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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs26 min
Equity Bear Market: A Paradigm Shift?
Allison Nathan, Cathie Wood, Cliff Asness, David Kostin, Kathy Wood
ARK Invest's Kathy Wood, AQR Capital's Cliff Asness, and Goldman Sachs' David Koston analyze the current market correction as a response to surging interest rates and inflation that has severely impacted unprofitable growth stocks. While Wood advocates for a return to high-growth disruptive sectors based on long-term innovation and temporary supply shocks, Asness and Koston argue for sustained value tilts or profitable growth strategies to navigate a structural shift toward higher cost-of-capital realities. The panelists converge on identifying rate-driven valuation regressions but diverge on whether the trend represents a permanent paradigm shift or a cyclical opportunity to acquire quality assets at depressed prices.
Gary Vee: My First 3 Angel Investments; Why I Changed My Mind on Facebook Video | 20VC #899
Entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk recounts his strategic early investments in tech giants like Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr, which were fueled by a calculated deployment of savings rather than luck despite his family's history of business friction. He attributes his success to a "practical optimistic" mindset and hard work that allowed him to recognize opportunities, while rejecting the notion that wealth created his confidence or public persona. Vaynerchuk concludes by outlining his long-term vision to maintain his role as the "captain of the ship," prioritizing sustained engagement in work and family well-being over traditional retirement.
Nick Jones: How I Founded Soho House; Brand Marketing Tips; Hiring Advice | 20VC #898
Soho House outlines a strategic roadmap to establish a presence in 85 cities within four years, utilizing a hybrid "Cities Without Houses" model to validate demand in markets like Mexico City and São Paulo before opening physical locations. Founder Nick Jones applies a philosophy of extreme simplicity and internal promotion to maintain the company's unique culture, building on lessons learned from early failures to prioritize long-term resilience over short-term luxury branding. This expansion aims to create a global "home away from home" for creative individuals while navigating complex international banking constraints and adapting to evolving consumer demands for flexible, high-performance environments.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
How Retail Investors Are Shaping Markets
John Marshall, Greg Tuorto, David Jeria, Allison Nathan
Retail participation in U.S. equity markets surged to a dominant 30% share of trading volume by 2021 before undergoing a sharp reversal characterized by systematic profit-taking and a structural shift from speculative individual stocks to passive ETFs and energy sectors. This behavioral divergence between active day traders and "buy and hold" investors has altered market liquidity dynamics, driving significant order flow off-exchange and increasing transaction costs for institutional players while prompting SEC Chairman Gensler to explore regulatory reforms aimed at improving price discovery. Despite these structural changes and elevated risks in single-stock herding, analysts project a stable market baseline supported by automatic investment flows, with future retail activity primarily contingent on broader macroeconomic factors such as inflation relative to wage growth.
- Goldman Sachs27 min
Investing with Advent International’s Tricia Glynn
Tricia Glynn, Alison Mass, Alison Nathan
Advent International's Tricia Glynn outlines a strategy for navigating a volatile macroeconomic landscape by prioritizing governance, downside control, and data-driven insights to drive growth at scale. The firm leverages its global network to advance decarbonization efforts and transfer cross-border technologies like live selling while championing aggressive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion goals for 2030. Glynn concludes that future investment success will depend on balancing rigorous analytics with human-centric leadership to attract top talent in a transformed labor market.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
Angus Thirlwell, CEO and Co-Founder, Hotel Chocolat
Angus Thirlwell, Cameron Alley
Founded by CEO Angus Thirwell in 1993, Hotel Chocolat has evolved from an early e-commerce pioneer into a multi-channel empire that controls its supply chain through direct ownership of farms in St. Lucia and Ghana. The company recently achieved a 500% surge in digital sales during the pandemic while simultaneously implementing the Gentle Farming initiative to guarantee living wages for thousands of African producers. Moving forward, the brand plans to deepen its footprint in the USA and Japan by leveraging a large proprietary customer database to compete in the broader global gift market rather than relying solely on traditional retail expansion.
- Goldman Sachs31 min
A ‘Seismic’ Shift in Private Markets
Goldman Sachs co-president Mike Kester outlines a private market sector growing to $10 trillion that is undergoing a seismic shift toward individual investor participation while navigating a fundraising slowdown driven by the denominator effect. Despite regulatory pressures and a transition away from financial engineering toward active operational management, the industry continues to deliver consistent excess returns and is prioritizing sectors like infrastructure and life sciences. Kester projects that while capital raising will decelerate and valuation reporting standards will tighten, systemic risk remains low due to the pre-syndication of risk to long-term limited partners.
- All-In Podcast29 min
#AIS: Opening chat with Miami Mayor Francis Suarez
Francis Suarez, Yung Spielburg, Calacanis, Friedberg, Henry Belcaster, Dylan Jardon, TheZachEffect, Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks
The "All-In" podcast hosts reunited in Miami for an in-person episode that featured Mayor Francis Suarez detailing the city's aggressive economic strategy, which leverages low taxes and cryptocurrency adoption to cut homelessness by 90% and reduce homicide rates by 63%. During the broadcast, the hosts also apologized for previous interpersonal tensions and engaged in extensive banter while critiquing San Francisco's leadership as Suarez outlined a vision to overtake the former tech capital in venture capital volume within two years. The discussion concluded with broader geopolitical analysis and speculation regarding Suarez's potential 2032 presidential run, framing the city's growth as part of a larger national shift from industrial to digital dominance.
- Goldman Sachs31 min
Jon Moeller, President/CEO of Procter & Gamble
New CEO John Moeller is leading Procter & Gamble through a strategic restructuring that decentralizes decision-making into focused markets while redefining sustainability as a core driver of innovation rather than a compliance obligation. The company is addressing permanent macroeconomic shifts by overhauling its supply chain to achieve "Supply 3.0" and committing to net-zero emissions by 2040 through open-source recycling technologies and optimized packaging. These operational changes have already accelerated U.S. growth rates to 8%, restored double-digit performance in China, and eliminated widespread regional profitability losses across the global portfolio.
- All-In Podcast29 min
#AIS: Joe Lonsdale on the problem with higher education
Joe Lonsdale, Chamath, Calacanis, Friedberg
Joe Lonsdale critiques the decline of American institutions caused by ideological dogma in housing, education, and university systems, citing specific failures in Austin's "housing first" policies and the corruption of higher education by enforced conformity. In response to these systemic issues, he announced the immediate launch of a new non-profit university in Austin with $100 million in funding to prioritize intellectual freedom and merit-based accountability over the current "woke" orthodoxy. The initiative aims to address profound educational inequality by recruiting thousands of students and faculty who seek a curriculum centered on the history of free civilizations rather than enforced ideological silos.
- All-In Podcast23 min
#AIS: The Lanby's Tandice Urban on solving healthcare's customer service problem
Tandice Urban, Chamath, Calacanis, Friedberg
The speaker identifies systemic inefficiencies in US healthcare caused by a fee-for-service model that prioritizes volume over patient experience, resulting in an average Net Promoter Score of just 3 for primary care providers. To address this dysfunction, the presentation advocates for a shift toward direct-to-consumer and value-based models, exemplified by Lanby, a New York-based membership service utilizing a three-person care team to treat patients as customers rather than cases. This approach aims to align financial incentives with health outcomes, potentially preventing 40% of top-cause annual deaths through improved access to preventive care and hospitality-style service standards.
- All-In Podcast29 min
#AIS: MP Materials CEO James Litinsky on rare earths, supply chain, and energy independence
Jim Latinsky's fund orchestrated a transformative turnaround of the distressed Mountain Pass rare earth mine, evolving it from a bankrupt asset into a $6.5 billion public company that now supplies critical magnet materials to General Motors. This revival addresses a global supply chain deficit where China controls the vast majority of production, creating a strategic imperative for U.S. domestic manufacturing in the face of a predicted five-year shortage of essential minerals for electrification. Concurrently, the speaker warns that downstream automotive OEMs face a "musical chairs" collapse due to these resource gaps, urging a bipartisan regulatory shift to accelerate domestic mining projects while balancing environmental standards with national security needs.
- All-In Podcast38 min
#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
Mar Hershenson, Chamath, Calacanis, Friedberg
PairVC founder Mara Hershenson argues that while some entrepreneurial success is innate, high-performing peer environments act as catalysts capable of transforming character and ambition to accelerate startup outcomes. Her educational experiments, including the Stanford Startup Simulation and a specialized female founders program, demonstrate that structured exposure to failure and peer friction can replicate the "PayPal Mafia" effect, yielding billions in raised capital and multiple unicorns. Consequently, Hershenson advocates for early interventions and robust founder networks to desensitize individuals to risk and cultivate the resilience required for high-stakes entrepreneurship.
Keith Rabois: The End of Woke Capitalism; Time Allocation Tips; Silicon Valley vs Miami | 20VC #891
Keith Rabois, Mike Moritz, Vinod Khosla
Venture capital insights differentiate early-stage "art-like" investments from later-stage "greater fool" dynamics, emphasizing that multi-stage funds like Founders Fund can sustain contrarian strategies while single-tranche investors must rely on derivative consensus for future funding. The discussion highlights shifting market conditions where in-person collaboration is prioritized over remote work, and geographic capital is migrating away from Silicon Valley toward hubs like New York and Miami due to safety and network concerns. Key financial takeaways include the necessity of focusing time only on high-leverage winners, avoiding reliance on public market comparables for early ventures, and recognizing that valuation cycles are driven primarily by inflation and interest rate environments.
- All-In Podcast40 min
#AIS: FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver on how gamblers think
Nate Silver, Chamath, Calacanis, Friedberg, Zach
FiveThirtyEight Editor-in-Chief Nate Silver explores the intersection of gambling, venture capital, and risk management in an in-progress book featuring insights from elite poker players and founders. The work analyzes how high-stakes decision-makers leverage probabilistic thinking, structured processes, and disciplined intuition to navigate uncertainty and extract value in volatile environments. Beyond his research, Silver addresses critical political challenges, including the risks of constitutional crisis in the 2024 election and the broader societal impacts of polarization on government capacity.