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Clear all filters- Goldman Sachs22 min
AI Exchanges: How tech giants are navigating the AI landscape
Eric Sheridan, Allison Nathan, George Lee
Major technology giants are sustaining record capital expenditures through 2025 to solidify AI infrastructure dominance, with Goldman Sachs projecting this peak intensity to slow in 2026 despite tariff-related cost increases. Executives from Meta, Alphabet, and Amazon characterize the sector as being in the early innings of a third computing shift, prioritizing defensive positioning and infrastructure monetization over immediate application-layer profitability. Although investor sentiment remains bifurcated by macroeconomic risks, current valuations reflect a strategic reliance on these incumbents' unprecedented balance sheet scale to navigate the transition from raw training to commercial deployment.
- Milken Institute30 min
A Conversation with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang | Global Conference 2025
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang frames AI as a $100 trillion industrial revolution that creates "AI factories" to automate labor and reintegrate millions of workers into the global economy. Operating as an end-to-end infrastructure provider, the company builds massive, gigawatt-scale systems while arguing that unrestricted global chip trade is essential for establishing dominant U.S. standards. Through a culture of perpetual resilience and a focus on "Physical AI," NVIDIA aims to close the technology divide and drive GDP growth across healthcare, manufacturing, and robotics sectors.
- Sequoia Capital29 min
AI's Trillion-Dollar Opportunity: Sequoia AI Ascent 2025 Keynote
Pat Grady, Sonia, Konstantin Vargas
Sequoia Capital outlines a strategic framework for the AI opportunity, predicting that the sector will disrupt both software and services markets by shifting value from selling tools to selling outcomes. The firm emphasizes investing in companies that demonstrate durable adoption and functional data flywheels, noting that 2024 marked a transition from hype to utility in vertical applications like healthcare and law. Looking ahead, the presentation predicts the emergence of an agent economy where interconnected agents manage resources and tasks, potentially enabling a "one-person unicorn" era through new management strategies.
- Sequoia Capital8 min
Ambient Agents and the New Agent Inbox ft. Harrison Chase
LangChain CEO Harrison Chase introduces ambient agents as background systems designed to execute complex, multi-step operations by monitoring event streams rather than relying on direct chat input. These agents operate within a strict human-in-the-loop framework that utilizes patterns like action approval, editing, and time-travel rollback to ensure accuracy while preventing full autonomy. To support this architecture, LangChain has enhanced its LangGraph infrastructure for state persistence and scalability while deploying an Agent Inbox UI that enables users to manage long-running workflows through direct oversight and feedback integration.
- All-In Podcast52 min
Doug Burgum, Secretary of the Interior | All-In DC
Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, a former North Dakota governor and tech executive, has launched the National Energy Dominance Council to rapidly dismantle regulatory barriers hindering US LNG, nuclear, and critical mineral expansion. The initiative targets an energy emergency driven by surging AI and robotics demand by prioritizing Small Modular Reactors, modernizing federal permitting processes, and unlocking $8 trillion in untapped public land resources. Burgum argues that adopting a manufacturing-style approach and reducing bureaucratic duplication are essential for the United States to maintain energy independence and compete globally against China's aggressive infrastructure growth.
- Milken Institute56 min
Game Changers: Unlocking the Global Sports Economy | Global Conference 2025
Emmanuel Acho, Willow Bay, Sam Kennedy, Rich Paul, Alex Rodriguez, Jason Wright
Moderated by Emanuel Ocho, a panel of five high-profile sports leaders including Alex Rodriguez, Rich Paul, and Sam Kennedy detailed the economic transformation of women's sports and the strategic necessity of institutional capital for franchise growth. The discussion highlighted how shifting from altruistic models to revenue-focused ecosystems has driven record attendance and a 200% surge in sponsorship, while establishing that sustainable success relies on defining culture through face-to-face interaction and long-term investment patience. By addressing market gaps in media coverage and merchandise, these leaders argued that balancing fiduciary duties with player well-being is essential for navigating an era where athletes now control their own narratives and investors target high-growth asset classes.
- a16z26 min
Modernizing Warfare and Beyond
Liz McNally, Qasar Younis, Erin Price-Wright
The Defense Innovation Unit is accelerating the integration of dual-use commercial technology into the Department of Defense by partnering with companies like Applied Intuition to prototype and field software at scale. This strategy leverages new congressional flexibility and the Commercial Solutions Opening model to bridge the gap between agile industry innovation and military needs, addressing critical challenges in the Indo-Pacific against China's advancing autonomy capabilities. By prioritizing "dual fluency" talent and a venture-first procurement approach, DIU aims to modernize the defense industrial base and ensure the U.S. maintains a technological edge in software-defined warfare.
- Sequoia Capital48 min
Building the System of Record for the AI Era ft Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach
Carl Eschenbach, Sonya Huang, Pat Grady
Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach is redefining the platform as a unified "Agent System of Record" to govern both human employees and AI agents across its database of over 70 million users. To monetize this shift, the company is deploying a multi-faceted pricing model involving seat-based uplifts, role-based agent fees, and consumption-based API access while utilizing strategic acquisitions like HiredScore to drive measurable productivity gains. Despite an 8% workforce restructuring to fund reinvestment, Eschenbach emphasizes that AI will serve as a growth engine rather than a cost-cutting tool, maintaining a human-in-the-loop approach for critical decisions to preserve the company's core values.
- Milken Institute23 min
A Caregiving Conversation with Patrick Dempsey | Global Conference 2025
Founded by Patrick Dempsey following his mother's prolonged battle with ovarian cancer, the Dempsey Center provides free holistic care to cancer patients and their families across 32 states and four countries. The organization operates on a wraparound model that pairs medical treatment with services like nutrition counseling, yoga, and peer support while advocating for systemic insurance reforms to cover alternative therapies. Dempsey leverages his acting platform to expand the center's reach and fundraising efforts, aiming to reduce wait times for immediate intervention and establish a culture of caregiving that addresses the root causes of rising cancer rates.
- Milken Institute50 min
The State of the Global Economy: Global Capital Markets | Global Conference 2025
David Faber, Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi, Jane Fraser, Jenny Johnson, Harvey Schwartz, Andrew Sullivan
Amidst rising tariff uncertainties and unsolvable fiscal deficits, major global investors from Carlyle, Mubadara, and Prudential are shifting capital allocation toward defensive balance sheets and the fastest-growing asset class, private credit. While short-term market volatility is expected as corporations delay supply chain transformations, long-term strategies increasingly prioritize U.S. assets and emerging markets like India alongside massive infrastructure investments in AI energy and data centers. Panelists project that despite immediate headwinds from regulatory burdens and debt concerns, artificial intelligence will ultimately drive superior productivity growth compared to fiscal policy measures over the next decade.
Why Bucky Moore Joined $30 Billion AUM Megafund Lightspeed
Bucky Moore has joined Lightspeed as a Partner to lead early-stage enterprise investments, leveraging the firm's $30 billion asset base to support capital-intensive "new class" companies like OpenAI and SpaceX without raising a new fund. Moore emphasizes a people-first investment philosophy where deep relationship building and founder assessment supersede traditional valuation tactics, aiming to capture multi-trillion dollar outcomes in AI and robotics. By expanding Lightspeed's multi-asset capabilities and diversifying capital sources beyond traditional endowments, the firm aims to navigate the structural shifts required to sustain massive growth in the modern venture landscape.
- All-In Podcast50 min
Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture | All-In DC
Brooke Rollins, David Friedberg
USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins is spearheading a major realignment of the Department, utilizing executive orders to reduce waste, cancel billions in contracts, and refocus the agency on food security as a national security imperative while addressing obesity through SNAP restrictions. The administration pairs these internal reforms with a protectionist trade strategy designed to eliminate agricultural deficits and personally secure new markets in Asia and South America, all while navigating labor shortages through targeted visa programs. Simultaneously, Rollins is working with bipartisan legislators to deconstruct the Farm Bill's political "Christmas tree" structure, aiming to separate nutrition reform from agricultural support to foster a more efficient, sovereign food system.
- All-In Podcast1h 35m
Trump's First 100 Days, Tariffs Impact Trade, AI Agents, Amazon Backs Down
Trump, Aaron Levie, Ryan Petersen, Chamath, Jason, David Sacks
This panel discussion evaluates the Trump administration's first 100 days, highlighting a record-breaking 143 executive orders, an A+ rating for border security, and a projected $1 trillion in foreign direct investment driven by aggressive tariff strategies. Simultaneously, the conversation explores transformative shifts in the technology sector, where AI agents are evolving from simple chatbots into autonomous workflow systems that promise to disrupt software business models and address national security dependencies on Chinese supply chains. While praising the administration's dismantling of DEI initiatives and pro-open-source AI stance, critics within the group also raise significant concerns regarding rule-of-law execution, conflicts of interest, and the urgent need for clearer communication on specific economic incentives.
Windsurf: The Making of a Billion-Dollar AI Company | Leigh Marie Braswell, Kleiner Perkins
Leigh Marie Braswell, Molly O'Shea
Kleiner Perkins deployed its $2 billion combined KP21 fund through a nine-partner team led by Lee Marie Braswell, utilizing a "major and minor" specialization model to target early and growth stages in AI-driven sectors like Windsurf and Glean. The firm is actively validating high-velocity startups such as Windsurf, which recently hit $100 million ARR by pivoting from GPU infrastructure to a unified IDE, while rejecting the notion that current market conditions prevent the creation of historically significant companies. By enforcing rigorous diligence on recurring revenue and leveraging a "talent vortex" hiring strategy, the partnership aims to capture outliers in coding agents and enterprise automation despite macroeconomic turbulence and skepticism regarding AI profit margins.
- Goldman Sachs13 min
Stagflation and the Fed's next move
The U.S. economy confronts a stagflationary shock driven by spending cuts, restrictive immigration policies, and tariff uncertainty, creating a complex backdrop for Federal Reserve monetary strategy. Policymakers are advised to pause rate decisions at the May meeting to assess new trade data while maintaining a tough rhetorical stance to anchor inflation expectations without pre-committing to specific future cuts. As the Fed balances its dual mandate amidst potential political pressure, global investors are cautiously retaining dollar allocations despite signs of institutional skepticism and capital outflows that are currently characterized as temporary positioning rather than a permanent strategic shift.