Business Elevated Podcast: The Evolving Startup Landscape

  • 2.28.2025
  • Alloy Partners
Elliott-Keynote
High Alpha Innovation CEO Elliott Parker gave a keynote on AI and the case for human ingenuity.
David Senra Podcast
Founders Podcast host David Senra gave a keynote talk on what it takes to build world-changing companies.
Governments and Philanthropies
High Alpha Innovation General Manager Lesa Mitchell moderated a panel on building through partnerships with governments and philanthropies.
Networking
Alloy provided great networking opportunities for attendees, allowing them to share insights and ideas on their own transformation initiatives.
Sustainability Panel
Southern Company Managing Director, New Ventures Robin Lanier spoke on a panel about the energy sector's sustainability efforts.
Healthcare Panel
Microsoft for Startups Worldwide Lead, Health & Life Sciences Sally Ann Frank took part in our panel on healthcare transformation.
Agriculture Panel.
Make Hay CEO and Co-founder Scott Nelson discussed the ongoing transformation in the food and agriculture value chain.

"My hypothesis is that we've actually become really good at running large organizations," Alloy Partners CEO Elliott Parker explained on a recent episode of Business Elevated, a podcast hosted by Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Opportunity Managing Director of Business Services Pete Codella.

"The problem is that we are optimizing them for the wrong things," Elliott continued.

Listen to the entire 27-minute conversation below to discover more of Elliott's insights regarding the transformative innovation opportunity large corporations have today, how these scaled enterprises can build new companies that solve big problems, and the changing economics of venture building today.

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