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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs24 min
Briogeo founder Twine says “internal resiliency” is entrepreneurs’ shared superpower
Nancy Twine founded the clean beauty brand Briogeo in 2012 after leaving Goldman Sachs, leveraging her mother's chemistry background to secure an early partnership with Sephora before raising over $20 million in private equity. Driven by a strategic focus on the untapped salon professional channel, Twine sold the company to Wella in 2022 following a rigorous acquisition process that capitalized on the brand's established "table stakes" clean formulation standards. Since the exit, Twine has shifted her focus to mentoring founders through her content platform and serving on the board of "Room to Grow" to address financial education and industry diversity gaps.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
How companies, private equity firms, and institutional investors are navigating the global economy
Goldman Sachs executive Jim Esposito outlines a global economic landscape marked by regional divergence, shifting private equity dynamics, and a pivot from "hard landing" fears to a "soft landing" consensus. While corporate balance sheets are historically strong and commodity prices signal recovery, the event highlights persistent risks stemming from geopolitical fragmentation, an anemic IPO market, and liquidity concerns within the unregulated non-bank sector. Esposito anticipates that despite these challenges and an approaching U.S. election, the financial system remains resilient due to post-2008 regulatory safeguards and continued private sector innovation.
- Goldman Sachs41 min
A conversation with Renaissance Technologies CEO Peter Brown
Peter Brown pioneered early generative AI and the Deep Blue chess machine at IBM before co-founding Renaissance Technologies' dominant quantitative trading strategy, where he served as sole CEO following a 2009 succession. Under his technical leadership, the firm transformed its operations by replacing manual processes with rigorous engineering and automated systems, allowing it to navigate major financial crises like the 2007 Quant Quake and 2008 collapse while maintaining strict scientific discipline. Brown's career trajectory illustrates a consistent philosophy that complex market dynamics and human intuition can be effectively reduced to computation and data-driven models.
- Goldman Sachs28 min
NBA star Chris Paul says leadership is about building trust on and off the court
Following the Juneteenth observance, 18-year NBA veteran Chris Paul discussed his memoir "61: Life Lessons from Papa" and his eight-year tenure as NBAPA president during an interview hosted by Goldman Sachs' Firmwide Black Network. The conversation detailed Paul's response to his grandfather's murder, his strategic evolution from a vertical scorer to a point guard, and his advocacy for HBCUs and underrepresented storytelling through his production company, ODIP. Paul emphasized that his leadership philosophy prioritizes direct communication and collective action over personal likability, reflecting his ongoing commitment to competitive play and social equity.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
How Angela Hwang helped lead Pfizer through the unknowns of Covid to deliver a vaccine
Angela Huang, Pfizer's Chief Commercial Officer, detailed the "Project BioSpeed" initiative that accelerated the development of the company's COVID-19 vaccine to approximately nine months through parallel development and a "fixed goal, flexible process" framework. Under her leadership, which spans 26,000 colleagues across 185 countries, the organization scaled annual manufacturing capacity from 200 million to over one billion doses while enforcing a mandatory 30% minority representation in clinical trials. The presentation highlighted how this crisis-driven collaboration required admitting uncertainty and failing fast without altering the final deadline, offering a model for translating high-stakes innovation into standard business operations.
- Goldman Sachs30 min
BlackRock’s Rick Rieder on his career, the markets, and investing in the current environment
BlackRock's Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, Rick Reeder, outlined a market strategy prioritizing carry and equity convexity while predicting Federal Reserve rate cuts in the latter half of 2024. Reeder attributes the resilience of the U.S. economy to a service-heavy structure and deleveraged private sectors, positioning the nation to absorb a $30 trillion debt load through nominal GDP growth. On the technological front, he directs BlackRock's capital toward businesses with proprietary data to capitalize on AI advantages, cautioning that only early-stage private investments currently avoid portfolio skew.
- Goldman Sachs41 min
Man Group CEO Luke Ellis on hedge funds, quantitative strategies and leadership
Man Group CEO Luke Ellis will retire in September 2023, handing leadership to President Robin Grew as the $150 billion quantitative asset manager completes a seven-year strategic pivot toward customized solutions for pension and sovereign clients. Ellis credits this growth and operational efficiency to a model count expansion from six to 700, enabling the firm to navigate the shift from the 2010s' low-interest environment to the 2020s' inflationary volatility while leveraging AI with rigorous human oversight. Looking ahead, Ellis identifies Japan and specific inflation-resistant strategies as prime opportunities, though he warns that a tight global supply of talent and potential regulatory changes to leverage pose significant hurdles for the broader hedge fund industry.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO of Citadel
Kenneth Griffin emphasizes that lifelong learning and adaptive risk management are critical for surviving financial crises that evolve beyond the 2008 subprime model, citing specific structural vulnerabilities like the UK gilt crisis. He outlines Citadel's strategy of integrating quantitative and fundamental approaches while advocating for regulatory tweaks, such as reduced tick sizes, to democratize access without inflating retail costs. Looking toward the future, Griffin warns that generative AI will disrupt white-collar employment, necessitating a culture of continuous education and physical collaboration to maintain a competitive edge in a globalized market.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Talks at GS with Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, CEO and Co-founder of Zipline
Keller Rinaudo Cliffton, Ryan Nolan, Keller Cliffton
Zipline has expanded from a 2016 Rwandan pilot into the world's largest commercial autonomous logistics network, now serving 4,500 facilities across seven countries with a fleet that has surpassed 40 million miles. The company delivers critical medical supplies like blood and vaccines to reduce maternal mortality by 88% in Africa while simultaneously launching a rapid consumer delivery service in the U.S. in partnership with Walmart. Under CEO Keller Ralston Clifton's guidance, the organization overcame early engineering failures to normalize hardware innovation, aiming to displace gas-combustion transportation and redefine next-decade infrastructure companies.
- Goldman Sachs35 min
Talks at GS with Ginni Rometty, Former Chairman, President and CEO of IBM
Former IBM CEO Ginni Rometty outlines her leadership philosophy centered on the principle that growth requires leaving comfort zones, a framework that guided her transformation of IBM into a leader in hybrid cloud and quantum computing. She details the company's strategic pivot to skills-first hiring, which resulted in 15% of new recruits lacking four-year degrees and launched the 110 coalition to upskill one million Black Americans by 2030. Additionally, Rometty emphasizes the urgent need for ethical AI guardrails and educational reforms to prioritize critical thinking as technology reshapes the global workforce.
- Goldman Sachs20 min
Talks at GS with Charles Stewart, CEO of Sotheby’s
Sotheby's CEO Charlie Stewart has steered the historic auction house through a structural transformation, increasing online bidding from 40% to 92% by integrating a digital ecosystem and leveraging data analytics to optimize client matching. The company has expanded beyond traditional secondary market auctions into direct luxury sales and high-profile categories such as sneaker collectibles and sports memorabilia, which have generated record-breaking valuations. Looking forward, Stewart emphasizes the strategic adoption of blockchain for provenance verification and predicts that long-term investment value will remain concentrated in original works that initiate new artistic movements.
- Goldman Sachs20 min
How Porsche CEO Oliver Blume is driving innovation
Oliver Blume, Christoph Stanger, Alison Nathan
Porsche's recent European IPO, the largest by market capitalization in the region, successfully secured billions in cornerstone commitments from Goldman Sachs to stabilize the offering amidst macro volatility. CEO Oliver Blum now directs the company toward a "Road to 20" strategy aiming for over 20% return on sales by leveraging Volkswagen Group scale while maintaining luxury pricing power. The automaker targets 80% global electric deliveries by 2030, aligning its product roadmap with regional recovery trends in China and North America to capitalize on its 75th anniversary as a sports car manufacturer.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
Tom Ilube, Chair of the Rugby Football Union and Founder of the African Gifted Foundation
Tom Ilube, Kene Ejikeme, Kenneth Edukema
Tom Elube, a Nigerian-British entrepreneur and award-winning philanthropist, leverages a career defined by overcoming severe discrimination and racial barriers to co-found the African Science Academy, Ghana's first all-girls STEM school. His institution delivers intensive 10-month A-level programs to gifted female students from across the continent, achieving a 100% university placement rate while challenging cultural norms that limit women in science. Beyond education, Elube serves as the first Black Chair of the Rugby Football Union and chairs the BBC board, actively driving diversity initiatives in both the technology sector and major UK institutions.
- Goldman Sachs28 min
Navigating the ‘perfect storm’ in commercial real estate
Lotfi Karoui, Jeffrey Fine, Allison Nathan, Jeff Fine
Commercial real estate confronts a convergence of record-high interest rates, $1 trillion in impending debt maturities, and a bifurcated asset landscape that is driving a projected "right-sizing" of the sector. Goldman Sachs analysts and industry experts forecast a slow-burn crisis lasting four to five years, characterized by significant equity destruction in office properties and a heavy reliance on distressed small banks, while private credit markets struggle to fill the gap left by a 75% drop in CMBS issuance. Although a systemic 2008-style collapse is deemed unlikely due to tighter underwriting standards, the lack of an organized public-private partnership raises concerns about a messy unwind of distressed assets that could further erode valuations over the next 24 months.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
Samarth Kulkarni, CEO, CRISPR Therapeutics
Samarth Kulkarni, Dr. Sam Kulkarni
Dr. Sam Kulkarni of CRISPR Therapeutics outlines a pivotal industry shift where the convergence of delivery systems and genome-editing technology enables a transition from chronic symptom management to one-time curative procedures for rare and common diseases. By leveraging a highly specific RNA passcode to mitigate off-target risks, the company is advancing both ex vivo and in vivo therapies, successfully treating blood disorders while expanding into metabolic conditions and sustainable agriculture. This strategic execution has allowed CRISPR Therapeutics to raise $3.5 billion and maintain an aggressive R&D focus despite a broader biotech market correction, positioning the firm to deliver the first wave of permanent genetic cures within the next decade.