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Bold Names

The Wall Street Journal

Technology

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Every day, Wall Street Journal journalists talk with the most powerful, influential and interesting people. WSJ columnists Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins are bringing some of those conversations directly to you. Bold Names returns with new episodes on Fridays starting September 12 on YouTube and wherever you get your podcasts. Let us know what you think of the show. Email us at [email protected] Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Read Christopher Mims’s Keywords column. Read Tim Higgins’s column. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?
0:04.8	So we started the business two years ago.
0:07.2	We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.
0:12.5	But it's been super smooth getting everyone onto those devices and everyone seems really, really happy.
0:18.0	Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash
0:23.6	HelloVet.
0:26.5	So I had one board member of a fortune 50 company tell me that this is economic Pearl Harbor,
0:32.7	and the world will never be the same.
0:34.7	I'm Tim Higgins, a business columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
0:38.3	And I'm WSJ Tech columnist Christopher Mims. And this is bold names from the Wall Street Journal.
0:44.3	We're challenging conventional wisdom in the business world. Bringing you conversations.
0:50.0	Let's go back to Musk and I'm just curious how much are you in contact with him?
0:54.8	What are you telling him? Anything specific?
0:57.1	What am I telling him?
0:58.2	What's your last text message?
1:00.2	Let me see. Let me check.
1:02.2	And getting past the hype.
1:03.7	This feels like kind of a panicky time in your industry. I mean, is this a scary time?
1:08.7	High speed change is very uncomfortable, right?
1:12.6	It's uncomfortable for human beings.
1:14.9	It's uncomfortable for even technologists.
1:17.3	If it doesn't scare you and it doesn't give you pause for thought, then I think you're
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