You can take the girl out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the girl (me, 1994-99, where I founded our company in 1998). Viva Afrika! Happy #AfricaDay! #Shosoloza Take it away, Johnny! https://t.co/ST6btqHKfB
Made it my life’s mission to become the Taliban’s worst nightmare:
A highly educated Afghan woman.
First, Columbia University at the top of my class, and now Oxford University.
Give Afghan girls one chance and see what they can achieve.
Two iconic CEOs announced that they’re stepping aside and called for a new genre of leader in an era of AI. Coca-Cola’s James Quincey said the company now needs “someone with the energy to pursue a completely new transformation of the enterprise.” Former Walmart CEO Doug McMillon was just as direct: “I could start this next big set of transformations with AI, but I couldn’t finish it.”
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@nxthompson@CarissaVeliz Thanks for pointing out this outstanding chat. In fact, I find your entire series, "The Most Interesting Thing in AI to be exceptionally insightful in a sea of AI noise. Thank you.
Are you still solving yesterday's problems amidst big changes? Are there new directions to address instead of trying to fix obsolete scenarios? Which new issues, opportunities require urgent attention? New @Gallup thoughts. #Leadership#GlobalBusiness
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Excellent essay from Nan on the coming wave of AI-era philanthropy and the latent opportunity in billions of dollars of newly created wealth flowing toward public goods.
Her central case: what if we modeled public goods funding more like Silicon Valley’s startup ecosystem?
What could philanthropy’s equivalents learn from LPs, VCs, and founders?
Greater ambition, more risk, better incentives for top talent, more innovative funding models, embracing power law outcomes…
In some sense, this is Nan laying out a framework for how we can have more Nan’s: world-class investor / founder / operator talent that work on philanthropy without sacrificing their ambition.
How is AI being built in #China and what are the ramifications? Learned firsthand from a China-based expert and our go-to person, Ashley, during her China Innovation study tour in September. #GlobalBusiness. #StayingGlobal#GTM#GlobalExpansion
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Companies reconsider structure and/or presence in foreign markets with #geopolitical situations. Soon we're launching "#StayingGlobal". What do we need to know to keep our prior investments sound while managing current conditions?
#GlobalExpansion
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In this week's roundup:
* America's exploding national debt
* Maybe AI cyberattacks aren't so bad?
* Phone bans in schools are good
* AI is taking some coding jobs
* Millennials are doing fine
* Public order is good
* YIMBYism is slowly winning in CA
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Silicon Valley and the Vatican may “seem like strange bedfellows”—but they each have something to gain from the other, @EliasWachtel argues. He examines why Big Tech is listening to priests and theologians who want to shape the future of AI: https://t.co/IJ8W1z9jzU
PM Carney on the Americans calling the alcohol ban an irritant: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariffs on steel. 50% tariffs on aluminum. 25% tariffs on automobiles. All the tariffs on forest products. Those are more than irritants, those are violations of our trade deal."