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Clear all filters- Milken Institute1h 0m
Credit Trends and Private Credit Evolution | Global Conference 2025
Eric Platt, Greg Braylovskiy, Anne-Marie Fink, Steve Kuppenheimer, Brad Rogoff, Kevin Sherlock
Industry experts analyze the convergence of private credit and traditional banking, forecasting a modest U.S. recession with rising default rates reaching 5% this year amidst widening credit spreads and tightening underwriting standards. While giant private credit firms are displacing banks in the middle market, the sector is evolving through strategic joint ventures that shift risk off balance sheets and limit systemic exposure, despite concerns over valuation transparency and future refinancing challenges. The panel concludes that lenders are pivoting toward special situations and asset-backed strategies with shorter durations as direct lending spreads compress and regulatory bodies monitor potential asset-liability mismatches in the rapidly maturing private credit landscape.
- a16z1h 13m
Oren Cass & Noah Smith Debate the True Impact of Tariffs
Oren Cass, Noah Smith, Erik Torenberg
American Compass, founded in 2020 to prioritize family and industry over market efficiency, argues that standard trade models fail to account for state-driven advantages in non-market economies like China. The organization predicts that while tariffs will cause immediate supply chain disruptions, they will ultimately catalyze a manufacturing renaissance over a three-to-five-year horizon if coupled with consistent industrial policy and market pooling among allies. Key figures contend that short-term economic pain is a necessary trade-off to reshape global trade dynamics, provided the administration sustains long-term credibility in its protectionist strategies.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
Global Asset Management and Alternatives | Global Conference 2025
Sarah Sandler, Jennifer Prosek, Kamal Bhatia, Kim Lew, Tony Minella, Rick Rieder, Daniel Simkowitz
Six industry leaders from PIMCO, Columbia, Morgan Stanley, and Eldridge Capital convened to assess a divergent U.S. economic outlook where sentiment ratings ranged from nervousness to bullish optimism regarding technology and demographics. The panel highlighted a structural shift in private market access for retirement plans, noting projections for allocations to triple while discussing converging returns in private credit and international opportunities in Japan and Brazil. Additionally, the experts advocated for specific policy reforms including Federal Reserve stability, fiscal discipline, and the protection of the R&D ecosystem to sustain long-term growth.
- Y Combinator36 min
Anthropic Co-founder: Building Claude Code, Lessons From GPT-3 & LLM System Design
Tom Brown, Melanie Warrick, Mark Mandelbaum, Mark Mirchandani, Brian Dorsey, Priyanka Vergadia, Priyan Kavanagh, Leslie Kendrick, Francesc Campoy
Vivek Mirchandani, a founding engineer at OpenAI and Anthropic, pioneered the scaling laws strategy that established the link between compute investment and model intelligence before co-founding Anthropic to prioritize AI safety and alignment. Under his leadership, Anthropic shifted focus from early consumer prototypes to building robust training infrastructure, ultimately delivering the coding-dominant Claude 3.5 Sonnet model while navigating global bottlenecks in electricity and multi-vendor hardware supply chains. The organization's approach combines internal qualitative benchmarking with a multi-vendor hardware strategy to drive the largest infrastructure buildout in history, positioning the company at the center of the coming wave of AGI development.
- Goldman Sachs50 min
Paid to Sweat: Centerbridge's Jeff Aronson on the Growth of Private Markets
Centerbridge Partners, managed by co-founders Jeff Aronson and the late Mark Logue, oversees over $42 billion across private equity, private credit, and real estate strategies while championing an integrated approach to solving liquidity gaps in the market. The firm distinguishes itself through a unified investment model that pairs deep operational insight with hybrid capital structures, exemplified by its successful 2009 offensive restructuring of CIT Group and its recent expansion into non-sponsor middle-market lending. With a succession plan led by Managing Partner Matt K. Baker and a culture defined by rapid hiring standards and broad talent development initiatives like the CUNY partnership, Centerbridge continues to evolve toward non-siloed solutions that bridge traditional banking constraints.
- Sequoia Capital30 min
Scaling the 'Cursor for Slides' to $50M ARR ft Gamma founder Jon Noronha
Founded in 2020 by John Nerona and Grant, Gamma is a visual storytelling platform that has grown to over 50 million users and $50 million in ARR by combining Notion-style writing with Canva-like design. The company survived an existential threat in 2023 by pivoting to a multi-model AI strategy that leverages handcrafted prompts across models like Claude and Gemini to optimize creative output and cost efficiency. With a lean team of 30, Gamma is now expanding its block-based editor into documents and websites while preparing to launch an API in September for automated workflow generation.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
Wealth Management: Merging Public and Private Market Strategies | Global Conference 2025
Matt Brown, Meena Flynn, Rob Heyvaert, Jose Minaya, Andy Sieg, Joan Solotar
A panel of industry leaders from firms including Blackstone, BNY, and Goldman Sachs predicts that alternative investments will transition from niche instruments to standard portfolio components within the next decade as asset managers develop hybrid products to bridge the gap between public and private markets. Key figures note that while artificial intelligence and regulatory reforms will lower operational barriers and democratize access, critical challenges regarding liquidity, legacy technology infrastructure, and client education must be resolved to prevent misinterpretation of illiquid assets. The consensus forecasts that by 2029, these strategies will be fully integrated into advisory statements, shifting investor focus toward after-tax performance and durable portfolio construction while acknowledging that extreme allocation levels will remain constrained by practical risk management needs.
- a16z1h 6m
Dylan Patel on GPT-5’s Router Moment, GPUs vs TPUs, Monetization
Dylan Patel, Erin Price-Wright, Guido Appenzeller, Erik Torenberg
The event details OpenAI's strategic pivot in GPT-5 toward optimizing inference latency and cost rather than raw model size, introducing dynamic routing to monetize free users while shifting the industry focus to cost-performance Pareto frontiers. Competitors face significant hurdles displacing Nvidia due to its entrenched ecosystem, prompting hyperscalers to accelerate custom silicon development despite performance gaps and global power grid constraints driving infrastructure expansion strategies. Strategic recommendations urge major tech leaders to adopt usage-based pricing, restructure internal product execution, and invest heavily in physical infrastructure to secure long-term market dominance.
Lovable CEO, Anton Osika: The State of Foundation Models, Grok vs OpenAI, and Replit vs Bolt
Lovable founder Anton reflects on the company's rapid ascent to $100M ARR, attributing success to an aggressive "build mode" culture and a strategy of hiring adaptable generalists to serve as technical co-founders. He outlines a competitive investment thesis favoring Grok over OpenAI while warning of China's terrifyingly fast model distination, positioning Lovable to abstract model complexity for users in both consumer and enterprise markets. Despite the high risk of AI-enabled warfare and job displacement, Anton maintains that the company will achieve generational scale by 2026 through its agentic workflow and commitment to rapid execution.
Raising a Trust Fund With Marc Andreessen & Paris Hilton | Sophia Amoruso
Marc Andreessen, Paris Hilton, Sophia Amoruso, Molly O'Shea
Venture capitalist Sophia Amoruso launched Trust Fund, a $5 million public investment vehicle targeting B2B consumer-facing software to bridge the gap between technical founders and market narratives. The firm leverages a 506(c) structure to attract over 100 individual limited partners, including Mark Andreessen and Chris Dixon, while utilizing Amoruso's personal brand and guerrilla marketing tactics to differentiate its portfolio from traditional venture firms. Drawing on lessons from her Nasty Gal experience, Amoruso guides early-stage companies to prioritize ownership and sustainable growth over high valuations, aiming to transform complex engineering products into compelling consumer stories.
- The Diary Of A CEO1h 32m
Brain Experts WARNING: Watch This Before Using ChatGPT Again! (Shocking New Discovery)
Dr Daniel Amen, Dr Terry Sejnowski, Geoffrey Hinton, Steven, Stephen Bartlett, Annie
A recent MIT study involving 54 university participants revealed a 47% collapse in neural activity and memory encoding among those using ChatGPT for writing tasks compared to unaided writers. Experts link this cognitive atrophy to broader risks of dementia and developmental delays in children, noting that over-reliance on AI may stunt emotional maturity and critical thinking. Consequently, researchers recommend a strategy of using AI to amplify rather than replace human thought, emphasizing physical exercise, adequate sleep, and intentional manual practice to preserve long-term brain health.
- Milken Institute48 min
Author Talk: Susan Eisenhower, "How Ike Led" | Global Conference 2025
Susan Eisenhower, James Stavridis, Peter
Susan Eisenhower details her grandfather Dwight D. Eisenhower's leadership style, characterized by a disciplined separation of public duty and private life, his therapeutic use of painting, and his acceptance of full accountability for high-stakes decisions like the D-Day invasion. Her narrative highlights how he transformed the Republican Party into an internationalist force while balancing fiscal responsibility with Cold War defense, ultimately warning against the dangers of the military-industrial complex in his farewell address. Through personal anecdotes and historical analysis, the account establishes Eisenhower as a strategic visionary who prioritized long-term stability, internal debate, and national unity over impulsive action or partisan gain.
- All-In Podcast10 min
The Hidden Crisis Modern Men Are Facing - Chamath Palihapitiya
Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason, Friedberg, Nick
This event analyzes the convergence of social, economic, and psychological factors driving a historic decline in marriage and homeownership among young Americans, highlighting causes such as social skill erosion, parasocial dependencies, and housing policy failures. Experts discuss how wage stagnation, student debt traps, and the institutionalization of real estate markets have created a "university trap" that leaves a generation financially vulnerable compared to high-earning tradespeople. The discussion concludes by projecting these systemic issues as central themes for the upcoming election cycle, advocating for policy shifts toward vocational training and market deregulation to address rising mental health crises and social isolation.
- a16z42 min
Google DeepMind Lead Researchers on Genie 3 & the Future of World-Building
Jack Parker-Holder, Shlomi Fruchter, Anjney Midha, Marco Mascorro, Justine Moore, Erik Torenberg
Google DeepMind has released Genie 3, a research preview that generates interactive, photorealistic 3D worlds in real-time from text prompts to support navigation and control. Built by integrating insights from three internal projects, the model introduces spatial memory for one-minute object persistence and emergent physical reasoning to distinguish it from previous video generation systems. While currently limited to visual simulation without audio, Genie 3 aims to bridge the sim-to-real gap for robotics and agent training by providing diverse, high-fidelity environments free from physical data collection risks.
- Milken Institute54 min
Pioneering Progress: Investments Stemming from the Middle East | Global Conference 2025
Diane Brady, Majid Alfayyadh, Nayef Alhajraf, Majid Mufti, Sara Nooruddin, Shiv Srinivasan
A high-level panel of GCC financial and healthcare leaders, including representatives from King Faisal Specialist Hospital, NEOM, and Abu Dhabi Investment Council, outlined the region's transition toward regulatory-led economic diversification and massive investment in AI-driven healthcare and sustainable infrastructure. Key announcements included a $2 billion commitment to build a Saudi medical city and a $100 billion global partnership focused on biotech and data ecosystems, while the group identified Africa and localized manufacturing as critical growth vectors amidst geopolitical shifts. The consensus emphasized a decade-long strategic window to leverage regional stability and unique genomic data assets for long-term, inclusive partnerships that redefine traditional investment models.