Introducing: Bold Names
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Every day, Wall Street Journal reporters talk with the most powerful, influential, and interesting people. And now we're bringing some of those conversations directly to you. Are you going to build that $20,000 vehicle? No, because that market sucks. Everyone is not going to need their own nuclear power plant to run their data centers. This whole energy fantasy. When we have these kind of industrial revolution transitions, they can be difficult.

How do we steer towards the positive, towards the graceful, towards the more human outcomes? I'm Tim Higgins, a business columnist at The Wall Street Journal, and I spent more than two decades as a reporter writing about some of the biggest stories of a generation, from the Motor City to the nation's capital to Silicon Valley. And I'm Christopher Mims. I've been a tech columnist at The Journal for over a decade, bringing you stories about everything from brain implants and AI...

to EVs and bidets. We've been covering and challenging conventional wisdom in the business world. And now we're teaming up to ask tough questions of the leaders behind the bold name companies found in the pages of the journal every day. Do you feel like we're actually in a Sputnik moment? I feel like we are around it, not quite at the level of Sputnik, but pretty close.

Introducing Bold Names, a new podcast from The Wall Street Journal. We'll be speaking to people like LinkedIn co-founder and serial entrepreneur Reid Hoffman, who says any pause in artificial intelligence development would be catastrophic. You kind of lose economic race and advantage for leadership in the cognitive industrial revolution, but you're also losing the increased safety features.

And hear from other notables like Ayanna Howard, a board member at Autodesk and Motorola Solutions, who says the race for startups building humanoid robots is gearing up. I always like to think about Hunger Games. There will be a winner at some point. We just don't know, one, who the winner is, and two, what is that application that is going to really set it apart from everyone else? Listen to Bold Names from The Wall Street Journal, wherever you get your podcasts.