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Dan Morehead

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  1. Milken Institute55 min

    Bending the Curve: Innovation in Asset Management | Global Conference 2025

    Leon Kalvaria, Eric Anziani, Sandy Kaul, John Koudounis, Peter Mintzberg, Dan Morehead

    A panel of industry leaders from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Grayscale confirmed that the approval of Spot Bitcoin ETFs and the 2024 US election have triggered a regulatory inflection point where $100 billion in institutional assets now flow into the space. Key executives from Kalamos Investments, Pantera Capital, and Crypto.com outlined a strategic shift toward principal-protected products and real-world asset tokenization, projecting exponential growth over the next 18 months. Despite lingering debates on regulatory granularity, the consensus predicts that within a decade, every major financial institution will integrate blockchain into its core strategic benchmarks and asset allocation models.

  2. a16z35 min

    Why Human Data is Key to AI: Alexandr Wang from Scale AI

    Alexandr Wang, David George, Sarah Wing, Alex Wang, Max Wiethe, Dan Morehead, Mike Greenleaf, Alex Rosenberg

    Scale AI is positioning itself as the essential data foundry for the AI industry by combining human expertise with algorithms to generate frontier data, addressing the impending "data wall" that public sources can no longer satisfy. While the current market phase focuses on engineering execution with abundant compute, the speaker predicts a future shift where algorithmic innovation and proprietary enterprise data will define competitive advantage as intelligence becomes a commodity. This strategy is supported by a hiring philosophy prioritizing maximum talent density and the belief that major tech firms must aggressively invest in AI to mitigate existential risks and capture value through workflow integration.

  3. a16z30 min

    Bringing AI to the Masses with Adam D'Angelo, CEO of Quora

    Adam D'Angelo, David George, Sarah Wang, Max Wiethe, Dan Morehead, Matt Rowe

    Former Quora CEO Adam D'Angelo launched Poe as a multi-platform aggregator to navigate the shift from human-centric knowledge publishing to an instant, multi-model chat paradigm driven by generative AI. The platform differentiates itself by supporting diverse fine-tuned models and an open API that enables independent creators to deploy specialized tools while sharing revenue to offset high inference costs. D'Angelo anticipates a bifurcated market where Poe serves the downstream application layer of accessible AI, eventually evolving into a symbiotic network that complements Quora's human expertise with scalable automated agents.