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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs24 min
Inside the Future of Payments: Adyen CEO
Pieter van der Does, Clif Marriott, Cliff Marietta
Founded by the creators of iDeal, Adyen transitioned from a payment intermediary to a direct acquiring system, now processing $900 billion annually through a unified platform that combines online and in-store payments with AI-driven authorization optimization. The company distinguishes itself by rejecting acquisition-heavy growth in favor of a single technology stack and a disciplined culture that prioritizes collective success, allowing it to offer financial services like loans while excluding cryptocurrency due to client demand. Looking forward, Adyen aims to leverage its global infrastructure and banking licenses to bridge physical and digital shopper identities, anticipating a regulatory landscape that must adapt to the speed of artificial intelligence in fraud prevention.
The SaaS Massacre: Public Market Collapse |Microsoft Lost $360B & NVIDIA’s $100B Dispute with OpenAI
Jason Lemkin, Rory O'Driscoll, Harry Stebbings
SpaceX has completed its acquisition of X.AI to create a $1.25 trillion entity capable of unlimited capital deployment for AI infrastructure, signaling a strategic pivot toward public markets to fund massive compute needs. Concurrently, the autonomous vehicle sector faces valuation pressures with Waymo securing a $110 billion round and Tesla carrying a significant "Elon Premium" dependent on Full Self-Driving execution. These massive capital realignments are forcing a broader SaaS and venture capital recalibration where growth deceleration, agent-to-agent security risks, and a shift to free cash flow multiples are reshaping market narratives.
How Anthropic’s $100M Anthology Fund Works | Menlo Ventures
Menlo Ventures emphasizes investing in founders with authentic long-term conviction and "cult leader" charisma rather than those chasing pre-existing venture capital theses. The firm targets specific opportunities in AI infrastructure, mechanistic interpretability for Goodfire, and industries facing labor shortages where AI solves immediate economic gaps. While noting that massive seed checks risk creating an illusion of success, the discussion highlights a strategic shift toward domain-specific data, economically viable applications, and product-led growth models that prioritize user love over buzzword compliance.
- The Diary Of A CEO2h 5m
Cognitive Decline Expert: The Disease That Starts in Your 30s but Kills You in Your 70s
This presentation analyzes Alzheimer's disease as a largely preventable lifestyle disorder, emphasizing that 95% of cases are influenced by modifiable factors rather than genetics alone. It details a comprehensive prevention strategy integrating high-intensity Zone 5 cardiovascular training, heavy resistance exercise to boost myokines, and specific nutritional protocols like high-dose creatine and ketogenic diets to support brain metabolism. The discussion concludes by highlighting the critical role of hormonal management during menopause and the necessity of active cognitive challenges to build neural reserve against the rising global prevalence of neurodegenerative conditions.
- a16z41 min
How Truemed Is Incentivizing Americans to Invest in Prevention
The speaker identifies a structural U.S. health crisis driven by decades of corporate governance prioritizing shareholder value, which led to the systemic replacement of whole foods with subsidized, inflammatory ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup and soybean oil. This deterioration is exacerbated by inadequate chemical regulation, aggressive ag-chemical lobbying, and a medical paradigm focused on acute disease management rather than preventive lifestyle interventions. As a countermeasure, the discussion highlights TrueMed's model of leveraging tax-advantaged funds for nutrition and fitness tools, while advocating for subsidy reform and metabolic psychiatry to shift the system toward human enhancement and long-term wellness.
- Goldman Sachs16 min
Poppi Founders: Disrupting the Beverage Industry
Stephen Ellsworth, Vanya Kasanof, Allison
Founders Allison and Steven transformed their apple cider vinegar discovery into Poppy, a modern soda brand that leveraged aggressive marketing tactics like a record-breaking Super Bowl campaign and strategic Amazon launches to bypass traditional industry barriers. Prioritizing long-term brand awareness and cultural agility over immediate sales metrics, the team executed rapid product iterations and viral content strategies that ultimately drove the company toward a two-year acquisition by Pepsi. This sale secured the distribution scale necessary to fulfill the founders' mission of revolutionizing soda consumption, successfully transitioning the brand from a niche startup to a mainstream competitor for the next generation.
- Goldman Sachs27 min
Implications of an “Americas First” Foreign Policy
Hal Brands, Mauricio Claver-Carone, Allison Nathan
The Trump administration has announced a 2026 foreign policy shift known as the "Donro Doctrine," which prioritizes direct resource control and territorial expansion in the Western Hemisphere over traditional diplomatic stability. This neo-mercantilist strategy targets specific outcomes including the strategic takeover of Venezuelan oil, the acquisition of Greenland, and the renegotiation of USMCA to favor U.S. equity over trade, while actively countering Chinese and Russian influence through military and economic coercion. Critics warn that this move toward hard power and border redrawing risks eroding the post-1945 international order, potentially triggering global instability and market volatility as U.S. forces intercept shadow fleets and intervene in regional sovereignty disputes.
- 80,000 Hours2h 51m
Depression and Anxiety — But More Gene Transmission | Randy Nesse, University of Michigan
This presentation challenges the standard medical model of psychiatry by arguing that mental disorders stem from dysregulated evolutionary systems rather than simple biological malfunctions. Key figures explain how adaptive mechanisms like the "smoke alarm" principle for anxiety and low mood for status negotiation function correctly until environmental mismatches or sensitization trigger pathological states. The discussion concludes by advocating for a therapeutic shift toward understanding individual motivational structures and applying evolutionary logic to treatments for conditions ranging from depression to autoimmune disorders.
- Sequoia Capital52 min
What’s the Future of Vertical SaaS in an AGI World? Jamie Cuffe, CEO of Pace
Jamie Cuffe, Lauren Reeder, Pat Grady
Pace is an AI-driven business process outsourcer founded by Jamie Cuff that aims to replace human-heavy insurance BPOs with autonomous agents capable of converting static standard operating procedures into self-improving workflows. By deploying forward-deployed engineers and web-based automation to interact with legacy systems, the company achieves 50–75% cost reductions and 99.5%+ accuracy rates while shifting industry economics from single-digit margins to over 80%. This strategy targets a $400B global market by replicating the Constellation Software model, ultimately scaling from insurance into broader banking and financial services sectors.
- a16z36 min
Ben Horowitz and David Solomon: The Sweetest Macro Spot in 40 Years
Ben Horowitz, David Solomon, David Haber
Goldman Sachs is expanding its balance sheet to between $2.5 and $3.5 trillion by shifting to a stable deposit model, while simultaneously deploying $6 billion in technology to automate operations and drive efficiency. Concurrently, Andreessen Horowitz has solidified its position as the largest U.S. venture firm by capturing 18.3% of capital in 2025, leveraging AI to scale investments from 15 to 150 major successes annually. These strategies converge within a stimulative macroeconomic environment characterized by fiscal support and deregulation, which is expected to trigger record M&A activity and accelerate the public listings of AI-driven companies despite lingering geopolitical risks.
Why Sequoia Is Betting on AI That Beats Humans
Shaun Maguire, Molly O'Shea, Andrew Reed, Vlad Tenev, Palmer Luckey
Investor Andrew, acting alongside podcast host and math expert, backed Harmonic CEO Vlad Tenev based on his proven track record with Robinhood and the company's unique reinforcement learning strategy that leverages mathematical rigor and the Lean programming language. This approach allows Harmonic to achieve elite performance in math competitions at a fraction of the capital cost incurred by major AI competitors, while the broader discussion highlights a shift in the host's assessment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena odds and a prediction for a second industrial revolution in specialized AI applications. The event details how deep intellectual rigor and unconventional physics interpretations underpin both this specific investment thesis and the founders' broader vision for the future of computing.
Oren Zeev: 50% of Funds Will Go Out of Business & Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Oren Ziv, a solo general partner managing over $1 billion with a 100% fee reinvestment policy, predicts a market bifurcation where only massive platforms or agile boutiques will survive as the majority of current venture funds stall. He advises founders to treat high pre-money valuations with caution while implementing a strict investment filter that prioritizes companies poised as AI beneficiaries over those facing disruption risks. Ziv's approach emphasizes radical GP-LP alignment and character-based selection, arguing that the fundamental math of venture compounding remains unchanged despite the AI revolution and upcoming liquidity events from major IPOs in 2026 and 2027.
- The Diary Of A CEO2h 46m
I Met An Uncontacted Tribe: They Killed My Friend! (VIDEO PROOF)
Paul Salopek, director of the conservation organization Jungle Keepers, shares his twenty-year journey from surviving the Amazon barefoot to protecting 130,000 acres by employing former loggers as rangers. His account details the first documented contact with the uncontacted Mashko Piro tribe, the existential threats facing the world's most biodiverse rainforest, and the strategic shift from a failed television stunt to a scalable, tech-driven movement. Salopek frames his work as a critical mission to secure the Amazon watershed before the current generation loses the final opportunity to restore the planet's essential ecological balance.
- Milken Institute29 min
Conversation with US Ambassador to the Republic of Türkiye Tom Barrack | Middle East & Africa Summit
Ambassador Tom Barak outlines a strategic shift toward local autonomy and economic prosperity, citing the 1968 UAE formation as a model for neutralizing threats like Hezbollah and Hamas without external mandates. He details significant diplomatic progress between Presidents Trump and Erdoğan, including the resolution of S-400 disputes and a 50% reduction in Turkish reliance on Russian energy, alongside predictions for lifting Syrian sanctions to boost oil production. While facing skepticism regarding Israel's acceptance of Turkish involvement in a Gaza stabilization force, Barak advocates for a regional future defined by technological integration and a "Solomon Accord" to restore Turkey-Israel trade despite current political friction.
- The Economist32 min
How AI agents will reshape global business | The Economist
Brett Taylor, chair of OpenAI and co-founder of CIRA, asserts that the technology sector is transitioning from custom AI model construction to a future of pre-built, specialized agents that will redefine customer service and operational efficiency by 2025. His firm CIRA demonstrates this shift by deploying self-identifying AI agents that resolve inquiries with higher satisfaction scores and reduced costs than human teams, utilizing an outcomes-based pricing model that charges only for successful resolutions. Taylor argues that while the non-deterministic nature of AI requires robust procedural guardrails rather than waiting for perfection, the technology will ultimately drive economic growth by creating new roles and allowing organizations to value collective ecosystem hardening over in-house software development.