Better Results: CEOs of AI Squared and Legacy, and What Happens to Diversity in a Downturn

The economy and markets feel to me like they’re teetering between sobriety and denial these days, as we await this week’s wave of tech earnings and another rate hike from the Federal Reserve. Meanwhile, though there’s little leaders can do about monetary policy, they can have far more influence over the ventures they pursue.

Last week I spent time with entrepreneurs taking risks in artificial intelligence, fertility, diversity and more:

Juniper CEO Rami Rahim on Working with AWS and Azure in the Cloud Era: CNBC Working Lunch

As networking technology moves deeper into the cloud and 5G eras, it's changing fundamentally. In the latest?Working Lunch on CNBC's Power Lunch,?meet?Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim, who sees opportunity in creative approaches:

Connecting AI Models to Real Work: AI Squared CEO Benjamin Harvey

I typically talk to entrepreneurs who pitch dozens — even hundreds of investors before landing a crucial deal.?Benjamin Harvey?bootstrapped his startup,?AI Squared, until the last possible moment —?then landed funding from some top-flight VCs. It wasn’t a maverick strategy. He didn’t know any better at the time:

Deanna Singh, Uplifting Impact Founder: Fortt Knox March Forth

The?March Forth?series with me and?Jayson Council?returns with author and consultant?Deanna Singh, as we tackle timely questions including: What happens to inclusion commitments in a choppy economy?

Fertility Benefits Matter to Men, Too: Rethinking Family Planning with Legacy CEO Khaled Kteily

I’ve interviewed a few fertility startup founders, including KindBody’s Gina Bartasi and Carrot Fertility’s Tammy Sun. I got a unique perspective this time from?Legacy CEO Khaled Kteily, who made me realize how little I know about sperm, health, and how men’s insecurities can endanger our health:

Eren Bali, Carbon Health CEO on Amazon Buying One Medical

I caught up with?Carbon Health CEO Eren Bali?as?Amazon?stepped into the business of tech-driven primary care with its $3.9 billion bid to buy?One Medical:

In an odd coincidence, I first met Eren almost exactly a year earlier on 7/22/2021, when we streamed this Fortt Knox 1:1:

Can Netflix Reinvent Itself? On the Other Hand

Netflix?this week reported that it lost about a million subscribers last quarter and would gain about a million this quarter. With competitors catching up and the stock trading at less than half where it was, can the streaming pioneer reinvent itself? I argue both sides in the latest?On the Other Hand, on CNBC's Squawk Box:

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