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Clear all filters- All-In Podcast30 min
Bill Ackman: Here's What the Market is MISSING
Bill Ackman, Chamath, Jason, David
Howard Ackman outlines a strategic evolution at Pershing Square toward concentrated long-term holdings in high-quality businesses, leveraging deep board involvement to counteract market short-termism and capitalize on undervalued legacy tech giants amidst AI-driven disruption. His approach extends to late-stage founder-led ventures like SpaceX and XAI, which he values through a venture capital lens of people and opportunity, while simultaneously repurposing the Howard Hughes Corporation into a "Berkshire 2.0" model that utilizes real estate cash flows to fund an insurance float for tax-efficient capital compounding. Ackman further explains how social media dynamics now enable persistent narratives to influence valuations, supporting a three-vehicle investment structure that includes a royalty-based management company, a public discount vehicle, and a transformed real estate holding to deliver sustained growth over decades.
- All-In Podcast32 min
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar: IPO, AI Rivalries, New Device, and Spending $100B+ on Compute
OpenAI's CFO Sarah Fryer announced a historic $122 billion fundraising round and detailed a strategic pivot toward a 50-50 split between consumer and enterprise revenue while managing a global compute deficit through a $1 billion Michigan data center and diversified cloud partnerships. With ChatGPT serving over 900 million weekly users and a new "agentic" hardware interface set for release, the company aims to leverage vast user data to build a potent advertising model that prioritizes user intent and memory without compromising output neutrality. Looking ahead to 2030, OpenAI projects that rising infrastructure costs will be offset by improved model efficiency, maintaining its position as a single foundational AI utility across multiple global markets.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
The AI Investment Boom: When Will It Pay Off?
Jim Covello, Alison Nathan, George Lee
In a Goldman Sachs Exchanges episode recorded on May 26, 2026, Jim Cabello and George Lee analyze the divergence between surging AI technology and unproven economic returns. Cabello admits previous misjudgments regarding consumer adoption and hyperscaler spending patterns while warning that the current exclusive profitability of semiconductor firms creates an unsustainable market dynamic. The dialogue concludes that without evidence of enterprise-scale profitability within the next two years, the industry faces a potential correction where hyperscaler stocks are poised to outperform if capital expenditure moderates or profit distribution shifts upstream.
- Sequoia Capital40 min
Knowing What Your Customers Want, All the Time: Listen Labs' Alfred Wahlforss
Listen Labs leverages its database of 30 million participants to transition from AI-conducted interviews to generative agent simulations that predict individual customer preferences with up to 95% accuracy. Founder Alfred Walforce directs the platform to serve Fortune 500 clients like Microsoft and Chubbies by identifying specific product friction points and integrating insights directly into autonomous coding workflows. This approach creates a proprietary feedback loop where behavioral data refines agent models, allowing businesses to validate product decisions without the churn and cost of traditional market research.
- Bank of America22 min
Inflation and the inflation markets
Mark Capleton, Stephen Juneau, Alessandro Infelise-Zhou, Meghan Swiber
Strategists attribute the current surge in US inflation to Iran-related energy shocks, supply chain pressures, and AI-driven capital expenditure, while noting weaker fiscal stimulus compared to the pandemic era has kept demand-side inflation subdued. Although the Federal Reserve is likely to hold rates until labor market signals improve, forecasts now suggest a first 50-basis-point cut will not occur until the second half of 2026, whereas the Euro Area and UK anticipate earlier ECB rate hikes in mid-2025 followed by a slower cut cycle starting in 2027. Market positioning has shifted to short duration and long risk assets despite underpriced tail risks from prolonged conflict, as five-year inflation expectations remain anchored and European real rates continue to support a bullish bond stance.
- a16z33 min
The New Rule for Picking AI Winners | The a16z Show
Frontier AI firms like Anthropic and OpenAI are currently outpacing the combined revenue growth of major tech giants, with a projected collective run rate of $200 billion driving valuations toward $100 billion by September. While current enterprise adoption remains largely efficiency-focused, supply chain constraints are expected to persist until late 2028, preventing an oversupply bubble despite the rapid scaling of $5 trillion in data center capital expenditures. As venture strategies pivot to securing market leaders in a shrinking startup half-life, the industry is poised for a structural shift where dominant AI entities redefine public market dynamics and consumer engagement over the next decade.
- Y Combinator24 min
Why Two IIT Engineers Turned Down $550K Jobs To Build A Startup
GigaML, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by IIT Kharagpur alumnus Varun and his Stanford-educated co-founder, has pivoted from EdTech to developing AI agents that achieve 60% to 70% support deflection rates for major clients like DoDash and DoorDash. The company addresses the enterprise bottleneck of manual configuration by launching "AI forward deployed engineers" that automatically iterate policies to improve business metrics, a strategy enabled by their "0.1% talent" recruitment philosophy and heavy reliance on human-coded expertise rather than sales teams. By leveraging the YC trust network to secure early contracts with eight-person operations, GigaML aims to unlock broader enterprise AI adoption through a generic automation layer that eliminates the need for extensive human engineering resources.
- Sequoia Capital25 min
Neuralink's DJ Seo: Inside the Race to Connect Brains and AI
DJ Seo, Shaun Maguire, Sean McGuire
Neuralink is advancing its brain-computer interface technology through the deployment of two therapeutic products, Telepathy and Blindsight, to restore motor function and vision for patients with conditions like ALS and total blindness. The company has implanted its devices in over 20 human participants and reports successful trials where users regained computer control or visual perception, supported by a strategy of vertical integration and an "all-green light" engineering framework. Founder J.D. McGuire envisions these medical breakthroughs as a precursor to creating an "exocortex" that merges human intent with AI, pending regulatory approval for broader non-medical augmentation.
- Goldman Sachs34 min
‘Complexity is Our Friend’: James Brocklebank on Advent's Private Equity Strategy
James Brocklebank, Alison Mass
James Brockelbank details Advent's $100 billion strategy of navigating complex regulatory environments in Europe and expanding into Asia-Pacific through a focus on transformational carve-outs and pure private equity specialization. Facing slowed exit realizations, the firm has integrated proprietary AI tools like "Advent GPT" into its investment committees while shifting toward strategic buyers to manage capital returns. Brockelbank emphasizes that despite these technological advancements, deep human relationship-building and a culture of "healthy paranoia" remain the critical differentiators for identifying high-quality opportunities in volatile markets.
- Jane Street30 min
Jane Street on GPUs, Trading, and Hiring: A Conversation with Dwarkesh
Jane Street, Dwarkesh Patel, Ron Minsky, Dan Pontecorvo
Jane Street executes a multi-tiered trading strategy that balances nanosecond-scale FPGA execution with long-horizon AI models while transitioning to a disaggregated global network featuring a $6 billion compute partnership with CoreWeave. The firm prioritizes model architecture diversity and custom hardware, including ARM and NVIDIA infrastructures, to navigate high-noise financial data without relying on single foundation models. This approach is supported by a hiring strategy focused on scarcity-driven talent acquisition and a human-in-the-loop philosophy that maintains critical judgment during complex market anomalies.
- Bank of America27 min
Why we believe AI reshapes work more so than it reduces overall payrolls
Benson Wu, Nick Stenner, TJ Thornton
BofA Global Research contends that generative AI will primarily augment human labor and reshape specific tasks rather than cause mass job elimination, with only 2.3% of global roles facing high automation potential while 13% offer significant augmentation opportunities. The report projects a shift toward new AI specialist roles, hybrid professionals, and human-centric services in sectors like healthcare, noting that advanced economies possess the infrastructure to adapt despite risks of capital concentration and entry-level wage dispersion. Macroeconomic analysis suggests these productivity gains will be disinflationary over the long term, potentially allowing central banks flexibility on interest rates even as transition costs and uneven gains create short-term policy complexities.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
Can the Asia Equity Rally Continue?
Following a neutral Trump-Xi summit that stabilized diplomatic expectations, Goldman Sachs analysts upgraded Chinese A-share earnings forecasts to 25% while highlighting a stark performance divergence between onshore equities and offshore stocks weighed down by major tech underperformance. The firm projects a sustained semiconductor supercycle driven by artificial intelligence demand, yet warns of near-term tactical overbought conditions in North Asian memory giants alongside concentrated market risks in Korea. Despite structural improvements in Japanese corporate governance and political stability fueling a 20% Nikkei surge, the discussion notes global valuations remain stretched and vulnerable to potential energy supply shocks or tech chain disruptions.
- Bank of America20 min
No longer overbought, still advantaged; Emerging Markets
David Hauner, David Beker, TJ Thornton
Analysts maintain a structurally bullish outlook on emerging market equities and fixed income in early 2026, anchored by a secular US dollar downtrend and attractive valuations despite geopolitical risks in Iran. Brazil and Argentina are highlighted as primary investment targets due to their commodity export advantages and reform potential, while China and Mexico are viewed through the lens of currency resilience and US economic correlation respectively. Upcoming elections in Brazil and the duration of the Iran conflict remain critical variables that could alter the trajectory of capital flows and inflation dynamics through late 2026.
- Bank of America22 min
K-shaped housing: regional and segment divergence emerges from inventory reset
TJ Thornton, Rafe Jadrusich, Robert Leonard
Rafe Jadrusich analyzes the divergent US housing market, where severe supply constraints in the Northeast drive high demand while oversupply in the Southeast and Texas erodes affordability and slows migration. This bifurcation extends to builders and the repair sector, as luxury and non-discretionary segments outperform entry-level markets and discretionary remodeling, driven by skilled labor shortages and shifting homeowner behaviors. Future sector outperformance depends on three key catalysts: the normalization of housing starts to reduce supply pressure, the stabilization of cost inflation, and robust job growth that sustains demand despite elevated mortgage rates.
- Y Combinator29 min
Zepto: How Two 17-Year-Olds Built India's Largest Seller Of Fruits and Vegetables
Aadit Palicha, Jared Friedman, Keval
Founded in 2020 by college dropouts Adit Ayyal and Keval Karia, Zepto revolutionized India's grocery sector by pivoting from a WhatsApp-based service to a proprietary 10-minute dark store delivery model. Operating as a massive logistics and supply chain network, the company now manages over 200,000 jobs and delivers tens of millions of monthly orders while leveraging AI to optimize forecasting and advertising revenue. With current expansion plans targeting India's top 50 cities, Zepto aims to replicate the scale of major global retailers like Walmart and cultivate a domestic consumer goods ecosystem.