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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs18 min
Koby Altman, General Manager of the Cleveland Cavaliers
Starting in the 2017–2018 season, former Middlebury College basketball player Kobe Bryant assumed the role of General Manager for the Cleveland Cavaliers to oversee a data-driven rebuild led by owner Dan Gilbert. Bryant prioritized a cultural mandate centered on work ethic and location commitment while embedding analytics specialists into the coaching staff and implementing rigorous youth development protocols to maximize player potential. Facing a roster without star power, Bryant is utilizing the team's rebuilding phase to execute a 35-year vision that focuses on sustainable growth, innovative hiring practices including the franchise's first female assistant coach, and the creation of a high-performance ecosystem for all staff.
- Lex Fridman10 min
Sean Carroll: Capacity of the Human Mind to Understand Physics
The event traces the evolution of gravitational theory from Isaac Newton's unresolved doubts about "action at a distance" to Pierre-Simon Laplace's field reformulations and Albert Einstein's relativistic limits. It further challenges the biological constraints of human intuition by citing Andrew Wiles and Ed Witten to argue that rigorous symbolic logic allows understanding of complex realities beyond immediate visualization. Ultimately, the speaker concludes that historical precedents in mathematics and physics demonstrate the human mind's expanding capacity to comprehend the universe without intrinsic cognitive barriers.
- Lex Fridman7 min
Sean Carroll: Quantum Gravity | AI Podcast Clips
Leonard Susskind discusses on the *Mindscape* podcast how the failure to quantize classical general relativity necessitates a paradigm shift toward intrinsically quantum models featuring non-local structures. Drawing on evidence from black hole thermodynamics and holography, he argues that locality is merely an emergent approximation rather than a fundamental property of nature. This perspective redefines the emergence of spacetime as a consequence of deeper quantum mechanics, guiding future research to account for non-local features that lack classical precursors.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
Bob Pittman, Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia
Bob Pittman transformed media by pioneering data-driven radio programming, securing the capital to launch MTV as the first profitable basic cable network, and later revolutionizing iHeartMedia through a companionship-focused digital strategy that now leads the commercial podcasting sector. His leadership methodology integrates behavioral economics with a culture of "welcoming dissent" to foster innovation, drawing on crisis management lessons from Six Flags to navigate complex operational challenges across AOL, Time Warner, and modern digital platforms. Today, Pittman continues to bridge the gap between analytics and creative storytelling through his podcast *Math and Magic*, applying these principles to build resilient, data-centric organizations.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
Julia Hartz, Co-Founder and CEO of Eventbrite
Following a two-year bootstrapped inception, Eventbrite co-founders Julia and Kevin Hartz scaled a self-service event platform that powered four million global events and sold over 300 million tickets. The company secured Sequoia Capital investment in 2009 after navigating initial funding rejections, eventually transitioning to a public listing that clarified its mission and distributed operational model. Today, the leadership team maintains rigorous customer engagement and investor transparency to navigate public market volatility while sustaining a diverse, globally inclusive workforce.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
Episode 140: Why Startups Shouldn’t All Be Pitched As “Tech Companies”
Jake Siewert, Gregg Lemkau, Brynn Putnam, Ryan Petersen
At the Goldman Sachs Builders and Innovators Conference, over 100 global entrepreneurs, including Mirror CEO Bryn Putnam and Flexport COO Ryan Peterson, presented strategies for scaling high-growth businesses in an investment climate focused on total addressable market and long-term profitability. Putnam outlined Mirror's pivot toward a SaaS and media valuation model to diversify beyond hardware, while Peterson detailed Flexport's transition from aggressive expansion to unit economics profitability within the sclerotic global logistics sector. Participants and panelists emphasized that future success depends on rigorous fundraising discipline, the ability to navigate complex regulatory environments, and a founder mindset driven by market frustration rather than wealth accumulation.
- Milken Institute47 min
Wednesday Lunch: Walking the Drug-Pricing Tightrope
Dan Diamond, Dan Leonard, Seema Verma, Matt Iles, Mark McClellan
Moderated by Dan Diamond, the Milken Institute's Future of Health Summit panel "Walking the Drug Pricing Tightrope" featured Seema Verma, Matt Iles, and Mark McClellan debating the tension between innovation and affordability amidst record-breaking drug costs. While the group reached consensus on shifting to value-based payment models to address unsustainable spending in Part B and high-cost curative therapies, they diverged on whether government negotiation or private sector competition offers the most effective solution for lowering prices without stifling future research. With Nancy Pelosi absent, the panelists emphasized that any viable legislative path must satisfy strict bipartisanship requirements to avoid jeopardizing patient access or long-term drug development pipelines.
- Milken Institute25 min
Wednesday Lunch feat. Bill Cassidy
Bill Cassidy, Esther Krofa, Dan Diamond
At the Milken Institute's Future of Health Summit, Senator Bill Cassidy and Faster Cures' Esther Krofa discussed strategies to balance drug affordability with the financial incentives required for medical innovation. Cassidy defended the pharmaceutical industry against claims of excessive profitability while advocating for subscription-based pricing models and rejecting direct government negotiation as a threat to high-risk research. The dialogue highlighted specific legislative successes in closing rebate loopholes and ending gag clauses, concluding with a realistic assessment that a comprehensive drug pricing bill has a 60% probability of enactment by year-end.
- Goldman Sachs18 min
Gwyneth Paltrow, Founder and CEO of goop
Gwyneth Paltross founded Goop in 2008, evolving the business from a London newsletter into a sustainable global organization with 250 employees that prioritizes organic growth over venture capital pressure. The brand has historically pioneered wellness trends like the gluten-free market while correcting early validation errors to ensure clean, efficacious products that empower individual consumer choice. Paltross now leverages mentorship and a decentralized leadership culture to guide the company's future strategy in contextual commerce while actively supporting female entrepreneurs who face capital allocation disparities.
- Milken Institute1h 16m
Reducing the Cost and Risk of Dementia
Nora Super, Michael Belleville, Jennie Chin Hansen, Kevin Crain, Jeff Huber, Shari Ling, Sarah Locke, Ian Cramer, Orion, Alan Stevens, Jill Lesser
The Milken Institute's new report on reducing dementia costs sparked a multi-sector dialogue involving CMS officials, patient advocates, and industry leaders to address critical gaps in workforce preparedness and community support. Key initiatives highlighted include CMS's expanded billing codes for cognitive screening, the rapid growth of accredited Geriatric Emergency Departments that reduce hospitalizations, and innovative financial strategies to protect caregivers from retirement disparities. Panelists emphasized that effective intervention requires moving beyond isolated medical treatment to holistic models that integrate home care, fraud detection, and policy changes aimed at improving long-term quality of life.
- Milken Institute35 min
A Conversation with Chef José Andrés
World Central Kitchen, founded by José Andrés, deploys a decentralized network of over 44,000 volunteers to serve millions of meals globally by prioritizing immediate on-site adaptation over rigid bureaucratic planning. In crisis zones ranging from the Bahamas to Haiti, the organization utilizes local food systems and improvised logistics to deliver fresh nutrition while transitioning to economic recovery initiatives that support local micro-businesses. This model, funded primarily by small individual donations, explicitly challenges traditional aid structures by focusing on preventing health crises through nutrition rather than treating illness after the fact.
- Milken Institute23 min
Tuesday Lunch With Alex Azar, Secretary, US Department of Health and Human Services
Secretary Azar outlined a unified healthcare strategy centered on three core promises of affordability, choice, and quality, executing this vision through value-based payment models and targeted initiatives for high-impact areas like the opioid crisis and chronic kidney disease. Specific progress includes a 5% drop in overdose deaths and a shift to risk-sharing primary care models that empower providers to address social determinants of health, alongside efforts to expand home dialysis and stabilize ACA premiums through state reinsurance pools. The administration's "protect what works, fix what is broken" approach seeks to safeguard coverage for 331 million Americans while redesigning payment structures to prioritize preventive care and long-term fiscal sustainability.
- Lex Fridman15 min
Garry Kasparov: IBM Deep Blue, AlphaZero, and the Limits of AI in Open Systems | AI Podcast Clips
Former chess world champion Gary Kasparov argues that while machines have decisively dominated closed systems like chess through error minimization, humans remain essential in open-ended domains where they must identify relevant questions and guide AI strategy. Kasparov rejects the notion of current AI as true intelligence, noting that while systems like AlphaZero display intuition-like capabilities, they still rely on brute force repetition rather than contextual understanding. Consequently, he advocates for a collaborative model where humans leverage their flexibility to exploit machine rigidities, warning against the danger of attempting to override AI in areas where machines possess objective superiority.
- Lex Fridman21 min
David Ferrucci: AI Understanding the World Through Shared Knowledge Frameworks | AI Podcast Clips
The speaker argues that encoding human shared knowledge into machines is achievable by embedding finite interpretative frameworks based on fundamental assumptions like survival, resource scarcity, and power dynamics. This approach proposes combining neural network pattern matching with symbolic logic to create AI systems that reason, explain, and predict using the same foundational logic humans employ, rather than operating as incomprehensible "alien intelligence." By decomposing arguments into primitive components, these future systems aim to clarify fundamental value disagreements in public discourse and facilitate a shared language of reasoning between humans and machines.
- Lex Fridman6 min
David Ferrucci: Humor as the Turing Test for Intelligence | AI Podcast Clips
The discussion analyzes the challenges of replicating human humor in AI, contrasting technical formalization with the necessity of establishing emotional connections through anthropomorphism. While hybrid architectures and data analysis offer partial solutions for deconstructing comedy, the presentation emphasizes that lasting human-AI rapport relies on shared understanding rather than merely mimicking biological signals. Consequently, the integration of AI into emotional life is portrayed as an imminent reality where skepticism regarding machine consciousness remains low despite algorithmic transparency.