Advertise on podcast: Business and Boardrooms sponsors by Tristan Capes-Davis

Podcast episodes

Check latest episodes from Business and Boardrooms podcast

Ep 3 — Podcasts Are Television Now

2026/10/02

Disney+ and Hulu just signed six iHeart podcasts, starting with the Jonas Brothers this Thursday, timed to a Camp Rock premiere — and if you still think of a podcast as an audio file in an open RSS feed, the

Ep 2 — Right Down The Strike Zone

2026/09/30

July inflation landed at 3.4 per cent this morning and one of America's best-known economists called the report benign — while energy prices are up nearly fifteen per cent in a year and the average pay packet has now

Ep 4 — Three Million Square Feet

2026/09/25

Hadrian just raised one point three seven billion dollars at a seven point eight seven billion valuation to build highly automated defence factories — part of a single week in which five startups raised over

Ep 5 — One Year To Exit

2026/09/23

OpenAI bought a slide-deck startup that is barely a year old, folded the team into ChatGPT, and disclosed no price — and inside that tiny, quiet deal is the whole uncomfortable truth about building a company on top of

Ep 1 — The Empty Chair At Bombay House

2026/09/18

The chairman of India's most consequential business house resigned this morning, six days before the annual general meeting, after six months of deadlock over his own reappointment — and the real story is not the man

Ep 3 — The Skip Button

2026/09/16

Spotify is testing a button that lets listeners skip podcast advertisements — but only the ones Spotify did not sell — and that single design decision quietly reprices every independent show on the

Ep 1 — The Comeback Hire

2026/09/11

Cracker Barrel hands the keys to a sixty-nine-year-old retired chief executive today — and the boards of America are quietly doing the same thing everywhere, which tells you something uncomfortable about the

Ep 2 — Two Economies One Country

2026/09/09

America shed twenty-three thousand jobs in July when forecasters expected to add eighty-three thousand — and the stock market rose, because corporate profits are having the best quarter since 2021, and

Ep 5 — The Activist Rings The Doorbell

2026/09/04

Starboard Value took a stake worth hundreds of millions in Shake Shack and the shares jumped about nine per cent before a single demand was made — and the fact that it arrived after a good quarter, not a bad one,

Ep 4 — A Billion For A Production Line

2026/09/02

Sequoia led a one billion dollar round into a nuclear reactor startup at a six billion dollar valuation, and attached a two hundred million dollar credit facility — and the debt is the more interesting half of

Ep 5 — Sell The Company

2026/08/28

Activists have almost stopped fighting proxy battles and started demanding something far more final — that boards sell the whole business — and the votes that used to settle these fights are being replaced by

Ep 2 — The Average Company Had A Good July

2026/08/26

The S&P 500 fell in July for the first time since 2014 — while most of the companies inside it went up, which means the number everyone quoted last week described almost nobody's business.

Ep 1 — The Chairman Takes The Wheel

2026/08/21

On Friday, Copart's chief executive walked out of the building and the executive chairman walked back into the job — and if your company has a founder-figure sitting above the CEO, this is the episode you cannot

Ep 3 — Eighty Two Million And The Man Who Wont Sell

2026/08/19

Forbes says the top podcaster earned eighty-two million dollars last year and a two-year-old tech show earned seventy — but the most valuable business lesson of the week belongs to the operator who says he will

Ep 4 — When The Customer Writes The Cheque

2026/08/14

Nvidia has reportedly put five billion dollars into an AI lab with no product and no revenue — and the main thing that lab will do with the money is buy Nvidia chips.