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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs10 min
Orlando Bravo, Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo
Toma Bravo leveraged a conservative, hands-on operational strategy during the pandemic to navigate uninvestable markets, successfully capitalizing on the accelerated shift from on-premise to cloud infrastructure while validating the resiliency of software subscription models. The firm's long-term outlook prioritizes strict adherence to enterprise software within a controlled environment, applying a mentorship-driven framework that synthesizes deal structuring with deep operational execution to manage value creation across 3 to 5-year horizons. Despite current challenges regarding incomprehensible public market valuations, the approach maintains a disciplined focus on extracting costs and preserving fundamental business trajectories while advising emerging investors to build resilience through thoughtful, iterative practice.
- Goldman Sachs9 min
Lexi Thompson, Professional Golfer
Professional golfer Lexi Thompson leverages her early competitive upbringing and record-setting career to launch a new entrepreneurial portfolio spanning skincare, fitness, and golf products. Her business ventures, including the copper-based Lexi Skin line and a planned South Florida gym, are driven by a selection process prioritizing shared passion and a commitment to excellence. Looking forward, Thompson aims to expand her fitness brand through a mobile app while advising athletes to prioritize fundamental mechanics and professional instruction over maximum swing speed.
- Goldman Sachs11 min
What’s Next for Brazil
Maria Silvia Bastos Marques, Liz
Brazil's economy, having weathered a deeper-than-expected recession through targeted liquidity support, is projected to resume growth despite lingering fiscal concerns and uneven investment confidence. The financial landscape has accelerated digital transformation via the Central Bank's PIX instant payment system and upcoming open banking, while the private sector maintains robust ESG commitments to sustain its agribusiness dominance. Concurrently, corporate strategies are increasingly prioritizing diversity and inclusion as essential performance drivers, aligning national economic recovery with social and environmental responsibility.
- Goldman Sachs19 min
John Foley, Founder and CEO of Peloton
Peloton founder John Foley disrupted the home fitness market by pivoting from art to digitize the industry through a direct-to-consumer hardware and software platform that has achieved continuous year-over-year growth since launch. Facing 400 institutional rejections during fundraising, the company scaled its workforce from a small team to 7,000 employees by recruiting top talent from major tech firms and executing a strict non-partisan social advocacy strategy. With a vision to capture 100 million subscribers and expand globally, Foley projects the organization could evolve into a trillion-dollar entity within 15 years by combining operational efficiency with a distinct corporate culture.
- Goldman Sachs10 min
Chip Kaye, CEO of Warburg Pincus
Warburg Pincus partner Chip Kaye outlined a post-pandemic investment strategy emphasizing the non-correlated potential of U.S. and Asian markets, specifically highlighting the structural economic shifts in China. Drawing on 25 years of experience, Kaye advocated for independent judgment and relationship-building over conventional crowd-following, noting that successful investing relies heavily on fate and long-term patience due to the rare frequency of truly impactful decisions. The firm continues to prioritize mentoring junior talent in qualitative skills while navigating market uncertainties with a focus on sectors like energy and aerospace rather than struggling consumer retail.
- Goldman Sachs10 min
Womenomics: Europe Moving Ahead
Recent analysis reveals that while Europe has surpassed the US in female labor participation rates and narrowed the gender pay gap through robust parental leave and childcare policies, stagnation persists for women over 40 due to a significant glass ceiling. Corporate board representation in Europe has climbed to roughly 31% but has plateaued at a target cap, with far slower progress occurring at executive management levels despite a proven 2.5% performance advantage for companies with high female leadership. Although the pandemic created disproportionate challenges for women in service sectors, the long-term shift toward flexible work arrangements and stability in the public sector may offer pathways for future equity gains.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
Howard Schultz, Chairman Emeritus of Starbucks Coffee
Under Howard Schultz's leadership, Starbucks transformed from an 11-store startup into a global entity spanning 77 countries while pioneering comprehensive healthcare and equity ownership for all employees. Facing a 2008 insolvency crisis, Schultz rejected shareholder demands to cut benefits, instead investing in manager training and community service to restore financial stability and brand equity. This turnaround established a unique corporate culture where strategic decisions are governed by customer and employee impact, resulting in a company with a 21,000% stock appreciation since its 1992 IPO.
- Goldman Sachs28 min
Anne Applebaum, Author of "Twilight of Democracy"
Author Anne Applebaum analyzes how the professionalization of politics and the shift to digital fragmentation have fueled radical far-right movements in Poland, the United Kingdom, and the United States to hollow out democratic institutions. She details specific strategies employed by leaders like Poland's Law and Justice Party and the U.S. Republican Party under Donald Trump, which rely on rejecting opposition legitimacy and manufacturing societal chaos to maintain power. While forecasting divergent 2024 outcomes that could either entrench authoritarianism or force a traditional center-right reformation, Applebaum highlights rising grassroots engagement among younger generations as a critical bulwark against democratic decline.
- Goldman Sachs31 min
Clarissa Ward, Author of "On All Fronts"
ABC News correspondent Clarissa Ward recounts her evolution from a novice reporting on the hunt for Saddam Hussein to a seasoned war correspondent in Syria and Beijing, highlighting the lethal realities of conflict zones and the tactical advantages of gender in conservative regions. She outlines her professional philosophy of bearing witness without activism, arguing that journalists must illuminate human stories while avoiding the trap of assuming responsibility for resolving geopolitical conflicts. Ward concludes by warning of the precarious U.S.-China relations under President Xi Jinping and offering advice to aspiring journalists that only those with immense passion can withstand the career's significant personal sacrifices.
- Goldman Sachs12 min
Dawn Fitzpatrick, Chief Investment Officer of Soros Fund Management
Following the March 2020 market crash, Soros Fund Management deployed approximately $4.25 billion into investment-grade credit to exploit dislocation while navigating a unique liquidity crisis. Currently, the firm prioritizes active security selection across equities and fixed income, maintaining a non-qualified residential mortgage portfolio while avoiding commercial real estate and calibrating asset duration to mitigate inflation risks. Beyond market strategy, the organization has institutionalized a collaborative culture and deepened ESG integration to align with its largest client, the Open Society Foundation.
- Goldman Sachs26 min
Mike Tirico, NBC Sports Host
Over a 25-year tenure spanning ESPN and NBC, broadcaster Mike Tirico emphasizes storytelling as the core currency of sports media, a philosophy tested by the unique isolation of the pandemic and the geopolitical unity of the Pyeongchang Winter Games. He projects severe economic consequences for both professional and collegiate athletics, warning that prolonged revenue losses could force salary cap adjustments and even eliminate university sports programs reliant on football and basketball subsidies. While acknowledging that remote production technologies may permanently alter industry logistics, Tirico remains committed to preserving the emotional connection between athletes and audiences despite reduced access to players and the heightened platform for racial justice activism.
- Goldman Sachs28 min
Fredrik Logevall, Author of "JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956"
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Friedrich Logevall launches a two-volume biography titled *JFK: The Coming of Age in America's Century*, which recontextualizes John F. Kennedy's early life against the United States' ascent to global superpower status. Drawing on extensive family correspondence and archival research, Logevall argues that Kennedy's formative years were defined by his mother's intellectual influence, a critical ideological split with his father over appeasement, and a PT boat experience that instilled lasting skepticism toward military intervention. The volume concludes by detailing how these experiences shaped a pragmatic political philosophy and a unique campaign strategy in 1946 that prioritized volunteer mobilization, bipartisan compromise, and the preservation of democratic institutions.
- Goldman Sachs14 min
What’s Next for the Business of Sports
Major professional leagues resumed operations through strategic bubble environments and extended timelines to secure critical television revenue and stabilize surging franchise valuations driven by limited capital availability. Simultaneously, a historic shift occurred in athlete advocacy as league leadership, exemplified by the NBA, actively supported player social justice protests following high-profile incidents. The upcoming 2021 season faces continued COVID-19 disruptions and financial instability, particularly within college sports where revenue disparities and viral outbreaks threaten the viability of non-revenue-generating varsity programs.
- Goldman Sachs14 min
The Private Equity Landscape
The private equity sector is undergoing significant institutional consolidation and specialization, driven by a shift toward longer investment horizons and a strategic pivot away from public markets. Recent market resilience has been bolstered by active limited partner capital deployment, robust private credit alternatives, and the rapid adoption of innovative exit vehicles like SPACs to facilitate diverse transactions. Simultaneously, firms are embedding ESG criteria into their core models, prioritizing board diversity and impact investing to align with evolving regulatory mandates and performance correlations.
- Goldman Sachs27 min
Robert Zoellick, Author of "America in the World"
In *America in the World*, Bob Zolig reframes U.S. foreign policy history by spotlighting the pragmatic strategies of key architects like Alexander Hamilton, Cordell Hull, and George H.W. Bush rather than abstract theory. These case studies illustrate how domestic financial stability, rule-based trade systems, and alliance management historically enabled American power, offering a blueprint for contemporary engagement with China. Zolig concludes that effective U.S. strategy today requires bolstering domestic resilience, enforcing intellectual property rights, and actively planning diplomatic off-ramps to de-escalate tensions without isolating the nation.