Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman: From Intern to CEO

Boss Files with Poppy Harlow

CNN

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 538 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Adena Friedman joined Nasdaq as as an intern in 1993 and has risen through the ranks to President and CEO. She opens up about Nasdaq's transformation from a stock exchange to a technology company, why she's optimistic about cryptocurrencies, her mission to recruit more women in finance, and attributes her success to her parents' influence. Produced by Haley Draznin, CNN.To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	In this episode of Boss Files.
0:31.9	I think I've had the real fortune to have really grown up at NASDAQ.
0:35.1	I've had a lot of experience there.
0:37.3	I've had a chance to see NASDAQ grow as an organization to evolve
0:40.8	and become a global technology company.
0:43.5	NASDAQ CEO, Adina Friedman.
0:46.4	She started as an intern in 1993.
0:49.8	Today, she's the first woman to lead the global exchange.
0:53.3	From artificial intelligence to big data, cloud, and blockchain, how she's navigating the fast-moving changes.
1:01.0	We see technology as a relentless, you know, change agent.
1:06.0	And our job is to embrace that change, to bring it to the industry, and make it so that our industry
1:11.6	continues to be a very successful industry in the next decade or even beyond that. Why she says
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