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Giant Ideas

Giant Ideas invites leading minds from tech, business, politics and beyond to explore the giant ideas that use technology as a force for good. Giant Ventures, founded by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen, backs purpose-driven founders solving the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

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40:30

Station F Director: Roxanne Varza, How to Turn a...

Giant Ideas ·

2025/02/20

Roxanne Varza is the Director of Station F: the biggest startup incubator in the world. Based in Paris, Roxanne is recognised as one of the most influential figures in the French startup ecosystem. The French media have called Varza the "young empress of startups," and even the “new pope of high-tech and startups in France." Roxanne was formerly a TechCrunch journalist and startup ambassador with Microsoft before being personally selected by Xavier Niel to spearhead the development of Station...

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42:02

Floodgate Founding Partner, Mike Maples Jr: The Best...

Giant Ideas ·

2025/02/06

Mike Maples Jr is a Co-Founding Partner at Floodgate. He was named a “Rising Star” by Fortune, and has been on the Forbes Midas List eight times in the last decade. Before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was a founder and operator at back-to-back startup IPOs. Now, Mike’s own investments include companies like Twitter, Twitch, Lyft, Refinery29, and Clover Health. Mike is also the author of the National Bestselling book Pattern Breakers - sharing lessons from startup top performers....

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0:30

The Giant Ideas Podcast: Trailer

Giant Ideas ·

2025/01/29

Welcome to the Giant Ideas podcast! Ran by Giant Ventures - the venture fund for purpose-driven founders building companies that matter. At Giant, we’re lucky to often meet extraordinary people with giant ideas that are changing the world. So we’ve released a brand new podcast to bring these behind-the-scenes conversations on the giant ideas shaping the world, and the inspiring stories of the leaders behind them. Building a purpose driven company? Read more about Giant Ventures here.Musi...

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33:13

Covid Vaccine Pioneer Bob Langer: Turning Science...

Giant Ideas ·

2025/01/23

Today on the podcast, we are joined by Robert Langer, scientist, inventor and entrepreneur - and one of the most cited researchers in history, often called the “Edison of Medicine”. What makes Dr Langer special is that he is not only an academic but also an entrepreneur: turning frontier science into groundbreaking companies. Langer Lab's research has given rise to over 400 companies, and is also the co-founder of multiple companies, including Moderna, which discovered the COVID-19 vacci...

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35:23

Exponential View Founder, Azeem Azhar: How AI and...

Giant Ideas ·

2025/01/09

Today on the Giant Ideas podcast we are joined by Azeem Azhar: author, futurist and founder of the Exponential View newsletter and podcast which explains how society and the political economy are changing under the force of technology.Azeem’s first book Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology studied how technology’s rapid pace of development is impacting the world.Azeem is considered one of the most influential thinkers on the impact of technology on humanity’s futu...

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38:46

World Leading Designer: Thomas Heatherwick, Why We...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/12/12

Today on the podcast we are joined by one of the world’s leading designers: Thomas Heatherwick. Thomas has created many of the world’s most striking new public spaces and buildings. Heatherwick Studio is behind culture-defining projects like the Vessel in New York’s Hudson Yard, and London’s Coal Drops Yard in Kings Cross, where we are recording this podcast.They’ve also designed iconic cultural moments like the London 2012 Olympics cauldron, and cultural landmarks like the reimagined do...

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35:43

Double Olympic Champion: Alistair Brownlee, Why You...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/11/28

Today on the podcast we are joined by Alistair Brownlee, Double Olympic Triathlon Champion - to talk about his incredible career and the extreme mental discipline that got him to the very top of athletics. It’s his first in depth interview since he announced his retirement.Alistair Brownlee is the only athlete in history to hold two Olympic titles in the individual triathlon event, having won gold medals in both the 2012 and the 2016 Olympic Games. He is also a four-time World Champion in tri...

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39:00

Babylon Founder Ali Parsa’s Next Act: AI Health...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/11/14

Today on the podcast we have Ali Parsa - founder of two unicorn health businesses - Babylon Health and Circle Health.Ali was born in Iran, but left when he was 16, in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution. Amazingly, he taught himself UK high school, and went on to study civil and environmental engineering at University College London.He sold a media company he started during university, and then joined the investment banking world. 20 years ago, he set up Circle Health - the first pr...

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18:49

Thrive Global & Huffington Post Founder, Arianna...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/10/31

Today on Giant Ideas we bring you a conversation with a titan of American business and society, Arianna Huffington. Arianna is the co-founder of The Huffington Post, which built an audience of 200 million, and the founder and CEO of Thrive Global. She also sat on the board of Uber during its succession drama. Arianna is also the author of an astonishing fifteen books - on everything from Sleep to Becoming Fearless. She has been named on Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influe...

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32:08

Bridgewater Associates Founder: Ray Dalio, on How...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/10/17

In 1975, in a two bedroom apartment in New York City, Ray Dalio founded an investment firm. Over forty years later, this firm - Bridgewater Associates - has grown into not just the world's largest hedge fund, but also what Fortune has called the “fifth most important private company in the United States”. Ray Dalio himself appears on Time Magazine list of the world’s top 100 most influential people. His philosophy has travelled far beyond the four walls of his hedge fund through the medi...

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26:37

Former Sony Entertainment CEO, Michael Lynton, on the...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/10/03

Today on the podcast we have Michael Lynton, one of America’s leading CEOs. Michael led Sony Entertainment as CEO, overseeing Sony’s global entertainment businesses during a period of great success. But it also had its challenges - notably when North Korean hackers released private emails and unreleased films. Michael had previously worked for Time Warner as CEO of AOL Europe, and was Chairman and CEO of Pearson PLC’s Penguin Group.But today our focus is on Michael’s role as a ment...

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21:03

LIVE TALK: Square co-founder: Jim McKelvey, Live Talk...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/09/09

Jim McKelvey, best known for co-founding multi-billion dollar company Square, joined the stage at Giant Ideas to talk about moving the needle of drug discovery.McKelvey co-founded Square with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey in 2009, and it became a revolutionary payment processing company, allowing small businesses to accept credit card payments via a simple mobile device. The company is now worth a multi-billion dollar valuation, with the card payment design even featured in the Museum of Mod...

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10:14

Former BBC Global Director of Diversity CEO: June...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/08/22

Today on the podcast we have June Sarpong - internationally renowned broadcaster, writer and diversity expert. June started her career presenting for shows on MTV and Channel 4's T4.It would be fair to say that June is considered a ‘British Icon’ and has broad cultural influence. Not everyone can claim that Elton John has performed a special edition of the hit "Your Song" with the amended lyrics "You can tell everybody, You're June Sarpong'"!June is also an author of the multiple award-winning

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17:56

Syre co-founder, H2 Green Steel & Northvolt director...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/08/08

Today joining the podcast is Susanna Campbell - co-founder of Syre, and a board member of Northvolt and H2 Green Steel - all companies incubated by Vargas. Based in Sweden, Vargas has systematically created a succession of climate juggernauts from scratch. Their portfolio includes unicorns like Polarium and H2 Green Steel, and Northvolt, a climate decacorn - so worth over 10 billion dollars - which is Europe’s largest gigafactory for electric vehicle batteries.At Giant we have backed the latest

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16:28

Former Oatly CEO Toni Petersson: Building Oatly and...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/07/25

Today on the podcast we bring you a conversation with Toni Petersson, former CEO of Oatly. This was recorded live at our Giant Ideas summit in June of this year.Toni Petersson was the CEO of oat milk giant, Oatly, for a decade. He transformed an unknown Swedish eco food company into a global consumer giant, with just shy of $1BN in sales. On its first day on the NASDAQ in 2021 it traded at $13 billion valuation. Toni famously used quirky marketing to consumers to build one of the most loved green

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18:36

Former UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband:...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/07/08

After 14 years of Conservative rule, Britain voted on Thursday for change. But what should the world expect from a Labour government?2024 is the year of democracy. More people than ever in history will go to the polls - 2 billion in over 60 countries. But it’s also a year of rising nationalism.With Europe at war, Trump possibly returning and Labour winning by a landslide, today we bring you an exclusive conversation with former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.Miliband was one of the key

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26:52

Octopus CEO and Founder, Greg Jackson: Building a...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/05/03

Giant Ventures is a multi stage venture fund, co-founded by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen. This episode was recorded live at an event we hosted with McKinsey for Europe’s top 100 climate leaders. Asking the questions for us here is Pilita Clark, an editor and columnist at The Financial Times.Today on the show, we are joined by Greg Jackson, founder and CEO of Octopus Energy. You might think of Octopus as the UK’s leading green energy retailer. And you’d be right, Octopus has leapfrogged

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28:35

Tom Blomfield, Founder of Monzo and GoCardless: Do...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/04/12

Today on the podcast we have Tom Blomfield - founder of not one but two UK unicorns - Monzo and GoCardless. We asked Tom on the show to give the inside story on what it takes to found a multi-billion dollar business - the character traits but also the sacrifices. Are there consistent characteristics that unite leading founders, and ultimately is the struggle worth it?To say scaling Monzo has been challenging would be an understatement. From its messy origin emerging from a competitor, to convincing

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12:42

Michael Acton Smith, Founder of Calm on The Future of...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/03/20

Giant Ventures is a multi stage venture fund, co-founded by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen. We recorded these first episodes at our live Giant Ideas summit, held at London’s Tate Modern. The Giant Ideas summit brings together 200 founders, CEOs, heads of state and other leaders to explore how we can harness cutting edge technology as a force for good.Today we bring you an interview with the founder of Calm, Michael Acton Smith.With over 100m downloads, Calm has become one of the most influential

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12:37

Stephen Fitzpatrick, Founder of OVO and Vertical...

Giant Ideas ·

2024/03/06

Giant Ventures is a multi stage venture fund, co-founded by Cameron McLain and Tommy Stadlen. We recorded these first episodes at our live Giant Ideas summit, held at London’s Tate Modern. The Giant Ideas summit brings together 200 founders, CEOs, heads of state and other leaders to explore how we can harness cutting edge technology as a force for good.Today on the podcast we have a conversation on the future of climate tech between Financial Times columnist Gillian Tett, and OVO founder Stephen

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