Compound Interest from Semafor Business

Business is changing in subtle and seismic ways. Compound Interest from Semafor Business pairs journalists Liz Hoffman and Rohan Goswami with operators, experts, and innovators behind the world’s most consequential companies, decoding why big parts of the economy work the way they do. Sign up to get the Semafor Business briefing in your inbox. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business . Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter.

Compound Interest from Semafor Business is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 23 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl on AI, streaming power, and why music royalties are the safest asset on Wall Street

  Aug 14, 20261 hour

  Note: Liz joined Semafor media editor Max Tani on this week's episode of Mixed Signals from Semafor Media. You can listen to more Mixed Signals here. Warner Music Group CEO Robert Kyncl joins Mixed Signals to explain what a record label actually does in a world where anyone can upload a song to Spotify. Max and Liz ask Robert why Warner struck a deal with AI music company Suno while Sony and Universal are still suing it, how he thinks about the nuclear-weapons-style leverage labels hold over streaming platforms, and why he thinks Netflix is leaving a massive opportunity on the table by ignoring music.

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  Is Walmart backing America’s next financial super-app?

  Jul 21, 202637 min

  America’s biggest retailer is quietly getting into banking. After trying and failing to crack financial services a few times, is back at it with OnePay, which has 7 million customers, $50 billion in annual payment flow — and virtually zero in acquisition costs. Piggybacking on Walmart’s 1.5 million employees and 150 million customers, it thinks it can succeed where other fintechs have floundered. Liz and Rohan talk to CEO Omer Ismail to find out whether the big box titan can really compete with the big banks.

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  AI is coming for lawyers. Are they ready?

  Jul 15, 202642 min

  Big law firms have run the same playbook for 50 years: hire armies of young lawyers, bill their hours at steep rates, and funnel the money up to the partners. AI is about to upend that model. It can already do much of the grunt work that associates cut their teeth on and is coming for the sacred cow of Big Law — the billable hour. This week on Compound Interest, Liz and Rohan sit down with Rachel Proffitt, partner and CEO of the Silicon Valley-based Cooley, to talk about what the rainmakers of the future look like, the rise of AI-native law firms, and the paranoia sweeping the industry. Sign up to get the Semafor Business briefing in your inbox. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter.

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  Silicon Valley’s go-to fixer on AI’s unfixable problem

  Jun 30, 202654 min

  One of Silicon Valley’s top political fixers, Bradley Tusk, built a career helping startups like Uber and FanDuel brawl their way to legitimacy — in his words, “legalize disruptive sh*t.” His message to AI companies: You have no idea what’s coming. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. This episode is commercial content produced by Semafor Global Studio with Amazon Business.

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  Wall Street fell in love with your life insurance. Should you be worried?

  Jun 23, 202657 min

  Anant Bhalla had a front-row seat to Wall Street's takeover of the life insurance industry, which turned a sleepy corner of American finance into a multitrillion-dollar investment engine. Now, even he’s worried it’s gone too far. He talks to Liz and Rohan about “zombie” insurers, ratings shopping, and where the next big blowup will happen. This season of Compound Interest is in partnership with Amazon Business. Amazon Business is a trusted partner that transforms business buying by combining Amazon's vast selection, competitive pricing, and fast delivery with added tools and insights to help businesses simplify purchasing, manage spend, and buy smarter.

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