Maduro Captured, Venezuela’s Oil Collapse, and the Management Case (ft. Prof. Andy Wu)

In the 49th installment of The Atomic Exchange Podcast, co-hosts Dr. Goran Calic and Michael Tadrous welcome back Professor Andy Wu of Harvard Business School to break down the reported U.S. capture of Nicolás Maduro and what it could mean for Venezuela’s future. Rather than reading it as a pure geopolitical matter, they take an interesting management lens: analyzing how PDVSA was misrun, why output collapsed despite massive reserves, and how that failure fed sanctions, foreign dependence, and instability. They also wrestle with the hardest part of the operation: who takes over next, what a realistic “turnaround plan” would look like, and what the U.S. should prioritize if it wants a more stable outcome. Tune in for a focused conversation on Venezuela, oil, and the management choices that shape geopolitics.