Is this the end of globalization?
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Felix, Mihir and Stephanie Mehta debate if we are witnessing the end of an era, the slow but steady demise of globalization. We also discuss the future of Zoom. With its stock sharply down and growth slowing, will the star of the COVID period have to sell itself to survive?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Adam Grant. The new season of my TED podcast Work Life is out now. The past |
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| 0:45.6 | Hello, everyone. You're listening to After Hours. I'm Felix. I'm me here. And I'm Stephanie |
| 0:49.9 | Mehta. It's great to have you, Stephanie. You know, I'm always curious as a former editor |
| 0:54.8 | of Fast Company. I'm sure you're following the magazine every time it comes out. Do you |
| 0:59.9 | have a favorite story, something that really caught your attention the last couple of months or so? |
| 1:04.6 | Yeah, thanks Felix. This is a really fun one. It was actually on Fast Company.com and it was a |
| 1:10.3 | piece about Nebia, which is a low flow shower head that was founded by an entrepreneur, got started |
| 1:18.7 | on Kickstarter. But the best part of the story, our reporter knew this for years, but finally got |
| 1:23.6 | the founder to tell the story of how he got Tim Cook to be an investor by stocking Tim Cook |
| 1:31.1 | in the locker room of Tim Cook's gym. Oh my God. Well, it's the right environment to talk about |
| 1:38.2 | low flow showers. He actually had installed the shower head in this particular gym. And it was |
| 1:44.7 | this real comedy of errors because he had wanted Tim Cook to try the shower head. And as it turned |
| 1:52.0 | out, as Tim finished his workout and was ready and willing to jump into the shower, someone else |
| 1:57.4 | was in it. So I had to come back the next day and stock Tim Cook at the locker room a second day |
| 2:04.7 | in a row. It seemed improbable, but apparently Tim Cook loved it and invested and the rest is |
| 2:10.8 | history. Oh my God. I never thought about it, but that must be one of the key abilities of a |
| 2:16.5 | successful entrepreneur. How do you bring up your product in the most impossible situations? |
| 2:22.2 | I'm just worried we've now inspired a new generation of stalkers. So topics. What did you bring |
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