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Clear all filters- Milken Institute1h 1m
The Emerging World of Opportunities: Insights from MI's Global Opportunity Index | Global Conference
Carole Biau, Jarred Glansbeek, Richard Jadulan, Leticia Jáuregui Casanueva, Toyin Sanni, Carol Beo, Jared Glanzbeck
The Milken Institute Global Opportunity Index panel evaluated investment landscapes across Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia, highlighting specific regional drivers such as Nigeria's administrative reforms, Mexico's nearshoring potential, and the Philippines' regulatory liberalization. Key speakers Jared Glanzbeck, Dr. Toyin Sani, and Leticia Haureyi-Casanueva emphasized that undervalued emerging markets offer significant equity entry points when investors overcome perception gaps through local partnerships and targeted focus on gender diversity and climate resilience. The discussion concluded that strategic capital allocation into human capital and sustainable infrastructure remains critical for capturing the substantial foreign direct investment inflows correlated with improved institutional frameworks.
- Milken Institute56 min
Inclusive Capitalism: Unleashing Growth in the Global Economy | Global Conference 2024
Troy Duffie, Nisha Biswal, Roger Ferguson, Carla Harris, Martin Nesbitt
This event convened economic and financial leaders to analyze the U.S. job market, evolving inflation dynamics, and the strategic expansion of private credit and development finance in response to global supply chain shifts. Panelists redefined investment frameworks through "Capitalism 3.0," integrating ESG metrics and diversity initiatives into core risk management while addressing the Series A funding gap for entrepreneurs of color. Key outcomes included the U.S. Development Finance Corporation's doubled mandate to $60 billion and the launch of Morgan Stanley's Next Level Fund, which pairs capital with operational expertise to support inclusive growth and stable returns.
- Milken Institute36 min
Conversation with His Excellency Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak | Middle East & Africa Summit 2024
Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, His Excellency Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak, Michael Milken
Since its inception in 2004, Mubadala has expanded its assets under management from $50 million to $330 billion by evolving into a diversified global investor with a distinct strategic focus on direct private equity, third-party capital, and the newly launched AI-focused MGX platform. Driven by the UAE's consistent political stability and aggressive talent attraction policies, the institution aims to secure a top-three global economic position by 2025 while prioritizing high-growth sectors like artificial intelligence and life sciences in emerging markets. Looking ahead, Mubadala plans to fully integrate AI into all investment functions by late 2025 to outperform traditional sovereign benchmarks and maintain long-term returns comparable to leading global endowments.
- Milken Institute21 min
Building Markets of Tomorrow | Middle East and Africa Summit 2024
Jim outlines a paradigm shift where investment success depends on selecting differentiated business models with long-term tailwinds rather than relying on broad public indexing or predicting short-term economic transitions. As private markets expand to house 32,000 companies and capital flows converge with intellectual assets in regions like the GCC, the strategy must address evolving risks from interest rate volatility to the $120–150 trillion opportunity within the global energy transition. This approach emphasizes that future returns are determined by where investors begin and end, particularly as sovereign debt cycles and fragmentation drive a fundamental restructuring of global capital allocation.
- Milken Institute51 min
Credit Investors Taking the Reins | Middle East and Africa Summit 2024
Michael Piwowar, Sandeep Chandak, Michael Gross, Zia Uddin, Orla Walsh, Mike Pivovar
A panel of industry leaders outlined the divergent trajectories of global private credit markets, noting Asia's rapid expansion into a mature source of alpha while the U.S. market faces yield compression and systemic stress from high leverage in the upper-middle sector. Speakers detailed strategic shifts toward labor-intensive origination, specialized financing for infrastructure gaps, and the regulatory necessity of robust legal frameworks to protect investor interests. The discussion concluded that future success depends on diversified, multi-strategy approaches capable of navigating retailization risks and generating equity-like returns as the industry transitions from a double-digit return era to a more normalized competitive landscape.
- Dwarkesh Patel1h 1m
Tyler Cowen — The #1 bottleneck to AI progress is humans
Tyler Cowen, Jason Crawford, Heike Larson
Economist Tyler Cowen argues that AI-driven economic growth will be constrained by non-intelligence bottlenecks such as labor shortages and regulatory inertia, resulting in a modest 0.5% annual boost rather than explosive takeoff. He posits that future success depends on scarce bundles of talent and organizational culture rather than raw intelligence, while noting a divergence where peak human capability is rising even as the middle of the distribution deteriorates. Furthermore, Cowen anticipates the fragmentation of organized social movements like Effective Altruism and advocates for writing primarily for AI training data to secure knowledge accumulation in a shifting geopolitical landscape.
Dan Gill, CPO @Carvana: The Most Wild Story in Public Markets | E1243
Carvana CEO Dan Erwin outlines the company's recovery from a 99% market cap valuation drop to a $50 billion resurgence, driven by a leadership team that retained 90% of its senior members since 2019 and prioritized radical internal transparency. This stability supports a rigorous hiring philosophy focused on technical horsepower and intrinsic drive, which enabled the organization to restructure into eight cross-functional units while implementing vertical integration strategies that capture profit pools in financing and logistics. Leveraging deterministic AI systems for real-time personalized offers, the firm maintains a product strategy that rejects industry hype in favor of unit economics, aiming to automate routine customer service tasks while keeping high-complexity transactions under human specialist oversight.
- Milken Institute48 min
The Evolving Landscape of Private Markets | Middle East and Africa Summit 2024
Laura Merlini, Lauren Goodwin, Klaus Hommels, Scott Spielvogel, David Steinbach, Andrew Weinberg
The event examines how shifting macroeconomic trends, including lower interest rates and the $90 trillion generational wealth transfer, are driving capital into private markets while redefining exit strategies and liquidity structures. Speakers detailed critical convergence points where defense tech, AI implementation, and infrastructure real estate intersect with evolving regulatory frameworks in Europe and the US. These discussions project a resilient 2025 outlook where public and private market mechanisms merge to support middle-market growth and operational innovation.
- Milken Institute53 min
Asset Management: Vying for the Competitive Edge | Middle East and Africa Summit 2024
Michael Piwowar, Todd Boehly, Lawrence Golub, Martin Horne, Camilla Languille, Stephanie Rader, Mike Pivovar
Leading global investors, including Mubadala, Eldridge, Golub Capital, and Goldman Sachs Asset Management, discussed strategies for navigating a shifting landscape characterized by the convergence of artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure needs. The panel highlighted specific tactical shifts such as Mubadala's launch of the MGX AI fund, Eldridge's opportunistic crisis lending, and the region's urgent demand for private credit to support Saudi Vision 2030. Additionally, participants analyzed geopolitical diversification away from China toward India and emphasized the Middle East's role as a critical hub for attracting global AI talent and scaling sustainable technology investments.
- All-In Podcast6 min
What's Wrong with the NBA? Former Warriors Owner Explains
Chamath, Jason, Friedberg, Gavin
Chamath Palihapitiya warned that professional sports franchises face significant financial risk in 2024 due to declining viewer engagement and valuation models sensitive to revenue drops, a view challenged by Gavin Newsom who pointed to tech giants' robust NFL acquisitions and the institutionalization of league ownership. While Newsom distinguished the NFL as the best-managed league compared to the NBA, he argued that massive capital reserves held by tech corporations could absorb short-term losses to secure long-term user acquisition. The discussion concluded by noting that current eleven-year media rights contracts provide near-term stability, though future value depends on whether leagues can address management failures and restore audience interest.
- Milken Institute44 min
Building Smart Health Ecosystems: Shaping the Future of Health Care | Middle East and Africa Summit
James Bethell, Helmy Eltoukhy, Helmut Schuehsler, Geetha Tharmaratnam
Healthcare panelists identify the transition to patient-centric smart ecosystems as essential for shifting from reactive symptom treatment to proactive, personalized prevention, yet they note that entrenched fee-for-service models in Western markets like the US currently impede the adoption of existing clinical guidelines. While immediate gains are achievable through strict implementation of current protocols and breakthroughs like FDA-approved liquid biopsies, radical transformation is projected to occur most rapidly in emerging markets such as the Middle East and Africa where legacy infrastructure is absent. To overcome funding gaps and scale these innovations globally, experts advocate for the development of unified regulatory frameworks and the mobilization of patient capital from multilateral institutions to support long-term health infrastructure projects.
- a16z18 min
AI Is Becoming a Regional Race
Modern AI is classified as a General Purpose Technology diffusing faster than previous innovations, forcing nation-states to prioritize the strategic choice of building or buying compute infrastructure over the next 24 months. The resulting global landscape is bifurcating into "hypercenters" that own the full stack and "compute deserts," compelling smaller nations to form value-aligned joint ventures with major powers rather than attempting infeasible total vertical sovereignty. True national autonomy now depends on securing critical components like energy and data while navigating divergent regulatory regimes that determine whether a country becomes a leader or a dependent in the new AI economy.
- Y Combinator1 min
Jared predicts that in 2025, we’ll be able to have Zoom calls with AI
An upcoming AI product slated for 2025 will feature real-time video calls with virtual avatars, building upon the natural low-latency voice technology established in 2024. This progression aims to overcome current usability hurdles regarding high latency and inaccurate lip-syncing that currently trigger an "uncanny valley" effect in interactions. Speakers anticipate a transformative breakthrough where improved visual fidelity and reduced latency converge to create seamless, non-uncanny virtual experiences.
- Milken Institute40 min
AI: A Multiplier or a Divider? | Middle East and Africa Summit 2024
Sarah Yaseen, Nicole Valentine, Prem Akkaraju, Kate Kallot, Rohan Patel, Grant Verstandig
Leading AI practitioners including Prem Sacharczyk, Kate Turrell, and Rohan Seth convened to analyze the projected $4.4 trillion capital influx into global sectors while debating strategic frameworks for ethical deployment and workforce adaptation. The panelists utilized historical figures to illustrate their visions for AI's role in balancing creative liberation against risks like asymmetric power and the erosion of junior skill acquisition. Ultimately, the discussion emphasized immediate self-regulation through sanitized data practices and infrastructure investment in emerging markets to mitigate potential harms while accelerating innovation in science and industry.
- All-In Podcast1h 16m
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
Chamath, Jason, Aaron Levie, Alex Botez, J. Cal, David Sacks, David Friedberg
In this 2024 year-in-review summary, hosts David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and David Friedberg analyze the political triumph of Donald Trump alongside the technological dominance of NVIDIA, Elon Musk, and GLP-1 drugs. The discussion details the decade's defining winners, including SpaceX and Palantir, while critiquing failures ranging from Boeing's Starliner to the perceived elder abuse of President Biden. Looking ahead, the panel forecasts a 2025 marked by fiscal reform through the Department of Government Efficiency and the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on global prosperity.