MD at PSP Partners, Former @Commerce Dpt. Chief of Staff, Co-founder 463, U.S. Senate, author @HollywoodsTeam, LA Rams fan, perplexed dad & lucky husband.
Joined March 2009
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Jim Hock retweeted
Announcing Inspired Fund IV: $450M to back early-stage founders:
Today, our team is excited to announce @InspiredCap Fund IV, $450M in new capital to back early-stage founders.
There has never been a moment in history when more is possible. It takes just one person with exceptional ambition to take on the world’s problems and change billions of lives for the better.
Jim Hock retweeted
🟡 Introducing The CEO Signal — a new show from Semafor, hosted by Penny Pritzker, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and @Edgecliffe, Semafor’s CEO Editor.
Building on the CEO Signal newsletter, the briefing read by leading chief executives worldwide, the show brings that perspective into candid conversations with global CEOs — focused on the moments of judgment that define leadership: how they interpret the forces shaping their industries, weigh difficult choices, and make decisions when the stakes are high.
The first episode features Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, on leading one of the most closely watched turnarounds in business today.
Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=N8MajsPA…
Jim Hock retweeted
@semafor is thrilled to announce the launch of our new show - CEO Signal - hosted by Penny Pritzker and @Edgecliffe! Check out our first interview with @Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol below....
“How do we just get back to the basics of Starbucks?”
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol on stepping into one of the most closely watched turnarounds in business.
From the first episode of The CEO Signal, a new show from Semafor.
Watch the full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=N8MajsPA…
Jim Hock retweeted
A great launch for another new @semafor show: CEO Signal, in which Penny Pritzker & @Edgecliffe have probing conversations with leading business figures, starting with the CEO of Starbucks youtube.com/watch?v=N8MajsPA…
Cool new podcast launch to hear directly from CEOs at length which is must needed in these fast moving times for workers in the age of AI!
“How do we just get back to the basics of Starbucks?”
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol on stepping into one of the most closely watched turnarounds in business.
From the first episode of The CEO Signal, a new show from Semafor.
Watch the full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=N8MajsPA…
Jim Hock retweeted
Pritzker Traubert Foundation names new winner of $10M Chicago Prize chicagobusiness.com/nonprofi…
Jim Hock retweeted
Watch special guests Mikie Sherrill and @BarackObama rally voters in Newark to elect New Jersey Democrats! teapawt.net/i/broadcasts/1kvJpMqMp…
Cool story about the great work and momentum behind a fabulous tech ecosystem.
While the world world is talking about AI, the billionaire Pritzker siblings are obsessing over quantum. Read why in my latest for @WSJ: wsj.com/articles/why-the-bil… @PennyPritzker @JBPritzker @P33Chicago @infleqtion
Jim Hock retweeted
NEW in @WSJ by @IsabelleBiscuit: A look into how @GovPritzker and former U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker are championing their home state as the 🌐 global center for #quantum computing.
Read the story here: on.wsj.com/4kYJCw3
As Penny Pritzker said this is fantastic news – StormTrap, one of our flagship portfolio companies, has acquired Faircloth Skimmer, the leading provider of surface drain dewatering tech. This partnership strengthens ST's capabilities in sustainable water management solutions.
We’re excited to announce that Faircloth Skimmer is now part of the StormTrap family! Their dewatering devices enhance our stormwater solutions and commitment to sustainability.
Welcome, FairclothSkimmer!
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Jim Hock retweeted
Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions – rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking concrete steps to make sure all students at Harvard can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope other institutions follow suit.
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” - President Alan Garber hrvd.me/GarberRespond347t
As a @fordham alum, I think it’s a huge screw up letting @KeithUrgo go. And not much of an explanation to boot. First coach in years to make this program relevant.
Jim Hock retweeted
By popular demand, here is the DIRECTOR'S CUT of THE KAMALA HARRIS STORY, a short documentary I made for the Democratic Convention. Once folks heard there was a longer version, they asked me to show it. So watch, share, and VOTE! #electionsmatter
Jim Hock retweeted
Here’s the argument for Kamala Harris on business: businesses need stable institutions and a thriving middle class to prosper. Kamala Harris will be better for institutions and the middle class. Trump destabilizes institutions and is thus bad for business.
Great piece by @KellieMeimanH Midwest Voices: Now is the moment to 'reboot prairie populism' omaha.com/opinion/column/mid… via @owhnews
Jim Hock retweeted
Today would have been my son Matthew’s 44th birthday. A friend sent this poem. Keep it handy for whenever you grieve.
Everything is beautiful and I am so sad.
This is how the heart makes a duet of
wonder and grief…around the knot in my throat. The breeze
makes the birds move from branch to branch
as this ache makes me look for those I’ve lost
in the next room, in the next song, in the laugh
of the next stranger. In the very center, under
it all, what we have that no one can take
away and all that we’ve lost face each other.
It is there that I’m adrift, feeling punctured
by a holiness that exists inside everything.
I am so sad and everything is beautiful. ~ Mark Nepo