Jared Cohen — From Presidential History to Technology

What this episode covers

Jared Cohen is a modern renaissance man as a businessman and presidential historian. He’s written several books for adults and children, the latest being “Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House.” Jared has served in the Bush and Obama Administrations on the Secretary of State policy planning staff; he was Google’s first Director of Ideas and Chief advisor to Google CEO Eric Schmidt; and he currently serves as the President of Global Affairs and co-head of the Goldman Sachs Global Institute at Goldman. He joins host Andrew Kaufmann and Kevin “Sully” Sullivan, former White House Communications Director under President Bush and Senior Advisor to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, to discuss his “portfolio of curiosities,” which ranges from presidential history to big tech and its effects on democracy.