How will the future unfold? What is the impact of technology on business & society? As technology reorders the world in which live, who will be the winners and who will be the losers? Join Azeem Azhar, curator of the Exponential View newsletter, in deep conversation with the world's leading thinkers and practitioners exploring these and other important questions. The views expressed on this podcast are those of its hosts, guests, and callers, and not those of Harvard Business Review.
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episode 26: How Nasdaq is Growing the World's Digital Marketplace
Nasdaq has evolved from being the world’s first digital marketplace to a global technology company. CEO Adena Friedman joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how their digital operation has become the model for markets around the world, the surprising importance of regulation as a driver of innovation, and how Nasdaq prepared to keep functioning during the pandemic lockdown.
They also discuss:
- The infrastructure that allows Nasdaq to reliably maintain data rates thousands of times faster than the internet and traffic volumes many times higher than Google searches.
- How smart regulation played a vital role in the evolution of Nasdaq’s resilience.
- Why the Nordic states exemplify a healthy balance between government and business.
Further reading:
- “What’s the Future of Capitalism?” (TED Talk, 2019)
- “Interview with Adena Friedman on COVID-19” (The Economic Club of Washington DC, 2020)
- “Technology Companies and the New Recession” (Exponential View podcast, 2020)
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