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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs7 min
What’s Next for the U.S. Dollar
Goldman Sachs analysts project a 6.1% global growth surge for 2021, anticipating a weakening U.S. dollar that benefits emerging markets and G10 currencies despite the dollar retaining its primary safe-haven status. The firm forecasts significant opportunities in equities and commodities, noting that gold and digital assets like Bitcoin are increasingly viewed as essential portfolio hedges as traditional bond yields decline. While competing jurisdictions such as China and the EU advance their financial integration, the resilience of U.S. institutions ensures the dollar remains dominant even as divergent emerging market policies create uneven recovery patterns.
- Goldman Sachs16 min
Arvind Krishna, CEO of IBM
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, who has led the company since 2020, is driving a strategic pivot toward hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence through the recent spin-off of IBM's technology services business. Krishna advocates for quantum-resistant encryption and proposed leveraging supercomputing and AI to accelerate pandemic recovery efforts, including vaccine development and remote education. Looking forward, he predicts the pandemic will compress five to ten years of digital transformation into just two years while emphasizing that human creativity will remain essential alongside these technological advances.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
Ari Melber, Common, Damien Dwin, Mark Holden, Hakeem Jeffries, Bill Lee, Topeka Sam
Addressing the disproportionate impact of America's 6-fold incarceration surge on women of color, this panel examines how the COVID-19 pandemic exposed systemic vulnerabilities and catalyzed a bipartisan push to repeal the punitive 1994 Crime Bill. Legislative efforts like the First Step Act and proposed measures to release vulnerable populations are juxtaposed against a critique of prosecutorial power and the 44,000 legal barriers hindering reentry. Ultimately, the discussion advocates for a structural shift toward education-based prevention, corporate hiring initiatives, and community-led rehabilitation to dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline and reduce recidivism.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Healthy Longevity: New Strategies for a New Normal
Nora Super, Freddy Abnousi, Richard Ashworth, Anna Dixon, Freda Lewis-Hall
The Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging convened leaders to examine how the pandemic exacerbated age-related health inequities while accelerating a permanent shift toward digital fitness and telehealth. Speakers highlighted persistent disparities in life expectancy driven by social determinants like housing quality and internet access, noting that systemic barriers outweigh individual responsibility in shaping outcomes. The session concluded that sustainable healthy aging strategies must integrate personalized technology with structural policy reforms to address decades of accumulated disadvantage.
- Goldman Sachs15 min
Brian Niccol, Chairman and CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill
Chipotle CEO Brian Nickell, having transitioned to Chairman, outlines a strategic vision to transform the company into a global digital entity with 6,000 locations and 300,000 employees within a decade. This expansion includes entering European and Canadian markets while introducing digital-only concepts to meet the evolving demands of a purpose-driven youth demographic. Nickell's leadership approach integrates operational rigor from his P&G and Taco Bell tenure with a renewed focus on sustainability, carbon-neutral production, and comprehensive employee mental health support to fulfill the corporate mandate of cultivating a better world.
- Y Combinator1 min
Dreamcraft (S18) - YC Tech Talks: Gaming 2020 (November 9th, 2020)
Founded by Tianyin and backed by Y Combinator's Summer 2018 batch, the stealth-mode platform DreamCraft allows non-programmers to build and monetize complex games without writing code. Since its 2018 launch, the service has facilitated the creation of games reaching over two million players by simplifying the development workflow to resemble map-making. Despite maintaining a low public profile, the company's founder is actively seeking in-person connections to discuss potential collaborations with interested parties.
- Y Combinator2 min
Volley (W18) - YC Tech Talks: Gaming 2020 (November 9th, 2020)
Volley, a San Francisco-based voice-control-first gaming studio co-founded by Max, has secured the number one spot on Alexa and Google Home for its "Song Quiz" trivia game and recently raised a Series A round to support a team of 25. The company is currently developing a proprietary "Unreal Engine for voice" and an unreleased RPG-style title while actively recruiting engineering, data science, and design talent to pioneer touch-free gaming interfaces. By expanding its portfolio to include interactive storytelling and multi-device accessibility, Volley positions itself as a market leader driving the evolution of voice-centric entertainment.
- Goldman Sachs10 min
Orlando Bravo, Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo
Toma Bravo leveraged a conservative, hands-on operational strategy during the pandemic to navigate uninvestable markets, successfully capitalizing on the accelerated shift from on-premise to cloud infrastructure while validating the resiliency of software subscription models. The firm's long-term outlook prioritizes strict adherence to enterprise software within a controlled environment, applying a mentorship-driven framework that synthesizes deal structuring with deep operational execution to manage value creation across 3 to 5-year horizons. Despite current challenges regarding incomprehensible public market valuations, the approach maintains a disciplined focus on extracting costs and preserving fundamental business trajectories while advising emerging investors to build resilience through thoughtful, iterative practice.
- Goldman Sachs9 min
Lexi Thompson, Professional Golfer
Professional golfer Lexi Thompson leverages her early competitive upbringing and record-setting career to launch a new entrepreneurial portfolio spanning skincare, fitness, and golf products. Her business ventures, including the copper-based Lexi Skin line and a planned South Florida gym, are driven by a selection process prioritizing shared passion and a commitment to excellence. Looking forward, Thompson aims to expand her fitness brand through a mobile app while advising athletes to prioritize fundamental mechanics and professional instruction over maximum swing speed.
- The Economist24 min
Joe Biden wins: what next for America?
Joe Biden, Sarah Collinson, Zannie Minton-Beddoes, John Prudhoe
Joe Biden secured the presidency with a decisive victory, winning the popular vote by approximately 4 million votes while facing a divided government as Republicans retain control of the Senate. Although legal challenges to the results lack traction due to Biden's substantial margins in key swing states, the election exposed significant polling errors and deep national divisions driven by mutual animosity. Looking forward, the incoming administration plans to govern through legislation and executive orders to reverse Trump-era policies, while the Republican Party prepares to shed Donald Trump's personal divisiveness to maintain its populist platform for future elections.
- All-In Podcast3h 0m
E11: Election Night Special featuring Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner & more!
Phil Hellmuth, Bill Gurley, Brad Gerstner, Chamath, Michael Newman, Jon Cohen, Pete Buttigieg, Joe Biden, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg, David Sacks
Financial markets rallied and betting odds flipped violently as Donald Trump secured critical victories in Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, driven by voter backlash against COVID-19 lockdowns and unexpected demographic shifts. While major media networks initially misjudged the election dynamics, the results projected a "soft landing" scenario where a potential Biden presidency coincides with a Republican Senate to ensure government gridlock and fiscal stability. Key swing states like Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona remain statistically tight, creating uncertainty over whether a clear winner will be declared or if a contested election will extend into early December.
- Goldman Sachs11 min
What’s Next for Brazil
Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, Liz
Brazil's economy, having weathered a deeper-than-expected recession through targeted liquidity support, is projected to resume growth despite lingering fiscal concerns and uneven investment confidence. The financial landscape has accelerated digital transformation via the Central Bank's PIX instant payment system and upcoming open banking, while the private sector maintains robust ESG commitments to sustain its agribusiness dominance. Concurrently, corporate strategies are increasingly prioritizing diversity and inclusion as essential performance drivers, aligning national economic recovery with social and environmental responsibility.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
John Foley, Founder and CEO of Peloton
Peloton founder John Foley disrupted the home fitness market by pivoting from art to digitize the industry through a direct-to-consumer hardware and software platform that has achieved continuous year-over-year growth since launch. Facing 400 institutional rejections during fundraising, the company scaled its workforce from a small team to 7,000 employees by recruiting top talent from major tech firms and executing a strict non-partisan social advocacy strategy. With a vision to capture 100 million subscribers and expand globally, Foley projects the organization could evolve into a trillion-dollar entity within 15 years by combining operational efficiency with a distinct corporate culture.
- Jane Street1h 4m
Building a Functional Email Server with Dominick LoBraico
Faced with the security risks and operational rigidity of a legacy mail server, Jane Street engineers replaced the system with MailCore, a homegrown server implemented in OCaml where configuration is expressed as composable code. To ensure safety during the one-year migration, the team deployed a parallel shadow instance that continuously diffed outputs against the legacy system, effectively reverse-engineering implicit knowledge while eliminating memory-safety bugs common in C-based alternatives. This architectural shift transformed email management into a software culture practice, allowing generalist engineers to safely modify routing and filtering logic using standard OCaml tools rather than relying on specialized knowledge of opaque custom domains.
- Dwarkesh Patel1h 52m
Charles Murray - Human Accomplishment and the Future of Liberty | The Lunar Society #10
Charles Murray outlines his five-year research project *Human Accomplishment*, which utilizes historiometric data to demonstrate that elite human achievement is driven by a left-skewed distribution of work, fanatical work ethic, and historical cultural incentives rather than mere talent or eccentricity. The work argues that Western dominance in knowledge creation stemmed from specific theological and technical shifts, while contemporary societal decline is attributed to regulatory sclerosis, cultural decadence, and the erosion of free speech in social sciences. Murray concludes with a dual strategy for future progress: advocating for civil disobedience to dismantle the regulatory state and urging young professionals to cultivate a "carving for the eye of God" mentality to achieve genuine, non-derivative success.