Bold Names
The Wall Street Journal
WSJ’s Bold Names brings you conversations with the leaders of the bold-named companies featured in the pages of The Wall Street Journal. Hosts Tim Higgins and Christopher Mims speak to CEOs and business leaders in interviews that challenge conventional wisdom and take you inside the decisions being made in the C-suite and beyond.
Categories: Technology
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Corning is everywhere: from the fiber optic cables powering the internet to the Gorilla Glass on your iPhone. Now, the 175-year-old company is making domestic manufacturing profitable. In this week’s episode of Bold Names, CEO Wendell Weeks sits down with WSJ's Christopher Mims to discuss how he plays the long game with technology investments and why his company is uniquely positioned to take advantage of the Trump administration’s tariffs and industrial policy. To watch the video version of this episode, visit our WSJ Podcasts YouTube channel or the video page of WSJ.com. Check Out Past Episodes: Condoleezza Rice on Beating China in the Tech Race: 'Run Hard and Run Fast' Biden’s Antitrust Architect on How Big Tech Threatens U.S. Prosperity This CEO Says Global Trade Is Broken. What Comes Next? Reid Hoffman Says AI Isn’t an ‘Arms Race,’ but America Needs to Win Let us know what you think of the show. Email us at BoldNames@wsj.com. Sign up for the WSJ's free Technology newsletter. Read Christopher Mims’s Keywords column. Read Tim Higgins’s column. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Previous episodes
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399 - How Corning Is Using Trump’s Tariffs To Its Advantage Fri, 16 Jan 2026
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398 - Affirm’s Max Levchin: Why ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Beats Credit Cards Fri, 09 Jan 2026
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397 - Even More Bold Names in 2026 Fri, 02 Jan 2026
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396 - Encore: This CEO Says Humanoid Robots Are The "Space Race" of Our Time Fri, 26 Dec 2025
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395 - SPECIAL WSJ’s Take On the Week: How This Fed Hawk Views the Economy, Inflation, AI and Jobs Tue, 23 Dec 2025
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394 - The Boldest Ideas of 2025 — And What’s in Store for 2026 Fri, 19 Dec 2025
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393 - Inside PlayStation's Plans to Lead a $200 Billion Industry Fri, 12 Dec 2025
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392 - McLaren CEO Zak Brown On F1 And Business Strategy At 200 Miles Per Hour Fri, 05 Dec 2025
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391 - SPECIAL WSJ Tech Live: The Man Leading Trump’s AI Charge Against China (The Journal Podcast) Fri, 28 Nov 2025
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390 - Biden’s Antitrust Architect on How Big Tech Threatens U.S. Prosperity Fri, 21 Nov 2025
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389 - The World’s Tech Giants Are Running Out of Power. This CEO Plans to Deliver. Fri, 14 Nov 2025
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388 - How Uber Plans to Win the Self-Driving Car Race Fri, 07 Nov 2025
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387 - Inside Visa’s Tech-Charged Future: From Crypto to AI Fri, 31 Oct 2025
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386 - This Tech Founder's $1.3 Billion Company Is Taking On Apple and Samsung Fri, 24 Oct 2025
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385 - Why This Investor Says the AI Boom Isn’t the Next Dot-Com Crash Fri, 17 Oct 2025
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384 - The Google Exec Reinventing Search in the AI Era Fri, 10 Oct 2025
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383 - Condoleezza Rice on Beating China in the Tech Race: 'Run Hard and Run Fast' Fri, 03 Oct 2025
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382 - The Google-Backed Startup Taking on Elon Musk in Humanoid Robotics Fri, 26 Sep 2025
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381 - How the U.S. Stacks Up to China’s ‘Engineering State’ Fri, 19 Sep 2025
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380 - Why IBM's CEO Thinks His Company Can Crack Quantum Computing Fri, 12 Sep 2025
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379 - Bold Names Is Back Fri, 05 Sep 2025
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378 - From AI and Defense Tech, to Tariffs and the New Streaming Wars: The Best of Bold Names Fri, 29 Aug 2025
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377 - Space Trucks: One Startup’s Plan to Get the U.S. Back on the Moon Fri, 08 Aug 2025
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376 - How Tubi Is Coming for Netflix and YouTube in the New Streaming Wars Fri, 01 Aug 2025
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375 - Are AI Agents the Future of Business? Salesforce Is Betting $8 Billion on It Fri, 25 Jul 2025
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374 - Encore: Could Amazon’s Zoox Beat Tesla and Waymo in the Robotaxi Race? Fri, 18 Jul 2025
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373 - Tariffs, EVs and China: A CEO Insider’s View of the Car Business Fri, 11 Jul 2025
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372 - Why José Andrés Says We Need Leaders Who Believe in ‘Longer Tables’ Wed, 09 Jul 2025
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371 - How Microsoft’s AI Chief Defines ‘Humanist Super Intelligence’ Wed, 02 Jul 2025
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370 - Booz Allen CEO on Silicon Valley’s Turn to Defense Tech: ‘We Need Everybody.’ Fri, 27 Jun 2025
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369 - This CEO Says Global Trade Is Broken. What Comes Next? Fri, 23 May 2025
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368 - This Company Has a Plan to Beat Neuralink at the Brain-Computer Interface Game Fri, 16 May 2025
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367 - Venture Capitalist Sarah Guo’s Surprising Bet on Unsexy AI Fri, 09 May 2025
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366 - How Zipline’s Drones Are Taking Off in the U.S. and Rivaling Amazon Fri, 02 May 2025
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365 - 70,000 Bets a Minute: How FanDuel’s Parent Is Winning at Sports Gambling Fri, 25 Apr 2025
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364 - What This Former USAID Head Had to Say About Elon Musk and DOGE Fri, 18 Apr 2025
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363 - Coming Soon: Bold Names Season Three Fri, 11 Apr 2025
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362 - ‘Businesses Don’t Like Uncertainty’: How Cisco Is Navigating AI and Trump 2.0 Fri, 21 Mar 2025
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361 - Could Amazon’s Zoox Beat Tesla and Waymo in the Robotaxi Race? Fri, 14 Mar 2025
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360 - Palmer Luckey's 'I Told You So' Tour: AI Weapons and Vindication Fri, 07 Mar 2025
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359 - Humanoid Robot Startups Are Hot. This AI Expert Cuts Through the Hype. Fri, 28 Feb 2025
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358 - Reid Hoffman Says AI Isn’t an ‘Arms Race,’ but America Needs to Win Fri, 21 Feb 2025
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357 - Why Bilt’s CEO Wants You To Pay Your Mortgage With a Credit Card Fri, 14 Feb 2025
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356 - Introducing: Bold Names Tue, 11 Feb 2025
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355 - The CEO Who Says Cheaper AI Could Actually Mean More Jobs Tue, 11 Feb 2025
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354 - Why Elon Musk’s Battery Guy Is Betting Big on Recycling Tue, 11 Feb 2025
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353 - Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and the AI ‘Fantasy Land’ Tue, 11 Feb 2025
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352 - Why This Tesla Pioneer Says the Cheap EV Market 'Sucks' Tue, 11 Feb 2025
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351 - An Update on The Future of Everything Fri, 31 Jan 2025
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350 - Nvidia’s Chips Power the Supercomputer That Could Change AI Fri, 24 Jan 2025