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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs40 min
Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City
New York City Mayor Eric Adams is redefining the city's governance by forging a corporate covenant to accelerate economic recovery and establishing strict performance metrics for agencies like the FDNY and Department of Buildings to reduce bureaucratic delays. To create a foundation for prosperity, his administration is simultaneously addressing public safety through a dual strategy of enforcement and root-cause intervention while launching major infrastructure initiatives such as a new onshore wind port and a Brooklyn-based Cyber Command Center. Anchored in his former law enforcement experience, Mayor Adams aims to transform the city into a globally business-friendly hub that balances fiscal innovation with social cohesion and public health resilience.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
Tricia Glynn, Managing Director at Advent International
Managing Director Tricia Glenn outlines Advent's investment philosophy, which prioritizes revenue growth and seeks three-to-fivefold returns by partnering with consumer retail disruptors rather than focusing on cost-cutting. She details how the firm navigates a shifting 2022 macro landscape driven by supply chain disruptions and rising interest rates by targeting "pearls" with exceptional talent and capitalizing on the live-selling revolution. Glenn further emphasizes the necessity of systemic diversity and risk-taking to secure actual power for underrepresented leaders, citing portfolio successes like Olaplex and Lululemon as evidence that aggressive capital deployment drives industry inflection.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
The Next Tech Battleground: Online Gaming & the Metaverse
Jung Min, Alison Nathan, Zhang Min
The global gaming industry has matured into a $200 billion sector driven by live operations and recurring revenue, prompting a wave of strategic mergers and acquisitions to diversify portfolios and secure market dominance. Major technology leaders like Microsoft and Tencent are now allocating significant capital to gaming as a foundational pathway for the metaverse and Web 3.0, viewing the sector as a critical incubator for future digital infrastructure. This ongoing platform shift, which mirrors the transition from desktop to mobile, is projected to create new monetization models and drive substantial global economic growth over the next decade.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
What the Fed’s Hawkish Pivot Means for Economic Growth and Markets
David Mericle, Brian Friedman, Alison Nathan
Goldman Sachs has revised its 2022 Federal Reserve interest rate hike forecast to seven increases driven by wage growth incompatible with inflation targets, projecting balance sheet reductions to begin in June. While financial conditions remain tighter with record credit outflows and equity exposure hitting yearly lows, the firm attributes greater recessionary risk to the fading of pandemic-era fiscal stimulus than to monetary policy. Consequently, the research recommends a long-equity, short-credit strategy and identifies emerging market currencies as attractive assets amid a global divergence where developing central banks have largely finished tightening.
- Goldman Sachs23 min
The Case for Commodities: ‘Super-Backwardation,’ Structural Demand and Inventory Shortages
Jeffrey Currie, Allison Nathan, Jeff Curry
Markets in early 2022 face a critical commodity supercycle driven by decade-long underinvestment in traditional energy and metals sectors alongside surging demand from decarbonization and restored low-income consumption. While central banks signal tighter monetary policy, physical supply deficits in oil, agriculture, and base metals have already pushed Brent crude above $90 with Goldman Sachs forecasting prices reaching $105 by the second half of the year. This divergence between paper market skepticism and tightening real-world inventory levels creates significant investment opportunities in physical commodities as a primary inflation hedge against potential supply-driven economic slowdowns.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
Verena Pausder, Founder of Fox & Sheep
Verena Pauster advocates for redefining children's digital engagement by mandating a "time budget" that restricts passive consumption in favor of creative output, while her non-profit addresses Germany's educational inequality through subsidized coding access and individualized learning tools. Concurrently, Pauster led the "Stay on Board" initiative to successfully lobby for 2023 legislation protecting board members' employment status during parental leave, proving that strategic advocacy can overcome century-old regulatory barriers. These efforts form part of her broader strategic vision in *The New Country*, which proposes using digitalization to modernize national infrastructure across education, decarbonization, and equal rights.
- Goldman Sachs28 min
Jeff Lawson, Co-founder and CEO of Twilio
Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson argues that reducing the cost and complexity of software experimentation accelerates innovation, citing the Wright Brothers' iterative success and the unique global reach of modern developers as evidence. Drawing from his experiences at Amazon Web Services, Lawson advocates for a strategic shift where executives treat developers as partners rather than coders to build "Minimum Lovable Products" within small, mission-aligned teams. This approach underpins Twilio's evolution from a communications API into a comprehensive Customer Engagement Platform, aiming to democratize the personalization capabilities of digital giants like Amazon and Apple for all businesses.
- Goldman Sachs21 min
Carlos Acosta, Director of the Birmingham Royal Ballet
Born into a working-class Cuban family, former principal dancer Carlos Acosta leveraged the state-sponsored arts program to become the first black principal dancer in *Swan Lake* at the Metropolitan Opera and the first black director of a major ballet company, the Birmingham Royal Ballet. Appointed in January 2020 amidst the onset of the pandemic, Acosta is currently executing strategic initiatives to elevate technical standards and diversify audiences through innovative productions like *Radio and Juliet*. His leadership focuses on dismantling industry exclusion by actively recruiting global talent and redefining classical dance's cultural relevance for younger generations.
- Goldman Sachs21 min
Goldman Sachs’ David Solomon on the Firm’s Performance, the Global Economy & What to Expect in 2022
During a January 6, 2022 conversation with Allison Nathan, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon reported record 2021 revenue and earnings driven by robust client activity while confirming the firm is ahead on 34 of 35 strategic key performance indicators. Solomon forecasted a 2022 macroeconomic shift characterized by persistent inflation and a hawkish Federal Reserve pivot that will likely trigger equity valuation corrections, noting a trend toward mid-sized mergers due to tightened regulatory environments. To support growth in digital banking and European asset management, the firm is finalizing acquisitions of GreenSky and Invergo while maintaining a long-term focus on sustainability initiatives and workforce development despite pandemic-related challenges.
- Goldman Sachs30 min
Anna Malaika Tubbs, Author of “The Three Mothers"
Anna Malaika Tubbs, Stephanie Cohen
Anna Malaika Tubbs' *The Three Mothers* utilizes original archival research to document the lives of Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin, revealing how their distinct educational backgrounds and radical strategies directly shaped the legacies of their sons, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. By framing the systematic erasure of these Black women as an intentional oversight driven by historical bias, Tubbs demonstrates that their pursuit of equity, self-reliance, and narrative healing served as the foundational pillars for the Civil Rights movement. The work further argues that recognizing such multi-generational contributions is essential for both advancing racial justice and establishing diversity as a critical driver of corporate profitability and market innovation.
- Goldman Sachs29 min
Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation
Melanie Campbell, Joyce Brayboy
Melanie Campbell, President and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, partnered with Goldman Sachs to advance the One Million Black Women Initiative by prioritizing economic mobility, affordable housing, and health disparities as critical barriers to prosperity. Drawing on the legacy of Dr. Dorothy Height and her own history of civil rights activism, Campbell advocates for a servant leadership model that mobilizes families and emphasizes the intersectionality of race and gender. Ultimately, the collaboration aims to transform documented disparities into actionable outcomes while urging intergenerational collaboration and resilience to sustain long-term social change.
- Goldman Sachs18 min
Chris Britt, Co-Founder and CEO of Chime
CEO Chris Britt positions Chime not as a neobank but as a digital financial platform partnering with FDIC-insured banks to serve 150 million Americans living paycheck-to-paycheck. The company generates revenue through interchange fees rather than customer charges, a model that enabled early stimulus distribution and rapid growth fueled by direct deposit incentives. Chime plans to expand its ecosystem into installment loans, cryptocurrency, and insurance while maintaining strict CFPB oversight to support its goal of becoming a comprehensive financial hub for the mainstream consumer.
- Goldman Sachs20 min
Sumayya Vally, Founder and Director of Counterspace
Johannesburg-based architect Sumaya Valli, drawing from her apartheid-era childhood, designed the 2024 Serpentine Pavilion to honor marginalized gathering spaces inspired by London's Caribbean heritage while utilizing reclaimed cork, steel, and micro-cement. Her firm Counterspace further applied this philosophy through the Folded Skies installation, which transforms toxic mining soil into iridescent materials to visualize Johannesburg's extraction history. Alongside these projects, Valli established a three-year network to sustainably support ten artists annually who intersect art, social justice, and ecology.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Mardy Fish, Former Professional Tennis Player
Former professional tennis player and Davis Cup captain Morty Fish details his journey from a junior prodigy to a top-ranked athlete before overcoming severe anxiety and panic attacks in 2012. Following a critical intervention by his wife, Fish prioritized his mental health over his career, returning to the sport in 2015 to compete with resilience rather than a desire for victory. Now a mental health advocate, Fish uses his platform to normalize vulnerability in high-pressure environments and encourage others to seek professional help for psychological struggles.
- Goldman Sachs55 min
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Author of “Uncontrolled Spread” and Former FDA Commissioner
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Charmaine Mosavar-Rahmani
Dr. Gottlieb discusses the Omicron variant's rapid transmission and reduced severity in South Africa while arguing that booster shots provide sufficient protection against severe disease without the need for immediate variant-specific vaccines. He outlines a shift toward endemic management strategies, emphasizing seasonal vaccination, improved air filtration, and the distribution of home diagnostics as key components of future pandemic preparedness. The analysis further critiques historical data suppression and institutional hesitation, calling for a national security approach to building resilient public health infrastructure.