Let’s Talk About Your Salary, Shall We?
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Sarah, Felix and Mihir discuss the new laws that require greater salary transparency. Is this a good idea? Will pay increase or decrease as a result? Who will benefit most? We also debate the surge in activist investing. Why do activists now resemble private equity investors?
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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 Sarah. |
| 0:50.1 | We're back. Yes. Actually, I just got back from a trip, which was so incredible. I can't |
| 0:56.3 | begin to tell you how amazing it was to be some place else. I happen to go to Nashville as |
| 1:03.0 | a city. I don't know that well to begin with. And so lots of discover, lots to see. And just |
| 1:08.7 | the idea of leaving the place where you live, it is really incredible. It's something else. |
| 1:14.2 | Have you traveled much? I also recently took my first working kind of trip and it was great. |
| 1:19.9 | Although I will tell you a little bit of a rookie move I discovered, which is I realized that I |
| 1:24.1 | forgot some basic things. So woke up in the morning in my hotel and didn't have a comb. |
| 1:29.8 | And I thought to myself, this is what happens when you don't travel for work in a long time. You |
| 1:34.3 | make some big rookie mistakes. I am totally with you on that. I have just booked my first work trip |
| 1:40.3 | in two years. And it took me like three hours to book it. All right, well good. So what do we have |
| 1:49.2 | today? Sarah, what do you got? So I have brought the topic of salary transparency. There's a couple |
| 1:54.8 | new laws bubbling up that might mean that we have no choice but to learn what each other earn. |
| 1:59.8 | And a lot to begin to there. Super interesting. What did you bring me here? Well, there's been a |
| 2:05.0 | little bit of a renaissance of activist investing and some changes in that model. And I kind of |
| 2:12.0 | wanted to get your take on what you think about activist investing and what you think about these |
| 2:16.2 | changes. Wonderful. Let's get to it. So we hear activist investors will so they've kind of come |
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