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Every day, Wall Street Journal reporters talk with the most powerful, influential, and interesting

people. And now we're bringing some of those conversations directly to you.

Are you going to build that $20,000 vehicle?

No, because that market sucks.

Everyone is not going to need their own nuclear power plant to run their data centers,

this whole energy fantasy.

When we have these kind of industrial revolution transitions, they can be difficult.

How do we steer towards the positive, towards the graceful, towards the more human outcomes?

I'm Tim Higgins, a business columnist at the Wall Street Journal, and I spent more than two decades

as a reporter writing about some of the biggest stories of a generation, from

the Motor City to the nation's capital to Silicon Valley. And I'm Christopher Mims. I've been a tech

columnist at the journal for over a decade, bringing you stories about everything from brain implants

and AI to EVs and bidetase. We've been covering and challenging conventional wisdom in the business world.

And now we're teaming up to ask tough questions of the leaders behind the bold name companies

found in the pages of the journal every day.

Do you feel like we're actually in a Sputnik moment?

I feel like we are around it.

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