Episode Summary In this final episode of Season 4, I bring you Rob Kapilow. A musical savant, innovator, and global presence, listening to Rob is like taking a master class in music, and in life. From Duke Ellington to Joseph Campbell, from Beethoven to the Beatles, and from Yale to Paris to Native American reservations, Rob Kapilow will take you on the classic Sydcast journey of discovery, creativity, and learning. Sydney Finkelstein  Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of...

How does it happen that an English teacher and sports coach becomes a renowned actor?

A life in radio in the “Live Free or Die” state.

Laurie Wallmark, one of the first women at Princeton, has been a software engineer, a computer science professor, and now, an award-winning writer of picture book biographies of women in STEM, for kids.

Erudite and articulate, Alejandro is that unique leader who can share his philosophy about innovation and purpose while grounded in the everyday reality of what works and what doesn’t.

Hannah Kearney - Olympic Gold Medalist – reflects on what it’s like to be the best in the world and how you come down from that high to live a productive, and energizing, life.

From melting pots to immigration, on this episode of The Sydcast a deep dive into an entrepreneurial life set in motion long ago.

What happens when you discover a multi-billion fraud that affects the lives of thousands of people? The story of Theranos, by the man who broke the story for the WSJ.

Kenny Mitchell – an Emmy Award nominated leader who combines creativity with business smarts – describes his move to Big Tech, life at Snapchat, augmented reality, and what he wished he knew when he was 20 years old that he knows now.

Dave Johnson is a Silicon Valley attorney and climate change activist whose attention to design thinking suggests a less well-traveled approach to dealing with global threats.

An in-depth look at the economics, science, and politics that underpin the battle for global sustainability, with Professor Maron Greenleaf.

Two women – one studying economics with her own fashion line (Avalux) and a member of the US 2020 Olympic team in rugby, the other a first-generation low-income Latina college student in bioengineering looking to increase representation in academia.

An African-American scholar-athlete at Brown University fighting to preserve his sport in a diminished resource environment during Covid.

Unequal pay between men and women, transparency at work, and imposter syndrome – what can be done to help women in the workforce break through these barriers.

The cannabis industry is booming - what happened ... and what comes next?

What do you get when you assemble a team of diverse talents in music and science to explore how music makes us human?

Who is Gina Bianchini, what is Mighty Networks, and what’s it like to be a female entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the age of Elizabeth Holmes?

Episode Summary Boarding school. Enrichment and personal growth experiences. A supportive community. Natalie Tung is creating all of this … for black and brown high school girls in Trenton. The idea took shape while Natalie was at Princeton and reflected on her own difficult experience growing up in Hong Kong. Now, just a few years later, she’s hit the tipping point. Meet the budding “Sal Kahn” for minority high-school girls. Sydney Finkelstein  Syd Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor...

Hispanic culture in America and how one women figured out how to connect the dots.

Episode Summary A wide-ranging discussion with the multi-talented Gautam Mukunda. Leadership, Theranos, Failure and Learning, Luck, Russia and Ukraine, the Financial Crisis, Inequality, Innovation. Bezos, Jobs, Holmes, Neumann, Sackler, Putin. Sydney Finkelstein  Syd Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor...

John Pepper - entrepreneur and Uber-driver, angel investor and small-town politician.

Former candidate for Governor of NH now leads the biggest collection of angel investors in the country.

Lowey Bundy Sichol writes books about entrepreneurship for kids.

Episode Summary Diane Brady is one of the top business journalists in the world, with writing and editing gigs at the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business Week, and Forbes. And also an old friend. She’s wise (“nobody needs more content, they need more intelligence”) and she’s a pro (“the best interviews are about listening”). In this episode, Diane and Syd on curating content, the future of journalism, and Elizabeth Holmes. Sydney Finkelstein  Syd Finkelstein is the Steven Roth...