Inside CVC by u-path
Inside CVC by u-path
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Welcome to Inside CVC — the podcast where corporate venture capital meets the real world. Each episode brings together top voices from CVC, traditional VC, private equity, entrepreneurship, academia, and public policy to explore the trends, challenges, and geopolitical forces shaping the future of innovation and investment. Whether you're a corporate investor, founder, policymaker, or just curious about the evolving landscape of business and capital, Inside CVC is your front-row seat to the conversation.
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The podcast delves into themes of corporate venture capital, investment trends, and the implications of geopolitical changes. Episodes often focus on specific challenges, such as water scarcity and its impacts on businesses, exemplified by discussions with experts like J. Carl Ganter on water's significance to corporate operations and supply chains.
Welcome to Inside CVC —Inside CVC by U-Path is the podcast where corporate venture capital meets strategy, leadership, and systemic change. Hosted by Philipp Willigmann and Steve Schmith, the show brings senior voices from across corporate venture, startups, investment, academia, and policy to the table.
Each episode goes beyond buzzwords to explore how capital, technology, and leadership shape the future of business and society. From AI and robotics to geopolitics, board governance, and inclusive innovation, Inside CVC is designed for executives and policymakers who want to understand not just what’s happening — but what to do about it.
Otto Scharmer is a Senior Lecturer at MIT and the originator of Theory U, the foundation of U-Path. In this conversation, Otto walks Philipp and Steve through what it actually means to lead from an emerging future rather than the past, and why that distinction matters more now than ever.
They dig into the four levels of listening. Downloading. Factual. Empathic. And the one most leaders never reach: generative. Otto explains how the quality of your listening determines whether a conversation produces something new or just recycles what everyone already knows.
The conversation also covers his new book's seven practices for transformation, the social soil metaphor rooted in his family's biodynamic farm in Germany, and what boards need to change in the next twelve months to lead through disruption rather than react to it. Including why knowledge, comfort, and action are all overrated, and what to cultivate instead.
If you work in leadership, governance, or organizational change, this one will shift something.
Catch up on all episodes of Inside CVC at www.u-path.com/podcast.
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