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Carl Nassib: NFL star to philanthropy entrepreneur
Former NFL player and first openly gay active player Carl Nassib leverages his platform to drive a strategic modernization of philanthropy through the Raise app, aiming to bridge the technological gap between traditional nonprofit infrastructure and a mobile-native donor base. Drawing on his experience as a Penn State Board member, Nassib advocates for comprehensive financial literacy education to prepare both college athletes in the NIL era and retiring athletes for wealth management, while predicting a massive transfer of generational wealth that will redefine future charitable giving.
- Milken Institute30 min
New Directions and Opportunities for Resilient Disaster Recovery | Finance Forum 2025
Kristen Fanarakis, Lynette Bell, Tom Hoban, Nuin-Tara Key
The Truist Foundation is leading a strategic shift from reactive disaster relief to proactive resilience by committing $725 million over three years to Western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene. This initiative prioritizes small business recovery by reducing capital access timelines from 60 days to 10 days and advocates for standardized building codes alongside new tax incentives to incentivize structural upgrades. Experts further propose adopting a "risk curve" framework and leveraging regional public-private partnerships to sustain long-term funding for climate adaptation and infrastructure hardening.
- Sequoia Capital51 min
Josh Woodward: Google Labs is Rapidly Building AI Products from 0-to-1
Josh Woodward, Ravi Gupta, Sonya Huang
Google Labs operates as an autonomous unit dedicated to rapidly prototyping frontier AI products, prioritizing market validation over immediate technological perfection. Key initiatives include Mariner, a computer-use agent currently targeting enterprise automation, alongside Veo, a generative video model solving physics constraints while shifting industry models toward pay-per-output. The organization accelerates innovation by blending veteran engineering with diverse creative talent to launch ideas within 50 to 100 days, ultimately aiming to replace passive consumption with steerable, asset-driven user experiences.
- Goldman Sachs13 min
10KSB Voices Rural Advocacy Conference in DC: David Solomon with Program Graduate & Punchbowl News
David Solomon, Anna Palmer, Jenny Steffensmeyer
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon and small business owner Jenny Steffensmeyer discussed critical challenges facing the "10,000 Small Business Voices" program, including capital access, workforce shortages, and a significant rural artificial intelligence adoption gap. Solomon expressed optimism that a Republican-controlled administration will reduce regulatory burdens to stimulate growth, while Steffensmeyer highlighted that technological upskilling remains impossible without affordable financing. To address these disparities, the group urged Congress to deregulate small businesses, simplify SBA lending, and provide incentives to level the competitive playing field.
- Milken Institute36 min
Incentivizing Investment in Innovative Technologies | Finance Forum 2025
Karen Kornbluh, Doug Arent, Jennifer Hankins, Jigar Shah, Maggie Switek
A panel of experts from the NREL Foundation, Tulsa Innovation Labs, and the Milken Institute discussed strategies to compress multi-decade innovation timelines into three-to-five-year cycles for clean energy and AI deployment. Speakers highlighted the critical need to shift from linear financial incentives to unconventional cross-sector partnerships, warning that failing to rapidly scale domestic manufacturing risks transferring intellectual property to competitors like China. The consensus emphasized that accelerating grid capacity through virtual power plants and regulatory agility is essential to unlocking private capital and ensuring U.S. economic growth.
- Milken Institute37 min
Sovereign Wealth Funds: Lessons for the US | Finance Forum 2025
Caitlin MacLean, Victoria Barbary, Angela Rodell, Tarek Shoukri, Kaitlyn McLean
The U.S. Treasury Department is currently soliciting private sector input to design a national Sovereign Wealth Fund using a blank-slate approach for capitalization and investment mandates. Drawing on global best practices and case studies like the Alaska Permanent Fund, the proposed framework emphasizes independent governance to insulate decisions from political cycles while targeting strategic sectors such as critical minerals and AI. With further concept papers expected in the spring, the initiative aims to establish a bipartisan structure that catalyzes high-cost infrastructure deployment without crowding out private commercial activity.
- Milken Institute40 min
New Pathways to Help Forgotten America | Finance Forum 2025
Rich Ditizio, Marla Blow, Van Jones
A panel at the Milken Institute, featuring Skoll Foundation's Marla Carter and Amazon Web Services' Dan Price, analyzes the structural retreat of the U.S. public sector and the subsequent necessity for private capital and technology to solve social challenges. The discussion details strategic pivots in philanthropy toward complex capital stacks, highlights specific tech interventions in criminal justice and infrastructure, and reframes diversity initiatives as economic imperatives rather than moral obligations. Looking forward, the speakers outline a new "Center for Advancing the American Dream" to document mentorship narratives while urging the integration of AI and community access to navigate a rapidly changing technological landscape.
- Milken Institute29 min
Community Infrastructure Building Blocks: 10,000 Communities Initiative | Finance Forum 2025
Rachel Halfaker, Andreas Karelas, Jane Brady Knight, Amanda Li, Tony Pipa
High demand for rural economic revitalization faces significant deployment barriers, including insufficient project scale, limited local capacity, and traditional financing models that exclude non-profits lacking credit scores. To overcome these hurdles, successful strategies now employ blended capital stacks, direct pay provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act, and digital platforms that automate underwriting to reduce overhead on small-ticket clean energy investments. By shifting narratives toward rural agency and utilizing community financial institutions, stakeholders aim to establish a permanent, self-sustaining asset class that drives long-term wealth creation and strengthens national competitiveness.
- a16z27 min
DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs
Guido Appenzeller, Marco Mascorro
DeepSeek R1 is an open-weight reasoning model from China that achieves top-tier performance by combining Multi-Head Latent Attention, Group Relative Policy Optimization, and a 256-expert MoE architecture to generate complex thought chains. The development team overcame early behavioral failures through a low-cost, self-supervised pipeline utilizing 800,000 verifiable traces and rule-based verification to produce responses up to 10,000 tokens long for roughly $5.5 million in base training costs. This breakthrough has shifted industry focus toward test-time compute and local deployment, enabling state-of-the-art reasoning on consumer hardware while bypassing traditional bottlenecks associated with human-labeled data.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
The Business of Wellness | Global Conference 2024
Alexia Brue, Dave Asprey, Katie Kaps, David Ko, Nanea Reeves, Zak Williams
The global wellness economy surged to $6.3 trillion in 2023, driven by biological concerns, mental health accessibility, and a convergence of beauty and technology. Key figures like Dave Asprey, Katie Capps, and David Koh are leveraging AI, biohacking, and gamified platforms to address a $122 million access gap in mental health services while challenging traditional medical gatekeeping. This market expansion, which outpaces GDP growth, is fueled by strategic shifts toward personalized data sovereignty, female longevity solutions, and the integration of mental health tools into corporate wellness programs.
- a16z23 min
How to spot an AI Deepfake
Over 90% of security attacks now target human behavior, with AI-driven social engineering tactics like deepfakes and voice cloning surging to affect millions globally and enable sophisticated impersonations of corporate leaders and government officials. Experts warn that while current losses are financial, these threats pose imminent risks to critical infrastructure and human safety, driven by open-source models that allow adversaries to automate attacks without significant cost barriers. To counter this evolving landscape, organizations must shift from static compliance training to continuous, adaptive simulations and deploy defensive AI agents capable of countering automated offensive operations.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Where Is the Next Cure? | Global Conference 2024
Alice Park, Noubar Afeyan, Aloe Blacc, Daphne Koller, Samarth Kulkarni, Pablo Legorreta
Leading biotech executives and researchers are redefining the industry by shifting from chronic small-molecule management to precise, curative systems-based therapies like CRISPR and mRNA platforms. This transition, fueled by artificial intelligence and a "reverse translation" innovation model, has accelerated clinical timelines while projecting a $100 billion market for GLP-1 drugs and new organ-editing solutions. Despite regulatory hurdles and high initial costs for treatments like sickle cell gene editing, stakeholders anticipate that maturing technologies and scalable manufacturing will eventually democratize access to these transformative medical breakthroughs.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Rewriting the Rules of Global Conservation | Global Conference 2024
Justin Worland, Eron Bloomgarden, Iván Duque Márquez, Jennifer Morris, Wendy Schmidt
The event convenes global leaders and financial experts to address the crisis of 70% global wildlife decline by examining the "30x30" pledge to protect land and oceans by 2030, highlighted by Colombia's successful expansion of protected areas. Through analysis of market mechanisms like carbon pricing, debt-for-nature swaps, and the LEAF Coalition, the discussion outlines strategies to mobilize the trillions of dollars required to transition from extraction to regenerative economic models. The proceedings emphasize that achieving these targets depends on integrating indigenous land rights, deploying technology for transparent data, and aligning political will with private capital to prevent the Amazon from reaching a critical tipping point.
- All-In Podcast1h 46m
The Stablecoin Future, Milei's Memecoin, DOGE for the DoD, Grok 3, Why Stripe Stays Private
Milei, Patrick Collison, Jamie Dimon, Trump, Elon, Jason Calacanis, David Friedberg
Stripe leaders Patrick and John Collison, joined by Chamath Palihapitiya and Dave Sacks, discussed the company's $1 trillion annual processing volume, its strategic pivot into stablecoin infrastructure via the Bridge acquisition, and its continued decision to remain private to prioritize long-term compounding. The panel also critiqued recent political missteps, such as Javier Milei's meme coin failure, while highlighting the ARC Institute's release of the Evo 2 biological AI model and Elon Musk's rapid Grok 3 training via the "Colossus" data center initiative. Finally, the conversation addressed shifting geopolitical defense strategies, the ongoing risks of asteroid 2024 YR4, and the broader impact of remote work policies on early-career professional development.
- Milken Institute53 min
Africa's Youth is Using Technology to Solve Africa's Most Pressing Problems | Global Conference 2024
Dan Keeler, Ramadan Ameen, Maya Horgan Famodu, Yolanda Mabuto, Walter Pacheco, Fred Swaniker
A panel of industry leaders and investors analyzed Africa's transformative potential, driven by a young, mobile-connected population and surging venture capital flows that have facilitated significant fintech exits and the scaling of global talent pipelines. Discussions highlighted strategic shifts toward execution over intellectual property protection, the democratization of capital through digital asset tokenization, and the deployment of AI and drone technology to revolutionize healthcare infrastructure in nations like Rwanda. Experts concluded that bridging the skills gap through grassroots technical education and exporting digital labor are critical to unlocking economic sovereignty and ensuring sustainable growth for the continent's projected workforce.