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Amb. Bruce Heyman and Vicki Heyman: Co-Authors, "The Art of Diplomacy"
Bruce Heyman, Vicki Heyman, Dena Powell
Former U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman navigated intense diplomatic friction with the Harper administration regarding the Keystone Pipeline delay, which resulted in his temporary exclusion from high-level Canadian meetings. To repair the strained relationship, Heyman and his wife Vicki launched extensive cultural diplomacy tours across Canadian provinces while simultaneously building "Uncharted," an organization dedicated to promoting the role of citizen ambassadors. Their collaborative efforts culminated in a published book that emphasizes the strategic necessity of the U.S.-Canada border and urges Americans to actively preserve the alliance through shared historical experiences and civic engagement.
- Goldman Sachs14 min
Ming Mei: Co-Founder and CEO of GLP
Founded in 2009 and led by co-founder Ming-Mei, GLP has evolved from a brick-and-mortar warehouse operator into the world's largest logistics solutions provider managing over $125 billion in combined assets. Under Ming-Mei's strategic direction, the company executed a pivotal shift to a private fund management model after taking itself public in 2010, a move designed to support its complex global expansion into emerging markets and technology-driven supply chain services. This transformation leverages early real estate insights and a "minimized regret" decision framework to deploy capital across diverse geographies, effectively turning physical infrastructure into a platform for financial innovation and operational efficiency.
- Goldman Sachs20 min
Niklas Zennström: CEO of Atomico and Co-Founder of Skype
Niklas Zennström, Cliff Marriott
Founded by Skype co-creator Nicholas Zennstrom in 2006, Atomico has evolved from addressing European capital gaps to investing in consumer giants like Spotify while pivoting toward enterprise solutions in healthcare and climate sectors. The firm now integrates ethical governance into its portfolio strategy, requiring founders to assess societal risks and implementing proactive diversity hiring programs to foster inclusive growth. Zennstrom guides this transformation by framing the next decade as a critical window for technology to solve environmental challenges and align commercial success with sustainable corporate purpose.
- Goldman Sachs20 min
Dan Rosensweig: President and CEO, Chegg
Dan Rosenzweig leveraged a serendipitous net gain from his first layoff at Pitney Bowes to navigate a career defining the shift toward direct-to-consumer technology sales and later as Yahoo's COO, where he missed a pivotal opportunity to acquire a then-unprofitable Facebook. Following that tenure, he founded Chegg to address the higher education crisis marked by $1.5 trillion in student debt and obsolete four-year degree models, advocating for an on-demand, skills-based system aligned with employer needs. His work highlights the urgent need to reform curriculum and enrollment barriers to serve non-traditional learners and resolve the financial stagnation facing millions of American graduates.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
Lei Zhang: Founder and CEO of Hillhouse Capital
Zhang Lei, founder and CEO of Gaoling Capital, directs a firm that has scaled assets under management to over $60 billion by applying a lean, reputation-based investment model that merges Western equity principles with Eastern philosophical concepts. The firm actively pursues the "Plus Internet" sector, driving innovation in traditional industries through artificial intelligence and biotechnology while prioritizing founders who demonstrate empathy, lifelong learning, and a resilient "sports team" culture. Beyond capital allocation, Lei's strategy extends to philanthropy and education, notably through the establishment of Hill House Academy and Westlake University, which aim to transform China's wealth culture by compounding human capital rather than seeking immediate financial exits.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
Hooi Ling Tan: Co-Founder of Grab
Grab, a Southeast Asian super app serving over 600 million people across eleven nations, evolved from a taxi safety solution into a comprehensive platform for mobility, food delivery, and financial services under the leadership of co-founders Huiling Tan and Anthony Tan. By strategically acquiring Uber's regional operations and securing critical financial wallet licenses faster than competitors, the company has integrated diverse markets into a unified ecosystem while maintaining strict safety protocols and regulatory partnerships. Operating with a heavy focus on on-the-ground infrastructure and cultural alignment, Grab targets the region's middle-to-lower income demographics to drive financial inclusion and aims to become the market leader in all its territories by year-end.
- Goldman Sachs21 min
Vijay Shekhar Sharma: Founder and CEO of Paytm
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, Dan Dees, SAURABH MADAANI
Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma outlines his company's transformation from a cash-rich entity into India's largest private bank by pivoting to a mobile-first ecosystem that integrates financial and lifestyle services. This strategic evolution, supported by $300 million in foreign direct investment from Warren Buffett and guided by a corporate mantra of "no fear, no greed, no entitlement," positions the firm to compete globally rather than within national boundaries. Sharma emphasizes that lasting success requires entrepreneurs to pursue a purpose-driven mission over quick exits, using Paytm's own resilience against a failed 2010 IPO as a case study in overcoming uncertainty.
- Goldman Sachs13 min
Hugh Herr: Co-Director of MIT Center for Extreme Bionics
Biomechatronics engineer Hugh Herr redefines disability as a technological failure, predicting that human augmentation will eliminate the concept of disability within a century while enabling synthetic parts to merge with the nervous system. His expert testimony successfully challenged the Olympic ban on Oscar Pistorius, a victory that foretells a future where bionic athletes will likely outperform biological ones and spawn entirely new sports categories. Beyond competition, Herr advocates for robust policy to manage the risks of direct neural interfaces with AI and emphasizes that emotional intelligence and fearlessness are the essential drivers behind innovation and human resilience.
- Goldman Sachs18 min
Joseph Tsai - Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Alibaba Group
Joseph Tsai, David Solomon, Joe Tsai
Goldman Sachs hosted its inaugural "Business & Investing" event in China, featuring a strategic discussion between CEO David Solomon and Alibaba Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai. Tsai detailed Alibaba's evolution from a small Hangzhou startup into a global powerhouse, highlighting its defensive expansion logic, proprietary technology investments, and the unique 40-member Partnership system designed to preserve corporate culture. The conversation also offered actionable guidance on scaling entrepreneurship through mission-driven focus, leadership humility, and long-term talent development.
- Goldman Sachs12 min
"Catch-Up With David": with Goldman Sachs’ Head of Global Consumer Business Harit Talwar
Launched two years ago as a digital storefront for consumer financial services, Marcus operates with zero physical branches to serve four million customers while targeting twenty million Americans with high-interest debt. Under the leadership of Harry, who combines global market creation experience with strategic oversight, the initiative leverages Goldman Sachs' capital and risk frameworks to offer loan refinancing rates three to five percentage points lower than existing credit cards. Despite facing cultural friction between the firm's demand for perfection and the entrepreneurial need for progress, the venture aims to evolve into a shareholder-atttractive business serving tens of millions of consumers within the early stages of its digital platform expansion.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
Scott Harrison: Founder and CEO, charity: water
Scott Harrison, a former nightclub promoter who abandoned his vices after a personal health crisis, founded Charity Water to address the global water scarcity that forces millions to rely on contaminated sources. The organization distinguishes itself through a unique financial model where 100% of public donations directly fund water projects, while overhead costs are covered by a separate, audited private fund to ensure total transparency. Driven by a goal to eliminate the 663 million people currently lacking access to clean water, the nonprofit employs data-driven transparency tools and an innovative equity-based compensation structure to attract top talent while maintaining strict accountability to donors.
- Goldman Sachs22 min
Michael Oppenheimer: Nobel Prize-winning Climate Scientist
Michael Oppenheimer, Kyung-ho Park
Atmospheric scientist Dr. Oppenheimer outlines how attribution science has transformed climate risk assessment, revealing that global society is already operating outside the ±1°C stability range that defined the last 10,000 years. While the 2015 Paris Agreement secured universal participation, current pledges fall short of the 25–50% emissions cuts required to avoid the 1.5°C to 2°C danger zone, prompting a strategic shift toward mixed policy frameworks and a business sector that must prioritize long-term planetary viability over quarterly earnings. Dr. Oppenheimer contrasts this complex challenge with the successful Montreal Protocol, noting that climate mitigation is further complicated by its impact on one-third of the global economy, necessitating the integration of carbon pricing, regulatory standards, and substantial financial reallocation toward sustainable infrastructure.
- Goldman Sachs24 min
Rob Manfred: Commissioner, Major League Baseball
Rob Manfred, Robert Manfred, Dave Dassey
Commissioner Rob Manfred transformed Major League Baseball by ending decades of labor instability, enforcing a perpetual vigilance against performance-enhancing drugs, and pioneering the data analytics revolution that reshaped player valuation and front office operations. Under his leadership, the league successfully pivoted its media strategy to capture younger demographics through digital partnerships and BAMTech while strategically embracing sports betting to deepen fan engagement through official data licensing. These initiatives, grounded in a negotiation philosophy emphasizing deep preparation and strategic momentum, have redefined the league's financial infrastructure and operational integrity.
- Goldman Sachs25 min
POLITICO Playbook’s Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman - Co-Authors of "The Hill to Die On"
Anna Palmer, Jake Sherman, Jake Stewart
Jake Stewart modernized the Playbook newsletter to serve as a twice-daily insider resource for Washington elites while avoiding broad commercial expansion. In parallel, the analysis of "The Hill to Die On" details how Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell navigated the Trump presidency, noting how healthcare repeal failures inadvertently enabled the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Looking toward the 2020 election, the discussion highlights a fragmented Democratic field lacking a clear frontrunner other than Bernie Sanders, alongside media adaptations to better cover Rust Belt constituencies and the administration's use of social media to compress the news cycle.
- Goldman Sachs37 min
David W. Blight: Author, "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom"
David W. Blight, Erica Irish-Brown
Historian David Blight's definitive biography, *Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom*, leverages the previously under-documented Evans Collection to reconstruct Douglass's life from his enslavement in Maryland to his transformation into a federal political insider. The narrative details Douglass's strategic break from William Lloyd Garrison, his pivotal advocacy for the Civil War, and his prophetic critique of American society that bridges 19th-century struggles with modern voter suppression and structural inequality. By framing Douglass as a moral prophet who warned of national collapse, Blight highlights how the former slave's vision for biracial equality remains a critical lens for contemporary democratic challenges.