Matt Miller
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- RAISE Summit20 min
Fireside Chat with Matan Grinberg, Founder & CEO of Factory | RAISE Summit 2026
Founded in 2023 by ex-physics PhD Matan Grinberg, Factory operates as a model-agnostic router that enables enterprises to deploy fully on-premises autonomous software agents directly within existing developer workflows. The company rapidly scaled from ten to ten thousand users within months by offering a cost-effective alternative to vendor lock-in, notably accelerating legacy COBOL migration and allowing sovereign data deployments for regulated industries. Backed by investors including Sequoia and Avant Capital, Factory currently automates both software engineering tasks and emerging non-software productivity use cases while predicting a future dominance of open models over frontier closed ones.
- RAISE Summit22 min
Fireside Chat with Lin Qiao, CEO & Co-Founder of Fireworks AI | RAISE Summit 2026
At the RAISE conference, Matt Miller of Avantik VC discussed Fireworks AI's specialized intelligence platform with founder Lin Chao, a former Meta AI infrastructure lead who built the company to help businesses own their data-driven models rather than relying on generic APIs. The dialogue highlighted how fine-tuning open-source models on proprietary data allows companies to reduce inference costs by up to tenfold while creating durable competitive moats against commoditized application development. Together, they outlined a strategic shift where long-term business survival depends on continuous model customization and the deployment of millions of specialized models tailored to specific use cases.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
The Evolving Landscape of Asset-Based Finance and Securities Products | Global Conference 2025
Ted Seides, Matt Miller, Jack Neumark, Madelaine O'Connell, Jason Steiner, Edwin Wilches
Leading Asset-Based Finance managers including representatives from PGM, PIMCO, HPS, Fortress, and Bayview defined the sector as "private credit 2.0," focusing on securitizable income-generating assets like real estate and esoteric receivables to diversify beyond traditional corporate loans. While the panel consensus identifies homeowner resilience as a key defense against downturns, experts warn of rising subprime auto risks, FICO score distortions, and dangerous spread compression driven by record capital influx from insurers and pension funds. To navigate these dynamics, the group outlined divergent strategies ranging from maintaining "rent" models with originators to pursuing complex illiquid structures, all while emphasizing the necessity of rigorous forward-looking scenario analysis to manage deteriorating covenants and liquidity premiums.
- Sequoia Capital26 min
Open sourcing the AI ecosystem ft. Arthur Mensch of Mistral AI and Matt Miller
Founded in April 2023 by Arthur Conch, Guillaume Lample, and Timothée, Mistral AI accelerates global AI adoption through a dual strategy of rapid open-source releases and high-performance commercial models like Mistral Large. The company leverages its French headquarters to access cost-efficient engineering talent while forging strategic partnerships with Microsoft, Snowflake, and Databricks to deploy stateful AI directly within enterprise data clouds. Looking ahead, Mistral plans to expand its European language dominance and introduce multimodal capabilities, aiming to evolve from serverless APIs into a comprehensive ecosystem of customizable, autonomous agents.
- Milken Institute1h 36m
Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit and Fixing Global Finance
Adair Turner, Mike Clouden, Matt Miller, Lord Adair Turner
Lord Adair Turner, former chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority, argues in *Between Debt and the Devil* that the global economic stagnation following the 2008 crisis stems from a failure to regulate private credit creation, which has shifted predominantly toward real estate speculation rather than business investment. He advocates for radical policy reforms including significantly higher bank capital requirements, strict lending limits on property markets, and the adoption of "overt money finance" to escape persistent low-growth equilibriums. Turner warns that without these structural adjustments and a reintegration of banking realities into macroeconomic models, advanced economies face continued inequality and the risk of social instability.
- Milken Institute1h 14m
The High Cost of the California Dream
Matt Miller, Roxana Tynan, Joel Singer, Antonio Villaraigosa, Rudy Espinoza, Louis Feldman, Aliza Carney-Gurin, Mark Stagan, Dan Hamilton, Eve Chair, Michael Banner
Hosted by Matt Miller at the Milken Institute, a panel of civic leaders including Antonio Villaraigosa and Joel Singer analyzed the stagnating wages and soaring costs of housing, healthcare, and education that are eroding California's middle class. The discussion identified outdated zoning laws and NIMBYism as primary drivers of an affordability crisis while proposing solutions such as density bonuses, pension restructuring, and micro-equity investments to spur entrepreneurship. Ultimately, the panelists argued that reversing the state's talent drain requires a combination of regulatory reform, higher wages, and inclusive immigration policies to restore economic competitiveness.
- Milken Institute56 min
Power Shift: The Changing American Electorate
Joel Benenson, Harold Ford Jr., Frank Luntz, Dan Schnur, Matt Miller
A panel of political analysts examines how demographic shifts and a generational divide have restructured the American electorate around a "freedom vs. fairness" conflict, fundamentally altering the dynamics observed in the 2012 re-election of President Obama. The discussion highlights how institutional structures, including primary mechanics and the Senate filibuster, incentivize extreme polarization while eroding trust in corporations and the political system. Looking ahead to the 2014 midterms and future governance, the experts argue that successful leadership must emerge from outside traditional congressional channels to navigate ideological silos and address the specific economic and social anxieties of women and Latino voters.