🔥Fireside chat - me w/ @satyanadella Chairman & CEO Microsoft🔥
Live, Mon Nov 6, 11:30am in SF
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Topics
*AI revolution
*Code, productivity & AI agents
*How Microsoft became a ~$2.5 trillion company
BlackRock, State Street, & Vanguard represent arguably the most powerful cartel in human history: they’re the largest shareholders of nearly every major public company (even of each other) & they use *your* own money to foist ESG agendas onto corporate boards - voting for “racial equity audits” & “Scope 3 emissions caps” that don’t advance your best financial interests. This raises serious fiduciary, antitrust, and conflict-of-interest concerns. As President I will cut off the real hand that guides the ESG movement - not the invisible hand of the free market, but the invisible fist of government itself.
Today we welcome the teams at DSS, bartleby®, and Student Brands to Learneo and our suite of supplemental learning and writing technologies!
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We offer "no terms" by not using our LP's capital. Personal loans going at our borrowing cost to our companies. We are covering those firms that can't because of their structure or are small. Need other LARGE VC firms to also step up, especially those taking home millions in fees
Regulators need to step in to do a *backstop* of depositors (not a bailout of a bank)
40,000 SVB depositor small businesses
30% will fail to make payroll in the next 30 days
Estimate 10 employees each
120,000 jobs on the line
Years of US innovation on the line
It turns out the lesson that was re-learned in the last few years is that the biggest cheat code in startups is to find out there’s actually no cheat code. No shortcuts. Just build relentlessly and don’t get over your skis. That’s the lesson for 2023.