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Clear all filtersCarlos Delatorre, CRO @Harness: Why Every Sales Rep Should Do Pipeline Generation | E1251
Carlos Delatorre, Harry Stebbings, George Sivulka
This session outlines a rigorous sales methodology for early-stage companies, emphasizing that founders must personally develop repeatable sales plays and hire only after validating process scalability. The discussion details operational strategies such as mandating pipeline generation for all account executives, utilizing specific weekly rhythms like "Pipeline Generation Tuesdays," and prioritizing innate traits over experience during hiring to reduce attrition. Furthermore, the event provides a framework for accelerating ramp times through structured training and leading-indicator metrics while leveraging AI to enhance productivity and shifting the industry's reputation away from traditional stereotypes.
- The Economist21 min
In with a chancellor: dissecting Britain’s growth plan
Rachel Reeves, Jason Palmer, Zannie Minton-Pettos, Eleanor Whitehead, Fraser McIlwraith
Over 200 days into its term, the UK's Labour government under Chancellor Rachel Reeves confronts stagnant growth and bond market volatility through a £40 billion tax increase and a supply-side strategy aimed at unlocking business investment. Simultaneously, Australia's 2025 federal election campaign is defined by a culture war over Australia Day, where Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's reforms clash with Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's "anti-woke" pledge to restore traditional citizenship ceremonies. In a separate historical context, The Economist's "Archive 1945" series analyzes the Soviet capture of the industrial Silesia region, detailing how this January 1945 advance crippled German war production and liberated victims from Nazi concentration camps.
Inside Theory Ventures: Tomasz Tunguz’s $688M Thesis on Go-To-Market Disruption
Theory Ventures, led by Tomas Tungus, secured a $450 million Fund II in late 2024 to deploy $1–$25 million investments into early-stage companies exploiting AI-driven market shifts. Tungus forecasts that 2025 will trigger the first reliable mainstream integration of AI agents while identifying energy constraints and shifting search advertising models as critical industry dynamics. The firm's concentrated strategy targets three pillars—modern data infrastructure, labor-scarce workflow automation, and decentralized blockchain databases—supported by an in-house intelligence team managing research operations.
- The Economist27 min
Right turn at a broken traffic light: Germany’s AfD
Rosie Bloor, Jason Palmer, Tom Nuttall, Gareth Brown, Ann Rowe
With a federal election imminent, the German far-right Alternative for Germany party has surged to second place in polling by broadening its platform to address economic anxiety while facing a cross-party firewall that excludes it from governing coalitions. Concurrently, the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria has triggered a significant return of displaced citizens driven by a desire to rebuild, despite ongoing infrastructure destruction and political tensions between secular and Islamist factions. Additionally, the film world mourns the death of auteur David Lynch, whose career was defined by juxtaposing suburban normality with cosmic dread in masterpieces like *Eraserhead* and *Twin Peaks*.
- The Diary Of A CEO1h 41m
US ELECTION DEBATE: What Trump’s Return REALLY Means For The World! Is The UK About To Collapse?
Trump, Scott Galloway, Daniel Priestly, Konstantin Kisin
Panelists Scott, Daniel, and Constantine analyze a historic shift in the US and UK economies, contrasting American policies favoring energy independence and meritocracy against British struggles with inflation, high taxes, and perceived "managed decline." The discussion highlights critical social trends, including a crisis among young men facing cultural isolation and a consensus that Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives have eroded meritocracy while exacerbating racial division. Looking toward 2025, the experts advocate for urgent reforms in education to address AI displacement, a pivot from net-zero energy policies to affordable alternatives, and a cultural return to individual responsibility and community engagement to combat societal decay.
- Sequoia Capital50 min
Nubank ft. David Vélez: An Outsider Upends the Brazilian Banking System
David Vélez, Roelof Botha, Cristina Junqueira, Edward Wible, Doug Leone, Rolof Goethe
Founded in 2013 by David Vélez alongside co-founders Cristina Junqueira and Edward Wiesel, Nubank disrupted Brazil's high-fee banking oligopoly by launching a fee-free digital credit card despite severe regulatory hurdles and a 2016 legislative threat that was neutralized through massive public mobilization. The company secured its first banking license in 2017 and expanded internationally to Mexico and Colombia before executing a successful 2021 IPO that engaged millions of customers via its "New Socios" share program. Currently valued at approximately $775 billion, Nubank continues to leverage its customer-centric culture to scale its operations globally while aiming to transform the underserved $6 trillion financial services market.
- Dwarkesh Patel8 min
Was The War Against Japan Avoidable? - Sarah Paine
Historian discussions analyze how the Smoot-Hawley Tariff fostered global economic instability that enabled militarist factions in Japan, led by War Minister Tojo, to assassinate pro-peace figures and drive nations into World War II. The dialogue examines the United States' strategic dilemma in responding to the oil embargo, weighing the moral necessity of denying resources to an aggressor against the risk of triggering a broader conflict or inadvertently aiding a potential Nazi victory in Eurasia. Ultimately, the analysis concludes that Japan's modern post-war strength was a contingent outcome rather than an inevitable result, highlighting the extreme difficulty of predicting how specific policy choices might have altered the war's trajectory.
- 80,000 Hours2h 2m
Being provocative, advocacy, & the life you can save | Peter Singer (2019)
Peter Singer, Rob Woodland, Arden Kaler
Peter Singer employs a first-mover strategy to challenge philosophical taboos while steering the Effective Altruism movement away from exclusive long-termism toward immediate global poverty and animal welfare causes. As his normative ethics evolved from preference utilitarianism to hedonistic realism, he now advocates for a hybrid moral model that balances consequentialist duties with side constraints to address moral uncertainty. Furthermore, Singer advises against controversial immigration policies due to potential political backlash but maintains that immediate, tangible interventions remain more impactful than speculative existential risk mitigation.
George Sivulka, Co-Founder & CEO @Hebbia: The Future of Foundation Models | E1250
George Sivulka, Harry Stebbings
George, a former NASA intern turned Stanford PhD dropout, founded Hebbia in 2020 to build AI agents that perform deep financial analysis rather than relying on standard retrieval methods. Supported by investors Peter Thiel and Mike Volpe, he developed the company while living in a closet, focusing on high-stakes use cases like credit agreements to validate enterprise AI value. He projects that a shift toward scaling at inference and orchestrating multiple models will drive $100 trillion in economic value over the next six decades, positioning Hebbia to redefine the agentic application layer.
- The Economist23 min
A tax or attacks: how the Houthis fund themselves
Jason Palmer, Rosie Bloor, Corbyn Duncan, Stephen Askins, Alex Hearn, Ore Ogunbiyi, Amma Mensah, Sylvanus Ashan
In the Bab el-Mandab Strait, Houthi attacks have collapsed 70% of shipping volume and spiked freight rates fivefold, while major powers like the US and China remain constrained by regional diplomatic frictions that limit naval intervention. Simultaneously, China has rapidly narrowed its artificial intelligence gap with the US through cost-efficient frontier models like DeepSeek V3, challenging American infrastructure dominance despite sanctions on top-tier chips. In Ghana, founder Amma Mensah transformed a loss-making rainforest operation into a luxury spirits brand, boosting farmer salaries by 50% and targeting the global market with high-value rums derived from local botanicals.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Navigating the volatility in global bond markets
Jonathan Fine, George Cole, Alison Nathan, Jonny Fine
Following a global surge in bond yields driven by stronger-than-expected US growth and revised Federal Reserve policy expectations, investors are now pricing in heightened inflation risks and significant fiscal issuance from the incoming administration. Despite this volatility, corporate credit markets remain robust as earnings outpace borrowing costs, while central banks focus on preventing wage-driven second-round inflationary effects. Goldman Sachs' Jonny Fine projects a favorable bond outlook for 2025 based on underlying inflation moderation and the belief that current neutral rate concerns are overstated.
- Milken Institute28 min
Navigating an Evolving Global Landscape | IEFA's Annual Conference in Paris
Richard Ditizio, Marion Solletty
Global investor sentiment remains bullish as capital flows into U.S. markets driven by anticipated deregulation and the nation's deep liquidity, despite emerging concerns over sovereign debt sustainability and widening wealth inequality. Key policy debates focus on the incoming administration's "333 plan" to stimulate growth while managing risks posed by unregulated private debt and the borderless nature of the rapidly expanding cryptocurrency sector. Long-term investment trajectories are increasingly defined by demographic shifts between aging developed nations and youthful emerging markets, creating a complex backdrop for future fiscal resilience and geopolitical strategy.
- The Economist25 min
Executive orders of magnitude: Trump’s day one
Trump, Jason Palmer, Rosie Bloor, John Prudhoe, Edward Carr, Nicole Phan
During his second-term inauguration held indoors due to extreme cold, Donald Trump delivered an address centered on reclaiming the Panama Canal, reviving Manifest Destiny, and announcing a goal to plant an American flag on Mars while key Silicon Valley leaders like Elon Musk attended. On his first day in office, he signed executive orders establishing a two-gender policy, declaring a national emergency at the southern border to halt illegal entry, and withdrawing from the World Health Organization and Paris Climate Agreement. Although Trump currently holds peak approval ratings and dominates the Republican Party, legislative constraints from narrow majorities in Congress and potential Supreme Court challenges may limit the long-term durability of his aggressive tariff threats and immigration reforms.
- Sequoia Capital52 min
Turning Graph AI into ROI ft Kumo’s Hema Raghavan
Hema Raghavan, Konstantine Buhler, Sonya Huang, Constantine, Sonia
Kumo AI co-founder Hema Raghavan presents a GPU-accelerated AutoML platform that automatically constructs graph structures from relational data to enable predictive SQL-like queries without manual engineering. The system delivers rapid four-week proofs of concept for sectors ranging from fintech fraud detection to healthcare demand forecasting by integrating directly with Snowflake and Databricks while maintaining strict data residency. By combining optimized cost architectures with explainability features and LLM synergies, Kumo lowers the barrier to graph learning for diverse enterprises requiring immediate, accurate model insights.
- All-In Podcast2h 47m
All-In Inauguration Day Livestream with the Besties from Washington, DC!
David Friedberg, Akash Singh, Chamath Palihapitiya, Sam Altman, Luke Nosek, Lex Friedman, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump, JD Vance, Tim Cook, Barron Trump, Eric Trump, Joe Biden, Michelle Obama, Jimmy Carter, Dana White, Matt Rife, Mark Cuban, Bobby Kennedy
Hosts provided live coverage of Donald Trump's 47th presidential inauguration from the Grand Hyatt and Capitol Rotunda, observing key figures like Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk while noting President-elect Trump's freestyle speech delivery. The event highlighted a shift toward deregulation, including crypto-friendly policies and a controversial "Department of Government Efficiency" led by David Friedberg and Vivek Ramaswamy, alongside Trump's executive orders on immigration, energy, and social policy. Despite a lack of enthusiasm from the outgoing Biden administration, the inauguration featured a traditional transfer of power with diverse leaders attending, signaling a chaotic yet dynamic Republican approach to governance.