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Coburn Ventures Podcast#96: Living Inside the Media Hyper-Circus: The Rogue Wave Toolkit
We have identified two sources of Rogue Waves: the Quantum Change in Connectivity and Quantum Change in Information. These are core facets of human existence…
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#95: Grant McCracken on Assumption Hunting -- The Rogue Waves Toolkit
If you’ve listened to the series on digital transformation, you may be wondering how to pick companies that will adapt well, and avoid companies that are going…
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#94: Rudy Karsan: What Do We Do to Find the Appropriate Lenses to Assess Digital Transformation?
After all that has been presented, Rudy Karsan is here to offer his perspective on digital transformation. Rudy’s lens is of a former HR software CEO and…
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#93: John Dillon on Digital Transformation: The Stealthy Competitive Advantage We Are All Missing
John Dillon has been a tech executive for over 40 years. When we asked him about digital transformation, he compared it to the advent of the steam engine or…
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#92: JP Rangaswami on the Progression of Digital Transformation and the Barriers in Plain Sight
Last week Tim Mattison helped us understand the different levels or phases an organization might go through as they experience digital transformation. Now, JP…
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#91: Tim Mattison: Five Levels of Digital Transformation
Last week we introduced our series on digital transformation. Now that we have some context on its importance for investors, let's get some inputs from our…
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#90: Digital Transformation: You Can't See It to Believe It with Pip Coburn and Brynne Thompson
Welcome to our series on digital transformation. We are in a period in which every product or service we touch has already been defined in some digital way…
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#89: Matt Wallaert #1: Handling Heightened Uncertainty
In times of heightened uncertainty, what can we do to prepare for and handle the uncertainty rather than be tossed around by it? Is there anything we can…
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# 88: Finding Glimpses of the Future of Work - Jorgen Van der Sloot interviews Pip Coburn and Brynne Thompson
Today we flip the script as our friend and collaborator Jorgen Van der Sloot decides he wants to hear more about some of Coburn Ventures work on process and…
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#87: What is Change Investing? Actually, What Is Change?!
At Coburn Ventures, the investment philosophy and process grew out of change investing. But to understand change investing, we might want to understand change…
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#86: Exploring Inflation and Macro-economic Dynamics with Mike Cahill
Today’s conversation is with Mike Cahill, a longtime friend, and investor who has been so kind to walk through his thinking on the market, especially as it…
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# 85: De-Professionalizing Valuation. The Dark Side of the Moon Part V.
Today, our last topic in our series on The Dark Side of the Moon is "de-professionalizing" valuation. What on earth would we mean by de-professionalizing…
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#84: Exploring Excessive Value with Scott Booth. The Dark Side of the Moon Part IV.
Today in our series the Dark Side of the Moon, we are exploring value, and in particular, what to do with stocks that are perceived to be excessively valued…
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#83: Sell Disciplines. The Dark Side of the Moon Part III.
In reviewing our investment process, it can be helpful to look for where we get trapped, where we feel on our heels in scenarios we didn’t anticipate and feel…
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#82: Red-Flagging with Steve Salopek. The Dark Side of the Moon Part II.
Today we’re with Steve Salopek, small-cap and tech fund manager turned University Professor at THE Ohio State University. We’re here to explore how we can…
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# 81: What is Risk? The Dark Side of the Moon, Part I.
Sometimes our most valuable work is done when we review that which we think we know for sure. So to start off this new year, we have a short but potentially…
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#80: Amber Gentry: Abundance
As we close out 2021, we wanted to offer a topic that is both interesting and supportive of year-end introspection and is also thought-provoking beyond…
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#79: Collective Consciousness and Leadership with Pip and Brynne
In the last in our series on Leadership, Pip and I apply the concept of collective consciousness to leadership and especially, our new workplaces and habits of…
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#78: How is Value Added to a Company? On Leadership with Jennifer Salopek
How is it that value is actually added to a company? We sometimes assume we have the playbook to answer a question like that, and, well, for many of us this is…
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#77: Leadership Meets Work Spaces and Places with Matthias Hollwich of HWKN
Matthias Hollwich, founder of the architecture firm HWKN, is back with us today to offer another perspective in this series in our podcast on leadership. Now…
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#76: Gratitude Meets Process with the G30 Group
It's Thanksgiving today in the United States, so this is a special edition of our Coburn Ventures Podcast, which will also be an inaugural edition of a new…
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#75: What Does It Mean to be Mis-Aged as a Leader? Pip and Brynne
As a midpoint in our series on leadership, we are dropping in a short but simple concept that I think could be valuable just because it's a valid candidate for…
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#74: Lisa Baird #1: Leadership
Today we kickoff a series on leadership, and what better way to do that than to visit with Lisa Baird, our friend and leader of Heidrick & Struggles Global…
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#73: Identifying Brands for Long Term Success with Veta Bates
What does it take to identify a company that is a true guardian of an increasingly valuable, durable brand? Now that we have learned more about brand character…
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#72: What Makes a Brand Durable with Veta Bates
Today we get to dive in on the topic of brand with a day-to-day practitioner, advisor, and creator of brand value, Veta Bates. Veta gives real-life examples of…
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#71: Values-based Branding with Irwin Kula
After our intro to assessing brands, we now add a new dimension: values-based branding, that attempt that can hit or miss that aims to tightly tie brand and…
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#70: Assessing Branding as Part of Competitive Advantage with Brynne and Pip
Today we start a new series on branding, and especially how to consider the value of brands in assessing the broader corporation and its competitive…
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#69: Your G is not ESG 2.0's G
The G is in ESG, which stands for Governance, is often seen as the point of relief for our clients. It’s the part where they tell us: we know we have a lot to…
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#68: The Future of ESG, Now. Real-Life Examples with Jasper van Brakel of RSF Social Finance.
One of our goals in this series of ESG podcasts is to take the abstract idea of ESG and bring it to life with concrete examples. There are leaders out there in…
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#67: The Commons Meets the Birth of Money Management with Pip and Brynne
Today we are talking about the history of the money management industry, and how values that were "baked in" in the 1980s when this industry really took off…
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#66: Jags Walia on ESG Investing Philosophy and Processs
We are in a time in which ESG or multi-stakeholder investing, the real process of it, the real ‘how to” is actively being defined. Its defined by doing it. And…
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#65: Culture Core Basics
As investors, we are outsiders, so when we hear from management that the company has an interesting opportunity in a new market or a plan to improve its market…
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#64: Gavin Ivester on The Future of Hyper-personalized Communities
We’re back with Gavin Ivester, who we got to talk to last month about caring and what companies are asked to do to become a truly modern company. Today, we…
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#63: Change Frameworks: The Mandorla with Brynne Thompson
Our thoughts and mental models determine how we see the world, so as change investors, we like to make sure we have a few different ways of seeing. It's one of…
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#62: JP Rangaswami on Empowering the End Nodes
Today's conversation is our chance to go even further below the surface on one of our 11 Unavoidable Changes: Empowering the End Nodes. JP Rangaswami wrote the…
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#61: 11 Unavoidable Ideas Impacting Society and Business at Every Level
The 11 unavoidable ideas are one of the oldest components of our process. For those of you who have been around for a while, the Unavoidable Ideas are a…
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#60: Internalization with Ryan Oakes
There’s a big difference between believing you understand a concept and really internalizing it. If I know anything about the community surrounding Coburn…
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#59: ESG Misunderstandings
ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) presents pressure to go from one mindset to another about what investing is and to whom all of the benefits accrue and…
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#58 Jennifer Brown on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Business
Jennifer Brown helps organizations understand what Diversity, Equity and Inclusion means in real life. What kinds of listening needs to happen, what programs…
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#57: The So-Called Summer Book List
As I listened back to this recording, I was shaking my head most of the time. This is about the least summery summer book list that has ever been released. I…
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#56: Mike Lee on The Future of Food , Part 2
We're here for Part Two of our conversation with Mike Lee of The Future Market and Alpha Food Labs. This week we'll get deeper into a systems-level approach to…
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#55: Mike Lee on The Future of Food, Part 1
What's more fundamental than food? This week and next, we have two discussions with our friend Mike Lee, founder of The Future Market and Alpha Food Labs. Mike…
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#54: The Future of Work: The Changing Role of Office Space
Today we’re talking about getting back to the office, a topic that many of you have been bringing to us fervently over the last six months. Beyond the obvious…
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#53 Gavin Ivester on Becoming a Modern Company: Design and "Caring at Scale"
We’re here with Gavin Ivester, a product and brand executive with a background in industrial design. He has global experience in both tech and lifestyle…
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#52: Play
Today we’re talking about play and play science, inspired by the work of our friend Dr. Stuart Brown. So, why this topic, on this podcast? Well, play, may not…
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#51: JC Herz on The Systemic Arbitrage of Ransomware
Two weeks ago, we all learned about the Colonial Oil pipeline ransomware attack on the East Coast of the United States. It was a high profile hit, but was then…
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#50: The Arbitrage Opportunity in Change Investing
Today we compliment a piece Pip is writing on formulating a valuable arbitrage in investing. For Coburn Ventures, we use change as the lens of our arbitrage…
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#49: Digital Transformation & What Companies Can Do To Adapt with Michael Stich
What can we do to assess where companies are positioned among the fast-moving currents of Digital Transformation? What do we mean when we say "Digital…
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#48: Dr. Morris Pickens: "Resiliency"
We are hearing the term "resilience" or "resiliency" so much this year. Biologist Maria Souza continually reminds us that, “Without disruption, there can be no…
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#47: What the Rise and Fall of the Super League Tells Us About ESG
This week the Super League of Premier League Football was announced: a collection of the best and brightest franchises to come into their own, potentially even…
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#46: The History and Future of Asking Questions
About 10 years ago, we started talking about “The Future and History of Asking Questions”. It was an acknowledgment of the exponential growth of our ability to…
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#45: Zak Dychtwald on Young China
Today we have Zak Dychtwald, Founder of Young China Group, joining us to help us understand the global young consumer and specifically, all the ways we may be…
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#44: Investment Process -- The Pre-Determined Game Plan
Joseph Tainter said, “Complexity is the cumulative effect of reactionary decision making”. Well, we can do better than that, can't we? The investment process…
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#43: The Four Stages of Data Development with JP Rangaswami
In this conversation, JP Rangaswami is going to help us slow down our thinking, breaking apart our tendency to literally jump to conclusions. He’s going to…
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#42: Investment Process -- Thesis Statements
The thesis statement, in the context of investing, is our best effort to create a testable hypothesis. Of course, it is not a scientific process, but we can…
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#41: ESG Process -- Profit and Purpose with Omar Shaikh of the Global Ethical Finance Initiative and David Kim
Today we are discussing Profit and Purpose with Omar Shaikh, co-founder of the Global Ethical Finance Initiative. We asked David Kim, who many of you know, to…
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#40: Tactics Masquerading as Strategy and The End of Porter's Five Forces
Today we are examining business strategy, and especially, strategies that are weak, becoming "Tactics Masquerading as Strategy". And then, we tie that to a key…
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#39: Polly Labarre on The Future of Work
Polly Labarre is an author, thinker, collaborator, and journalist. I first met her through Pip as she was working on her book Mavericks at Work, which is a…
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#38: The Four Jobs of Stock Picking -- Analysts & Portfolio Managers
We are often asked to help teams in some way refine their communications, especially so that they can get better idea flow between the analysts and the…
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#37: The Reinvention of Real Estate Part 2 of 2 with Matthias Hollwich, Glenn Lowenstein and Jennifer Salopek
We promised to pick up where we left off from last week's Episode #1 on the Reinvention of Real Estate. If you remember we have three guests for this…