Podcast · Business
by Bloomberg · English · Business
Bloomberg journalist Emily Chang sits down for intimate interviews with the biggest names at the intersection of tech, business, entertainment and culture. Join us every Thursday for a behind-the-scenes look at the most exciting and influential trends, and the big personalities behind them.
13 Feb 2026 · 39 min
Emily Chang meets California Governor Gavin Newsom in Sacramento for a wide ranging sit-down to discuss his political career and future ambitions. Though the next presidential election is more than two years away, the governor is widely considered the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, a position reinforced by his sometimes-gleeful attacks on President Donald Trump. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
12 Feb 2026 · 49 min
Emily Chang sits down with California’s First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom in her home in Marin. They discuss Siebel Newsom’s Bay Area roots, her career in documentary film, her work at the state capitol, and what she sees ahead for the Newsoms’ next chapter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
12 Dec 2025 · 49 min
Emily Chang meets Disney Entertainment Co-Chair Dana Walden for an inside look at the entertainment giant's global streaming and TV ambitions See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
24 Nov 2025 · 16 min
Emily Chang meets Reese Witherspoon to discuss the company's founding mission and what's next for Hollywood. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
14 Nov 2025 · 51 min
Emily Chang meets Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian at Athlos NYC, an annual women’s track and field event. They discuss his expansive athletics portfolio, venture career and what happened when he left Reddit. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
7 Nov 2025 · 53 min
Emily Chang speaks with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel in Los Angeles for a conversation about his entrepreneurial journey, building Snap and his latest consumer hardware bet. Spiegel is doubling down on smart glasses and going head to head with giants like Google, Meta, and Apple in the race to bring augmented reality to the masses. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
27 Aug 2025 · 59 min
Emily Chang speaks with Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex about her new chapter in Montecito, including her latest ventures in business and entertainment, and life beyond the royal glare. Over burgers and beer, she reflects on the intense public scrutiny she has received since her marriage to Prince Harry, her entrepreneurial ambitions, and what she’s building next. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
4 Jul 2025 · 28 min
Emily Chang meets power lawyer Alex Spiro in Miami to discuss how he navigates the high-stakes world of litigation on behalf of famous clients like Elon Musk, Jay-Z, Megan Thee Stallion and Alec Baldwin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
27 Jun 2025 · 31 min
Emily Chang meets Salesforce Co-Founder & CEO Marc Benioff in his home city of San Francisco to discuss the rise of AI agents and what it’s like to run a very memeable global tech company. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
20 Jun 2025 · 38 min
Emily Chang speaks with Melinda French Gates to discuss how she’s navigating her next stage as a philanthropic powerhouse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
6 Jun 2025 · 54 min
Emily Chang speaks with Microsoft titans Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella about the company's journey from scrappy startup to global powerhouse, and its battle to outpace rivals in the high-stakes AI era. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
21 May 2025 · 31 min
Emily Chang visits the Stargate site in Abilene, Texas for an exclusive first look at the historic $500 billion bet on the future of AI, announced by President Trump the day after his inauguration. She speaks with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the project’s origin story, ambitions, and where this megafactory will take OpenAI next. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
13 Dec 2024 · 21 min
National Basketball Association superstar & Thirty Ink Chief Executive Officer Stephen Curry has a lifelong habit of betting on himself and winning big. When he was first drafted by the Golden State Warriors, there were no signs he would become one of the greatest shooters of all time and lead the club’s transformation into an NBA dynasty. Sixteen seasons in, Curry shows no signs of slowing down. Earlier this year, he added Olympic gold to his trophy cabinet and he’s been busy building a growing business portfolio. Now Curry is betting on himself again, working alongside Under…
6 Dec 2024 · 40 min
Emily Chang meets AMD CEO Lisa Su on the heels of her tenth year anniversary as CEO. They discuss her career, the bets she’s making to compete in a fast paced technology race between Intel and Nvidia, her long view on China, and her passion for fast cars. Chang and Su visit the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas to meet Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team boss Toto Wolff and star driver Lewis Hamilton for a closer look at AMD’s technology inside the Mercedes cars. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
25 Nov 2024 · 38 min
Instacart CEO Fidji Simo is used to beating expectations. Raised in a small fishing village in the South of France, Simo grew up watching her family take big swings at sea to feed her local town. Inspired with entrepreneurial dreams of her own, Simo was the first of her family to hustle her way out of Sète and into an elite business school in Paris. She rose through the ranks at eBay, Facebook, and then nabbed the ultimate job as the CEO of Instacart, all before the age of 40. She’s currently laser focused on transforming Instacart from a grocery delivery company into a grocery technology…
14 Nov 2024 · 26 min
Superagent and Endeavor & TKO CEO Ari Emanuel has forged a career making big, risky bets on the future of content and distribution. Over the past four decades he has grown his start-up agency into a multi-billion dollar empire that spans the worlds of fashion, TV, live events, sports and the arts. His latest gamble is on live combat sports, bringing together the UFC and WWE to form sports juggernaut TKO. Emily Chang sits down with Emanuel to discuss his journey from mailroom to media mogul, the shifting landscape of TV and Hollywood and what’s next for his company as it prepares to go…
23 Jul 2024 · 57 min
If the latest battle in the AI wars is between open-source models and closed ones, Meta CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg is right on the frontline. Since rebranding as Meta in 2021, the trillion dollar company formerly known as Facebook has been pouring billions into its long term bets on artificial intelligence and the Metaverse. Meta’s latest push is a major play to open-source AI, in contrast to closed-source competitors like Google and Open AI. In an exclusive interview, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang sits down with Zuckerberg to discuss how the company’s newest AI model Llama 3.1 will shape the…
30 May 2024 · 27 min
YouTube is now the biggest streamer in the world, winning the battle for eyeballs against competitors like Netflix, Hulu, Disney and Max. Now, the entertainment giant is eyeing up its next frontier: the living room. YouTube CEO Neal Mohan sits down with Emily Chang to discuss the platform’s growth strategy, keeping the creator economy afloat and how it is cracking down on AI generated content. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
23 May 2024 · 52 min
Ryan Kaji is the reigning king of toy videos and one of YouTube’s biggest and highest-paid social media stars. Now, at the tender age of 12, he's getting his first Hollywood movie, with his parents as co-stars. Behind the Kaji empire is Chris Williams, CEO of kids entertainment media company Pocket.Watch. On this Circuit podcast, Emily Chang sits down with Williams to discuss the kids entertainment landscape, how kid YouTubers are making a killing across YouTube, merchandising, and brand deals, and how AI will present new challenges and opportunities for young creators. See…
16 May 2024 · 48 min
For years, a Hawaiian-shirt and flip-flop wearing, smack-talking entrepreneur has been promising to disrupt the US defense industry. Now, Palmer Luckey, founder of autonomous weapons startup Anduril Industries, isn’t just talking about it, he’s doing it. Emily Chang and Palmer Luckey sit down to discuss building Anduril, his relationship with Silicon Valley, how autonomous weapons are changing the battlefield in Ukraine, and culture clashes between Big Tech and the defense industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
9 May 2024 · 40 min
Ahead of Google's developer conference I/O, Google & Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sits down with Bloomberg Originals Host & Executive Producer Emily Chang to discuss the future of search, accelerating work on Google's AI models and how his upbringing prepared him for this moment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2 May 2024 · 32 min
Mary Barra has an ambitious plan: to double General Motor’s revenue to $280 billion by the end of the decade and turn the legacy automaker into more of a tech company. To pull this off, she's going all in on electric drive and autonomous cars. At the ten year mark of her career as CEO, Emily Chang sits down with Barra to discuss her journey to the c-suite, her big plans for the future and what it'll take to turn them into a reality. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
25 Apr 2024 · 25 min
With the streaming wars hotter than ever, Netflix is doubling down on its global ambitions. It’s a strategy that’s already reshaping the entertainment world, with series like Squid Game and Narcos becoming smash hits far beyond their countries of origin. In an era when entertainment companies are scrambling for dwindling revenues and attention, the future of the industry could depend on reaching a truly worldwide audience. The question is, can Netflix do it, and stay the king of streaming? Emily Chang speaks with Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria about Netflix's ambitious bet in Latin…
18 Apr 2024 · 26 min
Emily Chang interviews JPMorgan Chase Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, a titan in the banking industry known for his freewheeling style, about his outlook on markets, tech and geopolitical risk. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
1 Sep 2023 · 47 min
In this episode of The Circuit, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang meets with Bumble CEO and founder Whitney Wolfe Herd to talk about what it takes to truly create a safer space for women to date online. Wolfe Herd discusses what she learned from her experience at Tinder and how AI could usher in a new era for online dating. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
25 Aug 2023 · 32 min
In this episode of The Circuit, Emily Chang heads to Los Angeles to meet one family that’s trying to turn TikTok fame into a business empire. Charli D’Amelio, one of the most-followed people on TikTok, and her parents Heidi and Marc discuss their expansion into television, investing and building their own brand. Chang gets a sneak peek at their new shoe line and sits down with Charli to talk about the struggles of fame on today’s internet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
18 Aug 2023 · 29 min
On this episode of The Circuit, Emily Chang sits down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to hear how AI is shaking up the competition for search. Nadella argues that this new wave of technology is as big as the web browser or the iPhone. Chang also speaks with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to discuss his company (which has some help from Microsoft), its ambitions and the latest on ChatGPT. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
11 Aug 2023 · 42 min
Y Combinator is a famous Silicon Valley startup accelerator where Airbnb, Coinbase and Reddit all got their start. This startup school has backed companies now valued at $600 billion. Emily Chang met with Y Combinator CEO and President Garry Tan to discuss his roots as a founder who went through Y Combinator himself, to his return as the accelerator's current CEO. They discuss what it takes to be a great founder, the Silicon Valley Bank crisis, how Mr. Beast schooled Tan on his content creating, and the fate of San Francisco. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
4 Aug 2023 · 25 min
In this episode of The Circuit, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang sits down with Angel City FC’s three co-founders for their first-ever joint interview. Natalie Portman, Kara Nortman and Julie Uhrman gathered a star-studded, mostly women-led investor group to launch the team back in 2019. Now in their second season, the team is already selling out stadiums, boosting the profile of the national league and changing the culture of professional sports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
28 Jul 2023 · 57 min
On this episode of The Circuit, Bloomberg’s Emily Chang is joined by three women who have raised the alarm on big tech’s harms: Ifeoma Ozoma, Timnit Gebru, and Safiya Noble. They discuss their experiences speaking out and the risks of what they see as tech’s newest emerging threat: artificial intelligence. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg journalist Emily Chang sits down for intimate interviews with the biggest names at the intersection of tech, business, entertainment and culture. Join us every Thursday for a behind-the-scenes look at the most exciting and influential trends, and the big personalities behind them.
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