Even More Bold Names in 2026

Bold Names

The Wall Street Journal

Technology

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Bold Names is gearing up to be bigger and bolder than ever in 2026. Get ready for another year of the best minds in business and tech going deep on the latest industry moves. From the C-suite of tech companies like SAP, Qualcomm and Affirm, to leaders from Lamborghini, Southwest Airlines and Chobani, WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins will be back next week to kick off a new year of conversations with the leaders shaping tomorrow. To watch the video version of this episode, visit our WSJ Podcasts YouTube channel or the video page of WSJ.com. Check Out Past Episodes: The Boldest Ideas of 2025 — And What’s in Store for 2026 McLaren CEO Zak Brown On F1 And Business Strategy At 200 Miles Per Hour This Tech Founder's $1.3 Billion Company Is Taking On Apple and Samsung This CEO Says Global Trade Is Broken. What Comes Next? Let us know what you think of the show. Email us at BoldNames@wsj.com. 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	Happy New Year, Mims.
0:02.3	Happy New Year, Tim.
0:03.3	I'm so excited for who we have lined up.
0:05.4	Why don't you tell us who is coming on the show in 2026?
0:09.4	A lot of bold names.
0:10.6	We got the CEOs of Chippani, the yogurt company, Southwest, Qualcomm.
0:15.1	Even the CEO of Athletic Brewing Company, that non-alcoholic beer maker, you know,
0:19.9	if you're kind of sober curious for
0:22.1	January.
0:23.1	Sober curious.
0:23.9	We've also got Lamborghini.
0:25.8	We have former member of the PayPal Mafia and CEO of Buy Now Pay Later Company Affirm, Max Levchen.
0:33.7	Data is everything is probably the shorthand I have for today.
0:38.3	And it looks like we're also going to have the CEO of Global Software Giant SAP Christian Klein.
0:43.3	Your dog fooding, I imagine.
0:46.3	Oh, yes. We call it drink your own champagne, yeah, because it hopefully feels like champagne.
0:52.3	You can see why we're popping those champagne corks here.
0:54.8	Pretty excited about bold names in the new year.
0:57.8	I'm dropping bottles in the ice like a blizzard.

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