Apple's stores were built to erase fear, not sell
Ron Johnson, who built Apple's retail stores, explains how designing around fear of technology drove their success and why the same conviction faltered at J.C. Penney without employee buy-in.
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AI mandates without guidance raise employee stress at every level
Wellhub CEO Cesar Carvalho argues that AI is raising performance expectations before it delivers time savings, making sleep, exercise and eating the strongest defense against AI anxiety.
Uber's CEO calls backing down on Priceline his costliest mistake
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi tells Ali Partovi that his costliest mistake was deferring to experience, and that leaders must go first in honesty to get the truth back.
Silicon Valley only talks to people it pays, Chesky warns
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, speaking to Semafor's CEO Signal, covers Airbnb's pivot to community and hotels, the housing-supply argument, and his warning that AI is outrunning society.
Uber's COO says distribution, not technology, wins the robotaxi era
Andrew McDonald, Uber's president and COO, gets into autonomy's threat to the core business, membership as a growth lever, and AI budgets, agents and the China exit.
Specialized robots, not humanoids, will automate one industry at a time
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick talks to the host of the Founders podcast about winning and losing at Uber, how to run fundraising as an auction, and why Adams builds specialized robots.