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Tim Higgins

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WSJ columnist, CNBC contributor & author of “Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century.” Also: co-host of the Bold Names podcast

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Greg's Ip's piece is a masterclass in economic writing, if you are concerned about potential fallout from the AI investing boom please read it

03.08.2025 12:12 — 👍 22    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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This CEO Says Global Trade Is Broken. What Comes Next? - Bold Names - WSJ Podcasts Evan Smith is the co-founder and CEO of Altana, one of a few companies that have a global view and insight into the world’s supply chains. Think LinkedIn, but with the ability to track every step of a...

Listen here www.wsj.com/podcasts/wsj...

23.05.2025 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As President Trump pushes Apple to relocate iPhone manufacturing to the U.S., @mims.bsky.social & I this week in Bold Names explore the new Cold War brewing in global trade. We talk with Evan Smith, CEO of Altana, about the China-centric supply chain and why he would bet on Mexico.

23.05.2025 14:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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A Giant Crack Appears in Tim Cook’s Walled Garden A stunning rebuke from a federal judge is the latest blow to Apple’s business model.

“It’s our F—ING STORE,” an Apple PR director texted a colleague during a hearing. The text eventually became evidence in the trial whose outcome means Apple has just lost control of its own app store.

Amazing blow-by-blow from @timhiggins.bsky.social

www.wsj.com/tech/apple-a...

02.05.2025 20:17 — 👍 47    🔁 9    💬 3    📌 1
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What This Former USAID Head Had to Say About Elon Musk and DOGE - Bold Names - WSJ Podcasts Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former head of USAID, has spent his career on the frontlines of the fight against global poverty. That gives him unique insight into the rapidly...

Bold Names is back for a new season and @mims.bsky.social & I are talking this week with Rajiv Shah, the president of the Rockefeller Foundation. www.wsj.com/podcasts/wsj...

20.04.2025 00:02 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Businesses Don’t Like Uncertainty’: How Cisco Is Navigating AI and Trump 2.0 - Bold Names - WSJ Podcasts Few people sit at the nexus of business and politics like Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. As head of a company that makes much of the infrastructure underlying the internet and artificial intelligence system...

In our latest episode of Bold Names, @mims.bsky.social and I talk to Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins about AI, Trump and more

www.wsj.com/podcasts/wsj...

21.03.2025 13:08 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Could Amazon’s Zoox Beat Tesla and Waymo in the Robotaxi Race? - Bold Names - WSJ Podcasts When Aicha Evans took over robotaxi startup Zoox from its founders in 2019, she made two big moves: selling the company to Amazon for over $1.2 billion, and keeping Zoox’s radical design for a driverl...

In this week's episode of Bold Names, @mims.bsky.social and I talk with Aicha Evans about Zoox. www.wsj.com/podcasts/wsj...

14.03.2025 22:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So we launched an interview podcast at WSJ, and if you start with any episode, make it this one.

For: Anyone who wants to punch through the hype on AI+robotics.

Howard is a world expert on this and our conversation was amazing. Very grateful she made the time for us.

02.03.2025 19:33 — 👍 12    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 0
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Humanoid Robot Startups Are Hot. This AI Expert Cuts Through the Hype. - Bold Names - WSJ Podcasts Ayanna Howard is dean of The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering, an IEEE Senior Member, and a top expert on two of the most hyped fields in tech: humanoid robots and artificial intelligenc...

In our latest episode of "Bold Names," @mims.bsky.social Mims and I talk with Ohio State’s Ayanna Howard about the state of humanoid robots.

www.wsj.com/podcasts/wsj...

28.02.2025 17:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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Reid Hoffman Says AI Isn’t an ‘Arms Race,’ But America Needs to Win - Bold Names - WSJ Podcasts LinkedIn co-founder and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Reid Hoffman is cautiously optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence. In his new book, “Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right...

On the latest episode of Bold Names, we talk with
Reid Hoffman about his new book "Superagency," how regulating cars could inform how to regulate AI and about DOGE's work in DC

www.wsj.com/podcasts/wsj...

21.02.2025 15:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bold Names Season 2 WSJ interview series where you hear directly from the leaders of bold-name companies.

@mims.bsky.social ‬⁩and I are back with a new season of our podcast Bold Names, where you hear directly from the leaders of bold-name companies www.wsj.com/articles/bol...

14.02.2025 15:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Introducing: Bold Names - Bold Names - WSJ Podcasts Every day, Wall Street Journal reporters talk with the most powerful, influential and interesting people. Now, we’re bringing some of those conversations directly to you. Introducing Bold Names, a new...

@mims.bsky.social and I return Friday with our *now*official podcast for @wsj.com: Bold Names www.wsj.com/podcasts/wsj...

11.02.2025 19:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tesla set to report Q4 results after the bell: Here's what to expect Tim Higgins, Wall Street Journal business columnist, joins 'Squawk Box' to preview Tesla's quarterly earnings results, Elon Musk's leadership at the company, the company's self-driving ambitions, and ...

Today cnb.cx/42veuib

29.01.2025 16:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Bold Names: The CEO Who Says Cheaper AI Could Actually Mean More Jobs - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts Cloud storage used to be a sleepy part of the computing world but, with artificial intelligence becoming cheaper than ever, the companies collecting and protecting that data are now a hot investment. ...

In our fourth episode of Bold Names, @mims.bsky.social & I speak to Box CEO Aaron Levie about the future of AI for businesses www.wsj.com/podcasts/tec...

07.12.2024 14:43 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bold Names: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and the AI ‘Fantasy Land’ - WSJ’s The Future of Everything - WSJ Podcasts Future of Everything listeners, here's a special presentation of Bold Names, our interview series where you'll hear from the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of the Wall Stree...

A very relatable moment in the interview @timhiggins.bsky.social and I did with Marc Benioff (CEO, Salesforce) in our new podcast was when Marc was like, "I have that whole ADHD thing going on, so I need a environment with very low stimulus"

www.wsj.com/podcasts/wsj...

02.12.2024 16:40 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Great episode - worth the listen, I highly recommend. Amazed to hear how much Redwood has grown. Will be a major player in the future of energy

@timhiggins.bsky.social @mims.bsky.social

02.12.2024 22:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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In the Desert With an EV Entrepreneur Who Insists Trump Will Be Good for Business JB Straubel brims with optimism for the electric-vehicle market he helped create and his plans for again disrupting another industry: mining.

Tesla co-founder JB Straubel says his battery-recycling startup, Redwood Materials, is on track to generate about $200 million in sales this year

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-founder-straubel-ev-trump-admin-3756fcb1?st=w4UF8f&reflink=article_copyURL_share

30.11.2024 16:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Bold Names: Why Elon Musk’s Battery Guy Is Betting Big on Recycling - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts JB Straubel was Elon Musk’s battery guy. Now he’s trying to turn what some see as trash into power for the electric vehicle revolution. Straubel was there at the earliest days of Tesla, and in his 15 ...

This is episode 3 of our new series Bold Names, which I'm co-hosting with @timhiggins.bsky.social

JB Straubel isn't a name 99 out of 100 people have heard, even tho he sits on the board of Tesla. He had a few things to say about that, as well.

www.wsj.com/podcasts/tec...

30.11.2024 14:42 — 👍 11    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1
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Bold Names: Why Elon Musk’s Battery Guy Is Betting Big on Recycling - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts JB Straubel was Elon Musk’s battery guy. Now he’s trying to turn what some see as trash into power for the electric vehicle revolution. Straubel was there at the earliest days of Tesla, and in his 15 ...

In the long run, the energy transition to fully electrified everything is happening, no matter who is in charge.

But we can't endlessly rip metals out of the earth forever. This ex-Tesla battery guy is betting we will eventually recycle 100% of them.

1/🧵

www.wsj.com/podcasts/tec...

30.11.2024 14:38 — 👍 45    🔁 4    💬 3    📌 1
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Bold Names: Why Elon Musk’s Battery Guy Is Betting Big on Recycling - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts JB Straubel was Elon Musk’s battery guy. Now he’s trying to turn what some see as trash into power for the electric vehicle revolution. Straubel was there at the earliest days of Tesla, and in his 15 ...

For our third episode of Bold Names, @mims.bsky.social and I talk to JB Straubel about why he is betting big on recycling https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/bold-names-why-elon-musks-battery-guy-is-betting-big-on-recycling/33515911-A57F-42FA-BAED-61EEB321FDCA

30.11.2024 12:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2
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Bold Names: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and the AI ‘Fantasy Land’ - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts Marc Benioff is one of the most outspoken names in tech. The billionaire co-founder of customer relationship software company Salesforce has been pivoting the company’s focus to artificial intelligenc...

This week on my new podcast Bold Names, we interviewed Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who came out swinging on the subject of Microsoft's AI strategy:

📎 Copilot is "the new Clippy"

😈 "Microsoft has deceived our customers"

www.wsj.com/podcasts/tec...

24.11.2024 16:24 — 👍 28    🔁 3    💬 10    📌 2
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WSJ Columnist Tim Higgins - Will Trump change towards Electric vehicles? - CATS Roundtable - Radio Show Tune in to The Cats Roundtable with John Catsimatidis every Sunday morning at 8 am in New York on 77 WABC Radio!, or find a station in your city by clicking here. Can’t get to a radio? No broadcast in...

https://catsroundtable.com/wsj-columnist-tim-higgins-will-trump-change-towards-electric-vehicles/

24.11.2024 15:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bold Names: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and the AI ‘Fantasy Land’ - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts Marc Benioff is one of the most outspoken names in tech. The billionaire co-founder of customer relationship software company Salesforce has been pivoting the company’s focus to artificial intelligenc...

For our second episode of our new podcast Bold Names, @mims.bsky.social and I talk to Marc Benioff about AI. https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/bold-names-salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-and-the-ai-fantasy-land/08122A1B-805A-40C8-96B5-F5A6E2D9A3DE

23.11.2024 14:28 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A lot of people have worked hard on this series and we hope to bring you many more episodes, for a long time, with all kinds of folks in tech, entertainment, every industry the WSJ might normally cover. Trying to do something a bit different here.

16.11.2024 16:26 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 5    📌 0
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Bold Names: Why This Tesla Pioneer Says the Cheap EV Market 'Sucks' - Tech News Briefing - WSJ Podcasts Tesla, and its CEO Elon Musk, are the big names in electric vehicles, but a lot of competitors are nipping at their heels, including one led by a former top Tesla engineer. Peter Rawlinson is the CEO ...

@mims.bsky.social & I are out with a new podcast called “Bold Names.” In our first episode, we talk to Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson about the EV market.
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/tech-news-briefing/bold-names-why-this-tesla-pioneer-says-the-cheap-ev-market-ucks/f5db039b-b775-4aee-8114-89ce5be34c4f

16.11.2024 16:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

With the launch of Threads, Mark Zuckerberg appeared to have some of his swagger back as the public face of the platform's rollout, amid chaos at Musk's Twitter (Tim Higgins/Wall Street Journal)

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08.07.2023 04:10 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Volkswagen plans to start its first US tests of autonomous driving in Austin, beginning with a small fleet of ID. Buzz EVs equipped with VW and Mobileye tech (Kara Carlson/Austin American-Statesman)

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07.07.2023 00:05 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Twitter quietly backtracks and lets logged out users see individual tweets, ending Elon Musk's "temporary emergency measure"; profiles are still not visible (Kris Holt/Engadget)

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05.07.2023 14:56 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 9

I know one of you is Elon Musk, and I will figure it out

05.07.2023 11:31 — 👍 2440    🔁 335    💬 161    📌 57

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