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Clear all filters- Milken Institute23 min
Preparing for the Second Half: Redefining Retirement with Peyton Manning | Global Conference 2025
Peyton Manning, Brian Sullivan
Manning Cast, featuring Eli and Peyton Manning, recently sold a 10% stake in their Omaha Productions to investors, securing a company valuation of approximately $750 million. The event highlights the duo's strategic transition from the NFL to media and finance, utilizing football metaphors like "audibles" to guide their financial planning and leadership philosophy while producing unifying content that bridges demographic divides. Their partnership with Nationwide reflects a shared decade-long commitment to community impact and financial services, supported by a creative approach that balances high-profile celebrity guests with self-deprecating humor.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Repricing risks post tariff truce
Tony Pasquarello, Dominic Wilson, Josh Shiffrin
A panel of analysts forecasts a low but non-zero recession risk while projecting 1% growth amid a "higher inflation, lower growth" environment driven by effective tariff rates of 12% to 13%. The Federal Reserve is expected to cut rates in 2025 if unemployment exceeds 4.5%, potentially ushering in a dovish regime that supports equities despite narrow paths constrained by bond market volatility and deficit concerns. While U.S. dollar depreciation may cushion equity performance, the discussion concludes with a cultural segment where Josh Shiffrin and Dominic Wilson critique the narrative outcomes of *Lost*, *The Shining*, and *The Departed*.
- a16z43 min
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
Guido Appenzeller, Matt Bornstein, Yoko Li
Positioned as a $3 trillion global market following a $200 billion investment surge, the AI coding sector is transforming a workforce of 30 million developers through integrated agents that shift workflows from syntax generation to specification drafting. While industry leaders project productivity gains equivalent to Apple's market value by doubling output efficiency, organizations are adapting to non-deterministic model behaviors by redefining success metrics and enforcing "spec-first" strategies for legacy modernization. This evolution requires a new hybrid of human expertise and structured formal languages to manage hallucination risks, ultimately redefining the developer role from code writer to system architect.
- Milken Institute21 min
A Conversation with Former First Lady of the United States Jill Biden | Global Conference 2025
At the 28th annual Milken Institute Global Conference, Dr. Jill Biden and Esther Kroffa outlined the Women's Health Network's strategy to address historical data gaps and the $1 trillion global economic opportunity by shifting funding reliance to the private sector. The initiative targets critical breakthroughs in areas like endometriosis diagnostics and Alzheimer's care while deploying a digital platform and pooled investment fund to dismantle data silos and accelerate inclusive innovation. By reframing women's health as a universal business imperative rather than a niche category, the network aims to impact millions of lives globally by 2025 through enhanced research inclusion and strategic capital allocation.
- Sequoia Capital32 min
OpenAI’s Sam Altman on Building the ‘Core AI Subscription’ for Your Life
Sam Altman, Jens Nordvigsen, DAN GALPIN, SAM SACCONE
OpenAI has evolved from a 14-person research lab into a commercial powerhouse driven by the GPT-3 API and the viral ChatGPT platform, which now serves 500 million weekly active users. Under Sam Altman's leadership, the organization prioritizes high-impact small teams and a vision of becoming a personalized AI operating system while navigating a market where startups outpace legacy enterprises in agility. The company's roadmap emphasizes the transition from text-based assistants to autonomous agents by 2025, with future infrastructure expected to facilitate seamless agent-to-agent communication and eventual robotics applications.
- Sequoia Capital31 min
Google's Jeff Dean on the Coming Transformations in AI
This presentation outlines the trajectory of deep learning from its 2012 scaling breakthroughs toward a future of multi-modal agents and physical robotics capable of performing thousands of tasks within two years. It details a converging industry landscape where a handful of foundational models drive a secondary ecosystem of efficient, specialized architectures supported by Google's upcoming Ironwood TPU generation and Pathways system. The discussion further projects how these advancements will revolutionize scientific discovery, democratize virtual engineering through junior-level AI assistants, and reshape economic structures via dynamic compute allocation.
- Goldman Sachs42 min
From CIO to CEO: TCW’s Katie Koch on running a $200B asset manager
TCW President and CEO Katie Koch, a former Goldman Sachs CIO with two decades of investment experience, is steering the firm's strategic evolution from its fixed-income heritage into private credit and ETFs to address a shrinking public market landscape. Leveraging significant dry powder during recent market dislocations, Koch emphasizes a culture rooted in integrity and psychological safety while executing active management strategies designed to generate outsized returns for institutional clients. Her leadership philosophy blends operational discipline with personal values regarding resilience, aiming to provide holistic investment solutions that allow borrowers and investors to navigate volatility across both public and private asset classes.
- Sequoia Capital24 min
Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger: Building AI Products From the Bottom Up
Mike Krieger, Trevor Johnsen, Sam Nelsons, Emily Fortuna, Dave Elliott Smith, Mike McDonald Jr.
At a recent strategic discussion, Anthropic executive Mike McDonald Jr. outlined a paradigm shift where the distinction between AI-generated and human-created content becomes irrelevant, emphasizing instead that provenance via blockchain and compelling human storytelling will define future value. The organization is operationalizing this vision through a "bottoms-up" product philosophy and the development of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), which evolved from engineer-led integrations to establish a standardized, open framework for autonomous agent interactions and economic transactions. Internally, this approach has resulted in massive AI adoption with over 70% of code reviews generated by machines, though leaders note that non-technical organizational bottlenecks now pose the primary constraint on high-velocity development.
- Milken Institute43 min
A Conversation with Citadel CEO Ken Griffin | Global Conference 2025
Ken Griffin critiques current U.S. fiscal policies and immigration frameworks, warning that regressive tariffs and restrictive visa rules threaten to erode national flexibility while failing to retain the international scientific talent essential for future growth. He advocates for aggressive K-12 and higher education reforms driven by school choice and data transparency to dismantle systemic inefficiencies, citing Success Academy and his own Harvard philanthropy as models for overcoming institutional inertia. Looking forward, Griffin aims to mobilize an estimated $150 billion in generational wealth to fund private-sector innovations and inspire a new era of scientific ambition similar to the 1960s space race.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
Wise Founder Taavet Hinrikus on Europe’s Tech Renaissance
Taavet Hinrikus, Clif Marriott
Tavit Tammemäe catalyzed Estonia's transformation into a European tech powerhouse by co-founding Skype, which triggered a wave of successful exits, and later launching the fintech unicorn Wise. Transitioning from operator to investor, he founded Plural in 2021 alongside four other former European CEOs to deploy €500 million in Fund II toward complex, high-impact sectors like defense and healthcare AI. The firm targets "obsessed" founders capable of building $100 billion companies, aiming to replicate the scalability of Skype and Wise within the European market.
- Sequoia Capital34 min
How AI is Reinventing Software Business Models ft. Bret Taylor of Sierra
Bret Taylor, Ravi, Robin Wright, Clay, DAN GALPIN, BRETT HESTERBERG
Brett Taylor, formerly CTO of Facebook and current leader of Sierra, outlines a transformative vision for the AI sector where specialized, outcome-based agents replace traditional websites and software subscriptions. Taylor advises entrepreneurs to evolve beyond personal technical expertise to avoid stagnation, emphasizing that the next trillion-dollar opportunities lie in vertical-specific solutions that deliver tangible business results rather than generic productivity tools. Through Sierra's innovative pricing model that charges only for autonomous resolutions, the company exemplifies a strategic shift toward selling outcomes, positioning startups to outmaneuver legacy incumbents struggling to adapt their business models to this new era.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
AI Exchanges: How tech giants are navigating the AI landscape
Eric Sheridan, Allison Nathan, George Lee
Major technology giants are sustaining record capital expenditures through 2025 to solidify AI infrastructure dominance, with Goldman Sachs projecting this peak intensity to slow in 2026 despite tariff-related cost increases. Executives from Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon characterize the sector as being in the early innings of a third computing shift, prioritizing defensive positioning and infrastructure monetization over immediate application-layer profitability. Although investor sentiment remains bifurcated by macroeconomic risks, current valuations reflect a strategic reliance on these incumbents' unprecedented balance sheet scale to navigate the transition from raw training to commercial deployment.
- Milken Institute30 min
A Conversation with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang | Global Conference 2025
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang frames AI as a $100 trillion industrial revolution that creates "AI factories" to automate labor and reintegrate millions of workers into the global economy. Operating as an end-to-end infrastructure provider, the company builds massive, gigawatt-scale systems while arguing that unrestricted global chip trade is essential for establishing dominant U.S. standards. Through a culture of perpetual resilience and a focus on "Physical AI," NVIDIA aims to close the technology divide and drive GDP growth across healthcare, manufacturing, and robotics sectors.
- a16z26 min
Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
Liz McNally, Qasar Younis, Erin Price-Wright
The Defense Innovation Unit is accelerating the integration of dual-use commercial technology into the Department of Defense by partnering with companies like Applied Intuition to prototype and field software at scale. This strategy leverages new congressional flexibility and the Commercial Solutions Opening model to bridge the gap between agile industry innovation and military needs, addressing critical challenges in the Indo-Pacific against China's advancing autonomy capabilities. By prioritizing "dual fluency" talent and a venture-first procurement approach, DIU aims to modernize the defense industrial base and ensure the U.S. maintains a technological edge in software-defined warfare.
- Milken Institute23 min
A Caregiving Conversation with Patrick Dempsey | Global Conference 2025
Founded by Patrick Dempsey following his mother's prolonged battle with ovarian cancer, the Dempsey Center provides free holistic care to cancer patients and their families across 32 states and four countries. The organization operates on a wraparound model that pairs medical treatment with services like nutrition counseling, yoga, and peer support while advocating for systemic insurance reforms to cover alternative therapies. Dempsey leverages his acting platform to expand the center's reach and fundraising efforts, aiming to reduce wait times for immediate intervention and establish a culture of caregiving that addresses the root causes of rising cancer rates.