Globalization
Subject in Business
Globalization has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including Tomorrow, Today, The Builders. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Juan VerdeSpanish-American political advisor and sustainability consultant who worked in the Clinton and Obama administrations
Verde argues that threats like AI, nuclear proliferation and bioweapons require international cooperation that fragmentation undermines.
“Nobody can solve any of those problems on your own. You have to promote cooperation around the world”
Tomorrow, Today: Juan Verde on Politics, Purpose, Leadership, Sustainability and the Future | Shekhar Natarajan (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 40:58
Verde warns that the world has shifted from multilateralism toward transactional bilateral diplomacy, fragmenting it further.
“I would even call it transactional and opportunistic diplomacy. And that's scary because it fragments the world more”
Tomorrow, Today: Juan Verde on Politics, Purpose, Leadership, Sustainability and the Future | Shekhar Natarajan (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 28:25
Walter IsaacsonBiographer and author
Isaacson says he and others correctly believed globalization would produce growth but failed to foresee how many people it would leave behind.
“people, like me, believed in globalization, immigration, free trade, free movement of capital, and we thought it would cause growth. And guess what? It did”
The Builders: Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator as Hard as Possible” on AI (Oct 22, 2026) · Listen from 19:51
Podcasts
- Tomorrow, Today · 1 episode
- The Builders · 1 episode
Episodes
Juan Verde on Politics, Purpose, Leadership, Sustainability and the Future | Shekhar NatarajanTomorrow, Today · Oct 22, 2026 · 1 h 15 min
Shekhar Natarajan interviews Juan Verde about his path from the Canary Islands to U.S. politics, globalization, polarization, business sustainability and AI.
Peter Thiel: “We Need to Hit the Accelerator as Hard as Possible” on AIThe Builders · Oct 22, 2026 · 58 min
Walter Isaacson interviews Peter Thiel on the AI backlash, existential risk, his Antichrist lectures, founder-led companies, René Girard, and why he prefers evil to incompetence.