8/31/19 - Weekend Listening from Intercontinental Exchange

This long Labor Day weekend in the U.S. offers the dreamer in all of us an extra day to conjure up the next entrepreneurial venture. What’s yours?

Listen to our conversations with two entrepreneurial CEOs who made good on the ideas that bubbled into their heads: Jason Gorevic of Teledoc and Hamdi Ulukaya of Chobani. While their brands are now disrupting the medical and food industries, it was a long road to success, starting and building their respective businesses bit by bit. Their stories are inspiring.

The view from an entrepreneur in the field of medicine:

• Teladoc’s Jason Gorevic is Revolutionizing Patient Care & Closing the Healthcare Gap Healthcare spending accounts for 18% of the U.S. Economy and growing. What is not growing fast enough is the number of healthcare providers. The country is facing the reality that it will have a shortage of 122,000 doctors by 2032, particularly in rural America. Fresh off his quarterly earnings call, Jason Gorevic, CEO of Teladoc Health (NYSE:TDOC), stopped by the library to enlighten us on how Teladoc’s complete virtual health environment can close the healthcare gap while reducing costs and being as convenient as ordering an Uber.

The view from an entrepreneur in the field of yogurt:

• Chobani Founder/CEO Hamdi Ulukaya on Transforming Anger and Opportunity into a Better Yogurt…and a Better World Hamdi Ulukaya founded Chobani in 2005 and has grown the company into a global powerhouse brand using what he terms the “anti-CEO playbook.” He sat down with ICE’s Chief Experience Officer Betty Liu to explain why he believes that focusing on a return on kindness and service leads to profitability and innovation. Hamdi discusses how he fell in love with business and what Chobani and the Tent Foundation, an organization he started in 2015, are doing help the global refugee crisis.’

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