ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Beyond The Core is a podcast series by Marcus Daniels and Ben Yoskovitz, founders of Highline Beta, exploring how companies are breaking free from traditional innovation models to build significant new ventures. Drawing from their experience helping organizations like RBC and AB InBev transform into venture builders, they interview leaders who've successfully launched billion-dollar spinouts, built venture studios, and created new markets. Weekly episodes feature practical insights on venture studio design, growth innovation playbooks, and strategic choices in corporate venture building.
Update frequency:
every 10 days
Average audio length:
48 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
23 episodes
since Feb. 18, 2025
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode of Beyond the Core, Ben Yoskovitz sits down with Sierra Calhoun-Pollard, Ph.D., Director of Blackstone LaunchPad x UF | Professor of Innovation | CEO Winnovation Agency, to unpack how she designed a 5-Day Innovation Sprint that connects industry partners and cross-disciplinary teams…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Most corporate innovation programs talk a big game (and then die in PowerPoint).
This episode is what it looks like when one actually works.
Allie Carey, Chief Strategy Officer at SEI Private Banking & Wealth Management, joined Beyond the Core to share how she built a repeatable system for corp…
What does it really take to lead innovation in highly regulated industries, push beyond the core, and make financial inclusion a reality?
In this episode, Marcus Daniels sits down with Scarlett Sieber, Chief Strategy & Growth Officer at Money20/20, to unpack decades of experience at the inters…
What does it take to build a truly independent, high-growth startup inside a 150-year-old financial giant and then spin it out?
In this episode of Beyond the Core, Ben and Marcus sit down with Sharon Rodriguez, CEO of HighPeak Al.
Sharon shares how she's building a nimble venture within the cons…
Most companies are diving into AI without a map. So how do you turn hype into meaningful transformation?
In this episode of Beyond the Core, Ben and Marcus talk with Sidney Madison Prescott, Founder & CEO of MIRROR | MIRROR & ADRIATIC HARVEST, about the real state of enterprise AI.
We exp…
How do you spin out successful startups from inside a 160-year-old corporate giant?
In this episode of Beyond the Core, Ben and Marcus sit down with Simon Ratcliffe, Venture Building Director of DNV, to unpack how he’s led two corporate spin-outs with a third on the way, inside one of Europe’s mos…
Venture studios are evolving fast, but what separates those that scale from those that stall?
In this episode of Beyond the Core, Ben Yoskovitz and Marcus Daniels sit down with Sarah Anderson, Founding Partner at Vault Fund, the first fund-of-funds dedicated exclusively to venture studios.
With o…
How do you build new ventures inside a 60-year-old materials science company without breaking the core business?
In this episode of Beyond the Core, Ben Yoskovitz and Marcus Daniels sit down with Peter Roeber, a 28-year Gore veteran and one of the leaders behind its most ambitious new ventures in …
What does it take to turn ideas into real business outcomes, at the scale of Microsoft?
In this episode of Beyond the Core, Marcus Daniels sits down with Ed Essey, Director of Business Value at Microsoft Garage, to unpack how one of the most iconic internal innovation programs in tech got started …
How do you build a high-speed, AI-driven data business inside a $140B grocery retailer without getting swallowed by legacy systems and org charts?
In this episode of Beyond the Core, Ben and Marcus sit down with Todd James, former Chief Data & Technology Officer at 84.51° and Head of AI at Kro…
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