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Clear all filtersGeorge Arison, Grindr CEO: How Grindr Built a Free Flow Cash Machine | E1234
George Arison, Harry Stebbings
Under CEO George, Grindr has pivoted from a casual dating app to a high-efficiency social network, reporting $300 million in revenue with fewer than 150 staff members and zero marketing acquisition costs. The company is actively expanding its "super app" capabilities through features like "Right Now" and new verticals in travel and healthcare while reclassifying its ad revenue model to bypass platform fees. Future growth strategies focus on increasing subscription penetration, leveraging AI for specific user experiences, and paying down debt to achieve a target EBITDA leverage ratio before pursuing external capital returns.
- Milken Institute20 min
A Conversation with CMS Director of Medicare Meena Seshamani | Future of Health Summit 2024
Meena Seshamani, Bertha Coombs
A multidisciplinary team comprising experts from drug pricing, pharmacy, and economics has implemented health care reforms focused on treating developmental issues, chronic illnesses, and behavioral health within the Medicare and Medicaid systems. These initiatives, which include updating risk adjustment methodologies and navigating the Inflation Reduction Act, aim to reduce prescription drug costs for seniors and integrate services to address over 400,000 additional conditions. With a target deadline of September 1st for international financial agreements, the organization plans to execute these changes over five to eight months while utilizing new communication platforms and patient feedback to ensure system stability.
- Goldman Sachs20 min
Should investors worry about market concentration?
David Kostin, Owen Lamont, Alison Nathan
Strategists David Kostin and Owen Lamont converge on the projection that U.S. equity markets face a decade of sub-10% returns driven by extreme concentration and elevated valuations, though they diverge on whether the top ten stocks' dominance itself constitutes the primary risk. Kostin warns that the current 36% market cap concentration creates a negative equity risk premium and recommends shifting to equal-weighted indices, while Lamont argues that future volatility will stem from AI-driven creative destruction and mean reversion rather than portfolio structure. Both analysts acknowledge that the sustainability of the "magnificent seven's" growth and potential AI bubbles remain critical variables that could accelerate a decline in market performance over the next ten years.
- 80,000 Hours1h 1m
Marcus Davis on founding and leading Rethink Priorities
Marcus Davis, Rob Wiblin, Kieran Harris
Rethink Priorities has rapidly expanded from ten to over fifty staff members, operating as a fully remote research entity that splits leadership between Peter Waterford and co-CEO Marcus Davis to manage long-termism alongside animal welfare and global health initiatives. The organization now executes a high-volume consultancy portfolio for major funders like Open Philanthropy, generating documented impacts such as influencing millions in farm animal funding and launching new charities while addressing critical data gaps in wild welfare. To sustain this trajectory and fund upcoming inquiries into interspecies moral weight, RP seeks an additional $3 million in annual support to scale its survey teams and avoid rejecting commissioned work.
- The Economist24 min
Talk to EU later: Georgia’s fiery protests
Rosie Bloor, Jason Palmer, David Rennie, Anna Toklikishvili, Shailesh Chitnis, Moeka Iida
Escalating violence in Tbilisi has erupted following the ruling party's decision to pause EU accession talks and enforce a Russian-style foreign agent law, sparking a decentralized grassroots movement that challenges Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and President Salome Zurabichvili over election legitimacy. While Kremlin propaganda frames the unrest as a Western-backed color revolution, international observers warn that harsh state suppression could trigger a bloody revolution while the EU faces a geopolitical dilemma regarding how to respond to the government's authoritarian pivot.
- Sequoia Capital39 min
Using AI to Build “Self-Driving Money” ft Ramp CEO Eric Glyman
Eric Glyman, Ravi Gupta, Sonya Huang
Ramp CEO Eric Gleiman champions a "zero-touch automation" strategy that utilizes large language models to execute invisible financial tasks, allowing over 25,000 companies to automate expense reporting and achieve average annual savings of 5%. This approach replaces traditional chatbot interfaces with self-driving money systems that automatically classify vendors and complete reports, marking a shift from routine data entry to high-value strategic work for finance leaders. By prioritizing enduring customer pains over temporary tech trends, the company positions itself to disrupt legacy financial institutions through non-bank innovation that mimics the operational efficiency of "self-driving" transformations in other industries.
Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233
Nik Storonsky, Harry Stebbings
Revolut CEO Nikolay Storonsky drives a strict, KPI-led leadership framework that prioritizes rapid execution and self-directed generalists, resulting in a firing rate for underperformers within the first three months. The company plans to scale its US banking operations and expand to 50 markets within three years by leveraging a UK licensing prerequisite while launching a machine learning-driven investment arm called Quantum Light. Looking ahead, Revolut aims to become the first European startup to dominate the US market by focusing on binary goal achievement and launching a private banking product for high-net-worth individuals.
- The Economist20 min
Shock and thaw: Syria’s frozen war resumes
Jason Palmer, Greg Karlstrom, Avantika Chilkoti
On November 27, a rebel coalition led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham captured Aleppo and other northwestern territories by exploiting the diminished military capacity of Syrian allies Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah. Concurrently, journalist Avantika Chilkoti demonstrated the futility of attempting to erase digital footprints, highlighting how corporate data aggregation and limited legal jurisdictions prevent individuals from achieving true online anonymity. In financial markets, US stocks rallied following Donald Trump's re-election, with sectors like crypto, private prisons, and finance surging on deregulation expectations, though some industries like steel and oil subsequently corrected due to policy uncertainties.
- The Diary Of A CEO1h 50m
Brian Keating: I’m Spending $200 Million To Explore Existence! How God Fits Into Science Explained!
Brian Keating, Professor Brian Keating, Stephen Bartlett
Physicist Brian Keating details the Simons Observatory's $200 million mission to detect primordial gravitational waves and validate cosmic inflation following the 2015 BICEP2 dust retraction. While maintaining a devout agnostic stance, Keating explores the intersection of scientific rigor with theological philosophy, arguing that ritual and community practice retain value independent of divine belief. The discussion further examines the improbable cosmic conditions necessary for Earth's habitability and personal narratives regarding the transition from career ambition to finding meaning through family and creative connection.
- 80,000 Hours3h 46m
Why global catastrophes probably won't kill us all | Luisa Rodriguez (2021)
Luisa Rodriguez's research challenges the prevailing assumption that catastrophic events killing 50% to 99.99% of humanity would lead to permanent extinction, arguing instead that historical precedents and resource constraints make recovery probable. The study identifies that factors such as geographic survival pockets, pre-existing stockpiles, and the inherent resilience of infrastructure allow civilizations to overcome direct or indirect collapse pathways like nuclear war or pandemics. Consequently, Rodriguez suggests that while preventing immediate mass loss remains a moral imperative, long-term cause prioritization should focus on risks guaranteeing true extinction rather than temporary civilization setbacks.
- 80,000 Hours3h 21m
Dismantling the myth that we can't do anything to help wild animals | Cameron Meyer Shorb
Cameron Meyer Shorb, Luisa Rodriguez
The Wild Animal Initiative is establishing the field of wild animal welfare science to address the massive scale of suffering caused by predation, disease, and environmental factors affecting billions of sentient beings. Through interdisciplinary research, the organization develops and tests tractable interventions such as selective reforestation, contraception, and vaccination while rigorously assessing ecological risks like trophic cascades. By standardizing welfare measurement and training the next generation of experts, the initiative aims to institutionalize ethical considerations of wild animals within legal and scientific frameworks to prevent net negative lives in natural ecosystems.
- Milken Institute20 min
A Conversation with FDA Commissioner Robert Califf | Future of Health Summit 2024
Commissioner Califf reflects on his tenure managing the Abbott infant formula recall and reorganizing the FDA Food Program, emphasizing that the agency faces a healthcare delivery crisis rather than an innovation deficit despite the U.S. global leadership in scientific advancement. He advocates for shifting regulatory focus from pre-approval trials to post-market pragmatic studies and new frameworks for AI decision support to address systemic biases and monitor uncontrolled algorithmic drift in clinical environments. Califf concludes by defining essential traits for future leadership, prioritizing executive listening skills and a commitment to high-quality evidence generation while maintaining a strict separation between science-based product decisions and politically influenced policy mandates.
Guy Podjarny: The Future of AI Software Development - What is Real & What is BS | E1232
The speaker evaluates NVIDIA's market dominance as undervalued yet anticipates a short-term demand trough as enterprises confront the current ROI limitations of AI tools. Future technological progress is framed by massive capital requirements for general-purpose models and skepticism regarding AGI timelines in 2025 due to non-technical societal adoption barriers. Simultaneously, the discussion outlines a strategic pivot where developer roles evolve from coding to system architecture while venture capital success relies on avoiding obvious markets and timing IPOs for long-term sustainability rather than immediate exits.
- The Economist26 min
Milei’s way: Argentina’s president, a year on
Milei, Celeste Caeiro, Rosie Bloor, Kinley Salmon, Marie Zegger, Lisa Honsinger, Anne Rowe
Argentina's President Javier Milei has halved default risk and slashed monthly inflation from 13% to 3% through radical fiscal contraction and the removal of central bank deficit financing, despite pushing poverty rates to 53%. Concurrently, a UN treaty involving 180 nations and major corporations like Coca-Cola aims to bind global plastic production to stricter recycling mandates and biodegradable alternatives, a move supported by startups like Notpla to address the 500 million tonnes of annual waste. The upcoming implementation of this treaty follows the 50th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution, a non-violent 1974 coup symbolized by worker Celeste Sairu that toppled a 40-year dictatorship.
- The Economist24 min
A losing battle: Sudan’s elusive peace deal
Rosie Blau, Tom Gardner, Ana Lankas, Jason Chow
The ongoing Sudanese civil war between the army and Rapid Support Forces has escalated into a catastrophic humanitarian crisis, with RSF forces closing in on al-Fasher despite diplomatic efforts by negotiator El-Zadeen al-Safi that lack immediate traction due to deep mutual distrust and foreign military backing. Simultaneously in Brazil, former President Jair Bolsonaro faces formal accusations of orchestrating a coup and an assassination plot against President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, resulting in potential 28-year prison sentences that have galvanized the political left while right-wing candidates continue to rely on his electoral influence despite his legal bar from public office. In the commercial sphere, Chinese bubble tea chains are aggressively expanding into global markets like London and New York to escape saturated domestic competition, utilizing state-backed soft power strategies to target overseas Chinese diasporas despite facing cultural barriers in Western nations.