Cleantech Lithium's CEO on How Their DLE Concept Is Both Economic and Environmentally Sustainable
Cleantech Lithium’s chief executive outlined the company’s Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) platform, a process that selectively pulls lithium from brine and returns the lithium‑depleted solution to the salar, thereby maintaining the natural water balance of the basin. The CEO emphasized three core advantages: environmental stewardship through brine reinjection, lower capital and operating expenses by bypassing traditional evaporation ponds, and higher purity lithium carbonate output. He cited years of laboratory work and field trials that culminated in a pilot plant near Copiapó, Chile, where the technology consistently recovered lithium at commercial‑grade concentrations. A key detail was the collaboration with Lanshen, the technology partner whose proprietary solvent system delivered the highest recovery rates in side‑by‑side testing. The pilot not only demonstrated lithium extraction but also completed the downstream conversion to lithium carbonate, proving the end‑to‑end viability of the DLE approach. If scaled, the DLE model could reshape the lithium supply chain by delivering cheaper, greener lithium for batteries, reducing reliance on water‑intensive evaporation methods, and accelerating the rollout of sustainable energy storage solutions.
Onity Mortgage Marks a New Era: Glen Messina on Rebranding, Growth and Technology-Driven Transformat
Annaly Mortgage, formerly PHH Mortgage, announced a rebrand aligning the mortgage subsidiary with its parent Annaly Group, signaling completion of a seven‑year transformation from a niche special servicer to a diversified, technology‑enabled originator and servicer. The company highlighted rapid growth: originations...
Cleantech Lithium's CEO on What Stage of Development the Flagship Laguna Verde Project Is At
CleanTech Lithium’s CEO highlighted that its flagship Laguna Verde project has reached a pivotal development milestone: it secured Chile’s first ever private lithium exploitation contract, known as a CEOL, granting the company exclusive extraction rights without any state participation. The company...
Adam Back-Backed Raise Powers Connecting Excellence’s Bitcoin Play
Connecting Excellence’s CEO Scott Ellam announced that a recent equity raise, led by strategic investor Adam Back, was used to purchase Bitcoin, raising the company’s Bitcoin‑per‑share metric above 11%. The infusion strengthens the balance sheet, enabling the firm to attract revenue‑generating...
The Business of Access: LaTasha Waddy on Leadership, the Future of NFM, and Inclusive Lending
The interview spotlights Latasha Waddy, newly appointed president of NFM Lending, as she outlines her vision for expanding home‑ownership access to Black, Brown and other underserved communities through both traditional mortgage operations and innovative community‑development initiatives. Waddy emphasizes three immediate actions:...
TSMC Earnings, Cerebras S1, Custom Semi Rumors, Apple CEO Change
The episode opens with Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg dissecting TSMC’s latest earnings release. The Taiwanese foundry posted revenue and margin beats for the March quarter, lifted its capital‑expenditure outlook, and announced a second N3 fab in Tainan and a...
The Unravelling of a Media Empire: Antony Catalano’s Darkest Chapter
The Australian Financial Review detailed the dramatic downfall of media magnate Anthony Catalano, who was arrested and charged with assault, false imprisonment and threats to kill after a violent incident involving his wife in a St Kilda penthouse. Catalano, the former...
Jensen Huang on Why Nvidia Passed on Anthropic the First Time
Jensen Huang, Nvidia’s CEO, explained why the chipmaker passed on a multi‑billion‑dollar investment in Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude. At the time, Nvidia’s balance sheet and corporate policy prevented it from committing capital outside its core business, leaving the...
Dean Speaker Series | Elliott Hill | President & CEO, Nike, Inc.
The Dean’s Speaker Series at Berkeley Haas featured Elliott Hill, the newly reinstated President and CEO of Nike, Inc. Hill returned to the helm after a four‑year retirement, offering students a rare glimpse into the mind of a leader who...
MDB Capital Holdings (NASDAQ: MDBH) CEO Chris Marlett on Scaling Its Public Venture Platform
MDB Capital Holdings CEO Chris Marlett used the Planet Micro Cap podcast to outline the company’s plan to scale its public‑venture platform. He highlighted a shift from launching one deep‑tech company every 18 months to targeting three‑to‑five new ventures...
Medial CEO Rob Thomas on the Scale and Quality of Its Customer Base and Long Retention Periods
Medial’s CEO Rob Thomas emphasized the company’s unusually long customer lifecycles, noting that some accounts have lasted more than 15 years and the majority exceed five years. This deep loyalty underscores Medial’s ability to deliver consistent value in a niche...
Tooru PLC CEO Breaks Down the £12M Mylky Acquisition
Tooru PLC announced the acquisition of UK‑based plant‑based milk brand Mylky for roughly $15.4 million. Mylky, founded two years ago, has generated about $9.9 million in revenue and operates a subscription‑driven DTC model. The deal positions Tooru to launch Mylky in the...
The Loadstar Snapshot Ep 4: Earnings Pressure & The Logistics Shakeup
The Loadstar Snapshot episode focuses on the twin forces reshaping freight forwarding – a sharp earnings dip and a wave of senior‑level hires and departures across the sector. Analysts at Bernstein and S&P Capital IQ project Kuehne+Nagel’s Q1 earnings per share...
How Standard Chartered Fixed a Bank in Crisis
The video chronicles Bill Winters’ 2015 takeover of Standard Chartered, a bank then mired in rising bad debts, ballooning expenses, and regulatory scrutiny. Facing a loss of investor confidence and a 40% share‑price decline, Winters launched a sweeping restructuring that...
Volta Metals CEO on Massive Rare Earth and Gallium Deposit in Ontario
Volta Metals is accelerating development of its Springer project in Ontario, with a Preliminary Economic Assessment slated for this summer. The company reports a ten‑fold increase in its rare‑earth resource estimate and is evaluating a standalone gallium resource. CEO Kerem...
Reach Systems (Subsidiary of CSE: URL) Interview with CEO Colin Dobell
The SmallCap Discoveries call featured an interview with Colin Dobell, CEO of Reach Systems, now a subsidiary of NameSilo (CSE: URL). The discussion centered on Reach’s niche engineering focus—remote inspection equipment, tether management systems, and specialized winches—while highlighting the strategic...
What We Know About Apple's Next CEO John Ternus
Apple is preparing for its next leadership era as senior vice president of hardware John Ternus is slated to succeed Tim Cook as chief executive. The announcement, confirmed by Bloomberg’s internal memos released to staff, marks the first major succession...
A Conversation with Raghuram Rajan: Corporate Governance, Community, and Political Economy
The conversation with Raghuram Rajan, former IMF chief economist and RBI governor, centers on the political economy of corporate governance. Rajan argues that institutions succeed only when a broad political consensus supports them, and that the erosion of this equilibrium underlies...
Medial CEO Rob Thomas on How They Became a Core Video Platform for Education and Enterprise Users
Rob Thomas, CEO of Mediasite, outlined how the company has become a core video platform for both education and enterprise users. The discussion highlighted Mediasite’s deep integrations with leading learning management systems such as Moodle and Canvas, positioning it...
Apple CEO Tim Cook on What Advice He'd Give His Successor
Tim Cook, Apple’s chief executive, addressed the question of what advice he would give his eventual successor. He emphasized that the incoming leader should stay authentic and not try to emulate the previous CEO’s personality, echoing a lesson originally imparted...
NAB 2026: Thomas Riedel Discusses ARRI Acquisition
At NAB 2026, Thomas Riedel outlined the recent acquisition of ARRI, a century‑old camera brand, by his firm. He traced the deal’s origin to a shareholder search for a new home, which he entered nine months ago, setting the transaction...
Cook to Step Down as Apple CEO
Apple announced that longtime CEO Tim Cook will step down in September, handing the role to hardware chief John Ternus. Cook, who guided Apple through a $3.6 trillion market‑cap increase over 15 years, will remain as executive chairman. The transition marks...
Solis Minerals Acquires Major Brazil Lithium Project From Rio Tinto
Solis Minerals has acquired 100% of a 93,000‑hectare lithium project in Brazil’s Araçuaí–Salinas Valley from Rio Tinto, which keeps a 1.75% net smelter royalty. The deal includes extensive historic exploration data, enabling rapid advancement. Solis will continue drilling its Peru...
The Fortune #CEOPlaybook #business #success
The video features H&R Block’s newly appointed CEO outlining his vision for the company amid a turbulent tax season. He stresses that the firm’s core is not merely filing taxes but building trust and confidence for customers whose tax return...
Why Discipline Matters in a High Gold Price Market | Darren Hall - Equinox Gold
In a candid interview, Equinox Gold CEO Darren Hall explained why disciplined capital allocation matters more than short‑term gold price swings. He emphasized that the company’s strategy is to build a top‑quartile, resilient miner by focusing on effective execution now...
Beet@20: Bill Koenigsberg of Horizon Media Says Culture Still Crushes Ego
Bill Koenigsberg, CEO of Horizon Media, discusses how a culture‑first philosophy has driven the agency’s two‑decade success, emphasizing humility, diversity of thought, and continuous self‑assessment as antidotes to complacency. He contrasts Horizon’s stable leadership—20 years under the same CEO—with competitors rotating...
HomeServices’ CEO Chris Kelly on Rewriting the Brokerage Playbook
In a Real Trending podcast interview, HomeServices president and CEO Chris Kelly explains how the firm is rewriting the brokerage playbook by transitioning from a passive holding structure to an active parent company that adds value to its operating subsidiaries....
Did Lucid Motors Pick the Wrong CEO?
Lucid Motors announced Silvio Napoli, a longtime executive from elevator maker Schindler, as its next chief executive officer, replacing interim leader Mark Winterhoff who will stay on as chief operating officer. Analysts question whether Napoli’s experience moving people in elevators translates...
AI Boom Driving $100 Bln Chip Opportunity, Arm CEO Says
Arm CEO Rene Haas announced the company’s first AGI‑focused CPU, designed for the exploding AI data‑center market. Built on TSMC’s process, the chip is already in production and slated for shipment by year‑end. Haas highlighted that generative and agentic AI workloads...
Inside OpenTable’s Strategy Shift
OpenTable, the original online restaurant‑reservation platform, announced a sweeping strategic overhaul aimed at rescuing its faltering profit margins and re‑engaging lost restaurant partners. CEO Pete Miller, who joined in August 2020 amid a pandemic‑driven crisis, described the company as a “dinosaur” that...
Arm CEO on Proposed California Wealth Tax: Not a Good Thing
Arm CEO Rene Haas weighed in on California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax, noting the measure’s rapid placement on the ballot and the political backlash it has sparked. He explained that while the state faces a severe health‑care debt deficit, the tax...
Homebuilding ‘Will Recover’: Acme Brick CEO
Acme Brick President and CEO Ed Watson marked the company’s 135‑year anniversary while discussing the outlook for the U.S. housing market. In a Fox Business interview, Watson linked the firm’s fortunes to the broader home‑building cycle and highlighted the impact...
The Idea That China Can't Have AI Chips Is Nonsense - Jensen Huang
In a recent interview, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang dismissed the idea that China is unable to field advanced AI chips, arguing that the country’s massive energy reserves and under‑utilized data‑center capacity give it a solid foundation for large‑scale AI compute. Huang...
Lippincott CEO Michael D’Esopo From Semafor World Economy
Michael D'Esopo, CEO of Lippincott, argued that trust is evolving from a mere economic signal into a community‑building asset that underpins brand value. He warned that AI is flattening traditional competitive moats, making differentiation harder, and posited that brand‑driven trust...
Netflix CEO to Step Down
The video focuses on Netflix’s recent market turbulence, highlighted by a sharp drop in its share price after the streaming giant posted a quarterly outlook that fell short of analysts’ expectations and announced co‑founder Reed Hastings will step down as...
Savaria Plans a $1.6 Billion Target by 2030
At its investor‑day, Savaria unveiled a five‑year plan to lift revenue to $1.6 billion by 2030, up from $900 million in the most recent fiscal year. The company will pursue roughly 12% annual growth—7‑8% from organic expansion of its home‑lift, patient‑care and design‑education...
Tilta's Ingmar Stupp: Navigating the Financial Storm with Buy Now, Pay Later"
Tilta’s Ingmar Stupp explains how Buy‑Now, Pay‑Later (BNPL) solutions are being repurposed for B2B working‑capital needs during today’s liquidity crunch. With interest rates climbing, many firms lack cash to fund operations and resort to delaying payments to suppliers, pushing the...
The Stage | Matt Barker, Founder & CEO, MPB
Matt Barker, founder and CEO of MPB, outlines the company’s evolution from a student‑run eBay arbitrage side‑hustle to the world’s largest marketplace for buying, selling and trading used photography and videography equipment. MPB now serves over one million content creators, has...
Parvis Invest Inc. (TSX.V: PVIS) Interview with CEO David Michaud
Parvis Invest Inc., a venture‑exchange listed fintech, presented its vision to modernize private‑market investing. CEO David Michaud described a technology‑enabled platform that provides compliance, lead‑generation and a blockchain‑backed secondary market, aiming to make private equity as seamless as public‑stock trading. The...
Tooru's Scott Livingston on What Addressable Market Is for Mylky’s ‘Free-From, Made-at-Home’ Market
The video features Tooru’s Scott Livingston outlining the addressable market for Milky’s free‑from, made‑at‑home dairy alternatives. He notes that Milky has sold over 70,000 units across Europe and has yet to launch in the UK, positioning the brand in a...
Honda's CEO Visited a Chinese Factory and Said "We Have No Chance"
Honda’s chief executive, Toshihiro Mibe, toured an automated Chinese car‑parts supplier in Shanghai and bluntly declared, “We have no chance against this.” His remarks highlighted a stark warning that the Japanese auto sector is on the brink of survival as...
Mendell Helium - Major Drilling and Processing Progress in Fort Dodge
Mandel Helium’s CEO Nick Tullik announced a breakthrough partnership to install a 1,000 MCF per day helium production facility at the Ross field in Fort Dodge, Kansas. The proposal, driven by a major helium producer, would use the company’s existing wells and...
TOORU CEO, Scott Livingstone, On How The Mylky Acquisition Delivers Sales & EBITDA Growth
Turu plc announced it has signed a heads‑up agreement to acquire European e‑commerce appliance maker Milky, a home‑milk‑making machine business operating mainly in Europe. The £12 million transaction will be funded with £6 million cash, a £3 million vendor loan and £3 million of newly...
Dean's Speaker Series | Meredith Kopit Levien | President & CEO, The New York Times Company
The Dean’s Speaker Series featured Meredith Kopit Levien, President and CEO of The New York Times Company, who outlined the newsroom’s evolution from a legacy print institution to a digital‑first, product‑driven subscription business. Levien explained that the hardest internal belief to shift was the separation...
How Is AI Affecting Leadership at Companies? This CEO Weighs In
The interview with Constantine Alex Andreus, CEO of Russell Reynolds, explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping leadership at the board and C‑suite level. Rather than being a pure technology problem, AI is presented as a change‑management challenge that forces CEOs to...
Triple H & Shawn Michaels | The Wrestlers
Triple H and Shawn Michaels sit down for a candid interview that traces the evolution of professional wrestling from the era of Hulk Hogan and “Macho Man” Savage to today’s high‑flying generation. The conversation, recorded at WWE’s headquarters, doubles as...
What It Takes to Turn Academic Research Into a Venture-Backed StartupBM S2E9 FULL EDIT
The episode follows Capella Kurst, Stanford PhD‑turned‑founder, as she transforms a bio‑inspired dry adhesive from a university lab into Gecko Materials, a venture‑backed startup now operating on the International Space Station and serving semiconductor, automotive and robotics customers. Key insights...
How Kilwins Is Adapting to Life Under New Owners
Kilwins, the 80‑year‑old dessert chain, is navigating its post‑sale era under private‑equity firm Leavine Lyman. CEO Brian Britain explains that the new owners have injected capital to modernize the business, replacing legacy systems with a new point‑of‑sale, ERP, CRM, and...
Frontier IP Group CEO on €211M Boost for 2D Photonics
Frontier IP Group’s CEO Neil Crabb announced that its portfolio company 2D Photonics has secured a €200 million grant from the Italian government, approved by the EU, to accelerate development of advanced graphene‑based photonic chips. The funding will finance a pilot plant...
Netomnia Acquisition to Fuel Further Fibre M&A Deals – Nexfibre
NexFiber, the wholesale fiber arm backed by Infravia, Liberty Global and Telefónica, announced a £2 billion acquisition of Netomnia, a fast‑growing alt‑net with over three million homes passed. The deal is designed to lift NexFiber’s footprint from 2.6 million premises to nearly...