has watched the futures industry grow from its nascent days to modern times. Today, ICE Futures Europe is home to futures and options contracts for crude oil, interest rates, equity derivatives, natural gas, power, coal, emissions and soft commodities. For those hedging against the future cost of jet fuel, a change in interest rates, or the cost of electricity, Stuart’s business is a one-stop shop. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Chris Burggraeve’s career has included stints at iconic global brands including Proctor & Gamble (NYSE:PG), Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), and spent five years as the Chief Marketing Officer of Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE:BUD). He joined the podcast to discuss his recently released book, Marketing is Finance is Business: How CMO, CFO, and CEO cocreate iconic brands with sustainable pricing power in the new Galactic Age. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Financial analyst Rich Repetto is like a baseball scout, half sabermatrician absorbing all kinds of data, half evaluator of on-field style. Instead of projecting the potential of an athlete, he forecasts a company’s future performance with loads of investment capital at stake. Rich took a break from interpreting how companies he follows fared in the first quarter to break down his own analytical process, what he’s looking for in 2019, & why he jockeys for the first question during quarterly earning calls. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

How will human judgement and Artificial Intelligence merge to make business decisions both instinctive and data driven? Genpact (NYSE:G) and its CEO NV “Tiger” Tyagarajan are charting a path to “Instinctive Enterprise” that will transform the way you work and how companies function. He joins the podcast to discuss how digitization, AI, and other emerging technologies are forcing companies, from retail to healthcare to Formula-E racing teams, to rethink the way they operate and serve their customers. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Pitting a profit-driven hedge fund manager against a power-hungry U.S. Attorney, and making the fictitious scene seem shockingly lifelike, is a weekly work of art on Showtime’s BILLIONS. David Levien, one of the show’s creators and showrunners, makes it look effortless. What’s the secret sauce, four seasons in? The devil is in the details. This week’s episode is a lesson in character building, location scouting, and defying the odds - all straight out of the Bobby Axelrod playbook. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

What does it take to keep the engines of capitalism running, while simultaneously developing state of the art technology to transform global markets? Diving into this racy topic are Mayur Kapani, Chief Technology Officer at Intercontinental Exchange, along with Sridhar Masam and Alexei Lebedev, Head of Technology and Chief Software Architect, respectively, at the New York Stock Exchange. Find out how their career paths brought them together to build, operate, and oversee the technology that allows an exchange to process more than 100,000 messages in the blink of an eye. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

How did Harmit Singh, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (NYSE: LEVI), find himself at the helm of a multi-billion dollar apparel company and standing atop the New York Stock Exchange bell podium, helping take the 165-year-old American icon public? “Play outside of your comfort zone,” he says. Hear Singh’s take on retail re-imagination, innovation, immigration, and why technology and sustainability is helping fuel future growth for Levi Strauss. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue, joined Intercontinental Exchange Chairman and CEO Jeff Sprecher on stage at FIA Boca to talk agriculture, technology, commodities, and the Trump White House. Born into a farming family in Bonaire, Georgia, Sonny’s veterinary career was disrupted by a foray into politics. He served 11 years in the Georgia State Legislature and two terms as its Governor before being appointed the Secretary of Agriculture on April 25, 2017 by President Donald Trump. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Alan Murray, President & CEO of Fortune, has been at the helm of the media company through changing seasons. Put in charge during the Time, Inc. days, he steered it through Meredith Corporation’s (NYSE:MDP) purchase of the storied brand. After Fortune’s sale to Chatchaval Jiaravanon in 2018, Murray leads an independent company for the first time, on its 90th year of operation. He shares his vision for Fortune’s future, and how media has evolved from his first reporting experiences to Fortune’s global network of events, digital content, and of course the iconic magazine. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Legendary lacrosse player Paul Rabil, founder and chief strategy officer of the newly formed Premier Lacrosse League, is disrupting the way pro sports leagues are organized and make money. Lacrosse, North America’s oldest and fastest growing sport, is up 35% in participation since 2012, and the PLL is poised to capitalize on its growth. Backed by venture capital and driven by social media and digital content, he’s reimagining pro sports in a way that could change the playing field forever. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Philip K. Howard has spent a lifetime pursuing common sense cures to government excess and bloat. The patient is in critical condition: a raft of rules and regulations have infected every corner of the federal bureaucracy, from how agriculture products are harvested to how first responders can assist those at an accident scene. In the great tradition of Thomas Paine, Philip Howard is a lawyer and pamphleteer on a mission: cutting red tape wherever he sees it. His latest book: Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left, is a call to action as Election 2020 gets underway. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

A special preview for Inside the ICE House listeners. Stacey Cunningham, the New York Stock Exchange’s President, recently recorded an episode of SAP’s podcast, “A Call to Lead,” hosted by Jennifer Morgan, SAP’s President of the Americas & Asia Pacific Japan. We’re pleased to bring you an excerpt of that excellent conversation. The full conversation on Stacey’s approach to leadership, and what it takes to run the world’s greatest stock exchange, can be heard by downloading A Call to Lead presented by SAP, the world’s largest provider of enterprise application software, on your favorite podcast app. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Richard Edelman, President and CEO of Edelman, one the world’s leading marketing and communications firms, is a global evangelist for measuring how stakeholders perceive global firms and providing prescriptions for curing their ills. With the latest results from his 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer, Richard joined us in the library to share what the future holds for leading companies and the countries in which they operate. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/insights/conversations/inside-the-ice-house

Exchange Traded Funds, an investment vehicle born out of the market volatility of 1987 & now representing up to 40% of trading, just faced their first big test since becoming a major player in investment strategies. Brendan McCarthy joins Inside the ICE House to explore how institutional investors reacted to 2018, based on the findings of Greenwich Associates’ 2019 U.S. Exchange Traded Funds Study, sponsored by BlackRock. For the report: https://www.ishares.com/us/investment-professionals/greenwich-survey

For the winner of the Daytona 500, Victory Lane leads right up to the New York Stock Exchange. The Exchange has become an annual stop for winners of the Great American Race and Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, parked himself in our library for an extended pit stop conversation. Hear him talk about his team, his car, and the drive needed to go the distance. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Eric Hippeau is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau, the New York-based early-stage venture capital firm that ponied up early money for wildly popular media, retail, and tech brands including: Allbirds, Axios, BuzzFeed, Casper, Everlane, Giphy, Glossier, Warby Parker, and more. As they like to say, they’re not investing in the companies, they’re investing in the people who run them. A deep dive into how a tech company gets its start. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Fifty years ago, Lindsay Corporation (NYSE:LNN) delivered the first Zimmatic center pivot irrigation system. Our flights over the heartland were never the same. Lindsay’s CEO, Tim Hassinger, pivoted to the library to explain how his company’s innovation changed the landscape of American farming and charted a path of global growth through solutions for the world’s food production and infrastructure needs. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

In 2000, Reverend Thomas Johnson and his son, Thomas IV, became the first African American father & son duo to hold simultaneous membership in the NYSE. In 1974, Reverend Johnson also became the first African American member of the American Stock Exchange. Their careers, in many ways, were similar to the thousands of people who worked alongside them, but the Johnsons, father and son, were also were trailblazers who smashed through barriers on their way to Trading Floor success. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

From scheduling to follow up, meetings can often breed more headaches than helpful solutions. Automated scheduling software Calendly takes the metronomic rhythm out of scheduling and gives you back control of your time. Tope Awotona, Calendly’s CEO, describes emigrating from Nigeria to the U.S., how his career in software sales led him to becoming an entrepreneur, and why he loves working in Atlanta, also the home of Intercontinental Exchange. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

At the NYSE, we usually focus on the bulls and the bears. Today we turn to the red and the blue. Steve Kornacki, National Political Correspondent for MSNBC and NBC News, joins the podcast to explain how the decade of Clinton and Gingrich, Mario Cuomo and Ross Perot, and Al Gore and George Bush, was the prelude to our current political situation. Steve’s book “The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism” goes back to the genesis of a country divided by party colors. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Growth IQ by Tiffani Bova, Salesforce’s Global Customer Growth & Innovation Evangelist, explores the pathways and pitfalls facing every business seeking to expand market share and grow revenue. She stopped by the ICE House to explore the strategies behind the recent successes of companies from McDonalds to John Deere to Kylie Cosmetics. During the conversation, we discover how the paths to growth that Tiffani identifies in Growth IQ have been implemented by the world’s best brands. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Despite a volatile 2018 and an increasingly complex landscape, the U.S. markets remain the envy of the world. Justin Schack, Managing Director and Partner at Rosenblatt Securities, joins the podcast to help listeners understand and navigate the rapidly changing equity markets. In addition to his role at Rosenblatt, Justin has become a prolific market commentator in the press and his analysis is sought after to understand the potentially seismic effects of policy changes, such as the Transaction Fee Pilot. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Just a few months ago, Smartsheet’s CEO Mark Mader stood on the New York Stock Exchange Bell Podium to announce his company’s successful IPO following years of hard work building a company that lives its “work different” motto. Mark returned to the NYSE to update us on how Smartsheet has continued to grow and transform. As 2019 gets underway, Mark shares what lies in the future for Smartsheet and gives his advice to those companies looking to also tap the public markets. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Scientific breakthroughs depend on the development and deployment of cutting edge tools. One of the companies that laboratories across the globe turn to for testing solutions is QIAGEN (NYSE:QGEN). Peer Schatz, QIAGEN’s CEO, gave Inside the ICE House a masterclass on how the company is working with the science community to create the tests and equipment needed for infectious diseases control; cancer prevention, personalized medicine, and much more. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

The Naval SEAL Foundation was established in 2000 to serve U.S. Navy SEALs, Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen, Naval Special Warfare support personnel and their families. The Foundation’s CEO Robin King and DJ Haley, a former Navy SEAL and Foundation Board Member, take us through how a small organization originally focused on scholarships and educational opportunities has grown to provide immediate and ongoing support and assistance to the Naval Special Warfare community and its families. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Intercontinental Exchange recently welcomed a new neighbor to Broad Street, Fearless Girl. The statue, commissioned by State Street Global Advisors and created by sculptor Kristen Visbal to promote State Street’s SHE Index Fund, has become enduring symbol calling for change. Following the arrival ceremony outside the New York Stock Exchange, State Street’s Chief Marketing Officer, Stephen Tisdale, sat down for a fireside chat with the NYSE’s Betty Liu to talk all things fearless. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

As President of Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer spends his time crisscrossing the planet to investigate the current state of global affairs and sharing his analysis of geopolitical risks. He founded his firm in 1998 to provide political risk research and consultation services to Wall Street’s biggest names, but continues to explore the boundaries of how every person can better understand the world around them. Ian was at the Exchange to celebrate the anniversary of GZERO Media, a company he started with the goal of helping the public see clearly how news stories fit together and are part of important global narratives. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

The Block’s Senior Correspondent, Frank Chaparro, once a wunderkind at Business Insider, is now exclusively on the crypto beat, just in time to cover the cleansing process of Bitcoin’s bear market. He’s on the trail of the comings & goings of the industry’s top talent, & probing how exchanges, banks & institutions are dipping their toes into an ocean of digital assets. Chaparro gives a candid view on what’s driving Bitcoin’s swoon, why regulation is key, and how 2019 may unfold for Crypto’s biggest players. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Recorded at CoinDesk’s Consensus:Invest Conference, Bakkt’s CEO Kelly Loeffler and ICE’s Chairman and CEO Jeff Sprecher’s chat with the MIT Media Lab’s Michael Casey. Bakkt plans to roll out the world’s first 1-day physically delivered Bitcoin contract in 2019, allowing institutions and consumers alike to seamlessly buy, sell, store, and spend the digital asset. While Bitcoin’s value may rise and fall, the profound appeal of crypto is not so much as an investment to buy and hold, but rather a currency to actually put to work. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

As President and COO of ICE Data Services, Lynn oversees much of the connective tissue -- the flow of data around the world -- that knits together the cornerstones of Intercontinental Exchange. Martin looks back at ICE’s acquisitions and product developments that have served as the building blocks of ICE -- pricing and analytics, exchange data and connectivity -- and offers a forecast for the data industry in 2019. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Seaspan Corporation’s Chairman David Sokol is setting the course for the world’s largest independent owner and operator of containerships. He shares how his business philosophy of “pleased, but not satisfied” guided him from early on in Omaha to his current watch at Seaspan. Over the past year, Sokol has armed the company with new leadership, overhauled its financials, and embarked on an M&A plan to consolidate the global containership fleet. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

John Pettigrew, CEO of National Grid PLC, is focused on transforming utilities to become greener, more efficient, and technological to prepare for an uncertain future of climate change, customer needs, and an uncertain political environment. National Grid, which operates electric and gas utilities in the United States and Great Britain, is driving the conversation around carbon usage and the implementation of clean energy technology. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Melinda Richter, Global Head of Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s JLABs, enters the ICE House to explain how JNJ is empowering entrepreneurs to bring healthcare ideas from concept to consumer. Melinda shares her journey from growing up in Goodsoil, Saskatchewan to becoming a leader in the start-up culture of life science. Under her stewardship, JLABs has grown to 13 global locations and helped over 450 companies secure $11.6 Billion in financing, including 14 that have tapped the public markets. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Betty Liu, Executive Vice Chairman of the NYSE, brings years of knowledge and insight about the needs of CEOs and their businesses, from those nascent start-up days to the moment when the founder stands on the podium to ring the opening bell of their IPO. Fresh off a trip to the Far East, Betty shares what she has learned about navigating between the business cultures of the East and West, becoming an entrepreneur as the founder of the ed-tech start-up Radiate, and getting out of your comfort zone. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Randall Lane, Forbes Media’s Chief Content Officer, sat down with the NYSE’s Executive Vice Chairman Betty Liu at this year’s Interbrand Best Global Brands Summit for a wide ranging conversation from how a new generation of entrepreneurs is reshaping the world to the evolution of going public to ways the blockchain can combat fake news. Betty and Randall also discuss how modern brands make and keep consumer’s trust while standing out in the crowded landscape of traditional and social media. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Sue Thompson, executive vice president at State Street Global Advisors, joined the podcast to share her experiences on how artificial intelligence and technology innovation is changing the global economy. State Street has partnered with Kensho to launch ETFs aimed at investing in the Future of Now, from space travel to intelligent infrastructure to autonomous vehicles. The best was to identify which companies are positioned to transform the world may be to just ask the technology itself. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Anthony Scaramucci, Co-Managing Partner at SkyBridge Capital, went through Washington’s revolving door as fast as just about anyone in Beltway memory. He’s back now, in the comfortable confines of New York City, with a reboot next year of his much-heralded SALT Conference and a new book -- Trump: The Blue-Collar President -- which chronicles both his own unlikely rise through Wall Street and, in parallel, a real estate developer’s unlikely rise to the pinnacle of American power. Inside the ICE House podcast: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

We make 35,000 decisions every day, but only a few choices can change our lives. Steven Johnson, the author of 11 books as well as host of the Wonderland and American Innovations podcasts, is now out with Farsighted, exploring the complex choices that influenced world history, our own lives, and those of generations to come. The book chronicles the tools that master strategists use to predict the multiple outcomes that may result from a decision to help leaders get ready for the next fork in the road. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

The bi-annual gathering of the Listed Company Advisory Board at the New York Stock Exchange was the perfect setting for a post-election post-mortem with Ben White, Chief Economic Correspondent for POLITICO and author of the Morning Money must-read that POLITICO publishes every weekday at 5:30 a.m. for subscribers and a critical 200 minutes later for everyone else. In this episode, Ben talks about President Trump’s barnstorming election strategy, how it will reverberate in 2019, and the upcoming presidential election that starts…now. Inside the ICE House: https://www.theice.com/podcast/inside-the-ice-house

Every year, Interbrand surveys the global marketplace to identify and calculate the value of the world’s leading brands. Coinciding with the release of the 2018 Best Global Brands Report earlier this month, NYSE served as host to Interbrand’s Best Global Brands Summit. Inside the ICE House was on the scene to capture the conversation. The first installment is a fireside chat hosted by Interbrand’s Managing Director Daniel Binns with Bob Pittman, Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia and Clear Channel Outdoor.

Martin Migoya, the cofounder and CEO of Globant (NYSE:GLOB), joined the podcast ahead of Globant’s Converge NY Conference on how artificial intelligence is transforming the world. Martin shares how in just 15 years, an idea crafted over drinks in a Buenos Aires bar with three friends grew into a leading global company for digital customer experiences. He has now turned his attention to how Globant can best help its clients and the world unlock the potential of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Keywords: machine learning, artificial intelligence, convergence, google, IT, digital