Episode 31 - Joel Flory, CEO/Co-founder of VSCO

06/30/20 • 64 min

On Monday, September 16, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Joel Flory, CEO and co-founder of VSCO, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about the role of creativity in VSCO’s genesis and evolution, its unique position in a landscape of Snapchat filters and Instagram influencers, how the company uses artificial intelligence to identify the feelings that images evoke, why it chose to raise venture capital funding after achieving profitability, and the process of developing new digital tools that mimic analog film.

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Episode 30 - Ganesh Srivats, CEO of Moda Operandi

On Thursday, June 13, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Ganesh Srivats, CEO of Moda Operandi, in conversation with Emma Chandra, a Bloomberg Television and Radio reporter who covers the retail and consumer sectors. They talked about how Moda Operandi’s trunkshow model lets customers purchase any piece from a designer’s collection, enabling the company to play a direct role in determining which fashions shown on the runway actually make it into production.

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Episode 32 - Zachariah Reitano, CEO/Co-founder of Ro

On Monday, October 28, 2019, Cornell Tech @ Bloomberg featured Zachariah Reitano, CEO and Co-founder of Ro, in conversation with Scarlet Fu of Bloomberg Television. They talked about Ro’s founding and rapid growth, its ambition to be patients’ first stop for a broad range of healthcare needs, how and why it addresses stigma in very public advertising campaigns, and how it discovered a massive market by focusing on conditions that many have, but few discuss.