14 episodes

It's Not Magic is a podcast about building things, without the pretense. Our host is David Stiepleman, Co-Founder and Co-President of Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm. We talk to founders and industry leaders and get them to explain, in plain English, what they do and how they do it. Building a business is a lot of things, but…It’s Not Magic.
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It's Not Magic is a podcast about building things, without the pretense. Our host is David Stiepleman, Co-Founder and Co-President of Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm. We talk to founders and industry leaders and get them to explain, in plain English, what they do and how they do it. Building a business is a lot of things, but…It’s Not Magic.
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    Kanishka Cheng, Founder and CEO of TogetherSF

    Kanishka Cheng, Founder and CEO of TogetherSF

    San Francisco has a powerful asset in its fight against its well-publicized civic challenges: its caring community of doers.
    Kanishka Cheng, founder and CEO of TogetherSF, is working to revitalize the city by reconnecting its residents with their government. She’s built an organization, with the backing of Sequoia’s Michael Moritz, that provides educational resources and spaces for open dialogue on how to solve the complex issues faced by one of America’s largest and most culturally significant cities.
    Join a conversation with our host, David Stiepleman, and Kanishka about the intentional steps TogetherSF is taking to help San Francisco reach its full potential.

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    • 46 min
    Frank Doyle, Dean of Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science

    Frank Doyle, Dean of Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science

    Season 3 of INM opens with Frank Doyle, Dean of Harvard University’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). Frank takes us inside Harvard’s efforts to cultivate interdisciplinary collaboration and to grow an engineering school within the “176-year-old startup.” With his inspiring vision for the future of problem solving, Frank challenges us to think bigger and bolder and to embrace the people around us as the key to unlocking our full potential.
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    • 43 min
    Chris Miller, Author of "Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology"

    Chris Miller, Author of "Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology"

    The microchip powers everything we do — from our iPhones, to the cars we drive, to missile guidance systems. Do we take for granted how much the world depends on such a scarce resource? For our Season 2 finale, we are joined by Chris Miller, Professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and author of the Financial Times 2022 Book of the Year, “Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology,” to learn how a group of visionaries brought this world-changing technology into existence, the incredibly delicate supply chain that holds together the most complex machinery humans have ever made, and how America’s perch as the world’s chip superpower may be in doubt.
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    • 46 min
    Amy Abernethy, President of Product Development and Chief Medical Officer of Verily

    Amy Abernethy, President of Product Development and Chief Medical Officer of Verily

    Dr. Amy Abernethy is known for modernizing the FDA’s approach to big data. Now as President of Product Development and Chief Medical Officer of Alphabet’s Verily, and a member of Sixth Street’s Scientific Advisory Board, she’s exploring approaches to real-world data and developing tools to bring advanced therapeutics to patients. Amy joins our host, David Stiepleman, as well as Sixth Street’s Vice Chairman, Marty Chavez, as we discuss her contributions to transforming FDA processes and how today’s scientific advancements can lead toward improved public health outcomes.
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    • 53 min
    Rick Berke, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of STAT

    Rick Berke, Co-Founder and Executive Editor of STAT

    Join us as we explore the success of STAT – the fast-growing media company delivering trusted news on health, medicine, and the life sciences. After being the first to break the COVID-19 story in January 2020, STAT became a go-to source for information during the pandemic with over 26 million visitors in March 2020 alone. In this conversation, co-founder and executive editor Rick Berke reveals where things have gone right (and wrong) since the company’s founding in 2015 and his ambitions for STAT as it expands to cover the science and policy driving healthcare systems all over the world.
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    • 48 min
    Jonathan Cherki, Founder and CEO of Contentsquare

    Jonathan Cherki, Founder and CEO of Contentsquare

    What’s it like running one of the fastest growing tech companies in France? Jonathan Cherki, founder and CEO of Contentsquare, joins us from New York to talk about how his company became a global leader in helping brands enhance their customers’ digital experience. We discuss why Jon left his family’s dry legume supply business to found a tech company, the strategy behind Contentsquare’s rapid growth, and what’s next for brands after a decade of ecommerce revolution.
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Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
20 Ratings

20 Ratings

DavisCleveland1989 ,

Insightful and down to earth

Great podcast in the business rotation! Interesting info without jargon. And such a fun host.

ocmer6 ,

Great piece. We need this newspaper in NJ!

Well done. Great questions. This is what our country needs in every county!

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