The CEO Magazine EMEA – April 2018

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MASTERS OF SCALE

Hosted by LinkedIn co-founder

Reid Hoffman, each episode of Masters of

Scale tests Hoffman’s theories, which explain

how successful entrepreneurs take their

companies “from zero to a gazillion”. It’s

presented as an entertaining detective story,

unravelling these theories with guests like

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

EXPONENT

Ben Thompson, author of business/tech

blog Stratechery, talks tech and society along

with writer James Allworth. Recent episodes

have discussed Spotify’s financial position,

Google and ad blockers, and how Apple

monetises its user base.

INSIDE THE

HIVE WITH

NICK BILTON

Hosted by (surprise!)

Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton,

Inside the Hive presents

interviews with leading

figures in tech, culture and

politics, and examines

current events. Featured

guests include the likes of

former Twitter CEO Dick

Costolo and bitcoin billionaires,

the Winklevoss twins.

A US start-up is offering a chance for immortality

• in a sense, at any rate. Nectome is attempting
  to commercialise a process in which the brain is
  preserved by vitrification, essentially being turned
  to glass. It’s been trialled on rabbits thus far, and the
  company hopes to be able to upload preserved
  brains to the cloud. There are two catches, however.
  One, it doesn’t currently have a method of uploading
  or reviving the brain; and two, since all the blood in
  the brain must be replaced with embalming
  chemicals, you kind of have to be dead to undergo
  the procedure or, more accurately, the procedure
  has to be the cause of death to ensure successful
  preservation of the brain.

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