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Clear all filters- Milken Institute28 min
Is Hong Kong Back? | Global Investors' Symposium Hong Kong 2025
Emily Chan Tan, Goodwin Gaw, Oliver Weisberg
Hong Kong leverages its Linked Exchange Rate system and a tax-efficient business environment to attract global capital despite a real estate sector navigating high interest rates and a slowing local economy. The region is strategically evolving as the financial gateway within the $2 trillion Greater Bay Area, utilizing cross-border infrastructure to integrate with mainland hubs like Shenzhen and Beijing while seeing a reversal of recent capital outflows. With institutional investors returning due to deep talent pools, unique lifestyle amenities, and a resurgent IPO market, the city maintains its status as a resilient financial center that effectively mitigates geopolitical perceptions through economic pragmatism.
- The Economist22 min
You spin me right round: Europe’s populists reckon with Trumpism
Jason Palmer, Sophie Petter, Nicholas Pelham
European right-wing leaders like Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen are navigating a strategic split between their initial political alignment with Donald Trump's re-election and the reality of American isolationism clashing with European security needs and domestic public opinion. Simultaneously, escalating US military strikes in Yemen continue to fail in reducing Houthi operational capacity while hardening the group's stance on regional negotiations and risking broader Persian Gulf conflict. In a separate sector, the Christian entertainment industry is leveraging lower production costs and a demand for morally uplifting narratives to expand rapidly on streaming platforms, prioritizing economic profitability over strict biblical adherence.
- a16z36 min
The Top 100 GenAI Products, Ranked and Explained
The latest Gen AI 100 report reveals a rapidly evolving ecosystem where 17 new companies have entered the web rankings and consumer adoption lags model development by six to twelve months, creating a dynamic transition from infrastructure to application. Distinct performance metrics highlight that high-traffic apps do not always correlate with revenue, while Chinese models and Deep Seek's rapid rise illustrate how shifting copyright landscapes and reasoning capabilities disrupt established players like ChatGPT and Runway. Success in this fragmented market increasingly relies on solving specific pain points and prioritizing user stability over technical novelty as low-code tools enable non-technical founders to launch disposable software at scale.
- Y Combinator32 min
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market
DoorDash was founded on the principle of empowering physical businesses after observing a macaroon store owner's inability to fulfill delivery requests, leading to a validated strategy that prioritized suburban markets and a diverse driver workforce over traditional high-density city centers. The company weathered critical operational crises, such as the 2013 Stanford delivery delays and persistent investor skepticism, by establishing a customer-obsessed culture that later enabled it to surpass competitors during the 2020 pandemic through strategic commission cuts and industry-wide support. Today, DoorDash employs over seven million drivers and commands approximately 60% of the U.S. food delivery market share while maintaining its long-term mission to grow the GDP of every city.
- Milken Institute40 min
Global Companies and a New Era of Growth | Global Investors' Symposium Hong Kong 2025
Avril Hong, Hans Dekkers, Tony Fernandes, Éric Martel
Representatives from IBM, AirAsia, and Bombardier convened to outline a strategic framework prioritizing robust data infrastructure as a prerequisite for effective AI adoption in the aviation and aerospace sectors. The panel detailed specific outcomes such as AirAsia's projected 3–4% fuel savings and Bombardier's 93% on-time global parts delivery rate, achieved through predictive analytics and automated supply chain management. Additionally, the discussion emphasized navigating complex regulatory certification hurdles and managing workforce cultural shifts to balance human oversight with AI-driven efficiency.
- The Economist22 min
The chat is out of the bag: a stunning leak
Jason Palmer, Ore Ogunbiyi, Andrew Palmer
On March 21, US officials led by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg faced a major security breach after discussing classified Yemen strike plans and derogatory remarks about European allies in an unsecured Signal group. Meanwhile, Nigerian Senator Natasha Akpoti-Udoha faces a six-month suspension for sexual harassment allegations against Senate President Godswill Akpabio, highlighting systemic barriers for women in Nigeria's male-dominated legislature. In a separate workplace analysis, experts note that idea theft remains a prevalent annoyance, with research suggesting that credit stealers often lack malicious intent yet ultimately suffer reputational damage while modest leaders gain perceived competence.
- Goldman Sachs40 min
Medal of Honor Recipients share their stories of courage and leadership
Command Master Chief Britt Slabinski, Captain Florent Groberg, Matt Gibson, Britt Slabinski, Florent Groberg
Goldman Sachs hosted a special session featuring Medal of Honor recipients Britt Slabinski and Flo Groberg to discuss how military principles of courage, resilience, and teamwork apply to high-performing corporate environments. Drawing from their combat experiences in Afghanistan and subsequent careers, the speakers emphasized that exceptional leadership requires prioritizing team success over individual glory and maintaining human connection even as AI integrates into operations. Their insights provided a framework for organizational culture by advocating for leaders to operate with conviction and compassion, ensuring employees feel valued and aligned with a clear mission.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
AI Exchanges: CIO Marco Argenti on the future of AI in the workplace
Marco Argenti, George Lee, Allison Nathan
A Goldman Sachs-led panel analyzes the rapid acceleration of AI reasoning models against the persistent "value gap" created by legacy systems and the behavioral friction of retraining human workflows. While "de novo" enterprises advance faster due to agile structures, the firm is actively cultivating "mindful disruptors" and embedding specific cultural judgment into agents to manage risks like hallucinations and data exfiltration. The dialogue concludes that future success relies on a hybrid workforce where AI agents provide elastic capacity and mechanical execution, leaving high-level creativity and professional oversight to human leaders.
- Sequoia Capital43 min
From Software Engineers to AI Word Artisans: Filip Kozera of Wordware
Philip Kizera, co-founder of WordWare, positions his platform as a programmable document system that enables analytical creatives to encode human intent and structured logic into AI agents, treating English as the assembly language for Large Language Models. The company distinguishes its approach by moving beyond simple chat interfaces to offer deployment as an API, an AI-native workflow engine, and a collaborative ecosystem for sharing agent components, thereby targeting a user base of 500 million to 1 billion by democratizing complex AI deployment. By framing the future human role as setting strategic taste while AI executes operational details, WordWare aims to replace raw prompting with repeatable, structured workflows capable of handling massive document ingestion and deep reflection loops.
- Milken Institute22 min
A Conversation with Todd Boehly | Global Investors' Symposium Hong Kong 2025
Eldridge Industries recently restructured its private credit businesses into a unified asset management platform with $70 billion in assets under management to align incentives and compete with major firms like Blackstone and Apollo. The firm simultaneously acquired the Golden Globes to overhaul outdated governance and applied a rigorous finance-based valuation model to expand its portfolio in global baseball markets, real estate projects like the Aman Beverly Hills development, and alternative lending strategies. By prioritizing floating-rate assets over fixed-income bonds and focusing on standalone investment viability, Eldridge aims to capitalize on international growth while mitigating interest rate risks in a volatile economic environment.
- Goldman Sachs28 min
Dame Sarah Storey on winning her 19th Paralympic gold medal
Britain's most decorated Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey secured her 19th Paris 2024 gold medal, extending her career total to 30 golds while reflecting on her unique transition from swimming to cycling and the erosion of government funding since 2008. She advocates for increased sponsorship and infrastructure investment to support the "speculate to accumulate" reality of Paralympic cycling and emphasizes innovation in physiological management as she considers a potential 10th Paralympic appearance in 2028. Storey attributes her longevity to a multidisciplinary team approach and the aggregation of marginal gains, rejecting traditional sports hierarchies in favor of holistic strategies that accommodate perimenopausal needs and family motivations.
- The Economist23 min
Bibi driver: battles led by and within Israel
Claudia Sheinbaum, Richard Fortey, Rosie Bloor, Jason Palmer, Greg Karlstrom, Sarah Burke, Anne Rowe
Israel has ended a fragile ceasefire in Gaza by redeploying troops to encircle Rafah while simultaneously purging domestic security and judicial officials to consolidate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition ahead of an election-triggering budget vote. In parallel, US-Mexico relations have stabilized under President Claudia Sheinbaum, who leveraged tariff threats to secure a two-month reprieve while implementing stricter border security and targeting corrupt allies within her party. The summary also marks the death of paleontologist Richard Fortey, whose research on trilobites fundamentally reshaped understanding of ancient continental drift and pre-Pangaea geography.
- Milken Institute41 min
Better Bonds: De-Risking Communities Through Resilience Investments | Finance Forum 2025
Matt Posner, Sarah Frey, Megan Kilgore, Charlie Yadon
Moderated by Matt Posner, this panel convened decision-makers from Florida, Columbus, Ohio, and PFM to diagnose the structural financial barriers preventing effective climate resilience, including reactive credit ratings and misaligned return-on-investment metrics. Participants highlighted divergent strategies where Florida's long-standing building codes and gaming revenue streams contrast with Columbus's deployment of Generative AI tools to optimize municipal capital stacks. The discussion concludes that overcoming these hurdles requires proactive rating reforms, cross-jurisdictional utility districts, and nonpartisan messaging to shift the perception of resilience from a government cost to a viable investment.
- Y Combinator43 min
How Top 1% Founders Navigate Co-founder Conflict
Harj, Patrick Collison, Garry, Gary, Jared Harge, Diana
Founders often face severe psychological strain and destructive co-founder dynamics, such as self-abandonment and cultural clashes, which experts argue require shifting from servant leadership to asserting personal authority for effective conflict resolution. To support technical talent, YC is simultaneously launching Summer Fellows Grants that award $20,000 in cash and $90,000 in compute credits to undergraduate students working on novel AI projects, while providing access to AI Startup School and in-person co-working sessions. The discussion concludes that while solo founders avoid interpersonal friction, they are at a significant disadvantage against the superlative collaboration necessary to build exceptional, scalable companies.
- a16z44 min
Automating Developer Email with MCP and AI Agents
Resend and other industry leaders are reimagining product architecture to treat autonomous agents as first-class citizens, prioritizing instant execution workflows over traditional human-centric interactions. The organization leverages emerging standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and plain-text "Agent Experience" formats to enable seamless communication between AI systems and critical data sources such as Linear and Notion. This shift transforms development and marketing processes into high-velocity loops where services like email delivery and domain provisioning operate automatically, allowing founders to launch side projects that solve immediate, high-friction problems.