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Clear all filters- Sequoia Capital42 min
Nvidia CTO Michael Kagan: Scaling Beyond Moore's Law to Million-GPU Clusters
Michael Kagan, Sonya Huang, Pat Grady
Following NVIDIA's strategic acquisition of Mellanox in 2019, the combined entity transformed the AI landscape by shifting industry reliance from Moore's Law to a "scale-out" architecture that unifies thousands of GPUs through ultra-low latency interconnects. This integration enabled the development of specialized hardware, including Bluefield DPUs and Spectrum X switches, to overcome physical energy constraints and optimize distinct training versus inference workloads across gigawatt-scale data centers. Consequently, the partnership has driven a 45-fold increase in market capitalization while establishing a new philosophy where software-hardware co-design allows AI to function as a foundational utility for simulating complex scientific and historical phenomena.
- Milken Institute45 min
Latin America’s Digital Revolution | Global Investors' Symposium Mexico City 2025
Enrique Acevedo, Ruben Coppel, Leandro Cuccioli, Scott Sobel, Blanca Trevino
A high-level panel featuring executives from Bauer Capital Group, SoftTech, Mercado Libre, and Banco Coppel analyzed the bottom-up technological revolution driving Latin America's transition from low-cost manufacturing to high-value AI and nearshore services. Led by moderator Enrique Acevedo, the discussion highlighted how consumerization and financial inclusion are accelerating capital velocity and revenue growth, with figures noting that AI funding has surged from $15 billion in the dot-com era to $100 billion annually. Experts from across the region concluded that Mexico's unique position to host global talent and leverage hybrid digital-physical models will foster a coordinated ecosystem of innovation hubs that prioritize mass-market benefits over traditional Silicon Valley replication.
- All-In Podcast50 min
Nobel Prize in Physics Winner: The Quantum Leap That Changed Everything - John Martinis
John Martinis, David Friedberg
John Martinis, the 2025 Nobel Laureate in Physics, secured this distinction for experimentally verifying quantum mechanical behavior in macroscopic superconducting circuits, a breakthrough originally triggered by Anthony Leggett's inquiries in the mid-1980s. This foundational work directly enabled the 2019 achievement of quantum supremacy by his Google team using a 53-qubit processor, establishing the path toward the error-corrected systems necessary for general-purpose utility within the next decade. Martinis now leverages advanced semiconductor fabrication to address current engineering bottlenecks while navigating a rapidly evolving global landscape marked by significant international competition.
Alfred Lin, Inside Sequoia: Launching $200M Seed Fund & $750M Venture Fund
Sequoia Partner Alfred Lin outlines a rigorous investment philosophy focused on identifying statistical "outlier" founders while providing bespoke support that functions as both crisis intervention and strategic sparring. The discussion details how successful ventures like Kaoshi and Zipline navigated long gestation periods and executed high-stakes pivots, emphasizing that capital should only fuel validated product-market fit rather than masking weak unit economics. Lin further critiques the industry's obsession with revenue velocity, arguing that sustainable growth depends on intellectual honesty regarding revenue quality and the ability to systematize operations in an increasingly competitive technological landscape.
- Milken Institute28 min
A Conversation with Carlos Slim Domit | Global Investors' Symposium Mexico City 2025
Carlos Slim Domit, Michael Milken
A strategic analysis highlights Mexico's unique investment case, driven by a young demographic, robust STEM workforce, and geographic proximity to the U.S. market to boost infrastructure and manufacturing capacity. This growth is underpinned by a national goal to raise the investment-to-GDP ratio to 28% while leveraging telecommunications networks to foster digital inclusion and a digital-first philanthropic model. Together, these factors position North America as a dominant global economic bloc, merging U.S. technological innovation with Mexico's demographic vitality for long-term stability and expansion.
- All-In Podcast1h 23m
NBA Gambling Scandal, Billionaire Tax, Tesla's Future, Amazon Robots, AWS Outage, Dangerous AI Bias
Chamath, Jason, Friedberg, David Sacks, Nick
SEIU filed a ballot initiative in California proposing a one-time 5% net worth tax on individuals exceeding $1 billion, a measure critics argue faces significant legal hurdles regarding constitutional uniformity while proponents view it as a tool to address state deficits and polarize the electorate. Concurrently, the FBI has arrested thirty individuals, including NBA figures Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier, for their alleged involvement in a nationwide sports betting scandal that highlights the risks of insider information in the convergence of prediction markets and organized crime. Meanwhile, Amazon navigated a massive cloud outage and strategic workforce reductions as Tesla secured record revenue amid a looming governance battle over Elon Musk's compensation package, signaling a shift toward automated labor and high-stakes executive accountability.
- Milken Institute31 min
Private Equity's Next Move in Latin America | Global Investors' Symposium Mexico City 2025
Michael Milken, Martín Escobari, José E. Feliciano
Investment firms General Atlantic and Clear Lake are leveraging Mexico's young demographic, surplus of STEM graduates, and geopolitical decoupling from China to position the nation as a high-growth hub for nearshoring and capital deployment. With local valuations trading at a 50% discount to the U.S. and the entry of President Claudia Sheinbaum signaling reduced corruption, these organizations aim to scale operations by directing Mexican pension funds toward private equity and expanding supply chain infrastructure. This strategy seeks to transform Mexico into a $12 trillion economic zone by 2040, capitalizing on reshoring trends and a maturing financial ecosystem to double or triple employment within their portfolio companies.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
Navigating Year-End Risks: Tariffs, Credit, AI and More
Dominic Wilson, Josh Schifrin, Tom
Panelists Josh Schifrin and Dominic Wilson assessed that U.S. economic stability remains intact despite a peaked credit cycle, projecting Federal Reserve rate cuts to 3% or lower by the end of the year driven by soft labor indicators and benign inflation. While equity valuations for AI leaders and corporate debt levels warrant monitoring, the consensus holds that strong balance sheets prevent a bubble scenario and that market volatility remains largely idiosyncratic rather than systemic. The discussion further noted that fiscal sustainability concerns are currently offset by tariff revenue expectations, allowing the bond market to continue its drift toward lower yields.
- Goldman Sachs34 min
‘Culture is Everything’: Sixth Street’s Alan Waxman on Flexibility and Alpha
In the September 2025 Goldman Sachs Exchange "Great Investors" episode, 6th Street Co-CEO Alan Waxman details how the firm's $115 billion assets under management operate through a unified "one team" culture that avoids silos and prioritizes liquidity management over credit exposure. Waxman outlines strategic advantages including the $30 billion TAL cross-platform vehicle and major investments in affordable housing recapitalization, AI business model dispersion, and the global sports ecosystem. The discussion further emphasizes a rigorous hiring standard that removes high-performing individualists to maintain collective responsibility, ensuring the firm can "face the tiger" during crises while systematically identifying relative risk-reward across asset classes.
- The Economist13 min
Steve Bannon: Trump will have a third term
Steve Bannon, Trump, Zanny Minton Beddoes, Ed Carr
Steve Bannon articulates a vision for a MAGA revolution that replaces corporate control with an "entrepreneurial capitalism" dominated by populist nationalists, asserting the movement must seize and permanently defend state institutions regardless of legal or economic pushback. He predicts Donald Trump will secure a third presidential term in 2028 by redefining constitutional constraints and positions the United States as the catalyst for a global wave of right-wing victories in nations like the UK, France, and Germany. This strategy frames the current era as an existential political war where the movement will not compromise, arguing that radical action is necessary to avoid elite-managed decline and ensure the preservation of national sovereignty.
- a16z1h 12m
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
Marc Andreessen, Amjad Masad, Erik Torenberg
Replit's advanced AI Agent functions as an autonomous programmer capable of architecting, coding, and deploying full-stack applications in under thirty minutes while maintaining logical coherence over extended sessions through multi-agent verification loops. The platform abstracts technical complexity via natural language interfaces and Reinforcement Learning from code execution, enabling non-experts to produce production-ready software with database integration and Git accessibility. Founder Amjad Masad's unique trajectory from early programming exploits to industry leadership underscores the platform's core philosophy of democratizing engineering skills and challenging traditional educational pathways.
Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy
Michael, an asset manager at CodeTwo, discusses the firm's pivot toward retail-driven intelligence and deep AI integration following lessons from Melvin Capital's 50% loss during the GameStop short squeeze. Leveraging real-time data from platforms like Wall Street Bets and Reddit, CodeTwo successfully predicted growth accelerators for companies like AppLovin and Meta by capitalizing on AI-enhanced ad engines and identifying human content as a critical licensing asset for AI training. The discussion further outlines a strategic shift where software roles face automatable transformation, prompting internal efficiency upgrades and a hybrid public-private tracking approach to navigate extreme market volatility driven by AI narratives.
- Sequoia Capital17 min
Reinventing Delivery with Instant Drone Transport ft Zipline's Keller Cliffton -
Keller Cliffton, Roelof Botha, Keenan Wyrobek, Ryan Oxenhorn, Maggie Jim, Alfred Lin
Zipline CEO Keller Clifton transformed his company from a failed consumer robotics venture into the world's largest autonomous logistics network by pivoting to medical supply delivery in Rwanda, where a partnership with the government addressed critical health crises caused by poor infrastructure. After securing NASA collaboration and achieving a historic U.S. regulatory milestone for nationwide Beyond Visual Line of Sight flights, the organization scaled to serve over 5,000 facilities globally while introducing a novel string-based urban delivery system. This evolution, driven by the founders' persistence through early investor skepticism and technical failures, established a resilient infrastructure that now connects remote hospitals and urban centers alike.
- a16z1h 24m
Why Creativity Will Matter More Than Code | Kevin Rose and Anish Acharya
Kevin Rose and Anish Agarwal discuss how Digg's "like" button invention and its defensive patent strategy reshaped social media algorithms before pivoting to analyze the current renaissance of AI-driven consumer software. They identify a market shift where independent founders leverage multi-model applications and "vibe coding" workflows to challenge Big Tech in sensitive sectors like AI companionship and productivity, which require emotional authenticity that corporate models struggle to replicate. The conversation further outlines an investment thesis prioritizing contrarian, "weird" instincts and forecasts a future where "lossy" AI summarizes conversational themes to balance utility with evolving privacy norms.
- Y Combinator39 min
Startup Advice: AI GTM, Pivoting & How To Hire
Founders entering legacy industries must select a go-to-market model—typically software-first, full-stack, or acquisition-based—while rigorously tracking automation trajectories to secure software valuations from investors. Strategic execution requires prioritizing mid-market segments for faster feedback loops and securing empowered early adopters, as AI sales tools and high-level marketing hires only succeed after founders have personally mastered their own product-market fit. Ultimately, successful scaling depends on treating hiring as a failure-prevention necessity, leveraging open-source components to build enterprise trust, and maintaining the conviction to pivot when customer conviction indicates a "great" idea is absent.