Episode 121: Guest Al Cook

The Jewelry District

JCK

Fashion & Beauty, Business News, Business, Arts, News

9.9 • 25 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

JCK editor-in-chief Victoria Gomelsky and news director Rob Bates welcome one of the most influential guests ever to join the podcast—Al Cook, CEO of De Beers Group. Al shares his back story, comments on the current state of the diamond industry, and sheds light on the future of the diamond business in Botswana as well as what lies ahead for the lab grown market.Sponsored by Tracr: Tracr.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jewelry District, a podcast by J.C.K. brought to you by Tracer.
0:16.0	Today, Rob Bates and Victoria Gamalski talk with Al Cook, CEO of De Beers Group.
0:21.6	Hey everyone, welcome to the jewelry district.
0:33.6	This is Victoria Gamelski, editor-in-chief of JCPay and JCP online.com, calling in from Los Angeles.
0:40.9	And I'm with.
0:41.5	Rob Bates, news director of JCPay and JCPOnline.com calling in from New York City.
0:48.7	How goes it?
0:49.6	Good to chat, as always.
0:51.5	Yeah.
0:52.1	Trying to remember the last time we chatted it.
0:53.6	It feels like you were on your way.
0:55.3	This was before you went to Conclave in Austin.
0:58.1	And before I went to Belize for a much-needed holiday.
1:01.8	It was lovely to get away.
1:03.2	We did a lot of snorkeling.
1:04.5	It's, I think, one of the largest reef in the Western Hemisphere.
1:08.3	And I was very proud of my five-year-old who went and swam with some sharks.
1:12.6	Wow.
1:13.6	Yeah, this was, it was an exciting little moment because they're nurse sharks, so let me clarify, not Great Whites, not Hammerheads, not tiger sharks.
1:21.6	They look like giant catfish is what they look like. But still, you know, there's still sharks and they were rather large.
1:31.9	And we all had a blast. So, yeah, we got back Sunday and it feels like a million years ago already.
1:36.5	I think holidays tend to disappear in the memory once you're thrown back into the work cycle.
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