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Author Susan Morrison, "Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live" | Global Conference 2025
Susan Morrison, Lorne, Laraine Newman
Susan Morrison's biography *Saturday Night* chronicles Lorne Michaels' decade-long evolution of *Saturday Night Live* from a conservative variety show into a global franchise that balances alternative comedy with broad national appeal. The narrative highlights how Michaels' management philosophy evolved from personal trauma-induced non-confrontation to a "sports franchise" model, emphasizing operational flexibility, mentorship strategies like *Weekend Update* for new talent, and a strict hierarchy to manage host egos during the high-pressure final dress rehearsal. This deep dive into Michaels' "friendship economy" and adaptive leadership explains the show's thirty-plus year longevity and its successful international licensing, which requires navigating diverse cultural standards while maintaining the show's core identity.
- Milken Institute58 min
AI and Digital Transformation's Impact on Investing | Global Conference 2025
David Steinberg, Jim Breyer, Dipanjan "DJ" Deb, Greg Emerson, Dennis Gada, Jodie Wallis, Shanali Basak
A panel of industry leaders including Jodi, Dennis, DJ, Greg, and Jim established a consensus that organizations must adopt a hybrid "build, buy, and partner" strategy, favoring external foundational models while retaining in-house development for specific strategic assets. The discussion highlighted acute shortages of top-tier mathematical talent and warned of critical risks ranging from quantum decryption threats to deepfake fraud, necessitating robust, materiality-based governance frameworks. Looking forward, experts predicted AI will act as a catalyst for enterprise transformation and private equity value creation, though they cautioned that true value lies in revenue growth rather than mere productivity gains or marketing hype.
- All-In Podcast45 min
Tony Robbins | All-In Live from Miami
Tony Robbins, Chamath, Jason, Friedberg, David Sacks
Tony Robbins leverages a synthesis of clinical research, physiological optimization, and strategic leadership frameworks to help individuals and organizations rewire unhelpful patterns and achieve sustainable high performance. His methods, which include the Stanford-validated "Date with Destiny" program and the RPM strategy, have demonstrated significant reductions in depression symptoms and a return to pre-pandemic corporate engagement levels. Beyond personal development, Robbins channels this expertise into large-scale philanthropic "moon shots," including a global commitment to feed 100 billion people and eliminate human trafficking, while personally managing his own longevity through advanced regenerative medicine.
- Milken Institute49 min
Author Talk: Kevin Kwan, "Lies and Weddings" | Global Conference 2025
Kevin Kwan, Curtis S. Chin, Chris Tucker, Tiana, John Panatti
Author Kevin Kwan returns to the Milken Institute Global Conference to discuss his latest novel, *Lies in Weddings*, which uses a family drama format to critique intergenerational wealth inequality and racial stereotypes. Kwan outlines the stalled progress of the *Crazy Rich Asians* film sequels while detailing the active development of an HBO Max series, a Broadway musical, and new film adaptations of his other works. He concludes by advocating for underrepresented creators to own production infrastructure to sustain diverse storytelling and shares insights on his upcoming film projects and new literary directions.
- Sequoia Capital49 min
The Breakthroughs Needed for AGI Have Already Been Made: OpenAI Former Research Head Bob McGrew
Bob McGrew, Stephanie Zhan, Sonya Huang
Bob McGrew defines 2025 as the "year of reasoning," a pivotal shift where immediate compute utilization and tool-augmented chain-of-thought capabilities drive rapid progress toward AGI while pre-training faces diminishing returns. This paradigm reframes post-training as a behavioral challenge and positions AI agents to democratize intelligence by pricing services at compute costs rather than professional market rates. Consequently, economic value accrues to application layers requiring proprietary enterprise context, while sectors ranging from robotics to software engineering transition to hybrid human-agent workflows that leverage these new efficiency gains.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Strengthening Communities: Corporate Philanthropy, Social Capital, & Resilience | Global Conference
Melissa Stevens, Nicole Anderson, Lynette Bell, Mary Culler, C.D. Glin, Jean Oelwang
Representatives from PepsiCo, Truist, AT&T, Ford, and Virgin Unite convened at the Milken Institute's "Toward a Flourishing Future" conference to outline strategies for strengthening community resilience against a surge in global disasters and deepening social fractures. These leaders detailed a shift toward enterprise-wide mobilization that leverages corporate assets, data analytics, and long-term pre-competitive partnerships to address food insecurity, disaster recovery, and the digital divide. The panel emphasized that sustainable impact requires multi-year funding horizons, internal employee alignment, and the repositioning of trust as essential infrastructure for systemic change.
- a16z1h 30m
Adam Neumann: This is How You Build Iconic Companies
Adam Neumann, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Erik Torenberg
Following WeWork's 2019 collapse, former founder Adam Neumann formed a strategic partnership with investors Ben Horowitz and Mark Pincus to launch Flow, a vertically integrated real estate platform designed to resolve modern housing isolation and workforce fragmentation. The venture employs an asset-heavy model centered on proprietary technology and a "citizen-centric" approach, evidenced by a successful $300 million Saudi Arabia pilot that achieved over 90% occupancy within 60 days. By aligning risk and rewards immediately between Neumann and his backers, Flow aims to scale its ecosystem of managed physical communities globally to serve as a holistic alternative to traditional remote work and fragmented housing markets.
- Milken Institute57 min
Crypto's Wild Ride: The Great Debate | Global Conference 2025
Nicole Valentine, Sebastian Bea, Zoe Cruz, Dante Disparte, Mary-Catherine Lader, Caroline D. Pham, Ivan Soto-Wright
Industry leaders and regulators converge to redefine digital assets from speculative experiments into essential global infrastructure, with figures like Zoe Cruz and Dante Disparte highlighting stablecoins as the "digital dollar" for cross-border payments. Regulatory shifts led by CFTC Chair Caroline Pham establish a dual-track framework that separates fraudulent unbacked tokens from tokenized real-world assets to unlock a projected $2 to $5 trillion market by 2030. The consensus among panelists from Coinbase, MoonPay, and Uniswap foresees a 2025 pivot where automated financial protocols and Bitcoin as a strategic reserve become invisible yet ubiquitous utilities replacing legacy banking rails.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
The Road to the American Dream: Entrepreneurship and Innovation | Global Conference 2025
Rachel Goslins, Bing Chen, David Cohen, Shamina Singh, Anastasia Soare
At the Milken Center panel "The Road to the American Dream," entrepreneurs Bing Gordon, David Sze, Shamina, and Anastasia examined the fractured consensus on economic mobility while contrasting US entrepreneurial strengths with global barriers like credit access and the "missing middle." The speakers outlined strategies for inclusive growth, including Gold House's 50% capital allocation to women-led firms and Techstars' geographic decentralization, while debunking myths about Silicon Valley dominance and technical founding requirements. Despite facing headwinds such as high tariffs and rising costs, the panelists concluded that economic contractions currently offer unique opportunities for new entrants to leverage abundant talent and address unmet market needs.
- All-In Podcast1h 1m
Jared Isaacman: What went wrong at NASA | The All-In Interview
Jared Isaacman, David Friedberg
President Trump withdrew Jared Isaacman's confirmed nomination for NASA Administrator after a single influential advisor reportedly diverted the administration toward a different direction. Isaacman characterized the reversal as a resistance to his efficiency-focused "DOGE" agenda and a defense of bureaucratic status quo interests rather than political maneuvering. He subsequently detailed a strategic plan to slash the agency's budget, replace the cost-prohibitive Space Launch System with commercial heavy-lift vehicles, and prioritize deep-space capabilities to counter China's rapid progress in the space race.
- a16z46 min
Hey Tech, Come to Healthcare
In a 2022 analysis, analysts BJ and Daisy predict that consumer health technology will produce the world's first trillion-dollar company by leveraging a $4 trillion U.S. market where 88% of the population faces metabolic challenges. The event details how artificial intelligence and post-pandemic cultural shifts are enabling a transition from reactive sick care to predictive, home-centric prevention while bypassing traditional incumbent barriers through new "payvider," marketplace, and financial infrastructure models. These strategies aim to unify fragmented health data and engineer behavioral change, ultimately positioning tech founders with hybrid clinical expertise to replace legacy systems with AI-driven, high-UX solutions.
- Jane Street1h 20m
Building Tools for Traders with Ian Henry
Ian Henry, Ron Minsky, Mark Mandelbaum, Mark Mirchandani, David Eastman, Brian Dorsey
Ian Henry, a Jane Street engineer who transitioned from general web development to options trading tools, leverages the firm's custom OCaml ecosystem to build high-density interfaces that eliminate mouse usage and manage complex volatility surfaces. His recent work includes creating Bauble, a live 3D graphics environment in the Janet language that demonstrates how side projects using image-based state serialization and novel macro systems can rapidly inform internal production tooling. Through this process, Henry illustrates how Jane Street bridges the gap between low-latency exchange architecture and expert user needs by prioritizing type safety, extreme information density, and a parallel software universe free from standard web protocols.
- Milken Institute1h 13m
The Milken-Motsepe Prize in FinTech Pitches and Grand Prize Ceremony | Global Conference 2025
Milken, Motsepe, Emily Musil, Meghan McCormick, Precious Moloi-Motsepe, Sam Njuguna, Ola Oyetayo, Jonathan Wilson
The 2025 Milken-Motsepe Prize awarded $2 million to ten semi-finalists to support African-led FinTech innovations targeting underbanked populations, with Virto securing the $1 million grand prize for its cross-border payment infrastructure. Key figures including Mike Milken and Patrice Motsepe emphasized the program's role in leveraging Africa's demographic growth and entrepreneurship to catalyze follow-on investment and impact over one million lives since its inception. Building on this momentum, the initiative launched a new accelerator and announced an upcoming challenge cycle in AI and Manufacturing to further address financial inclusion and infrastructure gaps across the continent.
- a16z1h 18m
Rick Rubin: Vibe Coding is the Punk Rock of Software
Rick Rubin, Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Anjney Midha, Erik Torenberg
Rick Rubin introduces "vibe coding" as a methodology merging the ancient spiritual principles of the Tao Te Ching with modern AI to democratize creation for non-technical users. The discussion outlines how this approach treats AI as a tool for human expression rather than an autonomous creator, aiming to counteract the homogenization of global culture and narrow demographic biases in current tech development. Ultimately, the event advocates for a future of education focused on cultivating taste and self-knowledge, allowing artists to leverage AI to raise creative ceilings while maintaining authentic individual agency.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
Business and the Global Economy: Driving Growth and Innovation | Global Conference 2025
Conrad Kiechel, Gerard Baker, Ajay Banga, Mariam bint Mohammed AlMheiri, Rich Lesser, Gilberto Tomazoni, Jerry Baker
At the 28th Milken Institute Global Conference, panelists led by World Bank officials and BCG executives discussed strategies to navigate global trade fragmentation and a looming labor surplus in developing nations. The discussion highlighted the critical need for public-private partnerships to fund infrastructure and energy grids capable of supporting both AI adoption and agricultural transformation. Experts concluded that while geopolitical tensions threaten traditional globalization, targeted regional integration and regulatory reforms can unlock new growth vectors for the global economy.