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Visionaries are defined as having extraordinary foresight and imagination. Those who can see what isn't there. They can imagine the unimaginable and they have the grit to make it happen.

From the C-Suite to the up-and-coming disruptors, our podcast guests are blazing new paths, discovering inventive solutions and powering the future. Join us each week as we speak with these Visionaries about driving transformative change across business and society.

VENTURE CLIENTING

ExxonMobil’s Kyle Basler-Reeder

In the episode, we discuss how the exponential growth of PHDs and startups enables ExxonMobil to tap into external resources for Exploration, Acceleration and to solve stubborn problems. We talk about the importance of problem definition, declaring your “Innovation Ambition” and how to create organizational ambidexterity. How “Venture Clienting” attracts the best startups and new solutions by becoming a first-client and scaling what works.

SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION

Intel® Ignite Managing Director Markus Bohl

“If you take equity, it's much more transactional. So companies would then say, 'Okay, if I give you revenue, I want to make sure we get a POC within Intel, or I can sell to Intel, or you take me into a certain program,' and we don't want that, right? We want that if it's right for everybody, then it's fine. Not taking equity gives a whole different type of relationship between the startups and us, where the trust is much bigger so we can tackle, and we do that, we help them clean up the cap table. We help them find a new co-founder if necessary; or even restructure the whole team. Right. And this is not so easy if you have equity, if you have a certain bias there."

– Markus Bohl, Managing Director of Intel® Ignite Europe

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