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Clear all filtersDelian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183
Delian Asparouhov, Harry Stebbings, Keith Rabois, Peter Thiel, Vinod Khosla
This event features a geopolitical and economic forecast predicting a societal decline in Western Europe contrasted against the rise of Eastern Europe as a capitalist stronghold, while also analyzing the emergence of a new American tech aristocracy. The speaker details a fundamental shift in venture capital strategy away from low-capex software models toward industrialization and deep tech, emphasizing that generational returns require founder-led governance rather than professional management. Personal anecdotes and leadership insights from a career at Founders Fund and Varda Aerospace further illustrate the importance of bold decision-making, cultural authenticity, and the rejection of investor entitlement in building resilient organizations.
- The Economist26 min
Warpath: Israel vows revenge on Hizbullah
Rosie Bloor, Anshul Pfeffer, Tom Sass, David Harrington, Paul Wianco
A rocket attack in the Golan Heights that killed twelve Druze children has intensified Middle East tensions, placing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu under pressure to balance a necessary retaliation against Hezbollah with the strategic need to avoid all-out war while Gaza ceasefire negotiations proceed. Simultaneously, the UK faces a critical prison crisis with severe overcrowding and unsanitary conditions prompting the new Labour government to implement emergency early releases while pursuing long-term rehabilitation strategies to reverse decades of rising incarceration rates. In the cultural sector, the Kronos Quartet marks its fiftieth anniversary by retiring founding members, introducing new leadership, and launching a digital archive that prioritizes diverse commissions to fulfill its mission of expanding the classical repertoire.
- The Diary Of A CEO2h 53m
Former CIA Spy Reveals How They’re Controlling You! - Andrew Bustamante
Andrew Bustamante, Stephen Bartlett
Former CIA officer Andrew Bustamante outlines a framework for societal awareness and influence that encourages individuals to dismantle conditioned beliefs to objectively identify leverage points within rigid systems. He details specific psychological and tactical strategies, including the RICE motivation model and the KLT trust-building hierarchy, which have enabled professionals to secure significant career advancements and higher incomes. The discussion further addresses Bustamante's transition from covert operations to leadership, his predictions on geopolitical shifts, and his upcoming book, *Red Cell*, which chronicles the operational history of his clandestine marriage.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Critical Minerals: Mining the Future Economy | Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
Ari Untracht, Amos Hochstein, Shauna McIntyre, Zimi Meka, Amit Midha
A global panel warns that meeting net zero and AI infrastructure demands requires 40 to 50 times more copper supply than currently available, yet production timelines lag by up to 14 years while supply chains remain dangerously concentrated in single nations. To address this critical shortage, proposed solutions include Saudi Arabia's $100 billion Allat initiative to establish a clean-energy refining hub, pooled Western financing to de-risk upstream investments, and regulatory shifts to mandate mineral origin tracing. The discussion concludes that without immediate government intervention to crowd-in private capital and develop technologies like direct lithium extraction, the energy transition faces severe supply shocks that threaten national security.
- Milken Institute58 min
M&A: Moving On and Up | Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
Romaine Bostick, Anu Aiyengar, Andrew Bednar, Ron Eliasek, Andrea Guerzoni, Alan Tannenbaum
The global M&A market is rebounding in 2024 with over $1.5 trillion in projected volume and a 26% rise in billion-dollar deals, driven by valuation normalization and a strategic shift toward AI integration and portfolio rationalization. Private capital markets are deploying more than $4 trillion in dry powder to navigate stabilized but volatile financing conditions, prompting increased use of all-stock structures and creative exit strategies as regulatory scrutiny and geopolitical tensions suppress cross-border activity. Although large-scale take-private transactions and private equity volumes are surging, market leaders anticipate a gradual recovery trajectory rather than an immediate surge, expecting full maturity only between 2025 and 2026 as interest rates stabilize and structural market shifts resolve.
- 80,000 Hours2h 44m
Does deep history say we're headed for an intelligence explosion? | Ian Morris
Ian Morris challenges the assumption that social hierarchy requires agriculture by citing pre-agricultural sites like Sungir and Peruvian pyramids, while arguing that long-term historical trends driven by energy capture indicate an inevitable acceleration toward a post-human future. He posits that generative AI represents a new evolutionary form destined to outpace and potentially replace humanity due to superior replication speed and immortality, leading to either a profound societal transformation or rapid extinction. Despite skepticism regarding the scientific validity of such long-term forecasting, Morris contends that current linear projections are insufficient, predicting that the next century will witness a four-fold increase in global development or a fundamental shift in the definition of life itself.
- All-In Podcast1h 39m
Mag 7 sell-off, Wiz rejects Google, UBI, Kamala in, China's nuclear buildout, Sacks responds to PG
Kamala, Sacks, PG, Nostracanis, Wiz, Sam Altman, Rupert Murdoch, Biden, Josh Shapiro
Wiz rejected a $23 billion acquisition offer from Google to pursue an IPO, a strategic move that underscores growing demand for cloud security following the CrowdStrike global outage and highlights the critical role of Alphabet's $40 billion run-rate cloud division amid antitrust scrutiny. The event also examined broader market volatility driven by AI stock rotations and geopolitical shocks, while analyzing a failed UBI experiment in Texas and Illinois that challenged the economic necessity of universal basic income. Finally, the discussion covered high-stakes developments including Rupert Murdoch's succession struggle within News Corp, the swift U.S. presidential nomination shift to Kamala Harris, and urgent warnings regarding U.S. nuclear energy deficits relative to China's aggressive infrastructure expansion.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Private Credit Cashing In | Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
Liz Hoffman, Dianna Carr-Coletta, David Geenberg, Theodore L. Koenig, Danielle Poli, James Reynolds, Ted, Francois Chollette
Private credit assets have expanded to an estimated $1.5 trillion through a 20% CAGR since the financial crisis, driven by institutional reallocations from 1-2% to 15% and expanding participation from retail investors. While competition intensifies among originators targeting the lower-middle market and specialized sectors like life sciences, the sector differentiates itself through superior recovery rates via maintenance covenants and a strategic pivot toward capital protection rather than yield maximization. Looking forward, the industry faces liquidity and regulatory headwinds but expects to sustain 10-11% unlevered returns by diversifying into asset-backed finance and addressing distressed capital structures created by the current M&A slowdown.
- Goldman Sachs9 min
Is the big tech trade over?
The S&P 500 recently declined 5% following a year-end rally, driven by reassessments of mega-cap valuations amid shifting inflation data and skepticism over AI profitability. Goldman Sachs analysts characterize this correction as a market rotation where capital is flowing from large-cap tech stocks to small-cap equities, a divergence that benefits smaller companies anticipating interest rate cuts. Despite the drop, the firm maintains a positive outlook, citing robust earnings and historical precedents where similar market dips often result in higher valuations within three months.
Nilan Peiris: What Growth Hacks Worked and What Did Not, from Wise CPO | E1182
Wise defines product marketing as closing the gap between perceived and actual value to drive order-of-magnitude differentiation, leveraging a "Purple Cow" strategy that prioritizes being distinct rather than marginally better. The company targets the $1T consumer and $10T SMB cross-border markets by maintaining cost leadership and utilizing a hybrid growth engine where 70% of acquisition stems from word-of-mouth and SEO. Strategic tactics include visualizing savings to build trust, diversifying marketing channels after achieving unit economics efficiency, and evolving its organizational structure to support a dual-brand vision focused on both consumer trust and B2B API infrastructure.
Text-to-CAD: AI Revolutionizing Hardware Design with Jordan Noone of Zoo
Jordan Noone, Molly O'Shea, Jessie Frazelle, Ben Horowitz, Vinod Khosla, Alfred Lin, Mike Maples, Roger Ehrenberg
Zoo is launching a cloud-based, GPU-optimized computational geometry engine designed to replace manual, labor-intensive CAD workflows with AI-driven automation for the $1 trillion hardware development market. Led by Aerospace engineer and Relativity Space co-founder Jordan Noon alongside CEO Jess, the company has already generated 13,000 CAD files via its generative AI interface while securing $6 million in funding from investors including GitHub co-founder Tom Preston-Werner. The firm plans to expand its workforce to 50 employees and construct an in-house factory to integrate Design for Manufacturability checks directly into its machine learning models.
- The Economist24 min
Field of streams: sports viewing changes
Evan Gershkovich, Kamala Harris, Jason Palmer, Tom Wainwright, Oliver Carroll, Holly Burman
Major media companies are reallocating substantial content budgets to live sports rights as streaming platforms capture one-third of Olympic viewership, prompting traditional cable networks to launch exclusive services while tech giants like Netflix enter the market to aggregate global audiences. Simultaneously, the US faces a critical diplomatic standoff after a Russian court sentenced WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in prison on espionage charges, with both sides actively exploring potential prisoner exchanges involving high-profile detainees ahead of the American elections. In the domestic political arena, Kamala Harris's campaign leveraged the viral "Brat" internet aesthetic to energize younger demographics and close polling gaps, signaling a shift toward social media-driven engagement that challenges traditional polling and policy-focused messaging.
- Y Combinator18 min
How To Price For B2B | Startup School
Founders are advised to anchor pricing in a collaborative value equation that quantifies customer ROI, setting rates between 25% and 50% of that value to ensure healthy margins while retaining two-thirds of the benefit for the client. The strategy explicitly discourages cost-plus or predatory price wars, instead urging a shift toward recurring revenue models and short, metric-driven pilots to mitigate revenue volatility. By treating cloud credits as real costs and avoiding public price transparency for enterprise deals, this framework enables startups to secure sustainable growth without triggering a race to the bottom.
- Milken Institute57 min
A Perfect Match: Finding Love in a Modern World | Milken Institute Global Conference 2024
Monique Kelley, Stephanie Danzi, Ophira Edut, DeVon Franklin, Amy Nobile, Yung Pueblo
Industry leaders from Tinder, Ready Platform, and the dating coaching sector converged to redefine modern dating as a practice rooted in self-work, holistic growth, and intentional connection rather than superficial metrics. The discussion highlighted the launch of "Ready," a new platform requiring pre-match self-reflection, alongside strategic shifts at Tinder that prioritize long-term relationship outcomes over engagement time and strictly limit filtering to age, gender, and distance. Panelists collectively argued that overcoming fear-driven behaviors like aggressive hunting or interrogation-style questioning is essential for navigating the "gray areas" of relationships and utilizing astrology or spiritual frameworks as tools for self-understanding rather than manipulation.
- 80,000 Hours24 min
Highlights: Annie Jacobsen on what would happen if North Korea launched a nuclear weapon at the US
Annie Jacobsen, Luisa Rodriguez
Experts and former officials detail the extreme fragility of U.S. nuclear command protocols, highlighting how a six-minute decision window, analog authentication methods, and conflicting strategic priorities create high risks of catastrophic error. The discussion further exposes severe systemic vulnerabilities, including Russian early-warning inaccuracies that could misinterpret debris as hundreds of warheads and U.S. ICBM trajectories that risk triggering unintended Russian retaliation. Additionally, the briefing reveals that super electromagnetic pulse attacks could simultaneously collapse critical infrastructure like power grids, water supplies, and financial systems, leaving the population with no federal protection and facing near-total societal collapse.