THE Q FACTOR
Welcome to The Q Factor, where host Gregg Fisher, Founder and Portfolio Manager of Quent Capital, leads listeners through the rapidly evolving landscape of data-driven leadership and innovation. This award-winning podcast series dives deep into the profound impact of data on every facet of life in the 21st century, navigating the intricate intersection of data and humanity.
In every episode, Fisher engages with business luminaries and thought leaders to explore the delicate balance between the quantifiable and the intangible. THE Q FACTOR unpacks the complexities of our modern age, highlighting the indispensable role of human insight in an increasingly data-driven world.
Episodes
29 episodes
IS FREE TRADE ACTUALLY FREE? Marc Fasteau & Ian Fletcher
Many see the freedom in free trade as a sacred American value. But in their groundbreaking new book, INDUSTRIAL POLICY FOR THE UNITED STATES, Marc Fasteau and Ian Fletcher make the case that there is simply no such thing as free trade. They pre...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:19:22
BIG DATA TAKES ON CANCER: Dan-Avi Landau
"Nothing about biology makes sense unless it is seen in the light of evolution." In this episode, host Gregg Fisher of Quent Capital speaks with Dan-Avi Landau, one of the leading cancer researchers and data scientists in the world...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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54:58
THE HUMANS IN THE LOOP: Venu Govindaraju & JinJun Xiong
On the opposite coast from Silicon Valley, New York is making their own massive investment in artificial intelligence. The Empire A.I. Consortium is a $400M public-private initiative designed to transform Buffalo into a global center for A.I. r...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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55:22
SEASON THREE TRAILER
Welcome to the most impactful season yet of THE Q FACTOR, the award-winning podcast series hosted by Gregg S. Fisher of Quent Capital. As A.I. roars into the foreground of our lives, it's never been more important to see every aspect of our liv...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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2:38
ETHAN ROUEN: QUANTIFYING HUMAN CAPITAL
How do successful businesses value their people? In today's data-driven world, this isn't a question that competitive business leaders can afford to leave un-quantified. Today's guest is one of the world's leading thinkers on the subject. Harva...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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51:14
ARIEL EKBLAW: TURNING SCI-FI INTO REALITY
If you're running out of earthly investment ideas, perhaps you're simply not aiming high enough. Look to the Low Earth Orbit, says Dr. Ariel Ekblaw, Founder and CEO of the Aurelia Institute, and one of the most brilliant young thinkers we've ev...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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39:05
AJ MEYER: UNPACKING THE FUTURE WITH ROBOTICS
The future may be dreamed in leaps and bounds, but it's built in small, well-considered steps. Today's guest is AJ Meyer, CEO of the delightfully-named Pickle Robot. They have one product: a robot that unloads trucks. And by focusing on o...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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54:38
JOSEPH FULLER: THE FUTURE OF WORK
The pandemic didn't change everything, but it certainly hit the accelerator. The future of work has arrived. Or has it? What are the trends worth paying attention to, and investing in, as we navigate this once-in-a-generation, or perhaps, once-...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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44:39
NIR BARZILAI: CAN DATA CURE AGING?
Thanks to the application of data and scientific rigor, remarkable gains are being made against one of mankind’s most formidable foes: aging. Today's guest is Dr. Nir Barzilai, the founding director for the Institute of Aging Research. In his c...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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46:22
ERIC ADAMSON: THE FUTURE OF FARMING
Farms. They may seem old-fashioned. But the technological marvel known as the farm remains the centerpiece of human food consumption, and the $1 trillion category that is agriculture. How is agri-business adapting to the massive changes c...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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52:42
DOMINIQUE HANSSENS: THE SCIENCE OF MARKETING
The most brilliant business in the world will fail...if nobody hears about it. As we search for the best investments, we must search not only for great products, services, and leaders, but also for superb marketing as well. In this episode, Gre...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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51:05
BARUCH LEV: THE END OF ACCOUNTING
How accurate is a company's balance sheet in assessing its value? Not accurate at all, says Prof. Baruch Lev, who joins host Gregg Fisher for an eye-opening conversation about the critical value of intangibles. The importance of modern accounti...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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41:57
ANDREW CORBETT: IDENTIFYING GREAT ENTREPRENEURS
If entrepreneurship had a central office, it may very well be Babson College in Wellesley, MA, ranked the #1 school for entrepreneurship for over a quarter century. From Babson's hallowed halls have sprung the visionaries behind companies as va...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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38:16
NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS: HOW COVID-19 CHANGED CULTURE
At long last, the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be in its final stages. And yet the permanent impact this pathogen has had on human culture cannot possibly be overestimated. We will surely never go back to the "way things were before." In today's ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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34:49
DYLAN TAYLOR: INVESTING IN OUTER SPACE
Dylan Taylor is the single most active investor in an amazing new investment space: space itself. Space exploration, development, and travel, once unimaginable as an investment category, is now opening up as an opportunity for everyday investor...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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31:25
ADAM SEGAL: CHINA, TIKTOK, AND PRIVACY UNDER SIEGE
Is your teenage daughter's TikTok usage tipping the balance of power to China? How much of our personal information is being funneled to the Chinese government? In this episode, Gregg Fisher of Quent Capital speaks with Dr. Adam Segal, Director...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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32:53
RAWI ABDELAL: THE ROOTS OF ANTI-GLOBALISM
Surely at the heart of the nationalist, anti-globalist fervor that has gripped the US in recent years is income inequality: the widening gulf between the wealthy, and those the 21st century has "left behind." Not so fast, says Dr. Rawi Abdelal,...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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41:38
FRANCES FREI: LEADERSHIP IN A WORLD TRANSFORMED
Leadership and culture can make or break a business. But how can we lead and foster a positive culture in a world of distributed work? Host Gregg Fisher (Founder of Quent Capital) speaks with renowned scholar and author Dr. Frances Frei of the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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47:35
THE Q FACTOR: SEASON TWO TRAILER
A look at what lies ahead in Season Two of the Award-winning podcast, THE Q FACTOR, hosted by Gregg Fisher of Quent Capital.
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Season 2
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Episode 0
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3:16
Data and the Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe: A Conversation with Carolyn Porco
It's among the biggest questions our species faces: is there intelligent life in the universe, away from our planet? Data has been powering mankind's search for intelligent life in the universe ever since we first gazed up at the heavens, and b...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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41:17
I'll Be Watching You: 1010Data's Afshin Goodarzi
As Chief Analyst of 1010Data, Afshin Goodarzi's job is to keep track of every move you make. Does that make him a bad person? On the contrary, Afshin is a deeply moral, thoughtful human being. It just so happens that he works for a company, 101...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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36:18
PayPal's Matan Parnes: How Data Is Transforming Money
Gregg speaks with Matan Parnes, PayPal's Head of Global Risk and Data Sciences, about the ways that money is being revolutionized - and put at risk - in the digital age. Topics include: how PayPal is developing "story based" technology to detec...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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25:01
Jesse Redniss: Warner Media's Data Innovator
Gregg speaks with Jesse Redniss, EVP of data strategy at Turner and head of WarnerMedia's Innovation Lab, about the myriad ways that data is upending, disrupting, and optimizing entertainment.
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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24:45
The Q Factor: Introduction
Hosted by Gregg Fisher, The Q Factor is a series of conversations with thought leaders from all walks of life, exploring the ways that data is transforming, disrupting, and revolutionizing our world. Awarded BEST PODCAST at the 2019 Mutual Fund...
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Season 1
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Episode 0
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4:41
The Great Factor Summit: Gregg Fisher & Andrew Ang
Two titans of finance, host Gregg Fisher and BlackRock's Andrew Ang go head to head on the white-hot subject of factor investing. Gregg and Andrew discuss how factors first captured their imaginations; trade perspectives on growth, value and mo...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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31:17
