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C-Suite Unscripted with Maggie McGrath

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C-Suite Unscripted is your backstage pass to the corner offices of the world’s most influential companies. Join Forbes’ Maggie McGrath as she deconstructs the playbooks of prolific leaders and founders. From navigating market volatility to scaling AI-native cultures, C-Suite Unscripted goes beyond the talking points to reveal how the world’s top executives build, lead and stay ahead of the curve.

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Wednesday · 32 min
Inside The Tech Strategy Of An American Top Law Firm: Crowell & Moring
In this episode of C-Suite Unscripted, Forbes' Maggie McGrath chats with Andrea Markstrom, Chief Information Officer at the law firm Crowell & Moring, to discuss the rapidly evolving role of technology in the legal industry. Markstrom shares her insights on navigating the explosive growth of artificial intelligence, mitigating the risks of AI hallucinations in legal work, and why keeping a "human in the loop" remains non-negotiable. She also details her unconventional career path from an aspiring dancer to a C-suite executive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 19 · 35 min
How Tribe AI’s CTO Uses Agents To Scale Leadership & Build Lean Teams
In this episode of Forbes C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits down with Puja Brown, the newly appointed CTO of Tribe AI. Puja shares how her company is stepping between frontier models and Fortune 1000 enterprises to turn raw AI capabilities into tangible business outcomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 17 · 30 min
Hearst CIO Talks Artificial Intelligence, Tech Leadership & The Company’s OpenAI Partnership
What does it take to lead technology at some of the world’s most complex organizations? Atefeh "Atti" Riazi, Chief Information Officer at Hearst, sits down with Forbes’ Maggie McGrath to discuss her vast career journey—from spearheading the rollout of the New York City MetroCard and running cyber-peacekeeping at the United Nations, to navigating the COVID-19 pandemic at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Riazi offers a profound perspective on the current AI boom, and she also discusses Hearst’s partnership with OpenAI. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 27 · 31 min
He Hacked His CEO’s Email To Prove A Point And It Created A $1 Billion Business
Can AI handle the complexities of human emotion? Gijo Mathew, Chief Product Officer at Spring Health, joins Forbes editor Maggie McGrath to discuss the "promises and perils" of AI in mental healthcare. As the industry grapples with allegations of AI-induced tragedies, Spring Health is leading the charge by open-sourcing a new safety standard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 24 · 32 min
Meet The Founder Disrupting The $1 Trillion Steel Market
Maggie McGrath sits down with Laureen Meroueh, the PhD engineer and founder of Hertha Metals looking to reinvent how steel is made for the first time since 1850. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 24 · 41 min
How sunday Became A Restaurant Fintech Unicorn By Killing The Paper Check
What if a QR code could solve the most annoying part of dining out: waiting for the check? In this episode of Forbes' C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits with Christine de Wendel, co-founder and CEO of sunday. Launched just five years ago, sunday has disrupted the POS system and revolutionized the restaurant checkout experience, processing over $5 billion in transactions by allowing guests to pay their bills in seconds from their phones, and enabling restaurants to turn tables faster than ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 17 · 34 min
Deel Co-Founder Shuo Wang On Scaling A Modern Tech Unicorn
In this episode of C-Suite Unscripted, host Maggie McGrath sits down with Shuo Wang, the billionaire co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer of Deel, to break down the playbook behind one of the fastest-growing tech companies in history. Wang shares her remarkable journey from moving to the U.S. at 16 and running a local flea market stall to studying mechanical engineering and robotics at MIT. She pulls back the curtain on how Deel rapidly scaled past $1.5 billion in annual recurring revenue, revealing how they pivot effectively, manage an entirely distributed global workforce via Slack, and deploy thousands of Claude licenses to empower internal teams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 10 · 41 min
Kalshi: How The World's Youngest Female Self-Made Billionaire Built A Trading Empire
At just 30 years-old, Luana Lopes Lara has achieved what most founders only dream of: she is the world's youngest female self-made billionaire and the cofounder of Kalshi, a regulated prediction market platform that is currently seeing up to $4 billion in trading volume a week. In this episode hosted by Maggie McGrath, she explains the pivotal moment the company decided to sue the U.S. government to legalize election betting (and won), how her grueling training as a Bolshoi ballerina prepared her for the intense, grueling hours of startup life and why the platform is now aggressively expanding into perpetual futures to disrupt traditional finance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
June 3 · 38 min
How Saatva's CEO Bootstrapped A $600M Luxury Mattress Empire
How do you build a $600 million business in a crowded market without giving up control of your company? Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with Ron Rudzin, Founder and CEO of Saatva, to discuss how he bootstrapped a luxury e-commerce mattress brand with just $350,000. Rudzin breaks down his contrarian business playbook: why he flat-out rejected the "bed in a box" craze, how he successfully expanded into highly profitable brick-and-mortar "viewing rooms," and why he decided to vertically integrate his U.S. manufacturing. Rudzin also reveals the strategy behind Saatva's massive sponsorship for the upcoming LA 2028 Olympics. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
April 30 · 34 min
Automate The Mundane, Elevate The Human: Inside Publicis Sapient's AI Strategy
Are you implementing AI to solve a problem, or just adding technology to a broken workflow? Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with Teresa Barreira, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer at Publicis Sapient, to discuss the dangers of committing "random acts of AI." Teresa shares how her team successfully automated 80% of their daily tasks by building over 100 custom AI assistants—allowing her workforce to focus on the 20% of high-value work that only humans can do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
April 16 · 37 min
How Raw Sugar Living's CEO Is Fighting Inflation In The Beauty Aisle
Follow C-Suite Unscripted with Maggie McGrath Raw Sugar Living CEO Michael Marquis sits down with Forbes’ Maggie McGrath to discuss the brand's recent major restage, the logistics of keeping clean beauty under $10 despite inflation, and the hidden supply chain strategies that actually drive sustainability. Marquis also opens up about his career—which began as a financial analyst at Johnson & Johnson before transitioning to marketing and leading J&J’s global brands (including Clean & Clear). He also shares his best leadership advice, including why he writes a newsletter and how a "Make Me Move" list helped make the jump from J&J to Raw Sugar. Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
April 4 · 43 min
Tinder’s CMO Talks Dating App Burnout And How AI Is Changing How We Meet
Follow C-Suite Unscripted with Maggie McGrath Is dating app burnout real, or is human connection just getting harder? In this episode of C-Suite Unscripted, Maggie McGrath sits down with Melissa Hobley, the Global Chief Marketing Officer of Tinder, to pull back the curtain on the world’s most famous dating app. From the shift toward IRL events to the role of AI in profile building and user safety, Melissa explains how Tinder is navigating a world that feels more disconnected than ever. Subscribe to FORBES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Forbes?sub_confirmation=1 Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more: https://account.forbes.com/membership/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=display&utm_campaign=growth_non-sub_paid_subscribe_ytdescript Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
March 26 · 44 min
$50M Startup To AI Powerhouse: Jennifer Tejada’s PagerDuty Playbook
In an era where "chaos is inevitable," how do the world’s biggest brands maintain trust? PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada joins host Maggie McGrath to discuss the evolution of digital operations and the critical intersection of AI and enterprise resilience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
March 18 · 34 min
Building A Billion-Dollar Supply Chain: How Niron Magnetics Is Challenging China's Rare Earth Stranglehold
How do you build a future of electric vehicles, AI, and robotics when the most critical components—high-performance magnets—are controlled by a single global power? In this episode, Forbes' Maggie McGrath sits down with Jonathan Rowntree, CEO of Niron Magnetics, to discuss how Niron Magnetics is commercializing the world's first high-performance magnet made from iron and nitrogen—two of the most abundant materials on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
March 17 · 42 min
How LogicMonitor Is Building The Future Of Agentic AI And Autonomous IT
LogicMonitor CEO Christina Crawford Kosmowski sits down with host Maggie McGrath to discuss the rapidly evolving landscape of digital resilience. Following an $800 million funding round and a landmark $250 million acquisition of Catchpoint, Kosmowski reveals how LogicMonitor is leveraging agentic AI to move toward a future of "Autonomous IT." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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March 4 · 35 min
AI Is Making Everyone A Manager—Whether We Like It Or Not
Shishir Mehrotra, CEO of Superhuman and former YouTube executive, sits down with Forbes' Maggie McGrath to discuss one of the most ambitious years in his career. Mehrotra dives into the strategic reasoning behind the massive corporate rebrand from Grammarly to Superhuman, the acquisition of Coda, and why he thinks AI is turning all of us into managers. In this lively conversation, Mehrotra reveals why he thinks Grammarly is the world’s most misunderstood product and how it’s evolving from a grammar checker into a "superhighway" for AI agents that assist you in real-time across apps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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