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Financials: LivePerson Founder and CEO Rob LoCascio on BELLA and the Future of Banking

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🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Financials host Jason Moser sits down with the Founder and CEO of LivePerson, Rob LoCascio. Tune in as Jason and Rob talk about BELLA and the future of banking, the state of retail and conversational AI's role, and Rob shares some thoughts on what the late Tony Hsieh meant to him in his entrepreneurial journey. To learn more about BELLA and compassionate banking visit www.bellaloves.me.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Industry Focus. The Podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.

0:11.0

I'm your host Emily Flippin. I'm Jason Moser. I'm Nick Seidful. I'm

0:14.7

Dylan Lewis. And today we're talking financials. Today we're talking

0:18.2

consumer goods. Wild-Carp! Wednesday. And we're talking energy. and today we're talking tech.

0:24.0

Let's dive in.

0:27.0

It's Monday, December 7th.

0:29.0

I'm your host Jason Moser and on this week's financial show

0:31.0

we're chatting with the founder and CEO of Live Person, Mr Rob Lecasio.

0:36.0

Live Person makes life easier for people and brands everywhere through its trusted conversational AI.

0:42.0

Over 18,000 customers use its conversational solutions

0:45.7

to create a conversational relationship with their millions of consumers. In fact, Live Person was

0:50.8

named to Fast Companies' world's most innovative companies list in 2020.

0:56.0

Rob has been the CEO of the company since its founding in 1985 and joins us this week to talk more about

1:01.3

live persons work with Bella,

1:03.4

a recently launched digital banking platform

1:06.0

that's a first of its kind, compassionate banking platform

1:09.0

that prioritizes people over profit.

1:12.1

Rob, it's great to talk with you and thanks so much for taking the time to join us.

1:15.6

Thanks for having me or Jason. Excited to talk about the future.

1:19.1

Absolutely. Well, that's, you know, investing is all about the future future so that's what we focus on here too.

1:23.7

So let's jump right into it. You know first and foremost for listeners who maybe aren't quite as

1:29.2

familiar with live person I look at this stock I mean it's been such an impressive performer through the years. Year to date, strong performance, you know, obviously you're benefiting from this accelerated digital transformation shares a return close to 400% over the last three years.

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