Radical Truth

About Radical Truth

Most finance podcasts protect the industry. This one interrogates it. I'm Robert Rubinstein. For 30 years TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Every week on this show, one unfiltered conversation with someone actually moving capital toward a liveable future, and no polite silence about the ones only claiming to. No sponsors. No pretending.

Publisher

Robert Rubinstein

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

19 Jan 2022

Latest episode

12 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

160 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Oct 2026

   Most Movies Lose Money. Donors Should Fund Them Instead

   Most movies don't make a profit, says filmmaker Rosser Goodman, who began her career on an Amblin series for Steven Spielberg. So films with a cause should be funded by philanthropy, not investors.On TBLI Radical Truth, Robert Rubinstein asks Rosser how philanthropic film finance actually works. Her model, TANŌ RISING FILM, starts with one donor and one cause, finds a production-ready script among the thousands already written, and funds the marketing and distribution from day one, when most independent films have nothing left for it. The return she promises is not 10x. It is return on impact, measured by what audiences actually do after the credits roll.Rosser Goodman is a director and producer and the founder of TANŌ RISING FILM. She directed the features Holding Trevor and Love or Whatever, founded Circle Content with offices on the Paramount Studios lot, and received the Millennia Scope Entertainment Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America and the Television Academy.WHAT'S COVERED• Why most movies, even the big ones, don't turn a profit, and why she calls film investing a lottery ticket• The two things that make films take 10 years: financing and script development• One donor, one cause, one movie: how a $5M to $15M film gets greenlit• Why independent films finish with no money left for marketing or festivals, and how she fixes it• Where net profits go: 50% to the donor's cause, 50% to an evergreen fund for filmmakers• How to get A-list cameos on an independent budget• Why the biggest foundations and billionaires are not her target funders• Is Hollywood more extractive than finance? Her honest comparison• The QR code before the credits that tracks what viewers actually do nextCHAPTERS00:00 Why the films worth making don't get funded01:39 Who is Rosser Goodman?03:19 Why movies take 10 years to make05:05 Thousands of scripts, ready and unfunded05:59 One donor, one film: the $5M to $15M model07:05 Fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds10:05 Why indie films run out of marketing money12:35 Most movies don't make a profit14:18 ROI: return on impact15:02 Where the profits go16:34 A-list actors on an indie budget18:39 How to find the right donor23:05 Ava DuVernay's Origin28:11 The script menu: climate, oceans, trafficking, veterans30:38 Hollywood vs finance: who ghosts you more?34:43 Is Hollywood more extractive than finance?39:41 The 10-year vision for philanthropic film finance44:09 The money sitting idle in donor-advised funds50:44 How you can help57:01 The QR code that measures impactMORE ON ROSSER GOODMAN• TANŌ RISING FILM: https://tanorising.film• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rossergoodman/ABOUT THE TBLI RADICAL TRUTH PODCASTMost finance podcasts protect the industry. This one interrogates it.I'm Robert Rubinstein. For 30 years TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network.Every week on this show, one unfiltered conversation with someone actually moving capital toward a liveable future, and no polite silence about the ones only claiming to.No sponsors. No pretending.THE EXTRACTION MACHINEHow business takes your money, your work, your resources, your data and your future, while presenting itself as something else entirely. Robert Rubinstein's next book, from 30 years inside the system.If this conversation makes you question where your money is actually going, The Extraction Machine takes that investigation much further.TBLI GROUP• https://www.tbligroup.com• Robert Rubinstein on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrubinstein/#Philanthropy #FilmFinance #IndependentFilm #RosserGoodman #ImpactInvesting #DonorAdvisedFunds #ImpactFilm #Hollywood #FamilyOffice #SocialImpact #TBLIRadicalTruth #RobertRubinsteinRecorded 2026.

2. 

   5 Oct 2026

   Why AI Lies to You, and How to Fix It | Mark Turrell

   AI lies, forgets and burns through tokens. Mark Turrell, founder of unDavos and a former WEF Technology Pioneer, explains why, and how he built AI that doesn't. On TBLI Radical Truth, Robert Rubinstein pushes Mark on whether AI can be trusted at all. Mark's answer: large language models are probabilistic guessers, and prompting alone is theatre; the real work is the harness around the model. Then the Davos story: how a community that started outside the Congress Centre in 2011 became a parallel Davos now bigger than the invitation list, and why sponsor money kills critical thought at almost every global summit. Mark Turrell is the founder of unDavos and CEO of Orcasci. He was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer in 2008, was a Young Global Leader, and took his first company, Imaginatik, public on the London Stock Exchange. He is the author of "Scaling: Small Smart Moves for Outsized Results". WHAT'S COVERED• The three AI problems you must solve before anything else: lying, forgetting and token burn• How a techno album built with ChatGPT became a team of AI agents with memory• Memory compression: why Mark's AI agents "dream"• Why most corporate AI use is prompting theatre• A 25% error rate on a research task, and the fix: one AI to produce, a second to attack the result• What a seat at the World Economic Forum actually costs• From 27 side events in 2011 to more than 1,200 in Davos Week today• Why sponsor money silences critics at impact and ESG conferences• Using AI to fact-check and publish summit content for 10,000 people instead of 50• The 25-year plan written in 2008, and crowdsourced election monitoring in Zimbabwe• Applying AI to pancreatic cancer biomarkers and medical research CHAPTERS00:00 A 25-year plan to change the world01:38 Who is Mark Turrell?03:03 Will AI go rogue? The guardrails question04:24 Learning AI by making a techno album07:38 "These AIs lie to you"08:22 Memory compression and AIs that dream09:50 The three problems: lying, forgetting, tokens10:48 An operating system for AI11:43 CEO of AIs13:41 Prompting theatre vs real control16:43 Robert pushes back: ChatGPT got it right19:08 Is AI too unreliable to take our jobs?20:36 A 25% error rate, and why two AIs beat one21:52 How Davos really works, and what it costs24:42 2011: the birth of unDavos27:00 From 27 side events to 1,21529:38 Who pays? Sponsors vs independence31:48 The Impact Mafia: sponsors vs critical thought34:50 Democratising Davos content with AI39:10 The 25-year plan and Zimbabwe's 2008 election42:48 COVID: the reset humanity blew44:47 AI for pancreatic cancer and medical science47:10 Not everything can be fixed with AI51:57 The world is built by the tens of thousands54:01 How to help Mark56:59 M Wizard: the techno side MORE ON MARK TURRELL• unDavos: https://undavos.com• LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/markturrell/ ABOUT THE TBLI RADICAL TRUTH PODCAST Most finance podcasts protect the industry. This one interrogates it. I'm Robert Rubinstein. For 30 years TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Every week on this show, one unfiltered conversation with someone actually moving capital toward a liveable future, and no polite silence about the ones only claiming to. No sponsors. No pretending. THE EXTRACTION MACHINE How business takes your money, your work, your resources, your data and your future, while presenting itself as something else entirely. Robert Rubinstein's next book, from 30 years inside the system. If this conversation makes you question where your money is actually going, The Extraction Machine takes that investigation much further. TBLI GROUP• https://www.tbligroup.com• Robert Rubinstein on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrubinstein/ #AI #Davos #WorldEconomicForum #unDavos #MarkTurrell #AIAgents #ChatGPT #AIHallucinations #ImpactInvesting #TBLIRadicalTruth #RobertRubinstein Recorded 2026.

3. 

   28 Sept 2026

   Why The Funding Gap For Women Is Actually Getting Worse

   Women rarely default on bank loans. Banks still lend them less and charge them higher interest. That is not risk pricing. It is bias, and it costs $1.7 trillion. This is TBLI Radical Truth with Robert Rubinstein. When Anne Ravanona started, the gap was $300 billion. Everyone called it a scandal and commissioned a report. Thirteen years later it is $1.7 trillion. Her argument: this is not a diversity problem but a capital allocation failure, and whoever sees it first is sitting on the biggest arbitrage in the market. Anne Ravanona is the founder of Global InvestHer and entrepreneur in residence at INSEAD, with 25 years in global business. She served three years on the jury of the French president's Simone Veil Prize, put women's economic empowerment proposals to President Macron, and has spent six years in the EU delegation to the W20, which advises G20 leaders. Her target is one million women funded by 2030. WHAT'S COVERED - 2% of global venture capital goes to women founders, 3% in Europe, and only 12% of cheque writers are women- 1% of corporate purchasing and 1% of government purchasing worldwide goes to women-owned businesses- Women rarely default on loans, yet banks lend them less and charge higher rates- Her own son is 70 to 80% more likely to get funded, and he does not have to be good- "I have to ask my wife about this": what happens when a woman pitches a product for women CHAPTERS 00:00 From $300 billion to $1.7 trillion01:07 Who is Anne Ravanona02:06 Joan of Arc, and the question she asked at eight02:47 The 2012 question that changed her career04:18 Finding the World Bank IFC number04:38 Passed over, paid less, fired on maternity leave05:36 "I have to ask my wife about this"06:22 Founding Global InvestHer06:51 Asking investors how many women they funded10:01 The email she twice deleted as spam14:05 The W20, and the G20 finance ministers15:17 Thirteen years at 2%: is this a failure?17:39 $28 trillion, what full participation is worth19:06 Her son, 70 to 80% more likely to get funded19:34 "I see it as arbitrage"20:00 The wealth transfer coming to women23:57 A model of business designed by men for men26:03 Risk-averse or risk-aware?27:14 The next guy in a hoodie33:39 Women rarely default, and banks still charge them more35:10 Carly Fiorina, Iceland, and women called in to fix37:07 Ghosting, and a Glassdoor for VCs39:46 Red flags, and the founders who said no45:01 Why they both tell founders to bootstrap52:01 Ranking 1,100 funders on how women-friendly they are52:58 BuyFromHer, and the 1,100 companies on it59:55 How listeners can help MORE ON ANNE RAVANONA Global InvestHer: https://www.globalinvesther.comBuyFromHer: https://www.buyfromher.comAnne Ravanona on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anneravanona/ ABOUT THE TBLI RADICAL TRUTH PODCAST Most finance podcasts protect the industry. This one interrogates it. I'm Robert Rubinstein. For 30 years TBLI Group has been the world's leading ESG and impact investing network. Every week on this show, one unfiltered conversation with someone actually moving capital toward a liveable future, and no polite silence about the ones only claiming to. No sponsors. No pretending. THE EXTRACTION MACHINE How business takes your money, your work, your resources, your data and your future, while presenting itself as something else entirely. Robert Rubinstein's next book, from 30 years inside the system. If this conversation makes you question where your money is actually going, The Extraction Machine takes that investigation much further. TBLI GROUP https://www.tbligroup.comRobert Rubinstein on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertrubinstein/ #VentureCapital #WomenEntrepreneurs #GenderLensInvesting #FemaleFounders #StartupFunding #ImpactInvesting #AccessToCapital #WomenInFinance #SustainableFinance #WomenInVC #AnneRavanona #TBLIRadicalTruth Recorded in August 2026.

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