June 2026 Rewind: "Best of" Inside the ICE House

**SPEAKER_2** (0:12)
Each month on the Inside the ICE House podcast, we engage in insightful conversations with business leaders, CEOs of NYSE listed companies, entrepreneurs and visionaries. We explore their journeys, the challenges they've overcome, and their aspirations to shape the future. You can tune in every week on all major podcast platforms to catch these discussions and watch full video episodes on tv.nyse.com and on the NYSE YouTube channel.
We kicked off the month with episode 535 and Simon Wilson, CEO of Markel Insurance, a subsidiary of NYSE listed Markel. Wilson goes inside the ICE House to discuss the company's century-long evolution, from insuring jitney buses to becoming a global specialty insurer.

**Simon Wilson** (0:54)
Everything that happens in the wider economy, all of the advancements that you have in technology or in transportation, and we've got people going up into space now and things like that, all of them require insurance companies to understand that part of the economy, those risks, those customers. So I just, every time something new comes out, I just go like, that's the potential for our business to grow, wherever it might be. It's the potential. We won't always take that. There's always potential to grow. And I just think human ingenuity, it doesn't suddenly stop. It's always happening. So giving our people the opportunity to understand these really quite difficult risks that they're going to have to be dealing with, and saying you're going to have to go at that by understanding that product and understanding our technology and our product suite and our risk appetite, putting all those things together, I think gives us just a forever runway in terms of what we can do as being a great insurance business.

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Episode 536 welcomes Sam Liang inside the ICE House, CEO of Otter AI. He joined us to discuss the company's evolution from an AI note taker into a conversational knowledge engine.

**Sam Liang** (2:00)
We really want to capture the data first. That's why we create the AI meeting note taker that capture the data. But also, we need to connect them. It's not just individual meeting notes. Reddit has value. It gave you a summary, gave you an action item. However, when you connect them, you will see compound value across hundreds of thousands of meetings. And also, over time, the knowledge evolved.
In the past, when people talk about knowledge base, they mostly only think about written documents, Google document, Microsoft document, Notion document, or CRM data. Most people forget that actually most knowledge is generated in meetings using voice.

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Ben Miller, CEO of NYSE listed Fundrise, joined episode 537 to detail efforts to democratize private markets. He goes inside the ICE House to explain how staying private longer has concentrated wealth, and why opening these markets to everyday investors is critical.

**Ben Miller** (3:10)
I started Fundrise, or co-founded it back in 2012 So it's been a long journey. And I've been investing and raising in private markets for 25 years. So even back to the 90s. And so I've seen it evolve. And the problem that we're talking about, which is access to the best investments, it's only gotten more acute over time, that companies have stayed private. They used to go public when they were much younger, when they were earlier in their growth cycle, and now they don't. And so as an investor, as an operator, as a founder, I watched how sausage is made.
And I started to realize that there's this problem that's not going to get better, it's only going to get worse.
And so when we were sitting in our room one day, we're talking about like, what's the next hill to climb? We've been democratizing investing in real estate and credit. Now, you know, why not tech? Why not venture capital?

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On episode 538, we were joined by Luke Petherbridge, CEO of Link Logistics. During a wide-ranging episode, he highlights the rise of last-mile logistics and e-commerce demand as key drivers shaping the sector's growth.

**Luke Petherbridge** (4:23)
Well, our smallest suite is probably less than 1000 feet. Our largest is over 1.4 million feet, single user. So we range in customers from, you think, the largest e-commerce manufacturing firms in the world, down to small mom and pops. And, you know, to running that, there is a huge challenge to that and being able to build an organization to accommodate that. And the benefit is we built the business to do that. So it's only a, we've only been around six or seven years, which we allowed ourselves to build a business that scaled and flex. So the biggest benefit is when we talk to a customer, big or small, we can offer many different solutions in many different markets.