SALT Talks

How Blockchain Solves A.I. Concerns with Casper Labs CEO Mrinal Manohar | SALT Talks #310

Tue, 12 Mar 2024 16:45:00 +0000

Anthony Scaramucci sat down with Mrinal Manohar, co-founder and CEO of the layer-1 blockchain infrastructure company Casper Labs, to discuss how blockchain tech and artificial intelligence can work together, Casper Labs' blockchain enterprise solutions and the company's exciting next steps that include a groundbreaking partnership with IBM's A.I. program Watson. They talk about the benefits of open source technology, the importance of blockchain-enabled transparency and Casper Labs' ability to become the AWS and Linux of blockchain infrastructure.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Intro

1:58 - What is artificial intelligence?

8:20 - A.I. guardrails with blockchain

11:00 - Casper Labs & enterprise blockchain solutions

16:43 - Proving blockchain's worth

22:03 - Casper Labs model

24:45 - The dangers of A.I.

29:50 - IBM partnership & business model

34:23 - Open sourcing

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Writing Crypto's Next Chapter with Galaxy's Steve Kurz | SALT Talks #309

Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Steve Kurz is the Global Head of Asset Management at Galaxy and a member of Galaxy’s founding team. Galaxy is a digital asset and blockchain leader providing access to the growing digital economy, spanning three complementary operating businesses: Global Markets, Asset Management, and Digital Infrastructure Solutions. Kurz discusses his background and journey to crypto, helping start Galaxy and the next chapter for crypto.

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00:00 - Intro and background

7:10 - Bitcoin & starting Galaxy

10:40 - Crypto cycles and long-term future

19:50 - Next crypto wave

32:50 - Crypto's durability

Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Building Crypto's Layer-1 Future with Figment's CEO | SALT Talks #308

Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Lorien Gabel is founder and CEO of Figment, a crypto infrastructure company that provides comprehensive staking solutions for 250+ institutional clients. Gabel joined Anthony Scaramucci and John Darsie to discuss his eclectic childhood, his path to serial entrepreneurship and his journey to crypto. He explains how irresponsible monetary policy and runaway national debt brought about crypto's inevitable creation, how Figment services the layer-1 ecosystem and Wyoming's role as a home for crypto's future.

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Modern Alternative Investing with iCapital Co-Founder | SALT Talks #307

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 08:00:00 +0000

iCapital Co-Founder Dan Vene discusses the evolution of alternative investing and iCapital’s role connecting financial advisors and asset managers. Dan then explains iCapital’s latest product rollouts, Marketplace and Architect. Finally, he offers his thoughts on the current investing environment and regulatory insights within the alts space.

Dan Vene is Co-Founder and one of the Managing Partners of iCapital, where he leads the iCapital Marketplace, the largest global platform that connects wealth managers with the world’s leading alternative asset managers. Dan is also a member of the company’s Managing Committee, Operating Committee and Investment Committee.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Managing Risk With Alternative Credit | SALT Talks #306

Fri, 24 Feb 2023 10:30:00 +0000

Prime Meridian Capital executive team members Don Davis (CEO) and Sean Bill (CIO) discuss the success of the firm's multiple credits funds amid difficult market conditions. They explain their firm's approach to risk management, share their view of the The Fed and interest rates, and offer potential market movements they're prepared for.

Prime Meridian Capital Management is a San Francisco Bay Area private credit fund manager. The firm’s Income Fund won the HedgeWeek US Award for Best Credit Hedge Multi-Strategy Hedge Fund in 2022.

Don Davis is the CEO and Portfolio Manager of Prime Meridian Capital Management where he oversees day-to-day management of the firm. Davis has been a top ranked portfolio manager multiple times throughout his career. In addition to his firm’s recent HedgWeek award, he previously served as President and Portfolio Manager of Novus Investments when Novus was ranked #1 in the US for total performance over both a 5 and a 7 year period from 2007-2013.

Sean Bill is the Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager of Prime Meridian Capital Management where he manages the firm’s global portfolio and oversees the investment process. Prior to joining, Sean served as the Treasurer & Chief Investment Officer at the VTA where he was responsible for the management and oversight of a multi-billion-dollar multi-asset class portfolio. Sean was named to Chief Investment Officer Magazine’s Power 100 list of the most influential institutional investors globally for

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Deloitte Brings Institutional Guidance to Digital Assets | SALT Crypto #305

Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:30:00 +0000

Richard Rosenthal and Roy Ben-Hur are key figures within Deloitte Advisory, both working within the fast-growing world of blockchain and digital assets.

Richard is a principal in Deloitte's Advisory practice. He leads complex & transformative projects, supporting banking, crypto-native and fintech clients in setting up new entities, enabling M&A activity, launching digital asset products and addressing a broad range of regulatory and risk areas to within the US banking system. Richard leads Deloitte's Business & Entity Transformation integrated services and also leads Deloitte's Digital Assets Banking Regulatory practice.

Roy is the Digital Assets Financial Services leader for Deloitte Advisory. He has been a consultant in the financial services industry for over 23 years and brings deep industry experience and a background leading large scale integration programs supporting business, compliance, risk, regulatory and technology transformation initiatives. Roy’s engagements in the digital assets space include supporting clients establish buy-hold/custody-sell and lend business models, leading digital assets regulatory applications and assisting clients enhance their risk & control frameworks to manage digital asset risks.

They each discuss their journey into the digital access space, the state of the industry and what they envision for the industry going forward. They then discuss the regulation of digital assets and blockchain in the US and globally and how Deloitte is helping customers navigate.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Miles Nadal: Keys to Entrepreneurship & Partnership | SALT Talks #304

Tue, 13 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Miles S. Nadal is an international entrepreneur, industrialist and philanthropist. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of Peerage Capital, a leading North American business services and private investment firm focused on real estate services, real estate investment, self storage, wealth advisory, and asset management.

Miles walks through his humble beginnings before setting out on a life of entrepreneurship and business. He recounts starting Peerage Capital, lessons from a long career that’s withstood many market downturns and discusses the 12 Principles that he uses to guide his life and instill culture within his company.

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Dave Ripley: Crypto Leadership with Kraken's Incoming CEO | SALT Crypto #303

Thu, 27 Oct 2022 10:45:00 +0000

Dave Ripley is the incoming Chief Executive Officer at Kraken, a global digital asset exchange. Before becoming Kraken’s CEO, Dave served as Chief Operating Officer at Kraken for over six years, playing an instrumental role in growing the company to be one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world.

Dave discusses his journey into the digital asset space, the evolution of Kraken, market cycles, use cases and broader crypto adoption. Then, he dives into regulation, NFTs, the status of a potential Kraken IPO and his five-year outlook.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Alan Knitowski: Owning Your Digital Identity with Blockchain Tech | SALT Talks #302

Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Alan S. Knitowski is President, CEO and Co-Founder of Phunware. He is a successful serial entrepreneur with multiple exits over a 15 year period to companies including Cisco Systems. He is a 2014 Finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award for Central Texas and has been a Founder, Executive, Angel Investor and Fund Manager throughout his career in the private sector after serving in the United States Army as an Airborne, Air Assault and Ranger qualified Captain in the Corps of Engineers.

Alan walks through his distinguished career that started in the military before becoming a serial entrepreneur in the private sector. He details the story behind Phunware's founding and their early use of SPACs before taking the company public. Finally, he discusses Phunware's early blockchain and crypto integration, the transformative role the technology plays in reclaiming personal ID digital ownership and what it means for a mobile-first society.

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Tushar Jain: Blockchain, Crypto & Real-World Change | SALT Crypto #301

Thu, 20 Oct 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Tushar Jain is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, which is one of the largest and most established crypto-focused investment firms in the world. The firm manages billions in assets across liquid and illiquid strategies in the crypto markets, and is known for its high-conviction, thesis-driven investing.

Tushar discusses his background and journey into the blockchain space, the state of crypto and the recent downturns. Then, he dives into Multicoin’s early investment in Solana, Proof of Physical Work, tokenization and real-world blockchain applications.

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John D'Agostino: Market Cycles & Digital Assets | SALT Crypto #300

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 10:30:00 +0000

John D’Agostino is a Senior Advisor at Coinbase, overseeing strategic partnerships for the business. John brings deep experience with sophisticated private investment vehicles characterized by complex strategies and asset classes, notably derivatives, structured credit, direct lending, high frequency/quant trading and similar strategies.

John discusses his background and journey into the digital asset space, the crypto market outlook and Coinbase’s recent partnerships with BlackRock and Google. Then, he analyses the state of retail and institutional adoption, and the future of regulation.

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Lily Liu: Solana & The Future of DeFi | SALT Crypto 299

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Lily Liu is the President of the Solana Foundation. She is an entrepreneur and investor focused on the cryptocurrency industry. She has a background as a CFO and operating executive in the US, China, and throughout emerging markets. Lily is the Co Founder of Anagram, and part of the founding team of Osmosis, and an advisor to Brave. Previously, Lily co-founded Earn.com which was acquired by Coinbase in 2018. She was also the CFO of the Chinaco Healthcare Corporation, where she built a 500-bed private hospital in China. Lily also worked at KKR in New York as well as McKinsey in New York and Beijing. Lily received a BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford and studied East Asian Studies at Harvard.

Lily Liu details her childhood and influences that started her on a journey that led her to Bitcoin and crypto. She then discusses the role Ethereum played in pushing the space forward while also raising issues related to scalability and transaction volume. Liu details how Solana was developed to solve this central problem and offers a glimpse into the future of DeFi while noting there is still much yet developed in the crypto space.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Bill Barhydt: A World Powered by Crypto | SALT Crypto 298

Thu, 29 Sep 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra, a leading digital asset wealth management platform. Prior to Abra, Bill was CEO of Boom Financial and WebSentric. He was also VP at Goldman Sachs and served as a research engineer at NASA and the CIA. As one of the early team members of Netscape, Bill was involved in building some of the core infrastructure that helped grow the consumer Internet we all use today. Bill is globally recognized as a technology pioneer and as an avid investor in companies across Web 3 and the broader technology ecosystem.

Barhydt explains his journey into digital assets, the crypto ecosystem, use cases and the future of regulation. Then, he discusses Abra Bank, the current macro environment and Bitcoin price predictions.

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Jamie Thomson: Vulcan Forged & The Future of Blockchain Gaming | SALT Talks 297

Tue, 27 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Jamie Thomson is the CEO of Vulcan Forged, a premium blockchain game studio, dApp incubator and cross-chain NFT marketplace. Vulcan Forged is the creator of popular web3 gaming titles such as VulcanVerse, Forge Arena, Berserk and over 15 other games and dApps with over 200,000 users in the community. In 2021, Vulcan Forged created Elysium, its own proprietary proof-of-stake blockchain that was purpose-built for gaming, dApps and other metaverse activity. Building on the success of their hit web3 gaming titles, they are soon launching a patented metaverse-as-a-service engine, MetaScapes.

Thomson discusses his crypto journey, Vulcan Forged's rapid growth and rabid community, and its recent investment from SkyBridge Capital. Then, he explains the company's key blockchain-powered ecosystems, his perspective on the play-to-earn model and his plan for Vulcan Forged during a bear market.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Lynn Baranski: Private Equity in the Current Macro Environment | SALT Talks #296

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:05:00 +0000

Lynn Baranski, Managing Director, is the Global Head of Investments for BlackRock Private Equity Partners (PEP) within BlackRock Alternative Investors (BAI). She is a member of the BAI Exco and PEP's Management Committee, Investment Committee, and Valuation Committee.

Baranski discusses the macro environment in the first three quarters of 2022, the state of private equity deal flow and and shifting strategies in response. She then shares her thoughts behind the long-term growth of private equity, democratization of access and retail investors' under-allocation in PE relative to performance.

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Dan Morehead: Crypto & the Macro Environment | SALT Crypto #295

Fri, 02 Sep 2022 10:25:00 +0000

Dan Morehead is the founder and CEO of Pantera Capital. Dan founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson. Dan began his career as a Collateralized Mortgage Obligation trader at Goldman Sachs. Dan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in Structural Engineering and received the Carmichael Prize for his thesis.

Dan considers the last year in crypto, the market outlook, the Ethereum Merge and bridging a multichain world. Then, he discusses DeFi, institutional adoption, regulatory risk and Pantera Venture.

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Akbar Thobhani: Crypto Spring is Coming | SALT Crypto #294

Thu, 25 Aug 2022 12:15:00 +0000

Akbar Thobhani is the co-founder and CEO of sFOX, a full-service crypto prime broker bringing together liquidity, best price execution, dark pool access, treasury management, custody and settlement services all together in one trading platform and API. Prior to co-founding sFOX, Thobhani served as Head of Growth & Business Development at Airbnb, where he managed payments for over 190 countries.

Thobhani explains his journey into the digital asset space, sFox, the state of crypto and the future of regulation. Then, he discusses his five-year outlook, the need for crypto derivatives and emerging Web3 trends.

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David Mercer: TradFi & DeFi Converge | SALT Crypto #293

Wed, 24 Aug 2022 10:30:00 +0000

David Mercer is the Chief Executive Officer of LMAX Group, a global financial technology company headquartered in the UK, and the leading independent operator of institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading. Following a successful management buyout in 2013, David has built LMAX Group into a key player in both the traditional capital markets and the crypto trading industry. LMAX Group operates 6 exchanges globally and has offices in 9 countries. In 2021 LMAX Group sold a minority stake to J.C. Flowers & Co. A former City banking executive and currency specialist, David is an outspoken industry commentator and a long-term champion of the UK’s technology sector as well as a passionate supporter of entrepreneurship.

David analyzes the last twelve months in crypto markets, the state of institutional adoption, and the five year forecast in the space. Then, he discusses the importance of growing crypto market access, future of crypto regulation and the crucial role of Fed policy.

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Hendrik Hofstadt: Bridging the Blockchain Divide | SALT Crypto #292

Thu, 04 Aug 2022 10:10:00 +0000

Hendrik Hofstadt currently serves as a Director of the Wormhole Foundation. The Foundation has a mission of fostering development of the Wormhole protocol, a communication bridge between different public blockchains. Hendrik is also the chairman of the supervisory board at Neodyme AG. Prior to Wormhole, Hendrik co-founded and served as CEO for Certus One, a blockchain infrastructure company, which was acquired by Jump Crypto in 2021.

Hendrik walks through his crypto journey, cyber-security background and the power of proof-of-stake validators. Then, he explains Wormhole’s mission to bridge public blockchains, the difference between wrapped vs. cross-chain assets, and importance of data sharing. Finally, he discusses Ethereum, Wormhole’s roadmap and cross-chain wallets.

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Kerry Healey: Advancing the American Dream | SALT Talks #291

Tue, 02 Aug 2022 10:35:00 +0000

Kerry Healey is President of the Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream. Her career spans higher education, elected office, and foreign and domestic policy. Previously, Healey served as Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor where, among her many achievements, was integral in crafting the state’s pioneering health care reform legislation. Healey has been a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics and Center for Public Leadership, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a trustee of the American University of Afghanistan.

In this episode Kerry Healey discusses her background, her work to advance the American Dream, and middle class-based entrepreneurialism. Then, she offers her thoughts on bipartisan solutions, national unity and the life-long impactful work of Michael Milken. Finally, she talks about her view of public service, the dire of state of political institutions, and key policy initiatives.

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Daniel Silva: Forgery & Fraud in Art | SALT Talks #290

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:11:00 +0000

Daniel Silva is the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author known for his long-running thriller series starring spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon. His latest book, Portrait of an Unknown Woman, once again follows Allon as he undertakes a high-stakes search for the greatest art forger who ever lived.

In this interview, Silva discusses his latest novel, the widespread problem of art forgeries, and the role of marketing in art valuations. Then, he talks about the arc of his beloved central character Gabriel Allon, how he thinks about the state of politics and the world, and what it would take to heal the partisan divide in the United States.

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Adrian Aoun: Healthcare on Every Corner | SALT Talks #289

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Adrian Aoun is the founder and CEO of Forward, an AI-based healthcare system combining world-class private doctors with new technology to enable proactive, data-driven primary care. Most recently, he was the head of Special Projects for the CEO of Google/Alphabet, where he founded one of the Alphabet companies Sidewalk Labs. Adrian arrived at Google upon the acquisition of his AI startup Wavii and spent his first year at Google helping to create and build their AI division. Additionally, Adrian is an active angel investor and advisor to a number of technology startups and funds.

Aoun discusses the world of artificial intelligence, his time at Google and the scaling potential offered by AI technology. Then, he explains how healthcare has lagged behind other industries transformed by tech and offers his vision for the future of healthcare powered by AI.

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Luca Cosentino: Embedded Crypto Infrastructure | SALT Crypto #288

Thu, 30 Jun 2022 10:50:00 +0000

Luca Cosentino is the Head of Crypto at Cross River which focuses on building technology that will enable FinTech players to offer crypto-based products to their users. He joined Cross River in July 2021 to close the gap between the 2.5 billion people who have access to digital banking services and the 250 million crypto users already in the space.

Cosentino tells his journey to crypto from traditional finance, his role at Cross River and offers his views on the future of money. Then, he discusses his work building crypto infrastructure solutions, the future of crypto regulation and what’s next for the space following the recent downturn.

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Nelson Chu: Democratizing Private Credit | SALT Talks #286

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:40:00 +0000

Nelson Chu is the founder and CEO of Percent, a global leader in financial infrastructure solutions. Founded in 2018, the company leverages proprietary technologies, integrations, and data to bring first-of-its-kind transparency and efficiency to lenders and credit transactions.

Chu discusses entrepreneurship, creating Percent to bring private credit investing to retail, and the power of data and transparency. He talks about the opportunities in corporate loans, Apple's entry into financial services, international private credit and the state of crypto.

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Mike Cahill: On-Chain Financial Data | SALT Crypto #285

Thu, 16 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Mike Cahill is the Director of the Pyth Data Association, the Swiss association behind the Pyth network, a decentralized oracle solution that brings financial data across asset classes on-chain – directly from the source. Based in Porto, Mike is also the head of European business development for digital assets at Jump Crypto, a market data provider of Pyth.

Cahill details his journey to crypto and the role the Pyth Network plays in facilitating on-chain financial data sharing. He explains the decision to pick Solana as their layer-1 blockchain, the state of participation on Pyth and what growth looks like amid the current crypto environment.

0:00 – Intro & background

5:14 – Pyth Network

12:38 – Building on Solana

18:47 – Pyth data participation

26:06 – Growing Pyth & market conditions

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Rich Caputo: Private Equity Today | SALT Talks #284

Tue, 14 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Rich Caputo is the Chief Executive Partner of The Jordan Company, a New York-based private equity firm focused on investments in middle-market companies across a range of industries. Mr. Caputo serves as Chairman of the Firm's Partnership Board and Executive Committee and is a director of a number of the Firm's portfolio companies.

Rich Caputo details his background, the thirty year evolution of Private Equity, and current similarities with the 90s tech bubble. He then discusses The Jordan Company’s longstanding approach to investing, macro environment headwinds and its potential effects, and potential investment opportunities.

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0:00 – Intro & background

6:05 – Private Equity’s evolution

13:06 – Tech bubble vs. now

15:55 – TJC investment approach

24:43 – Macro environment, PE & VC

34:39 – Investment opportunities

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Dr. P. Jillian Bethel: Crypto in The Bahamas | SALT Crypto #283

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:50:00 +0000

Dr. P. Jillian Bethel is CEO of OKX for the Bahamas and a lifelong champion of the Bahamian crypto community. Jillian is an entrepreneur and former obstetrician-gynecologist who became interested in blockchain and distributed ledger technologies while leading international health management and medical research teams. In 2018, Jillian returned to the Bahamas to apply blockchain initiatives to grow the Bahamian economy and culture.

Jillian discusses her background, globe-trotting crypto journey, and return to a crypto-forward Bahamian regulatory environment. Then, she talks about the recent Crypto Bahamas conference (presented by FTX x SALT), and the OKX mission. Finally, she explains the importance of crypto education in driving the digital asset ecosystem forward.

Presented by FTX

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Ben Sparango: Solana Summer 2.0 | SALT Crypto #282

Thu, 02 Jun 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Ben Sparango is the Head of Business Development at Solana Labs, a leading Layer-1 blockchain protocol, where he focuses on DeFi payments, gaming, NFTs and DAOs. Prior to Solana, Sparango was an investment analyst at Multicoin Capital, a multi-strategy crypto fund.

Sparango tells his journey to crypto and Solana that includes an impactful panel at our 2016 SALT event in Las Vegas. He discusses Solana’s rapid growth and the efforts involved in building such a new technology. He walks through the Solana verticals on which he’s focused: DeFi, payments, gaming, NFTs and DAOs. Finally, he offers his thoughts on the current crypto cycle, institutional participation and global crypto infrastructure.

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Staci Warden: The Algorand Renaissance | SALT Crypto #281

Thu, 19 May 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Staci Warden is the CEO of the Algorand Foundation, an organization dedicated to enabling an inclusive, decentralized, and borderless global economy - at scale - based on the Algorand blockchain technology, a leading layer-1 blockchain. Before, she spent a career in traditional finance (TradFI) with stops at Milken Institute, JPMorgan, Nasdaq, U.S. Treasury Department, the Center for Global Development, and the Harvard Institute for International Development.

Warden discusses her path to the Algorand Foundation, Algorand’s legendary founder Silvio Micali’s background and the blockchain protocol’s properties. Warden then talks about Algorand’s partnership with FIFA and the current bear market in crypto. Finally, she explains Algorand’s signature pure proof-of-stake and consensus mechanism, supporting Algorand developers, and the Algorand roadmap.

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Gary Mendell: Reversing the Addiction Crisis | SALT Talks #280

Tue, 17 May 2022 10:30:00 +0000

Gary Mendell is the founder and CEO of Shatterproof, a national nonprofit dedicated to reversing the addiction crisis in the United States. After losing his son Brian to addiction in 2011, Gary founded Shatterproof to spare other families the tragedy his had suffered.

Mendell recounts the tragedy of his son’s passing and details the lessons learned that led to the creation of the non-profit Shatterproof. He discusses the importance of combatting the stigma faced by those suffering from addiction and cites the volume of evidence-based treatments currently available. With all these tools available and leveraged by Shatterproof, Mendell has a positive outlook on the battle to combat the addiction and mental health crisis.

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Troy Tsui: Building a Multichain Future | SALT Crypto #279

Thu, 12 May 2022 13:20:00 +0000

Troy Tsui is the CEO of Swim Protocol - a DeFi Protocol bridging the multichain landscape with user adoption and protocol integration in mind. He was previously a trader at Alameda Research since 2018. Prior to his time at Alameda, Troy was a trader on SIG’s Fixed Income desk, where he designed their municipal bond algorithmic strategy. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Engineering Mathematics and Statistics and a minor in Electrical Engineering Computer Science.

Troy Tsui discusses how and why he came into digital assets, what caused him to build a solution to enable liquidity without bridge wrapped assets, and what drove him to build Swim Protocol on Solana. He also described what the ecosystem will look like in the next 5 to 10 years, how Swim Protocol will play a role in that ecosystem, and why a multichain future is more likely than a winner-take-all scenario.

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Alan Murray: Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business | SALT Talks #278

Tue, 10 May 2022 10:50:00 +0000

Alan Murray, CEO of Fortune Media, authored his latest book, Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business. Murray also writes a closely read daily newsletter, the Fortune CEO Daily. This follows a long media career that's included leadership positions at Pew Research Center and the Wall Street Journal.

Murray discusses his journey to becoming CEO of Fortune magazine, his vision for the company and keys to success in a modern economy. He talks business in today’s political system, combatting misinformation, free speech and finding unbiased reliable information.

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Dr. Derar Islim: Growing Institutional Crypto Adoption | SALT Crypto #277

Thu, 05 May 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Dr. Derar Islim is the COO at Genesis Trading, a digital currency prime broker. He is responsible for managing strategic initiatives, integrating new services, coordinating daily business operations, and executing on Genesis’s global vision to build the world’s preeminent prime brokerage in the digital currency ecosystem. Dr. Islim oversees custody, risk, operations, strategy, product and people departments globally.

Dr. Islim discusses the pros and cons of the institutionalization of the crypto space as well as the biggest obstacles to the institutionalization of digital assets. He dives into US digital asset regulation and how it compares to the rest of the world. Finally, Dr. Islim speaks about his views on stablecoins, their value, and the change they drive in the financial system.

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Kristin Smith: Future of U.S. Crypto Policy | SALT Crypto #276

Thu, 21 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Kristin Smith is the Executive Director of the Blockchain Association, the Washington DC-based trade association representing more than 80 of the industry’s leading companies. Smith serves as a liaison between policymakers and the cryptocurrency industry to assist in the creation of legislation and regulation that promotes the growth of the cryptocurrency ecosystem in the U.S.

Kristen Smith discusses the changing tide around crypto policy in the US among policy makers. Smith lays out some of the next steps in the crypto regulatory roadmap, including crypto spot ETF’s. She explains why education around crypto is the most important tool in converting indifferent politicians and policy makers.

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George Melika: Crypto Prime Brokerage | SALT Crypto #275

Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000

George Melika is the Co-Founder and CEO of sFOX, a cryptocurrency prime brokerage backed by Social+Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator. He is a fintech expert with over 20 years of software development experience building algorithmic, proprietary, and cryptocurrency trading platforms.

Melika details his background as an engineer and how it led to his career in Bitcoin and crypto. He explains how his company, SFOX, aims to unify the fragmented crypto markets and establish a crypto prime brokerage. Melika then predicts what the future of crypto will look like in ten years.

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Dan Gunsberg: Moving Traditional Finance to the Blockchain | SALT Crypto #274

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Dan Gunsberg is the co-founder and CEO of Hxro. He's also the co-founder of Hxro Network, a decentralized derivatives protocol built on top of the Solana blockchain. He also serves as the director of the Hxro Foundation. Prior to Hxro, Gunsberg served as the COO of DV Trading, a derivatives-focused principal trading firm.

Gunsberg details how he first came to understand and believe in Bitcoin. He walks through the creation of Hxro and the Hxro network built on the Solana blockchain. Gunsberg then discusses the massive talent migration to crypto-based companies from traditional finance and predicts what the crypto market will look like in ten years.

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Asen Kostadinov: Solving the Crypto Custody Problem | SALT Crypto #273

Thu, 31 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Asen Kostadinov is the Chief Strategy Officer at Copper, cryptocurrency custody firm. He joined the company from MMC Ventures where he led the blockchain/crypto investment portfolio and also led the fund’s research department. Previously, he spent four years as an equity research analyst at Barclays, covering European media and video and internet gaming. Initially, he worked in the aerospace industry as an engineer the Airbus Flight Physics Division, after completing his engineering degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Kostadinov is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Kostadinov explains Copper's approach to solving the crypto currency custody problem, one of the most important issues in the digital assets space. He lays out the current obstacles to institutional crypto adoption and discusses the infrastructure that will facilitate rapid growth in crypto and Web3 gaming. Kostadinov also offers his thoughts global geopolitical events and their effects on crypto.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

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Robin Wigglesworth: The Rise & Future of Index Funds | SALT Talks #272

Tue, 29 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Robin Wigglesworth is the FT’s global finance correspondent, based in Oslo, Norway. He focuses on the biggest trends reshaping markets, investing and finance more broadly across the world, with a particular focus on technological disruption and quantitative investing, and writing longer-form features, analyses, profiles and columns. He authored the recently published Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever.

Wigglesworth discusses the past, present and future of index funds and the impact passive investing has had markets around the world. He offers his view on cryptocurrencies and, from Norway, predicts some of the long-term financial effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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Billionaire Orlando Bravo: Unveiling the Secrets of Private Equity | Salt Talks #271

Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Orlando Bravo is a Puerto Rican billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm that specializes in software and technology-enabled services sectors. The 2019 Forbes 400 listed Bravo as the first Puerto Rican-born billionaire.

Orlando Bravo is a Founder and Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo. He led Thoma Bravo’s early entry into software buyouts and built the firm into one of the top private equity firms in the world. Today, Orlando directs the firm’s strategy and investment decisions in accordance with its principles of partnership, innovation, and performance.

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PlanB: When Will Bitcoin Hit $100k? | SALT Crypto #270

Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

PlanB @100trillionUSD is a former institutional investor with 25 years of experiences in financial markets and has a legal and quantitative finance background. By tapping to both the S2F and the logarithmic regression, PlanB suggested that the primary cryptocurrency will reach $100k by the end of 2023.

PlanB, the anonymous Twitter pseudonym created the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model where he uses scarcity to quantify Bitcoin value. A year later he introduced the Stock-to-Flow Cross Asset (S2FX) model, which includes gold, silver, diamond and real estate data. He is now primarily focusing on Bitcoin valuation models, on-chain analysis and investment strategies. PlanB refers to an alternative plan for quantitative easing, negative interest rates and currency debasement in general. 100trillionUSD is a reference to the Zimbabwe 100trillion dollar note during the 2008 hyperinflation.

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Spencer Jakab: GameStop, Reddit & the Fleecing of Small Investors | SALT Talks #269

Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Spencer Jakab, the Editor of the Heard on the Street column in The Wall Street Journal, has written a splendidly entertaining account of the meme stock craze: “The Revolution That Wasn’t: GameStop, Reddit, and the Fleecing of Small Investors.”

During one crazy week in January 2021, a motley crew of retail traders on Reddit’s r/wallstreetbets forum had seemingly done the impossible—they had brought some of the biggest, richest players on Wall Street to their knees. Their weapon was GameStop, a failing retailer whose shares briefly became the most-traded security on the planet and the subject of intense media coverage.

Check out Spencer’s book here:

https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-That-Wasnt-GameStop-Investors/dp/0593421159/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

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Dr. Mark Epstein: The Zen of Therapy | SALT Talks #268

Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:10:54 +0000

Dr. Mark Epstein is an American author and psychotherapist who integrates Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings with Sigmund Freud's approaches to trauma. He often writes about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy.

In The Zen of Therapy, Dr. Epstein reflects on a year’s worth of selected sessions with his patients and observes how, in the incidental details of a given hour, his Buddhist background influences the way he works. Meditation and psychotherapy each encourage a willingness to face life's difficulties with courage that can be hard to otherwise muster, and in this cross-section of life in his office, he emphasizes how therapy, an element of Western medicine, can in fact be considered a two-person meditation. Mindfulness, too, much like a good therapist, can “hold” our awareness for us—and allow us to come to our senses and find inner peace.

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Ben Nelson: Rethinking Higher Education | SALT Talks #267

Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Ben Nelson is the Founder of Minerva, and a visionary with a passion to reinvent higher education. Prior to Minerva, Nelson spent more than 10 years at Snapfish, where he helped build the company from startup to the world’s largest personal publishing service. With over 42 million transactions across 22 countries, nearly five times greater than its closest competitor, Snapfish is among the top e-commerce services in the world. Serving as CEO from 2005 through 2010, Nelson began his tenure at Snapfish by leading the company’s sale to Hewlett Packard for $300 million.

Prior to joining Snapfish, Nelson was President and CEO of Community Ventures, a network of locally branded portals for American communities.

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Raghu Yarlagadda: Tokenization & the Future of Financial Markets | SALT Talks #266

Tue, 18 Jan 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Raghu is the Co-founder and CEO of FalconX, one of the largest and fastest growing digital asset brokerages. Raghu believes most of world's value will be tokenized in the next 5 to 7 years, and Crypto is the first usecase of that. Fiat is getting tokenized with Stablecoins and culture + art with NFTs. Next up, equities. Tokenization will make financial services accessible to the 3+ billion users without access today.

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Steve Kokinos: The Future of Finance | SALT Talks #265

Tue, 21 Dec 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Steve is the CEO of Algorand and responsible for overall business vision and strategy. Algorand is a blockchain cryptocurrency protocol that aims to be scalable. The Algorand platform supports smart contracts, and its consensus algorithm is based on proof of stake and a Byzantine agreement protocol. Algorand's native cryptocurrency is called ALGO.

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Afsaneh Beschloss: Where Is Inflation Heading? | SALT Talks #264

Tue, 14 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Afsaneh Beschloss discusses her distinguished career in finance, including her roles as founder and CEO of RockCreek, a leading global investment firm, her time as treasurer and chief investment officer of the World Bank, and as managing director and partner at the Carlyle Group.

Overall, prices climbed 6.8% year-over-year, the largest increase since June 1982, and rose 0.8% over the past month. Higher prices were “broad-based,” per the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), with substantial increases seen in the indexes for gasoline, shelter, food and new and used vehicles. The gasoline index alone rose 6.1% in November. Of course, those items are key to the basic financial life of normal Americans, thereby stretching their bottom line even thinner.

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Avik Roy: Bitcoin & the U.S. Fiscal Reckoning | SALT Talks #263

Tue, 07 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Avik Roy is an Editor at Forbes and the President of The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. In his recent article "Bitcoin and the U.S. Fiscal Reckoning" Avok writes "It's becoming clear that Bitcoin is not merely a passing fad, but a significant innovation with potentially serious implications for the future of investment and global finance. To understand those implications, we must first examine the recent history of the primary instrument that bitcoin was invented to challenge: the American dollar.

Toward the end of World War II, in an agreement hashed out by 44 Allied countries in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the value of the U.S. dollar was formally fixed to 1/35th of the price of an ounce of gold. Other countries' currencies, such as the British pound and the French franc, were in turn pegged to the dollar, making the dollar the world's official reserve currency."

Read Avik's article here: https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/bitcoin-and-the-us-fiscal-reckoning

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Joshua Frank: The State of the Crypto Markets | SALT Talks #262

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Joshua Frank is the co-founder and CEO of The Tie, a crypto-focused data company that analyzes social media and news sources to create sentiment analysis.

Prior to co-founding The Tie, Frank worked at SS&C Technologies where he helped develop solutions for custodians, brokers and asset managers. As he became more interested in the digital asset space, Frank continued to run into what he described as “a lack of trusted and transparent data and technology” and decided to leave his role at SS&C to build The Tie full time in March 2018.

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Jeremy Allaire: Internet Money | SALT Talks #261

Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Jeremy Allaire is Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Circle, a global financial technology firm that enables businesses of all sizes to harness the power of stablecoins and public blockchains for payments and commerce. Founded in 2013, Circle is the pioneer of USD Coin (USDC), the fastest growing, fully-reserved, and regulated dollar stablecoin. Governed by the Centre Consortium, led by Circle and Coinbase, USDC's market cap is more than $26 billion with over $800 billion in transaction volume. Previously, Mr. Allaire co-founded and led multiple global internet technology companies with thousands of employees, hundreds of millions of consumers served, and multiple successful public offerings on NASDAQ. He has provided expert testimony on digital assets and monetary policy before the US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Government Affairs, US Senate Banking Committee, and he has been named to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) High-Level Advisory Group on FinTech. Mr. Allaire provides perspective and policy recommendations at the highest levels inside financial bodies across the US, UK, and Europe.

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Bitcoin for Billions: Building the Lightning Network with Elizabeth Stark | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Bitcoin for Billions: Building the Lightning Network with Elizabeth Stark, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Lightning Labs.

Moderated by Brett Messing, Partner, President & Chief Operating Officer, SkyBridge.

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The Future of Private Markets with David Rubenstein & Jeff Blau | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

The Future of Private Markets with David Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group. Jeff Blau, Chief Executive Officer & Partner, Related Companies.

Moderated by Matt Brown, Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman, CAIS.

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How COVID-19 Reshaped the Advice Industry | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sun, 17 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

How COVID-19 Reshaped the Advice Industry with David Bahnsen, Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, The Bahnsen Group. Karen Firestone, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Aureus Asset Management. Josh Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Ritholtz Wealth Management.

Moderated by Sean Allocca, Deputy Managing Editor, InvestmentNews.

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Investing to Catalyze Positive Change | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Investing to Catalyze Positive Change with Noel Pacarro Brown, Investing with Impact Director & Financial Advisor, Conscious Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley. Matt Salloway, Chief Executive Officer, GSI Ventures. Rosemary Sagar, Chief Investment Officer, Kingdon Foundation. Thomas Haug, Managing Member, Aspen Tree Advisory.

Moderated by Steven Saltzstein, Chief Executive Officer, FORCE Family Office.

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Building Innovative Crypto Trading Infrastructure | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Building Innovative Crypto Trading Infrastructure with John Peurifoy, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Floating Point Group. Raghu Yarlagadda, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, FalconX. Basil Al Askari, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, MidChains. Kapil Rathi, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, CrossTower.

Moderated by Michael Bodley, Editor-in-Chief, TheStreet Crypto.

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Do We Need a Digital Dollar? The Future of Central Bank Digital Currencies | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sat, 16 Oct 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Do We Need a Digital Dollar? The Future of Central Bank Digital Currencies with Yaya J. Fanusie, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Julia Friedlander, C. Boyden Gray Senior Fellow & Deputy Director of the GeoEconomics Center, Atlantic Council.

Moderated by Michael Greenwald, Director of Digital Asset Education, Tiedemann Advisors.

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The Evolution of Long-Term Asset Allocation | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

The Evolution of Long-Term Asset Allocation with Al Kim, Director of Investments, Helmsley Charitable Trust. Geeta Kapadia, Associate Treasurer of Investments, Yale New Haven Health System. Angelique Sellers, Managing Director of Investments, Pennsylvania State University Office of Investment Management.

Moderated by Bill Kelly, Chief Executive Officer, CAIA Association.

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Programmable Biology & Institutional Innovation | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Programmable Biology & Institutional Innovation with Jason Kelly, Founder, Ginkgo Bioworks. Dr. Uma Valeti, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, UPSIDE Foods.

Moderated by AJ Scaramucci, Managing Director, The SALT Fund.

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Inside the NFT Boom | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Inside the NFT Boom with G Money, Delphi INFINIT. Snowfro, Art Blocks. Justin Aversano, Twin Flames Artist. Noah Davis, Specialist, Head of Digital Art & Online Sales, Christie's. Priyanka Desai, Vice President of Operations, OpenLaw.

Moderated by Les Borsai, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Wave Financial.

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Data Discovery to Data Intelligence | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 20:30:00 +0000

Data Discovery to Data Intelligence with Heidi Lanford, Chief Data Officer, Fitch Group. Thomas J. Lee, Managing Partner & Head of Research, Fundstrat Global Advisors. Charles Poliacof, Chief Executive Officer, Knoema.

Moderated by Marc Lopresti, Co-Founder, BattleFin.

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Amerivet: Producing Meaningful Opportunities for Veterans | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Amerivet: Producing Meaningful Opportunities for Veterans with Mercedes Elias, Co-Chief Executive Officer, AmeriVet Securities.

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The Future of Space: Exploring New Frontiers & Improving Life on Earth | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The Future of Space: Exploring New Frontiers & Improving Life on Earth with Chris Kemp, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Astra. Delian Asparouhov, Co-Founder, Varda Space. Anousheh Ansari, Chief Executive Officer, XPRIZE Foundation.

Moderated by Justin Fishner-Wolfson, Founder & Managing Partner, 137 Ventures.

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The Evolution of Private Market Investing | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 20:30:00 +0000

The Evolution of Private Market Investing with Virginie Morgon, Chief Executive Officer, Eurazeo. Suzanne Streeter, Partner & Co-Chief Investment Officer, Partners Capital. Peter Gleysteen, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, AGL Credit Management. Thomas H. Lee, Chairman, Lee Equity Partners.

Moderated by Gerry Baker, Editor-at-Large, Wall Street Journal.

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David Blumberg: Venture Capital Trends | SALT Talks #260

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 15:02:00 +0000

David Blumberg is the founder and managing partner of Blumberg Capital. David is an authority on early-stage investing with decades of experience. He founded Blumberg Capital in the early 1990s and launched its first venture-backed fund in 2001.

Prior to Blumberg Capital, David managed international investments with the Bronfman Family Office, Adler & Co, APAX Partners and at T. Rowe Price. He also launched business development for Check Point Software Technologies as one of its top four executives.

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Investing in Cannabis: Analyzing the Industry’s Future | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Investing in Cannabis: Analyzing the Industry’s Future with Jennifer Drake, Chief Operating Officer, AYR Wellness. David Feuerstein, Co-Founder & Partner, Feuerstein Kulick. Rob Sechrist, President, Pelorus. Emily Paxhia, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Poseidon.

Moderated by Matt Karnes, Founder, GreenWave Advisors.

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Titans of Data: Leveraging Alternative Data to Enhance the Investment Process | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 13 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Titans of Data: Leveraging Alternative Data to Enhance the Investment Process with Carrie Lazorchak, Chief Revenue Officer, Similarweb. Rodney Pedersen, Chief Revenue Officer, Visible Alpha. Matt Ober, Managing Director & Chief Data Scientist, Third Point.

Moderated by Tim Harrington, President, BattleFin.

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Positioning Companies for the End Game: Spacs, Direct Listings, M&A & IPOS | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 20:30:00 +0000

Positioning Companies for the End Game: Spacs, Direct Listings, M&A & IPOS with Michal Katz, Head of Investment & Corporate Banking, Americas, Mizuho Americas. Bob Diamond, Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer, Atlas Merchant Capital. Betsy Cohen, Chairman, FinTech Masala.

Moderated by Janet Levaux, Editor-in-Chief, ThinkAdvisor.

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Jacob Helberg: The Wires of War | SALT Talks #259

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war between democracy and autocracy.

On the front-end, we’re fighting to control the software—applications, news information, social media platforms, and more—of what we see on the screens of our computers, tablets, and phones, a clash which started out primarily with Russia but now increasingly includes China and Iran. Even more ominously, we’re also engaged in a hidden back-end battle—largely with China—to control the Internet’s hardware, which includes devices like cellular phones, satellites, fiber-optic cables, and 5G networks.

This tech-fueled war will shape the world’s balance of power for the coming century as autocracies exploit twenty-first-century methods to re-divide the world into twentieth century-style spheres of influence. Helberg cautions that the spoils of this fight are power over every meaningful aspect of our lives, including our economy, our infrastructure, our national security, and ultimately, our national sovereignty. Without a firm partnership with the government, Silicon Valley is unable to protect democracy from the autocrats looking to sabotage it from Beijing to Moscow and Tehran. The stakes of the ongoing cyberwar are no less than our nation’s capacity to chart its own future, the freedom of our democratic allies, and even the ability of each of us to control our own fates, Helberg says. And time is quickly running out.

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A Digital Revolution in Emerging Markets with Kevin Carter | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

A Digital Revolution in Emerging Markets with Kevin Carter, Founder & Chief Investment Officer, EMQQ.

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Private Market Value Creation & the Road to Exit | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Private Market Value Creation & the Road to Exit with Sanjay Patel, Chairman International & Senior Partner of Private Equity, Apollo. David Lebovitz, Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Asset Management.

Moderated by Bailey Mccann, Senior News Editor, Opalesque.

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How Gold Fits Into Modern Portfolios with Ashraf Rizvi & Anthony Scaramucci | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:30:00 +0000

How Gold Fits Into Modern Portfolios with Ashraf Rizvi, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Gilded.

Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci, Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge.

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Workshops for Warriors: Helping Veterans Get Jobs at Home | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Workshops for Warriors: Helping Veterans Get Jobs at Home with Hernan Luis Y Prado, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Workshops for Warriors.

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Investing for Financial Storms | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Investing for Financial Storms with Mark Spitznagel, Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Universa Investments.

Moderated by William Cohan, Bestselling Author & Founding Partner, Puck.

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Impact Is Everything & Everything Is Impact | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Impact Is Everything & Everything Is Impact with Megan Starr, Global Head of Impact, The Carlyle Group. Joanna Reiss, Co-Lead of Impact, Apollo. Erika Karp, Chief Impact Officer, Pathstone.

Moderated by James Ledbetter, Chief Content Officer, Clarim Media.

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Out Leadership: Driving Return on Equality | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Out Leadership: Driving Return on Equality with Rufus Gifford, Chief of Protocol of the United States (Nominee).

Moderated by Todd Sears, Chief Executive Officer, Out Leadership.

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Innovation & Inclusion: Why Diversity Yields Better Results | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sun, 10 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Innovation & Inclusion: Why Diversity Yields Better Results with Cathie Wood, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, ARK Invest. Jolyne Caruso-Fitzgerald, Divisional Vice Chairman, GWM, UHNW, UBS. Michaela Edwards, Partner & Member, Investment Committee, Capricorn Investment Group. Rupal Bhansali, Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager, International & Global Equities, Ariel Investments.

Moderated by Lisa Diaz, President & Chief Executive Officer, Prince Street Capital.

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The Future of Alts: Access for All | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sat, 09 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

The Future of Alts: Access for All with Kelly Rodriques, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Forge. Milind Mehere, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, YieldStreet. Asiff Hirji, President, Figure.

Moderated by Matt Brown, Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman, CAIS.

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Peace & Prosperity in the Middle East | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sat, 09 Oct 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Peace & Prosperity in the Middle East with H.E. Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). H.E. Dr. Thani Ahmed Al Zeyoudi, Minister of State for Foreign Trade of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Moderated by Danny Sebright, President, U.S.-U.A.E. Business Council.

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Open Your Mind – How Psychedelics Can Cure Mental Health Issues & Make You Happy | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sat, 09 Oct 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Open Your Mind – How Psychedelics Can Cure Mental Health Issues & Make You Happy with Christian Angermayer, Founder, Apeiron Investment Group.

Moderated by Kara Swisher, Host, Sway.

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The Future of Food: Reducing Our Reliance on Animal Products | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

The Future of Food: Reducing Our Reliance on Animal Products with Arturo Elizondo, Chief Executive Officer, Clara Foods. Dr. Jasmin Hume, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Shiru.

Moderated by Sean O’Sullivan, Managing General Partner, SOSV.

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Alternative Income in a Zero Interest Rate World | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Alternative Income in a Zero Interest Rate World with Clayton Degiacinto, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Axonic Capital. TJ Durkin, Co-Head, Structured Credit & Head of Residential & Consumer Debt, Angelo Gordon. Aaron Peck, Partner, Portfolio Manager & Co-Head of Opportunistic Private Credit, Monroe Capital.

Moderated by Daniel Barile, Partner & Senior Portfolio Manager, SkyBridge.

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How Crypto Is Eating Wall Street | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

How Crypto Is Eating Wall Street with Nathan Mccauley, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Anchorage Digital. Dan Morehead, Chief Executive Officer, Pantera Capital. Zac Prince, Chief Executive Officer, BlockFi. Katherine Molnar, Chief Investment Officer, Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System. Michael Shaulov, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Fireblocks.

Moderated by Michael Casey, Chief Content Officer, Coinbase.

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Institutional-Quality Digital Asset Infrastructure | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Institutional-Quality Digital Asset Infrastructure with David Mercer, Chief Executive Officer, LMAX Group.

Moderated by Rachel Pether, Senior Advisor, SkyBridge.

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Glenn Barber: Cracking Crypto Custody | SALT Talks #258

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Glenn Barber is the Head of Sales & Business Development, Americas at Copper.co.–a pioneering digital assets custody and settlement provider. Prior to joining Copper, Glenn led sales as a consultant at FalconX, an institutional digital asset brokerage, and he was also the Chief Institutional Officer at Voyager Digital, a publicly-traded holding company whose subsidiaries operate a crypto-asset platform to trade crypto assets. Glenn also has over 25 year’s experience in global capital markets, and was a Managing Director in Equities at Deutsche Bank and Barclays. Glenn holds a Masters in international Management and Finance from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BSc in Business Administration and Management.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Saving the Planet: ESG & Impact Investing | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Saving the Planet: ESG & Impact Investing with Faheen Allibhoy, Head, Development Finance Institution, J.P. Morgan. Les Brun, Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Ariel Alternatives. Karen Karniol-Tambour, Co-Chief Investment Officer for Sustainability, Bridgewater. Gareth Shepherd, Co-Head, Equity Machine Intelligence, Voya. Tina Byles Williams, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer & Founder, Xponance.

Moderated by Gillian Tett, Chair of the Editorial Board & Editor-at-Large, Financial Times.

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From Boom to Bust: The Rapid Acceleration of Dislocation | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

From Boom to Bust: The Rapid Acceleration of Dislocation with Marc Lasry, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Avenue Capital. Pat Dyson, Partner, GoldenTree.

Moderated by Nicholas Millikan, Managing Director, CAIS IQ, CAIS.

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Macro Shifts & Best Ideas Coming Out of the Pandemic | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Macro Shifts & Best Ideas Coming Out of the Pandemic with Todd Lemkin, Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Canyon Partners. Peter Wallach, Executive Managing Director & Head of Risk Management, Sculptor Capital. Jason Mudrick, Chief Investment Officer, Mudrick Capital Management. Leslee Cowen, Management Committee Partner, Credit Funds, Fortress Investment Group.

Moderated by Troy Gayeski, CFA

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Investing to Curb Climate Change | SALT Talks #257

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.

Sarah Sclarsic is a Managing Partner at Voyager, a venture capital firm she co-founded that invests in early-stage climate technology companies. A long-time operator and investor in sustainability-oriented technology companies, Sarah cofounded Getaround in 2009, prior to work with pioneering biotechnology company Modern Meadow. She currently serves on the public boards of XL Fleet (NYSE: XL), Pivotal Investment Corporation (PICC.U) and an early-stage industrial process technology firm that remains in stealth.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Investing in Innovation & Deeptech with Josh Wolfe | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Investing in Innovation & Deeptech with Josh Wolfe, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Lux Capital.

Moderated by AJ Scaramucci, Managing Director, The SALT Fund.

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Macro Forces Driving Crypto Adoption | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Macro Forces Driving Digital Asset Adoption with Dan Tapiero, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner, 10T Holdings. Bill Campbell, Portfolio Manager, International Fixed Income, DoubleLine. Matt Hougan, Chief Investment Officer, Bitwise Asset Management.

Moderated by Perianne Boring, Founder and President of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.

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How the Pandemic Changed Real Estate & Entrepreneurship | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

How the Pandemic Changed Real Estate & Entrepreneurship with Steve Glickman, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Develop. Anna Mason, Managing Partner, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Garett Bjorkman, Managing Director, Portfolio Oversight, CIM Group.

Moderated by Nicholas Millikan, Managing Director, CAIS IQ, CAIS.

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Al Sharpton: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads | SALT Talks #256

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

The Reverend Al Sharpton is an internationally renowned civil rights leader, founder and President of the National Action Network (NAN), which has more than 100 chapters across the country. Hailed by former President Barack Obama as a “champion for the downtrodden,” Reverend Sharpton is the host of “Politics Nation” on MSNBC; a nationally syndicated daily radio show “Keepin’ It Real”; and a nationally broadcast radio show on Sunday titled, “The Hour of Power.”

A disciple of the teachings of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Reverend Sharpton has been at the forefront of the modern civil rights movement for nearly a half of a century. He has championed police reform and accountability, calling for the elimination of unjust policies like “Stop-and-Frisk.” He has fought for voting rights, equity in education and healthcare and LGBTQ rights. Across the years, Reverend Sharpton has advocated for those who have been victimized including Yusef Hawkins, Michael Stewart, Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Sean Bell, the Jena Six, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and others.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci. Developed, created and produced by SALT Venture Group, LLC.

Blurring the Lines Between Crypto & Traditional Asset Classes | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Blurring the Lines Between Crypto & Traditional Asset Classes with Brett Harrison, President, FTX US. John D’agostino, Director of Institutional Sales, Coinbase. Ari Rubenstein, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, GTS. Thomas Gallagher, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIAX).

Moderated by Jon Najarian, Co-Founder, Market Rebellion.

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The Role of Active Management with Jean Hynes & Jennifer Prosek | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

The Role of Active Management with Jean Hynes, Chief Executive Officer, Managing Partner & Portfolio Manager, Wellington Management.

Moderated by Jennifer Prosek, Managing Partner, Prosek Partners.

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Digital Assets & the Future of Financial Innovation with Michael Novogratz | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Digital Assets & the Future of Financial Innovation with Michael Novogratz, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Galaxy Digital. Moderated by Andrew Smith Lewis, Chief Innovation Officer, CAIS.

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Dr. Scott Gottlieb on The Future of COVID-19 & How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Dr. Scott Gottlieb on The Future of COVID-19 & How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic with Scott Wapner of CNBC. Dr. Gottlieb's new book, "Uncontrolled Spread" identifies the reasons why the US was caught unprepared for the pandemic and how the country can improve its strategic planning to prepare for future viral threats.

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Investing in 2021 with Cathie Wood & Andrew Ross Sorkin | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Investing in 2021 with Cathie Wood, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Investment Officer, ARK Invest.

Moderated by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Co-Anchor, CNBC.

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Advancing Principled Veteran Leadership to Reduce Polarization | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 20:00:00 +0000

Advancing Principled Veteran Leadership to Reduce Polarization with David Mccormick, Chief Executive Officer, Bridgewater Associates. Rye Barcott, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, With Honor. Congresswoman Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District. Dan Streetman, Chief Executive Officer, TIBCO.

Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci, Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge.

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Can We Live 200 Years? The Science of Aging & Longevity | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000

Can We Live 200 Years? The Science of Aging & Longevity with Dr. David Sinclair, Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Eric Verdin, Chief Executive Officer & President, Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Dr. Jennifer Garrison, Assistant Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

Moderated by Dr. Dina Radenkovic, Partner, The SALT Fund.

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Institutional Crypto Adoption: Opportunities & Obstacles | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sun, 03 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Institutional Crypto Adoption: Opportunities & Obstacles with Brett Tejpaul, Head of Institutional Sales, Trading, Custody & Prime Services, Coinbase. Glenn Barber, Head of Sales & Business Development, Copper. Brian Brooks, Former Acting Comptroller of the Currency. Jalak Jobanputra, Founding Partner, Future\Perfect Ventures.

Moderated by Daniel Roberts, Editor-in-Chief, Decrypt.

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Credit Investing in a Post-Pandemic World | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Credit Investing in a Post-Pandemic World with Chris Hentemann, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, 400 Capital. Jeffrey Sherman, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, DoubleLine. Dave Trucano, Managing Director, BlackRock. Sreeni Prabhu, Managing Partner, Co-Chief Executive Officer & Group Chief Investment Officer, Angel Oak Capital Advisors.

Moderated by Mei-li Da Silva Vint, Chief Compliance Officer, Brevet Capital.

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Crypto Regulation: Present & Future | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 18:00:00 +0000

Crypto Regulation: Present & Future with Sydney Schaub, Chief Legal Officer, Gemini. Ryne Miller, General Counsel, FTX US. Zach Dexter, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, LedgerX.

Moderated by Robert Hackett, Senior Writer & Tech Editor, Fortune.

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How Baseball Explains New York with Joe Torre, Bobby Valentine & Tom Verducci | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Sat, 02 Oct 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Joe Torre was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY on July 27, 2014 and the New York Yankees retired his Number 6 at a ceremony at Yankee Stadium the following month. Joe is currently a consultant to Major League Baseball Commissioner Robert Manfred. Prior to his current role, he served as the Chief Baseball Officer for Major League Baseball. In this capacity, he was responsible for overseeing several areas that included Major League Operations, On-Field Operations, On-Field Discipline and Umpiring. He served as the Office of the Commissioner’s primary liaison to the general managers and field managers of the 30 Major League Clubs regarding all baseball and on-field matters.

Bobby Valentine was born and raised in Stamford, the son of Joseph and Grace. Bobby attended Ryle Elementary, Cloonan Middle School, and Rippowam High School, where he was elected student body president and became the only three-time All-State football player in Connecticut history. Bobby received a scholarship to the University of Southern California and was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1968. After 10 seasons as a professional baseball player, Bobby made his major league managerial debut in 1985 with the Texas Rangers. He was the American League Manager of the Year in 1986 and went onto become the winningest manager in Rangers history. Bobby began managing the New York Mets in 1996 and led the team to back-to-back postseasons, including a 2000 World Series appearance. He also won the 2005 Japan Series Championship while managing the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Moderator Tom Verducci is an analyst and reporter for FOX Sports’ Major League Baseball coverage. Joining the network in 2012, Verducci has been a reporter for the MLB Postseason since 2016.

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Making the Bucks: The Road to an NBA Title with Marc Lasry | #SALTNY

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Making the Bucks: The Road to an NBA Title with Marc Lasry, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Avenue Capital and Co-Owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks.

Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci, Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge.

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How to Keep the U.S. On the Forefront of High-Tech Growth | #SALTNY

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

How to Keep the U.S. On the Forefront of High-Tech Growth with Congressman Ro Khanna of California’s 17th Congressional District. Governor Jeb Bush, 43rd Governor of Florida. Jason Crabtree, Chief Executive Officer, QOMPLX.

Moderated by Jeff Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies, School of Management, Yale University.

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Sustainable Infrastructure Investing | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Sustainable Infrastructure Investing with Petya Nikolova, Head of Infrastructure Investments, New York City Retirement System, Office of the Comptroller. Maureen O’toole, Head of the Americas Investor Development Group, Actis. Pieter Houlleberghs, Director, Investment (Energy & Environment), Temasek.

Moderated by Caroline Abramo, Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Panal LCE.

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The Future in 2050 with Dr. Michio Kaku & Alex Klokus | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Dr. Michio Kaku is one of the most renowned figures in science and the world today. He is a theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, futurist, and popularizer of science, he co-founded “String Field Theory” and continues Einstein’s quest to unite the fundamental forces of nature into a single grand unified “Theory of Everything.”

Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at City University New York, graduating summa cum laude from Harvard with a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He has written numerous New York Times bestselling books including The Future of Humanity, The Future of the Mind, Physics of the Future, and Physics of the Impossible.

Kaku’s latest bestselling book The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything explores the history of unification theories from Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation through Quantum Mechanics and The Standard Model of Particle Physics — culminating in his own landmark contributions to the most cutting-edge ideas in theoretical physics.

Moderator Alex Klokus is a Founder and Managing Partner at the SALT Fund. Alex is a serial entrepreneur who built and sold both the media company Futurism and the sleep and wellness business Gravity.

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How Crypto Changes Everything: The Future of Finance & Culture | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Thu, 30 Sep 2021 12:45:00 +0000

How Crypto Changes Everything: The Future of Finance & Culture with Sam Bankman-Fried, Chief Executive Officer, FTX. Kevin O’leary, Founder, WonderFi. Anatoly Yakovenko, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Solana. Jeremy Allaire, Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Circle.

Moderated by Kristin Smith, Executive Director, Blockchain Association.

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Building a Multichain Digital Asset World | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Building a Multichain Digital Asset World with Steve Kokinos, Chief Executive Officer, Algorand. Jeff Schumacher, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, NAX Group. Anthony Scaramucci, Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge.

Moderated by Sarah Kunst, Managing Director, Cleo Capital.

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Biotechnology, Wellness & the Science of Aging | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:00:00 +0000

James Peyer is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Cambrian Biopharma. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Sensei Biotherapeutics and board and executive roles across Cambrian’s pipeline. He has spent his entire life dedicated to the mission of finding ways of preventing people from getting diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s instead of waiting for people to get sick.

Nathaniel David has co-founded four biotechnology companies that have collectively raised over $2 billion in financing and have given rise to three IPOs, two M&A acquisitions, and four FDA-approved medicines (ALOGLIPTIN, TRELAGLIPTIN, ZEMDRI, and KYBELLA). Nathaniel holds 46 allowed patents in fields as far flung as nanovolume crystallography, antibiotic resistance, aesthetic medicine, and cellular senescence.

Kristen Fortney is the co-founder and CEO of BioAge, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing a pipeline of treatments to extend healthy lifespan by targeting the molecular causes of aging. The company uses its discovery platform, which combines quantitative analysis of proprietary longitudinal human samples with detailed health records tracking individuals over the lifespan, to map out the key molecular pathways that impact healthy human aging.

Moderator Dina Radenkovic is a Partner at SALT Fund. Dina is an academic doctor and medical technology entrepreneur. She qualified with a dual degree in medicine and physiology from UCL Medical School. Dina is a co-founder and CSO of Hooke, an elite longevity research clinic, in collaboration with the Buck Institute for Aging.

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Ray Dalio on Changing World Order: Current Economic & Geopolitical Challenges | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin of CNBC to discuss Changing World Order: Current Economic & Geopolitical Challenges.

Ray started Bridgewater out of his two-bedroom apartment in New York in 1975 and over the course of its 43-year history has grown it into the 5th most important company in the U.S. according to Fortune Magazine. For his innovative work, Ray has been called the “Steve Jobs of Investing” by aiCIO Magazine and named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by TIME Magazine.

Ray is the author of New York Times #1 Bestseller Principles as well as the author of Principles for Success, a distilled and easy-to-read illustrated novel of the bestseller, and Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises. Ray has also published several studies his economic views, including “Why and How Capitalism Needs to be Reformed” and “The Changing World Order.” Both are available on LinkedIn and the latter will be published as a standalone book later this year.

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White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain Discusses President Biden's Agenda | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:28:00 +0000

Ron Klain is the White House Chief of Staff under President Joe Biden. He served in the two previous Democratic White House administrations that included his role as President Obama's Ebola Response Director.

Robert Wolf worked in the Obama administration, serving on the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and the Export Council. He is fonder of 32 Advisors, an investment firm holding company, and was previously CEO of UBS Americas.

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The Hedge Fund Comeback: Steve Cohen, Ilana Weinstein, Dmitry Balyasny & Mike Rockefeller | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:25:00 +0000

The hedge fund comeback with Steve Cohen the Founder of Point72. Ilana Weinstein the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The IDW Group. Dmitry Balyasny the Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer of Balyasny Asset Management. Mike Rockefeller the Co-Chief Investment Officer of Woodline Partners.

Moderated by Barry Ritholtz the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management.

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From Reality Star to Business Titan: A Conversation with Paris Hilton & Carter Reum | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 22:30:00 +0000

Paris Hilton is one of today’s most recognizable entrepreneurs and international influencers, Paris Hilton is a pioneer in television, podcasting and NFTs and an innovator in building businesses, social media and celebrity branding. With annual press valued at $702M in media spend equivalency, 28B monthly PR impressions, 130,000 press mentions over the last year alone and a global audience of over 54M across all socials, Hilton continues to solidify herself as a prominent tastemaker and powerful business leader.

Since starring in “The Simple Life,” Hilton has built a global empire as a businesswoman, influencer, activist, DJ, designer, investor, recording artist, philanthropist, host, actress, chef, model and author. In 2006, she created Paris Hilton Entertainment (now known as 11:11 Media), a multi-billion-dollar company that started with 45 branded stores and 19 product lines surpassing $4 billion in revenue. Today, 11:11 Media is a full-stop, integrated media and product company with verticals covering TV (Slivington Manor Entertainment), podcasts (London Audio), digital (11:11 Digital), licensing, NFTs, music, impact and more. Always attuned to emerging trends and opportunities, Hilton continues to expand 11:11 Media and use her platform to inspire, empower and create lasting positive impact.

Hilton has also solidified herself as an NFT leader as was recently seen by her being named #7 on Forbes’ NFT 50 most influential people in NFTs and through being awarded “Winner of Best Charity NFT” at the 2020 NFT Awards. In staying true to her goal of fostering empowerment and in collaboration with Sevens Foundation, Paris curated and launched “Empowered By Paris: Empowered Women Empower Women Exhibition”, which is an NFT exhibit dedicated to showcasing and equipping female artists with a platform to succeed.

Moderator Carter Reum is a Partner and Co-Founder of M13, a venture capital platform that invests in and incubates cutting edge consumer technology businesses. M13 now has two top decile funds and recently launched a $400MM Fund III - M13 now has AUM of over $750MM and is currently launching its 10th incubated business.

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America’s Place in the World: National Security & Leading From the Front | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 21:55:00 +0000

America’s Place in the World: National Security & Leading From the Front with General John Kelly, Retired U.S. Marine Corps General & 28th White House Chief of Staff. General H.R. Mcmaster, Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General & 26th United States National Security Advisor. Michele Flournoy, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, WestExec Advisors. Richard Fontaine, Chief Executive Officer, Center for a New American Security.

Moderated by Zoe Weinberg, Fellow, Schmidt Futures.

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Welcome to SALT New York! Eric Adams & Anthony Scaramucci | #𝐒𝐀𝐋𝐓𝐍𝐘

Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:26:00 +0000

Eric Adams, Democratic Nominee for Mayor of the City of New York welcomes SALT to New York! Joined by Anthony Scaramucci, Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge.

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Brett Harrison: Crypto Derivatives | SALT Talks #255

Fri, 10 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Brett Harrison is the President of FTX US, a US-regulated cryptocurrency exchange. Prior to joining FTX US, Brett was Head of Semi-Systematic Technology at Citadel Securities, where he managed technology for the firm’s Options, ETF, OTC, and ADR trading globally. He began and spent the majority of his career at Jane Street, where he led the firm’s algorithmic trading system development. He also previously worked at Headlands Technologies as a senior software developer. Brett received his M.S. and B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard.

Unlike FTX, which is a global business and closed its Series A round of funding in July to the tune of an $18 billion valuation, FTX.US is focused exclusively on the US market. FTX.US, however, stands to benefit from its namesake’s most recent round of funding, of which Harrison said FTX will be allocating an undisclosed portion toward the US business.

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Ashraf Rizvi: Digitizing Gold | SALT Talks #254

Thu, 09 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Ashraf Rizvi is the CEO and Founder of Gilded. Ashraf is responsible for the strategic direction and day to day running of Gilded. He has over 20 years of executive experience as Founder, Managing Partner and Global Business Head. Prior to founding Gilded, Ashraf was the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SummerHaven Investment Management, a commodities management firm overseeing nearly $2 billion in assets for retail and institutional clients including endowments, foundations, and family offices. For over 13 years, Ashraf was a senior leader at UBS holding a variety of roles in New York and London including Global Head of Commodities Trading, Global Head of Metals, Global Head of Emerging Markets FX and Global Head of Credit Repo. Previously, he was Head of FX Options Trading in New York for Credit Suisse. And prior to this, he was a Senior Trader at Susquehanna Investment Group. Ashraf earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School. He also served for more than 15 years on the Undergraduate Board and the Europe, Middle East and Africa Board at The Wharton School.

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Matt Brown: Alternative Investments for All | SALT Talks #253

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Matt Brown is the Founder, CEO, and Chairman of CAIS. He has spent over 30 years at the intersection of wealth management, alternative investments, and platform design. He began his career as a financial advisor at Shearson Lehman Brothers and Smith Barney. In 2009, Matt founded CAIS, the first truly open marketplace for alternative investments, where financial advisors and asset managers can engage and transact directly on a massive scale. Financial advisors, the professionals we designate to oversee our economic futures, do not have the same access to alternative investments in comparison to large institutions. CAIS is changing that. Matt believes entrepreneurship is the major driver of economic and social change. He’s spent the better part of two decades working with Endeavor, the world’s leading organization for high impact entrepreneurs. During his tenure, he had the opportunity to mentor dozens of entrepreneurs from around the world, including Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Matt is honored to have been on Endeavor’s South African and Turkish Boards which ultimately led to a position on the Global Board of Directors.

The experience deepened his belief that helping entrepreneurs build and scale their businesses promotes economic growth and prosperity. It’s Matt’s personal mission to ensure that anyone with a dream, and the drive to achieve it, have an equal opportunity to make it happen.

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Anatoly Yakovenko: Building Better Blockchains | SALT Talks #252

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that made Project Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

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Brendan Boyle: Power of the Purse | SALT Talks #251

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Congressman Brendan F. Boyle was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia. The son of an immigrant, Congressman Boyle’s father was a janitor for SEPTA and his mother was a school crossing guard.

He was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature in 2008, becoming the first Democrat to ever represent his legislative district. Two years later his brother, Kevin, was also elected to the state legislature, making them the first brothers to serve together in the state House. In 2014, Congressman Boyle pulled off an upset win over three better funded rivals to be elected to Congress.

Now in his fourth term, Congressman Boyle represents the 2nd congressional district of Pennsylvania which is fully enclosed within the City of Philadelphia. He currently serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, and on the Select Revenue Subcommittee and Trade Subcommittee thereof. He also serves on the House Committee on the Budget. He previously served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government. Congressman Boyle also serves as a member of the United States Delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly.

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Andrew Steel: ESG Investment Principles | SALT Talks #250

Tue, 24 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Andrew is responsible for developing and implementing Fitch's sustainable finance strategy, across ratings and the broader Fitch group. His group is based in London, New York, and Hong Kong. In 2019 Fitch Ratings rolled out an integrated cross-asset scoring system for credit ratings to display how environmental, social and governance factors impact individual credit rating decisions. Prior to his current role Andrew held several senior management positions for Fitch in EMEA and Asia. Andrew joined Fitch 17 years ago with a background in project finance, private equity, LBO’s and M&A from investment banking and equity investments. Andrew is currently an advisory committee member of the UN PRI credit ratings initiative, and during the early 2000’s was an independent expert for the UN ECE advising on risk issues and sustainable energy development.

Andrew graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Psychology, and has a postgraduate diploma from INSEAD in global management.

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The Future of Healthcare & Education | SALT Talks #249

Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:53:15 +0000

Welcome to the first episode of Emerging From a Post-Pandemic World, presented by ADGM. Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) is an international financial centre (IFC) located in the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. Established by UAE Federal Decree as a broad-based financial centre, ADGM augments Abu Dhabi’s position as a global hub for business and finance and serves as a strategic link between the growing economies of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia and the rest of the world.

ADGM’s strategy is anchored by Abu Dhabi’s key strengths including private banking, wealth management, asset management and financial innovation. Comprising three independent authorities: ADGM Courts, the Financial Services Regulatory Authority and the Registration Authority, ADGM as IFC governs the Al Maryah Island which is a designated financial free zone. It enables registered financial institutions, companies and entities to operate, innovate and succeed within an international regulatory framework based on Common Law. Since its inception, ADGM has been awarded the “Financial Centre of the Year (MENA) for two consecutive years for its initiatives and contributions to the financial and capital markets industry in the region."

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David Mercer: FX & Crypto Trading | SALT Talks #248

Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000

David Mercer is the Chief Executive Officer of LMAX Group, a global financial technology company headquartered in the UK, and the leading independent operator of institutional execution venues for FX and crypto currency trading. Following a successful management buyout in 2013, David has built LMAX Group into a key player in both the traditional capital markets and the crypto trading industry. With global client base and offices in 9 countries, LMAX Group was recently valued at $1 billion, following a minority stake sale to J.C. Flowers & Co. A former City banking executive and currency specialist, David is an outspoken industry commentator and a long term champion of the UK’s technology sector as well as a passionate supporter of entrepreneurship.

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Kevin Carter: Emerging Market ETFs | SALT Talks #247

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Kevin Carter is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of EMQQ. While he considers himself an active “value” investor first and foremost, he has collaborated with Princeton economist and indexing legend, Dr. Burton Malkiel, for more than 20 years. Their work together began in 1999 with the development of eInvesting, a pioneer firm in fractional share brokerage that was acquired by ETRADE in 2000. In 2002 they founded Active Index Advisors, a pioneer in so-called “direct indexing” that was acquired by Natixis Asset Management in 2005. In 2006, their efforts turned to China and Emerging Markets with Dr. Malkiel’s publishing of “Investment Strategies to Exploit Economic Growth in China” and the subsequent book From Wall Street to the Great Wall. Working with Guggenheim Partners, they launched several China focused ETFs on the NYSE.

Kevin launched EMQQ in 2014 after noticing how the smartphone was changing his personal consumption habits. He now lives in Lafayette, California with his wife and three children.

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Ronald Cohen: Driving Change with Impact Investing | SALT Talks #246

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 13:52:57 +0000

Sir Ronald Cohen is Chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and The Portland Trust. He is a co-founder director of Social Finance UK, USA, and Israel, and co-founder Chair of Bridges Fund Management and Big Society Capital.

For nearly two decades, Sir Ronald’s pioneering initiatives in driving impact investment have catalyzed a number of global efforts, each focused on driving private capital to serve social and environmental good. These efforts are leading the global impact investment movement towards an Impact Revolution. He chaired the Social Impact Investment Taskforce established under the UK’s presidency of the G8 (2013-2015), the Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets (2005-2007). In 2012 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s Innovation Award for innovation in social finance.

He is the author of 'IMPACT: Reshaping capitalism to drive real change,’ published by Penguin Random House in 2020, which became a Wall Street Journal Bestseller. His previous book 'The Second Bounce of the Ball,' published in 2007, was described by the Financial Times as “one of the best books written on entrepreneurship in recent years.״

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Sergey Young: Longevity Investing | SALT Talks #245

Thu, 05 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Sergey Young is a longevity investor and visionary with a mission to extend healthy lifespans of one billion people. To do that, Sergey founded Longevity Vision Fund to accelerate life extension technological breakthroughs and to make longevity affordable and accessible to all.

Sergey is on the Board of Directors of the American Federation of Aging Research (AFAR) and the Development Sponsor of AGE REVERSAL XPRIZE global competition designed to cure aging. Sergey is also a Top-100 Longevity Leader, who is transforming the world, one workplace at a time, with Longevity@Work – the first non-profit corporate longevity program of its kind.

Sergey Young has been featured as a top longevity expert and contributor on CNN, Fox News, and Forbes. As the author of books such as ‘The Science and Technology of Growing Young’ and the mastermind behind the online life extension platform SergeyYoung.com, Sergey is passionate about sharing news from the exciting world of longevity.

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Justin Fishner-Wolfson: Customized Liquidity Solutions | SALT Talks #244

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Justin Fishner-Wolfson is a founder and the managing partner of 137 Ventures, a growth-stage venture firm founded in San Francisco in 2011. The firm has seen five portfolio companies go public since September 2020: Palantir, Airbnb, Wish, Coupang and Didi. Its largest private portfolio companies include SpaceX, Flexport, Gusto, Workrise (formerly known as RigUp) and Curology.

Prior to co-founding 137 Ventures, Justin worked on the investment team at Founders Fund. He was also selected as a Kauffman Fellow, a program responsible for the development of leaders in global innovation and the venture capital industry. Justin graduated from Stanford University with honors, received a BS in Management Science and Engineering, a MS in Computer Science, and was a Mayfield Fellow.

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Yasmeen Abutaleb & Damian Paletta: Nightmare Scenario | SALT Talks #243

Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Yasmeen Abutaleb is a national reporter at The Washington Post, covering health policy, with a focus on the Department of Health and Human Services, health policy on Capitol Hill and health care in politics. She previously covered health care for Reuters.

Damian Paletta is White House economic policy reporter for The Washington Post. Before joining The Post, he covered the White House for the Wall Street Journal.

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Eric Gleacher: Risk. Reward. Repeat. | SALT Talks #242

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Eric Gleacher is a man with a compelling story. He has always been determined to excel in all that he attempts and has never failed to exceed the very high expectations he sets for himself. His autobiography is the story of a tournament-winning amateur golfer; an officer in the Marine Corps; an investment banker who became one of the half-dozen who dominated the M&A and takeover business that changed Wall Street and American business in the latter part of the last century; and a man who had the courage to leave a position as a senior partner at a famous and immensely successful investment bank to establish his own firm. It's as stirring and interesting as when we lived it. You won't want to stop reading until the last page.

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Matt Hougan: Crypto Index Funds | SALT Talks #241

Tue, 27 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Matt Hougan is one of the world’s leading experts on crypto, ETFs, and financial technology. He is the Chief Investment Officer for Bitwise Asset Management, the world’s largest provider of cryptocurrency index funds, with more than $1 billion in assets under management. He was previously CEO of ETF.com and Inside ETFs, where he helped build the world’s first ETF data and analytics system, the leading ETF media site, and the world’s largest ETF conference.

Hougan is co-author of two publications from the CFA Institute Research Foundation: “A Comprehensive Guide to Exchange-Traded Funds” and “Cryptoassets: The Guide to Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies for Professional Investors.” He is a crypto columnist for Forbes, a three-time member of the Barron’s ETF Roundtable, a member of the ETFdb’s ETF Hall of Fame, and the eighth person to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from ETF.com for contributions to the ETF industry.

Hougan sits on the board of directors for Equbot, creator of the first AI-driven ETFs (in partnership with IBM Watson), and is a strategic advisor to multiple crypto- and financial advisor-related startups, including Blockworks, Stratifi, Advisor Circle, and Exchange.

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Robert Breedlove: What is Money? | SALT Talks #240

Thu, 22 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Robert Breedlove is a freedom maximalist, ex-hedge fund manager, and philosopher in the Bitcoin space. To him, Bitcoin is fundamentally a humanitarian movement exposing the greatest con in human history: central banking. By learning about the connection between honest money, entrepreneurship, and civilization, we are renewing hope for the future of humanity. To this end, Robert's mission is to restore freedom, truth, and virtue in our world by tenaciously asking the question: "What is Money?"

He is also a YouTuber and the host of the “What Is Money?” podcast. Through his writing and media work, Robert aims to elucidate the importance of freedom and self-sovereignty across all spheres of human action. Find Robert on Twitter (@Breedlove22) where he posts about Bitcoin, macroeconomics, and philosophy.

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Mariana Mazzucato: Mission Economy | SALT Talks #239

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Mariana Mazzucato (PhD) is Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL), where she is Founding Director of the UCL Institute for Innovation & Public Purpose (IIPP). She is winner of international prizes including the 2020 John von Neumann Award, the 2019 All European Academies Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, and 2018 Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. She was named as one of the '3 most important thinkers about innovation' by The New Republic, one of the 50 most creative people in business in 2020 by Fast Company, and one of the 25 leaders shaping the future of capitalism by WIRED.

She is the author of three highly-acclaimed books: The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (2013), The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy (2018) and the newly released, Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism (2021). She advises policymakers around the world on innovation-led inclusive and sustainable growth. Her current roles include being Chair of the World Health Organization’s Economic Council on Health for All and a member of the South African President’s Economic Advisory Council, the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisors, and the United Nations High-level Advisory Board (HLAB) on Economic and Social Affairs, among others.

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Sasha Issenberg: The Engagement | SALT Talks #238

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0000

Sasha Issenberg is the author of "The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage" and three previous books, including "The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns". He has covered presidential elections as a national political reporter in the Washington bureau of The Boston Globe, a columnist for Slate, and a contributor to Bloomberg Politics and Businessweek. He is the Washington correspondent at Monocle, and his work has also appeared in New York, The New York Times Magazine, and George, where he served as a contributing editor. He teaches in the political-science department at UCLA.

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Asiff Hirji & Kyle Samani: Transforming Financial Services | SALT Talks #237

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Asiff Hirji is the President of Figure Technologies, Inc. (‘‘Figure’’), a blockchain-based home equity lender since January 2020. Kyle Samani is a Managing Partner at Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets.

Prior to joining Figure, Mr. Hirji served as President and COO of Coinbase, Inc. (‘‘Coinbase’’), where he helped significantly grow the company’s revenue and valuation. Prior to Coinbase, he was an Operating Advisor with Andreessen Horowitz from October 2016 to December 2017, Chief Restructuring Officer of Hewlett Packard Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) from November 2014 to March 2017, and served as President and COO of TD Ameritrade from July 2005 to October 2006.

As a former engineer, Kyle leads technical thesis formation and diligence. He is the more outwards facing partner, owning relationships with entrepreneurs and other investors. He is widely recognized in the crypto ecosystem for his writing and system-level analysis.

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Daniel Silva: The Cellist | SALT Talks #236

Tue, 13 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Daniel Silva is an American journalist and author of thriller and espionage novels. Prior to his novelist career, Daniel became a journalist at the age of thirty-three, directing CNN’s political talks. There is a tremendous amount of historical content worked into all of his novels.

Elegant and sophisticated, provocative and daring, The Cellist explores one of the preeminent threats facing the West today—the corrupting influence of dirty money wielded by a revanchist and reckless Russia. It is at once a novel of hope and a stark warning about the fragile state of democracy. And it proves once again why Daniel Silva is regarded as his generation’s finest writer of suspense and international intrigue.

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Gillian Tett: Anthro-Vision | SALT Talks #235

Thu, 08 Jul 2021 11:15:35 +0000

Gillian Tett is an Editor-at-Large for the Financial Times, where she is chair of the editorial board and editor-at-large, US.She has written about the financial instruments that were part of the cause of the financial crisis that started in the fourth quarter of 2007, such as CDOs, credit default swaps, SIVs, conduits, and SPVs. She became renowned for her early warning that a financial crisis was looming.

In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. In June 2009 her book Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards. Tett’s past roles at the FT have included US managing editor, assistant editor, capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.

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Gary Ginsberg: First Friends | SALT Talks #234

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Gary Ginsberg is the Author of “First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (And Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents”. He is also a lawyer, American political operative and corporate adviser, serving as a strategist in both the public and private sectors for more than 25 years.He was most recently Senior Vice President and Global Head of Communications at SoftBank Group Corp. before resigning in 2020.Before joining SoftBank, Ginsberg served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Communications at Time Warner and as Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and Corporate Affairs at News Corp.

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Zac Prince: What is Crypto Lending? | SALT Talks #233

Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Zac Prince is the Chief Executive Officer of BlockFi. Founded in 2017, BlockFi provides trade execution services for institutions and opportunities for retail investors to earn a yield on their bitcoin holdings. In January 2018, BlockFi launched its first product: USD loans backed by cryptocurrency for cryptocurrency holders allowing them to offer their bitcoin, ether or litecoin assets as collateral for a loan. In 2019, BlockFi launched its second major product to retail customers, a crypto-funded interest account. With this account, customers deposit bitcoin, ether or litecoin with the company for the assets to accumulate cumulative interest every month. BlockFi has previously advertised 6.2% annual interest, compounded monthly. The firm has $10 billion in outstanding loans, $15 billion in total assets and has been operating profitably for several months.

Prior to starting BlockFi, he led business development teams at Orchard Platform, a broker dealer and RIA in the online lending sector, and Zibby, an online consumer lender. He graduated Cum Laude from Texas State University with a BA in International Business and minor in Spanish.

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Michael Frazis: True Love & Explosive Growth | SALT Talks #232

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Michael Frazis is a Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager at Frazis Capital Partners. Frazis Capital Partner's Frazis Fund beat both the S&P/ASX 200 and MSCI World Total Return Index by over 100% net in 2020. Over the past 12 months, the fund has generated returns of 188%.

Prior to founding the firm, Michael spent five years in private equity in London, after completing internships in Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group and the Boston Consulting Group. Michael read Chemistry at Oxford University, and has a Masters of Finance from the London School of Economics. At Oxford, Michael’s research focused on the scale-up of enzyme-catalyzed fuel cells in the same laboratory that pioneered lithium batteries. Michael came first in Australia in the 2006 Chemistry Olympiad.

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Nina Burleigh: Anti-Expertise America | SALT Talks #231

Tue, 29 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Nina Burleigh is a best-selling author, journalist and lecturer. Her latest book, “VIRUS: Vaccinations, the CDC and the Hijacking of America's Response to the Pandemic”, is a brisk, real-life thriller that delves into the malfeasance behind the American pandemic chaos, and the triumph of science in an era of conspiracy theories and contempt for experts.

Burleigh got her start covering the Illinois Statehouse in Springfield, where the governorship often included a fitting for the prison stripes. She has reported from almost every state in the Continental U.S., written hundreds of works of journalism, essays and book reviews, on a wide array of topics including culture, politics, gender issues, science, and the environment. Two of her magazine articles were made into dramatic productions.

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Nic Carter: How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Actually Consume? | SALT Talks #230

Thu, 24 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Nic Carter is General Partner at Castle Island Ventures, a public blockchain-focused venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass. He is also the co-founder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup.

Today, Bitcoin consumes as much energy as a small country. This certainly sounds alarming — but the reality is way more complicated. Nic Carter joins us today to discuss several common misconceptions surrounding the Bitcoin sustainability debate, and ultimately argues that it’s up to the crypto community to acknowledge and address environmental concerns, work in good faith to reduce Bitcoin’s carbon footprint, and ultimately demonstrate that the societal value that Bitcoin provides is worth the resources needed to sustain it.

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Jack Mallers: Bringing Bitcoin to El Salvador | SALT Talks #229

Wed, 23 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Jack Mallers is the Founder and CEO of Zap, which created Strike, a bitcoin investment and payments company that transacts over the Lightning Network. Jack is known as one of the earliest Lightning Network developers, and recently has been providing market insights to help build El Salvador’s modern financial infrastructure using Bitcoin technology. This technology delivers powerful advantages over legacy financial rails and incumbent payment systems. “What’s transformative here is that bitcoin is both the greatest reserve asset ever created and a superior monetary network. Holding bitcoin provides a way to protect developing economies from potential shocks of fiat currency inflation,”

Strike is a mobile payments app that allows users to send and receive money anywhere, instantly, for free. Strike is built on top of the Bitcoin network – the largest global, interoperable, and open payments standard. Strike believes that open payment networks enable universal participation in the financial system, ushering in a new digital economy with truly borderless money transfers. Strike leverages Bitcoin’s open payment network to offer users the first global peer-to-peer payments app and a novel bitcoin-native financial experience.

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Jason Crabtree: Reimagining Complexity | SALT Talks #228

Tue, 22 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Jason Crabtree is the CEO of QOMPLX, a global leader in commercial cybersecurity and risk analytics. It is QOMPLX’s mission to reimagine the complexity of the modern data-driven economy for our clients. As the CEO of QOMPLX, Mr. Crabtree is responsible for the overall vision and long term direction of the company, in addition to overseeing all aspects of company operations.

While “complexity” is often viewed as a negative attribute, the most powerful things in life are complex. Planet Earth. Global enterprises. Human beings. Several years ago, Stephen Hawking said “the next century [21st] will be the century of complexity." Rick Nason of Dalhousie University’s Rowe School of Business explains in his book It’s Not Complicated: The Art and Science of Complexity in Business, “if you manage complex things as if they are merely complicated, you’re likely to be setting up your company for failure." Eliminating complexity would make no sense. Embracing complexity and harnessing it is the path to success.

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Lieutenant General Russel Honoré: Preventing Future Attacks | SALT Talks #227

Thu, 17 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Welcome to another episode of SALT Talks with host Anthony Scaramucci and guest Lieutenant General Russel Honoré, the Leader of the U.S. Capitol Complex Security Review. As the commander of Joint Task Force Katrina, he became known as the “Category 5 General” for his striking leadership style in coordinating military relief efforts in post-hurricane New Orleans. A decorated 37-year army veteran and global authority on leadership and emergency preparedness, Gen. Honoré now shares his no-nonsense approach to getting the job done by showing organizations how to successfully lead and execute a mission.

Drawing on his in-the-trenches experience managing conflicts of both the natural and man-made variety, his disciplined leadership takeaways inspire audiences in a range of fields, including business, management, government, military and education. Gen. Honoré delivers a bracing dose of candor with real-world leadership lessons that will equip audiences with a mindset of global preparedness and instill confidence in tomorrow’s leaders.

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Kenneth Juster: Indo-American Relations | SALT Talks #226

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Kenneth Juster is the 25th United States Ambassador to India (2017-2021). Juster has over 40 years of experience as a senior business executive, senior government official, and senior law partner.

Juster served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the Republic of India from November 2017 to January 2021. He was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. He led the third largest U.S. Mission in the world, with an Embassy and four Consulates, and approximately 2,500 employees representing over 30 U.S. government departments, agencies, and offices. He was involved in a broad range of issues across many sectors, including defense, energy, technology, finance, aviation, health, agriculture, education, and space. For his service, Juster received the highest honors of several U.S. government agencies, including the Department of State’s Distinguished Service Award, the Department of Defense’s Distinguished Public Service Award, the Director of National Intelligence’s Exceptional Service Award, and the Department of Energy’s Excellence Award.

In 2017, Juster served as the Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. He was a senior member of both the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In this role, Juster coordinated the Administration’s international economic policy and integrated it with national security and foreign policy. He also served as the lead U.S. negotiator in the run-up to the G7 Summit in Taormina, Italy.

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Zach Dexter: Trading Crypto | SALT Talks #225

Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Zach Dexter is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of LedgerX. He is an experienced software engineer, project manager and technology architect. Prior to this, Zach was Lead Software Engineer at Tutorspree, where he built out the full stack for an extensive set of internal tools and external-facing features.

LedgerX is a Swap Execution Facility and Derivatives Clearing Organization that specializes on crypto derivatives. LedgerX has the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) approval to trade and clear swaps on digital money. Ledgerx also offers Bitcoin options trading and clearing. LedgerX options allow users the opportunity to earn a fiat-based yield on Bitcoin by making a contract that gives them the right to sell or buy an asset at a specified price on a specified date when they think it would be profitable due to price changes.

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Bill Bratton: The Profession | SALT Talks #224

Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:20:28 +0000

Bill Bratton is the 38th & 42nd Police Commissioner of New York City. During a 46-year career in law enforcement, he instituted progressive change while leading six police departments, including seven years as Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department and two nonconsecutive terms as the Police Commissioner of the City of New York. He is the only person ever to lead the police agencies of America’s two largest cities. As the Executive Chairman of Risk Advisory, Commissioner Bratton advises clients on risk identification, prevention, and response. Teneo addresses five key areas: cyber risk management, counterterrorism, crisis anticipation, critical infrastructure, and health crisis advisory services.

The Profession is both a searching examination of the path of policing over the past fifty years, for good and also for ill, and a master class in transformative leadership. Bill Bratton was never brought into a police department to maintain the status quo; wherever he went–from Boston in the ’80s to the New York Police Department in the ’90s to Los Angeles after the beating of Rodney King to New York again in the era of unchecked stop-and-frisk–root-and-branch reinvention was the order of the day and he met the challenge. There are few other positions on Earth in which life-and-death stakes combine with intense public scrutiny and turbulent political crosswinds as they do for the police chief of a major American city, even more so after counterterrorism entered the mix in the twenty-first century. Now more than ever, when the role of the police in society is under a microscope like never before, Bill Bratton’s authority on the subject of improving law enforcement is profoundly useful. A riveting combination of cop stories and community involvement, The Profession presents not only a fascinating and colorful life at the heights of law-enforcement leadership, but the vision for the future of American policing that we sorely need.

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Alex Rampell of a16z: The Future of FinTech | SALT Talks #223

Wed, 09 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Alex Rampell is a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) where he focuses on financial services. He serves on the board of Branch, Brightside, Descript, Divvy, Earnin, FlyHomes, Loft, Mercury, PeerStreet, Point, Propel, Sentilink, Super Evil Mega Corp, Transferwise, and Very Good Security. Alex additionally led the firm's investments in OpenDoor ($OPEN), Plaid, Quantopian (acquired by Robinhood), and Rival (acquired by LiveNation).

Prior to joining the firm, Alex co-founded multiple fintech companies including Affirm ($AFRM), which he co-founded with Max Levchin, FraudEliminator (acquired by McAfee in 2006), Point, TrialPay (acquired by Visa in 2015), TXN (acquired by Envestnest in 2019), and Yub (acquired by Coupons.com in 2013).

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Marc Polymeropoulos: Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA | SALT Talks #222

Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:05:20 +0000

Marc Polymeropoulos is a former CIA Senior Intelligence Service Officer and Author of Clarity in Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the CIA. Marc retired in June 2019 from the Senior Intelligence Service ranks at the CIA after a 26 year career in operational headquarters and field management assignments covering the Middle East, Europe, Eurasia, and Counter Terrorism.

Marc Polymeropoulos has had to live with the consequences of decisions made under the most high-stress circumstances you can imagine as a senior intelligence officer in the CIA, retiring from his 26 years of service as one of the CIA’s most decorated field officers.

Though your crisis situations may not entail international counter terrorism as Marc’s did, in our age of social media and a 24-hour news cycle, the consequences of mishandling a crisis can escalate quickly, leaving irreparable damage to a company’s reputation and bottom line in its wake.

In Clarity in Crisis, Marc shares how true leaders need to lead in and through times of crisis and thrive under conditions of ambiguity, rather than message their way out or duck from hard decisions. Far from mere theory, Marc outlines the unique and specific mindset and strategies he himself practiced and honed throughout his remarkable career.

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Michael Greve: Forever Healthy | SALT Talks #221

Wed, 02 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Michael Greve is the Founder of the Forever Healthy Foundation and Kizoo Technology Ventures. As Michael himself says, his lifestyle during his hacker days wasn’t among the healthiest; his interest in healthy life extension developed as a consequence of his efforts to switch to a healthier way of living. Eventually, his research into the science of staying healthy led him to the work of Dr. Aubrey de Grey and the realization that staving off age-related diseases and preserving health indefinitely was a potentially achievable goal. Following this serendipitous discovery, he founded and launched the Forever Healthy Foundation.

Forever Healthy’s mission is to enable people to vastly extend their healthy lifespan and be part of the first generation to cure aging. They support the development of rejuvenation therapies that undo the damage of aging by funding basic research, bringing together the world’s leading scientists at their Undoing Aging conference, and helping startups that work on actual therapies for human use.

KIZOO helps young start-up teams grow by providing mentoring, seed, and early stage financing in SaaS, Internet, and mobile services, with growing focus on Rejuvenation Biotech. Apart from their financial resources, KIZOO shares its longtime experience in development, marketing, and product management.

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Michael Greenwald: Dollar Hegemony | SALT Talks #220

Tue, 01 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Michael Greenwald is the Director of Tiedemann Advisors. His expertise is in the future of the U.S. dollar and digital currencies; illicit finance; sanctions; and affairs in the Gulf/Middle East, Europe, and Africa.

Greenwald previously worked in senior roles within the United States Treasury working with Africa and Europe. He served as a financial diplomat in the Middle East spanning the tenures of U.S. Treasury Secretaries Geithner, Lew, and Mnuchin. Greenwald initially served as the United States Treasury Policy Advisor for Europe. In this role, he was appointed head of the United States Delegation to the Committee of Experts on the Evaluation of Anti-Money Laundering Measures and the Financing of Terrorism before the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France. Greenwald was part of the U.S. Treasury team that crafted U.S. sanctions against Russia, the largest U.S. sanctions program to date, and negotiated similar sanctions by Europe. Most recently, he served as the first United States Treasury Attaché appointed to Qatar and Kuwait and opened the Treasury Department’s office in Doha, Qatar in August 2015.

He also served in a variety of roles in the U.S. Intelligence Community and in the Office of General Council at the U.S Treasury. Greenwald worked closely with the National Security Council at the White House tackling issues and crafting sanctions programs related to countering ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran, Ukraine/Russia, Syria, and North Korea.

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Land Economics & Taxation | SALT Talks #219

Thu, 27 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Kathryn Lincoln and George McCarthy are the CIO and CEO of Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy seeks to improve quality of life through the effective use, taxation, and stewardship of land. A nonprofit private operating foundation whose origins date to 1946, the Lincoln Institute researches and recommends creative approaches to land as a solution to economic, social, and environmental challenges. Through education, training, publications, and events, they integrate theory and practice to inform public policy decisions worldwide.

Ms. Lincoln’s role as CIO currently manages and directs all aspects of the Institute’s $550 million endowment. In her role as Chair, she is responsible for all Board development and governance and takes a leadership position in strategic planning. Before joining the Lincoln Institute in 2014, Mr. McCarthy directed Metropolitan Opportunity at the Ford Foundation which sought to provide disadvantaged people better access to good jobs and other opportunities for advancement by supporting regional planning, and coordinated transportation and housing development to alleviate poverty and reduce its concentration in metropolitan areas in the U.S. and developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

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Jon Najarian: Market Rebellion | SALT Talks #218

Wed, 26 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Jon Najarian is the Co-Founder of Market Rebellion. Market Rebellion offers in-depth trader education, coaching and mentoring – from beginner to advanced – to help you build the knowledge base and practical skills required for market success.

Jon ‘DRJ’ Najarian was linebacker for the Chicago Bears before he turned to another kind of contact sport – trading on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Jon has earned a reputation in the industry as an options trading expert and pioneer. He developed and patented trading applications and algorithms used to identify unusual activity in stock, options, and futures markets. optionMONSTER, the options news and education site he co-founded, was described by Securities Industry News as “content king of the options business.” For years, tradeMONSTER was consistently rated “Best for Options Traders” by Barron’s and was the first online broker to deploy streaming, desktop-like trading in a web browser.

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Edward-Isaac Dovere: Battle for the Soul | SALT Talks #217

Tue, 25 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Edward-Isaac Dovere, the Lead Political Correspondent at The Atlantic. He has covered Democratic politics for 15 years, beginning in his native New York City and carrying him through the Obama White House and then across 29 states during the 2020 election cycle. His reporting has won the White House Correspondents Association’s Merriman Smith Award for Excellence and the Society of Professional Journalists’ Daniel Pearl Award for Investigative Reporting, among other awards.

Edward-Isaac Dovere’s Battle for the Soul is the searing, fly-on-the-wall account of the Democrats’ journey through recalibration and rebirth. Dovere traces this process from the early days in the wilderness of the post-Obama era, though the jockeying of potential candidates, to the backroom battles and exhausting campaigns, to the unlikely triumph of the man few expected to win, and through the inauguration and insurrection at the Capitol.

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Valerie Mosley: Financial Wellness | SALT Talks #216

Thu, 20 May 2021 14:23:27 +0000

Valerie Mosley is the Founder of Valmo Ventures. Valerie created Valmo Ventures to advise and invest in companies that add value to both investors and society. She recently founded BrightUp, a FinTech company focused on democratizing wealth building and wellbeing. Mosley sits on several boards including Eaton Vance’s family of mutual funds, DraftKings, Groupon and Envestnet. Previously, she was an SVP, partner, portfolio manager and investment strategist at Wellington Management Company, a $1 trillion money management firm. Mosley was named UK’s Powerlist International Person of the Year 2017, and one of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business and one of the Top 75 African Americans on Wall Street by Black Enterprise Magazine.

Valerie Mosley has always sought to bring people together in order to share different perspectives and build understanding. As a freshman at Duke University in the 1970s, she put together talks on race relations after learning she was the first black person many of her white classmates had met. She left a successful career at Wellington Management Company to pursue a more impact-oriented career focused on wealth building and wellbeing. Mosley cites the stagnation of wages among the bottom 80% of earners and its negative effect in the face of rapidly rising costs in health care, housing and education. Teaching financial literacy to the underserved is designed to have a compounding effect on both wealth and quality of life.

“I’m very interested in compounding compassion and compounding interest. If you widen your lens just a little, then you’ll learn things like the median cost for a payday loan, at a time when interest rates are zero, is 391%. That’s unconscionable.”

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Ali Tamaseb: Super Founders | SALT Talks #215

Wed, 19 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Ali Tamaseb is a partner at DCVC, a highly reputable VC firm in Silicon Valley with over $2 billion under management and investments in over ten billion-dollar startups. At DCVC, he works on a broad spectrum of areas ranging from computational health/bio to cybersecurity. More specifically, Ali likes to identify early-stage highly technical and defensible startups in diagnostics tools, neuro-technology, precision medicine, synthetic bio and bio-logic, disruptive healthcare models, financial technologies, alternative data, next-generation computing, cryptography and blockchain.

Ali received a B.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London and graduated from the SIGM program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He did research in the fields of neuroscience and human-computer interaction. Ali has 6 publications, including one book, holds a number of patents, and has won medals in national and international olympiads and innovation fairs.

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Zach Karabell: Inside Money | SALT Talks #214

Tue, 18 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Zachary Karabell is the Author of “Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power”. He is also the founder of the Progress Network at New America, and president of River Twice Research and River Twice Capital. Previously, he was Head of Global Strategies at Envestnet, a publicly traded financial services firm.

In Inside Money, acclaimed historian, commentator, and former financial executive Zachary Karabell offers the first full and frank look inside this institution against the backdrop of American history. Blessed with complete access to the company's archives, as well as a thrilling understanding of the larger forces at play, Karabell has created an X-ray of American power--financial, political, cultural--as it has evolved from the early 1800s to the present. Today, unlike many of its competitors, Brown Brothers Harriman remains a private partnership and a beacon of sustainable capitalism, having forgone the heady speculative upsides of the past thirty years but also having avoided any role in the devastating downsides. The firm is no longer in the command capsule of the American economy, but, arguably, that is to its credit. If its partners cleaved to any one adage over the generations, it is that a relentless pursuit of more can destroy more than it creates.

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Scott Sperling: Middle Market Growth | SALT Talks #213

Thu, 13 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Scott M. Sperling is the President of THL Portfolio Holdings Corp. and Co-President for Thomas H. Lee Partners LP. Mr. Sperling is also Chairman for Mass General Brigham, Inc. and on the board of 7 other companies. In his past career he occupied the position of Managing Partner at Aeneas Group, Inc., Executive Chairman of Federal Street Acquisition Corp. and Chairman for Boch Centre.

Prior to joining Thomas H. Lee Partners, Mr. Sperling was, for more than a decade, managing partner of the affiliate of Harvard Management Company that managed all alternative asset classes for Harvard University’s endowment fund. Before that he was a Senior Consultant with the Boston Consulting Group.

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Walter Isaacson: “The Code Breaker” | SALT Talks #212

Tue, 11 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Walter Isaacson is the Author of “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race”. Isaacson is famous for writing Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci, so a title like The Code Breaker might imply a lesser book about a lesser character. But 2020 Nobel winner Jennifer Doudna, who developed the gene editing technology CRISPR, is a giant in her own right. CRISPR could open some of the greatest opportunities, and most troubling quandaries, of this century—and this book delivers.

Isaacson is a Professor of History at Tulane and an advisory partner at Perella Weinberg, a financial services firm based in New York City. He is the past CEO of the Aspen Institute, where he is now a Distinguished Fellow, and has been the chairman of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine.

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Jim Mellon: Reimagining Aging | SALT Talks #211

Thu, 06 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Jim Mellon is the co-founder and Chairman of Juvenescence. Juvenescence was inspired by the possibilities and advances being made in the area of longevity. He travelled across the world speaking to leading scientists and researchers and from those conversations, he wrote the book, Juvenescence. That book and his partnership with Greg Bailey and Declan Doogan led to the concept and rare opportunity to reinvent human aging.

Jim is an international investor with interests in several industries. He is the life tenant of a trust which owns the Burnbrae Group, which has substantial assets in the biotechnology, financial services, property, mining and leisure sectors. Mr. Mellon spends most of his time working on startup ideas and investing. His book, “Wake Up!” was published in 2005; his second book "10 Investments for the Ten Years Ahead" was published in 2008. In 2012, he co-wrote "Cracking the Code" which focuses on the biotechnology sector and how to profit from it.

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Gary Vaynerchuk: The Future of NFTs | SALT Talks #210

Wed, 05 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX & CEO of VaynerMedia. Gary is considered one of the leading global minds on what’s next in culture, relevance and the internet. Known as “GaryVee” he is described as one of the most forward thinkers in business - he acutely recognizes trends and patterns early to help others understand how these shifts impact markets and consumer behavior. Whether its emerging artists, esports, NFT investing or digital communications, Gary understands how to bring brand relevance to the forefront. He is a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, Snapchat, Coinbase and Uber.

In addition to running multiple businesses, Gary documents his life daily as a CEO through his social media channels which has more than 30 million followers across all platforms. His podcast ‘The GaryVee Audio Experience’ ranks among the top podcasts globally. He is a five-time New York Times Best-Selling Author and one of the most highly sought after public speakers.

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Warren Fisher: FinTech Investing | SALT Talks #209

Fri, 30 Apr 2021 13:45:22 +0000

Warren Fisher is the Founder of Manole Capital Management. Warren started his career at Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), after graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA in 1994. While on GSAM’s Growth Equity team, Warren was responsible for both the Financial sector, as well as Service companies in the Technology and Fintech industries. In addition to his analyst duties, Warren was a Portfolio Manager on several of the portfolios. Over his 19 years at GSAM, Warren was a Co-Portfolio Manager for The Goldman Sachs Growth Opportunities Fund (mid cap), The Goldman Sachs Capital Growth Fund (large cap) as well as The Goldman Sachs Flexible Cap Growth (all cap) portfolios.

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Willy Woo: The Bitcoin Forecast | SALT Talks #208

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Willy Woo is a prominent on-chain Bitcoin analyst. He is also the author of the “The Bitcoin Forecast,” a market intelligence newsletter, explains the parabolic activity of Bitcoin in the past month.

Willy Woo is a New Zealander with 15 years experience founding multiple startups. Previously an angel investor, and a trader during the 2008 world financial crisis, he now dedicates the much of his time with data driven analysis on crypto-currency markets. In 2020, he constantly provided bitcoin price forecast and has been active on Twitter and Telegram where he continuously provided trading feedbacks. He is one of the few who gave shout about Bitcoin price of $300,000 in 2021.

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Tsedal Neeley: The Remote Work Revolution | SALT Talks #207

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Tsedal Neeley is the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Her work focuses on how leaders can scale their organizations by developing and implementing global and digital strategies. She regularly advises top leaders who are embarking on virtual work and large scale-change that involves global expansion, digital transformation, and becoming more agile.

Her forthcoming book, “Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere” provides remote workers and leaders with the best practices necessary to perform at the highest levels in their organizations. Her award-winning book, “The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations” chronicles the behind-the-scenes globalization process of a company over the course of five years.

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Brett Tejpaul: Coinbase IPO & Institutionalization of Crypto | SALT Talks #206

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Brett Tejpaul is the Head of Institutional Coverage at Coinbase. As an experienced business builder and innovator in Financial Services, Brett has accelerated revenue growth with institutional clients and mobilize FinTech companies. At Coinbase, Brett is making connections between finance 1.0 and the crypto economy. Coinbase is focused on the continued institutionalization of crypto. This includes continuing to expand the institutional client base, building out the coverage team, introducing new features and services that institutional investors expect, and continuing to educate the institutional community about crypto as an asset class and its role within a diversified portfolio.

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Disruptive Venture Structures | SALT Talks #205

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Alex Bangash and Trang Nguyen are the Founders of TI Platform Management. TI Platform Management is a global venture investment platform. The firm invests in what it considers disruptive venture structures, such as studios and platforms with a high-growth potential, while striving to bridge the diversity gap in VC. Together with the support of their mission-driven LPs, who include investors at prominent foundations, endowments, insurance firms, pensions, and sovereign wealth funds, TI Platform highlights global talent while promoting female founders and minority-owned funds and companies in the venture capital ecosystem.

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Deena Shakir: Transformative Technologies | SALT Talks #204

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Deena Shakir is a Partner at Lux Capital. She invests in transformative technologies streamlining analog industries and improving lives and livelihoods. She is particularly interested in intersectional and polymath entrepreneurs building breakthrough companies and accelerating advances and equity in human and population health.

Shakir joined Lux Capital as a Partner in late 2019. She has led Lux’s investments in Adyn, SteadyMD, H1, Shiru, Mos, and Neo.tax, among others. She is a founding VC member of the Valence Funding Network for Black entrepreneurs, and a public commentator on diversity and inclusion in venture capital and technology. Shakir's investment interests are mainly in emerging technologies with a focus on digital health and AI for analog industries.

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Dan Tapiero: A New Macro World for Bitcoin & Gold | SALT Talks #203

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Dan Tapiero is the CEO and Managing Partner of 10T. Dan brings 30 years of experience in macro and commodity investing and trading, research and economics, as well as entrepreneurship. Dan has an extensive set of relationships in the institutional investment management space and is a thought leader that regularly speaks and contributes on macroeconomic topics.

In this conversation, we discuss the Coinbase IPO, macro case for Bitcoin & gold, gold as a hedge, bitcoin market predictions and Ethereum.

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Ed Hajim: "On the Road Less Traveled" | SALT Talks #202

Thu, 15 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Ed Hajim is the Author of "On the Road Less Traveled: An Unlikely Journey from the Orphanage to the Boardroom". Ed is a seasoned Wall Street executive with more than 50 years of investment experience. He has held senior management positions with the Capital Group, E.F. Hutton, and Lehman Brothers before becoming chairman and CEO of Furman Selz. Hajim has been the co-chairman of ING Barings, Americas Region; chairman and CEO of ING Aeltus Group and ING Furman Selz Asset Management; and chairman and CEO of MLH Capital. He is now chairman of High Vista, a Boston-based money management company.

On the Road Less Traveled is the inspirational story of Edmund A. Hajim, an American financier and philanthropist who rises from dire childhood circumstances to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. At age three, Hajim is kidnapped by his father, driven from St. Louis to Los Angeles, and told that his mother is dead. His father soon abandons him in order to seek employment—mostly in vain—leaving his son behind in a string of foster homes and orphanages. This establishes a pattern of neglect and desertion that continues for Hajim’s entire childhood, forever leaving its mark. From one home to another, the lonely boy learns the value of self-reliance and perseverance despite his financial deprivation and the trauma of being an orphan.

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Mayor Dean Trantalis: How Communities Can Become More Resilient | SALT Talks #201

Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:08:20 +0000

Dean Trantalis is the 42nd Mayor of Fort Lauderdale. He is an American politician and mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Before his election as mayor, Trantalis served as a city commissioner for Fort Lauderdale from 2009 to 2017.

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Nikhil Kamath: From Chess to CIO | SALT Talks #200

Tue, 13 Apr 2021 15:02:00 +0000

Nikhil Kamath is the Co-Founder & Chief Investment Officer, True Beacon & Zerodha. Over the last year, Zerodha—the name of which is derived from combining two words, zero and rodha (Sanskrit for barriers)—has seen its number of registered users double under the pandemic and reportedly has a daily turnover of $10 billion.

According to his official company bio: "Nikhil is an astute investor with over a decade of experience and an impeccable track record, who specializes in modelling sophisticated long term investment strategies and portfolios. He heads investments and risk management at Zerodha. An avid reader, he always appreciates a good game of chess."

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Cathie Wood: Investing in Disruptive Innovation | SALT Talks #199

Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Cathie Wood's is the Founder and CEO of ARK Investment Management. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalizations, and geographies, Cathie believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around DNA sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, crypto and blockchain technology.

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How to Recognize, Attack & Eliminate Workplace Injustice | SALT Talks #198

Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Kim Scott and Trier Bryant are the co-founders of Just Work. This isn’t Trier’s first foray into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) work. She started her career in the Air Force, where she implemented her senior capstone project that highlighted the lack of diversity across all the service academies and how that ultimately affects the lack of officer diversity. From there she led teams at Goldman Sachs, Twitter, and Astra, and she also founded DE&I consulting firm Pathfinder.

Kim was inspired to write "Just Work" after feedback from underrepresented professionals made it clear that not everyone is able to use the strategies outlined in "Radical Candor" equitably and equally. As one Black woman CEO pointed out, it’s hard for her to create radical candor in her workplace without someone invoking the angry Black woman stereotype.

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Gabriel Radzyminski: Activist Investing | SALT Talks #197

Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:31:00 +0000

Gabriel Radzyminski is the Managing Director of Sandon Capital, a boutique investment management and advisory firm. He is the portfolio manager of the Sandon Capital Activist Fund and Sandon Capital Investments Limited.

Gabriel has been involved in the financial services sector for more than 20 years. He has significant investment experience across a range of asset classes. He serves as executive director of Mercantile Investment Company Limited (ASX:MVT) and is a non-executive director of Future Generation Investment Company Limited (ASX:FGX) . He is former Chairman of Armidale Investment Company Limited (ASX:AIK) and was a non-executive director of RHG Limited (ASX:RHG).

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Brooke Baldwin: "Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power" | SALT Talks #196

Tue, 06 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Brooke Baldwin is an Anchor at CNN and Author of "Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power". She is also the creator and host of CNN's Digital series "American Woman" which focuses on the stories of trailblazing women who have broken barriers in their respective fields and are now helping other women do the same.

In her book, Brooke explores the phenomenon of “huddling,” when women lean on one another—in politics, Hollywood, activism, the arts, sports, and everyday friendships—to provide each other support, empowerment, inspiration, and the strength to solve problems or enact meaningful change. Whether they are facing adversity (like workplace inequity or a global pandemic) or organizing to make the world a better place, women are a highly potent resource for one another.

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Josh Rogin: "Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi & the Battle for the 21st Century" | SALT Talks #195

Mon, 05 Apr 2021 16:15:00 +0000

Josh Rogin is the author of "Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century". He is also an American journalist who serves as a foreign policy columnist for the Global Opinions section of The Washington Post and a political analyst for CNN.

By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with president Xi Jinping had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. But their quarrel had also forced a long-overdue reckoning within the United States over China’s audacious foreign-influence operations, horrific human rights abuses, and creeping digital despotism. Ironically, this awakening was one of the biggest foreign-policy victories of Trump’s fractious term in office.

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Queering Banking for the Better | SALT Talks #194

Thu, 01 Apr 2021 15:00:00 +0000

Rob Curtis and Billie Simmons are the Co-Founders of Daylight. Daylight is the first LGBT+ digital banking platform in the United States and is part of the Visa Fintech Fast Track program, which will allow Daylight to quickly access Visa’s global network and resources. Daylight's flagship products and lifestyle services will be designed to improve financial equality and inclusion for the estimated 30-million-plus Americans who identify as LGBT+.

Daylight will offer a holistic set of products, tools and advice to help the LGBT+ community simplify banking and prepare for the future faster. "Daylight is the culmination of my work as an LGBT+ entrepreneur, an activist, a professional in finance, and as a consumer frustrated with banking in general."

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Sean Bill: Portfolio Management for Institutional Investors | SALT Talks #193

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:15:53 +0000

Sean Bill is the Chief Investment Officer of VTA. He is responsible for the management and oversight of $3 billion in multi-asset class portfolios including defined benefit plans, defined contribution plans, endowment funds and institutional cash management programs. Assets allocated across global public equities, global fixed income, private credit, private core real-estate, diversified real assets and absolute return hedge funds.

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is an independent special district that provides sustainable, accessible, community-focused transportation options that are innovative, environmentally responsible, and promote the vitality of our region.

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John Preston: "Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell" | SALT Talks #192

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:14:22 +0000

John Preston is the author of "Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell". Robert Maxwell was a British media proprietor, Member of Parliament, suspected spy, and fraudster. Originally from Czechoslovakia, Maxwell rose from poverty to build an extensive publishing empire.

In February 1991, Robert Maxwell triumphantly sailed into Manhattan harbor on his yacht, the Lady Ghislaine, to buy the ailing New York Daily News. Taxi drivers stopped their cabs to shake his hand, children asked for his autograph, and patrons of the hottest restaurant in Manhattan gave him a standing ovation while he dined. Ten months later, Maxwell disappeared off that same yacht in the middle of the night and was later found dead in the water. As John Preston reveals in this entertaining and revealing biography, Maxwell’s death was as mysterious as his remarkable life.

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Professor Peter Hotez: Preventing the Next Pandemic | SALT Talks #191

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:12:40 +0000

Professor Peter Hotez is the Dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also the Co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and Texas Children’s Hospital Endowed Chair of Tropical Pediatrics.

Dr. Hotez is an internationally-recognized physician-scientist in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development. As head of the Texas Children’s CVD, he leads a team and product development partnership for developing new vaccines for hookworm infection, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and SARS/MERS/SARS-2 coronavirus, diseases affecting hundreds of millions of children and adults worldwide, while championing access to vaccines globally and in the United States. In 2006 at the Clinton Global Initiative he co-founded the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases to provide access to essential medicines for hundreds of millions of people.

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Ted Seides: Teaching Financial Literacy with Capital Allocators | SALT Talks #190

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:10:57 +0000

Ted Seides is the Host of the Capital Allocators Podcast. Ted created Capital Allocators LLC to explore best practices in the asset management industry from the perspective of asset owners, asset managers, and other relevant players. He hosts the Capital Allocators podcast, serves as an advisor to allocators and asset managers, helps asset managers convey their story through private podcasts, and educates investors. Barron’s, Business Insider, Forbes and Value Walk each named it among the top investing podcasts.

Alongside the podcast, Ted advises both managers and allocators, compounding his knowledge and relationships to help them make more money. In March 2021, he published his second book, Capital Allocators: How the world's elite money managers lead and invest which distills key lessons from the first 150 episodes of the podcast.

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Greg Gibb: China's FinTech Boom | SALT Talks #189

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:09:21 +0000

Greg Gibb is the Chief Executive Officer of Lufax. As a constant innovator and pioneer in the fintech industry, Lufax has developed China’s most open, safe and convenient investment and financing platform. Investors come to Lufax for its broad product offering, diverse liquidity avenues and superior user experience. Lufax takes full advantage of the latest big data and IT technologies and leverages the most advanced risk assessment models and risk control systems.

“Fintech that connects the right customer to the right product, done with more transparency, more intelligence, and more investor education, can help direct money to the right areas and support the real economy."

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Nisa Amoils: Blockchain Solutions to ESG Problems | SALT Talks #188

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:07:47 +0000

Nisa Amoils is the Managing Partner of A100x, a rolling venture fund committed to investing in companies that apply blockchain, AI and other emerging technologies to promote environmental, social and economic impact.

Nisa has been in venture capital for 10 years at multiple funds (Scout Ventures and Grasshopper Capital) investing in disruptive technology. She started as a generalist technology seed investor, and gradually shifted to blockchain because it is the largest technology shift of the century and the sector from which the next generation of valuable companies will emerge.

"While we have previously invested in the disruption of financial services, DEFI, and Bitcoin that mainstream media cover, there are many other use cases that escape the media hype. We are interested in the uses of these and other innovative technologies that solve important real-world problems."

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Roxanne Davies: Investing for Family Offices | SALT Talks #187

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:06:07 +0000

Roxanne Davies is the Managing Partner of Parly. She is a senior family office executive for nearly 30 years, she has managed operational businesses and multi-asset investment portfolios around the world, including the US, Russia, Brazil, Thailand, Singapore and Switzerland.

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Jeff Immelt: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company | SALT Talks #186

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:04:36 +0000

Jeff Immelt is a Venture Partner of New Enterprise Associates, a global venture capital and private equity firm. Jeff joined NEA in 2018 as a Venture Partner on both the technology and healthcare investing teams. He is the author of HOT SEAT, a memoir of leadership in times of crisis.

Jeff served as chairman and CEO of GE for 16 years where he revamped the company’s strategy, global footprint, workforce and culture. During his tenure, he led several innovative transformations that doubled industrial earnings, reshaped the portfolio, re-established market leadership, grew a strong share position in essential industries, and quadrupled emerging market revenue.

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Don Lemon: "This Is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism" | SALT Talks #185

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:02:23 +0000

Don Lemon is the Anchor of CNN Tonight and author of This is the Fire: What I Say to My Friends About Racism.

As America’s only Black prime-time anchor, Lemon and his daily monologues on racism and antiracism, on the failures of the Trump administration and of so many of our leaders, and on America’s systemic flaws speak for his millions of fans. Now, in an urgent, deeply personal, riveting plea, he shows us all how deep our problems lie, and what we can do to begin to fix them.

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Shabtai Shavit: Inside the Mossad - Israel's National Intelligence Agency | SALT Talks #184

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:59:47 +0000

Shabtai Shavit was the Director General of Mossad from 1989-1996. After retiring from the Mossad, he spent five years as CEO of Maccabi Health Services Group. From 2001, he was chairman of the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel. He was president and CEO of EMG Israel and chairman of Athena. Shavit continued to work in government, including as advisor to the Israeli National Security Council, advisor to the Knesset Committee on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sub-Committee on Intelligence, and as a member of the N.Y.F.D. Task Force for Future Preparedness Against Terrorism.

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Sheila Warren: Why Bitcoin Is Here to Stay | SALT Talks #183

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:58:06 +0000

Sheila Warren is best known for serving as the head of data, blockchain and digital assets at the World Economic Forum. She also holds board member and advisory positions at multiple institutions and organizations including the World Bank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and NGO network TechSoup.

Warren promotes the adoption of blockchain technology and considers herself to be a Bitcoin maximalist. "I don't think Bitcoin is going away. I think that it is deeply important to the ecosystem and I think it will always have a certain unique role to play.” As part of her role at the WEF, Warren also explores the concept of central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. One of the top women in global finance, Warren actively stands for diversity and inclusion in the blockchain and crypto industry.

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Jeff Booth: Author “The Price of Tomorrow" on Deflation | SALT Talks #182

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:56:26 +0000

Jeff Booth is the author of The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future. Jeff is a visionary leader who has lived at the forefront of technology change for 20 years. He led BuildDirect, a technology company that aimed to simplify the building industry, for nearly two decades through the dot-com meltdown, the 2008 financial crisis, and many waves of technological disruption.

We live in an extraordinary time. "Bitcoin will keep on growing and I think one day other currencies will be pegged to bitcoin. I think it's highly likely that bitcoin becomes the reserve currency." Technological advances are happening at a rate faster than our ability to understand them, and in a world that moves faster than we can imagine, we cannot afford to stand still. These advances bring efficiency and abundance-and they are profoundly deflationary. Our economic systems were built for a pre-technology era when labor and capital were inextricably linked, an era that counted on growth and inflation, an era where we made money from inefficiency.

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Richard Byworth: Mainstream Adoption of Crypto | SALT Talks #181

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:54:56 +0000

Richard Byworth is the Chief Executive Officer of Diginex. He has 20+ years of experience spanning finance, start-ups, investment, fintech sectors and the crypto industry. "We are modeling out about $175,000 for the price of bitcoin by the end of this year."

Diginex is a digital asset financial services and advisory company focused on delivering innovative products, architecture, and infrastructure to foster the mainstream adoption of the digital asset class. The group was listed on Nasdaq in September 2020 under the ticker "EQOS".

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Adam Jentleson: “Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate" | SALT Talks #180

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:53:28 +0000

Adam Jentleson is the Author of Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy.

In Kill Switch, Senate insider Adam Jentleson contends that far from reflecting the Framers’ vision, the Senate has been transformed over the decades by a tenacious minority of white conservatives. From John Calhoun in the mid-1800s to Mitch McConnell in the 2010s, their primary weapon has been the filibuster, or the requirement that most legislation secure the support of a supermajority of senators. Yet, as Jentleson reveals, the filibuster was not a feature of the original Senate and, in allowing a determined minority to gridlock the federal government, runs utterly counter to the Framers’ intent.

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Amie Parnes & Jonathan Allen: “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won The Presidency" | SALT Talks #179

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:51:21 +0000

Jonathan Allen is a political reporter for NBC News with two decades of experience covering Congress, the White House and federal elections. A frequent guest on national television and radio programs. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won The Presidency" is his third book with Amie Parnes. Their first two books, "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign" and "HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton," were both New York Times bestsellers. "Shattered" reached No. 1 on the list.

Amie Parnes is a senior correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington, where she covers the Biden White House and national politics. She was previously a staff writer at Politico, where she covered the Senate, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Obama White House.

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What's Next for Crypto Regulation? | SALT Talks #178

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:49:27 +0000

Alex Mashinsky is the CEO of Celsius Network and a serial entrepreneur and founder of seven New York City-based startups, Alex has raised more than $1 billion and exited over $3 billion.

Georgia Quinn is the Chair of the Advisory Board and co-founder of iDisclose, an adaptive web-based application that enables entrepreneurs to prepare customized institutional grade private placement documents for a fraction of the time and cost.

Celsius is a modern platform where membership provides access to curated financial services that are not available through traditional financial institutions. Crypto holders can earn rewards by transferring their coins to their Celsius Wallet and borrow USD against their crypto collateral.

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Meltem Demirors & Tegan Kline: Has Bitcoin Won Over Institutional Investors? | SALT Talks #177

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:47:42 +0000

Meltem Demirors is the Chief Strategy Officer of CoinShares, a digital asset investment firm that manages $4B in assets on behalf of a global client base, and serves as a trusted partner to investors and entrepreneurs navigating the digital asset ecosystem. She is the founder of her personal crypto fund Athena Capital, and is continuing to open the crypto world to institutional investors. On the side, Demirors has lectured about blockchain for the University of Oxford.

Tegan Kline is the Co-Founder and Business Lead at Edge & Node, Initial team behind The Graph, working to ensure decentralized applications are as easy to build on Web3 and use as the centralized applications on the Web2 today. Tegan helps leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem for the world of tomorrow.

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The Basics of Real Estate Investing | SALT Talks #176

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:45:57 +0000

Robin Potts is the Co-Head of Real Estate Investments and Director of Acquisitions for Canyon. Ms. Potts supervises originations and acquisitions of all real estate transactions. Ms. Potts previously worked in the Financial Institutions Group of Credit Suisse in Los Angeles and focused on equity, debt, and M&A transactions in the mortgage real estate investment trust sector. Ms. Potts is a graduate of Harvard University (B.A., Economics).

Michael Levy is the Chief Executive Officer of Crow Holdings where he is responsible for leading and overseeing the Company’s overall business activities. Joining in 2016 from Morgan Stanley where he was Chief Operating Officer for the Investment Management Division and a member of the firm’s Management Committee, Michael had a longstanding career in real estate finance and investments.

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Miami Mayor Francis Suarez: How Can I Help? | SALT Talks #175

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:43:53 +0000

Francis Suarez is the Mayor of Miami and an attorney serving as the 43rd mayor of Miami. He was elected on November 7, 2017, with 86 percent of the vote. Suarez is the first Miami-born mayor. He is a registered Republican, but the office of the City of Miami Mayor is nonpartisan.

We discuss his plans to transform Miami into a tech innovation hub, how he is embracing Bitcoin and crypto, climate change, and more. Suarez has been a strong advocate for technological innovation within Miami and has recently embraced leaders and innovators within the crypto industry.

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Dan Held: Bitcoin’s Market Cycles | SALT Talks #174

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:41:31 +0000

Dan Held is the Growth Lead at Kraken Bitcoin Exchange. Dan is a serial Bitcoin entrepreneur with two exits (Interchange, Kraken, ZeroBlock, Blockchain.com), and has a wide span of experience across five Bitcoin companies.

His former company Interchange, a portfolio reconciliation tool for crypto institutional traders, was acquired by Kraken in 7/2019. Prior to that, he was at Uber on Rider Growth/Global Data. Before Uber, Dan built some of the most popular early crypto products including ChangeTip (acquired by Airbnb), and ZeroBlock (acquired by Blockchain.com in the second-ever all Bitcoin acquisition). He was part of the original 2013 crypto meetup group in SF which was comprised of the founders of Kraken, Coinbase, Litecoin, and others.

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Betsy Cohen: All About SPACs | SALT Talks #173

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:38:59 +0000

Betsy Cohen is a Chairman at FinTech Group. Betsy’s entrepreneurial vision is focused on identifying disruptive technology innovation in the financial services industry, with a particular focus on established companies that offer data processing, transactional or data security, consumer engagement platforms and payment processing services.

Widely acknowledged as a pioneer in financial law, banking, real estate lending, investing and development, Betsy Cohen and her achievements have been widely recognized by some of the nation’s most prestigious organizations and publications. By the time she founded Jefferson Bank at 32 years of age (which she subsequently sold for over $370 million), she had already served as only the second female law professor on the East Coast (after Ruth Bader Ginsburg), created a commercial law firm, started a shipping business in Hong Kong, set up a leasing company in Brazil, and entered into a joint venture with a bank in Spain. But it would be her creation in 1999 of The Bancorp - a revolutionary concept in commercial banking - that would anchor her position as a true financial services visionary.

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The Rise of ESG Investing & Analysis | SALT Talks #172

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:37:05 +0000

Erika Karp founded Cornerstone Capital Group to bring the disciplines of finance, economics and sustainability to bear in pursuit of a more regenerative and inclusive form of capitalism. Over the course of her 25-plus years on Wall Street, Erika developed a deep belief in environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis as a critical input to investment decision-making.

John Streur is President and Chief Executive Officer of Calvert Research and Management, an investment management firm that specializes in responsible and sustainable investing across global capital markets. Calvert serves all types of investors through its family of mutual funds and separate accounts. Mr. Streur is also President and a Trustee/Director of the Calvert Funds and a Director of Calvert Foundation and a member of its Risk Oversight Committee.

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Vanessa Colella: The Innovation Ecosystem | SALT Talks #171

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:35:04 +0000

Vanessa Colella is the Chief Innovation Officer for Citi and leads the Citi Ventures and Citi Productivity teams. Citi Ventures is committed to charting the unknown in a world of unprecedented change and disruption. We invest in innovative startups, and we work with our colleagues, clients, and the innovation ecosystem to experiment with next-generation technologies.

Vanessa's goal is to accelerate and discover new sources of value by championing innovation so that Citi can compete more effectively in a world of technological, behavioral, and societal change. The Citi Ventures team drives innovation by exploring, incubating, and investing in new ideas and partnering with category-defining startups to help people, businesses and communities thrive. She's an expert in corporate development, strategic partnerships, mobile payments, emerging payments, entrepreneurship, education, venture capital, and marketing.

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Yan Pritzker: Introduction to Bitcoin | SALT Talks #170

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:33:14 +0000

Yan Pritzker is the co-founder and CTO of Swan Bitcoin. Swan is a recurring Bitcoin purchase plan to help you save value in Bitcoin. Yan is the former co-founder and CTO at Reverb, which was sold to Etsy for $275M.

He is the author of Inventing Bitcoin: The Technology Behind The First Truly Scarce and Decentralized Money Explained. “Bitcoin may well be the greatest invention of our time, and most people have no idea what it is, or how it works.”

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Vijay Boyapati: “The Bullish Case for Bitcoin” | SALT Talks #169

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:31:17 +0000

Vijay Boyapati is the Author of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin.

“With the price of bitcoin surging to new highs in 2017, the bullish case for investors might seem so obvious it does not need stating. Alternatively, it may seem foolish to invest in a digital asset that isn’t backed by any commodity or government and whose price rise has prompted some to compare it to the tulip mania or the dot-com bubble. Neither is true; the bullish case for Bitcoin is compelling but far from obvious. There are significant risks to investing in Bitcoin, but, as I will argue, there is still an immense opportunity.”

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Fundraising in the Middle East (Mena) | SALT Talks #168

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:29:21 +0000

Huda Al Lawati is a partner of Gateway Partners, based in Dubai. She has over 16 years of experience in strategy, investment and portfolio management across emerging market private equity and corporates in the MENA with a strong relationship network in the region. Prior to joining Gateway, Huda was CIO at Savola Group, the leading strategic investment holding company in the food and retail sectors in the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey region. She was responsible for strategy, portfolio management, M&A and investor relations for the group.

Kamar Jaffer is counsel at Allen & Overy in the Funds and Asset Management Group. Kamar specializes in advising on structuring and establishing investment funds (including Shari’a compliant funds), co-investments, cross-border M&A, private equity and joint ventures. Kamar’s experience spans a broad range of sectors including private equity, financial institutions, energy, telecommunications, hospitality, real estate and healthcare sectors.

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Dr. Yossi Bahagon: Israel's Vaccine Rollout | SALT Talks #167

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:27:36 +0000

Dr. Yossi Bahagon, the Managing Partner at OurCrowd. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of e-Health, Mobile-Health and Telemedicine, Dr. Bahagon founded in 2009 the e-Health wing for Clalit Health Services (CHS), the largest HMO in Israel and second-largest globally. Under his leadership, the e-Health activity at CHS became the largest Online-Care and Telemedicine provider worldwide and has won several national and international prizes for excellence.

Dr. Bahagon serves today as a senior consultant in the Venture Capital, Bio-Medical, Telemedicine and Pharmaceutical industries, while continuing his role as a Family physician.

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Jalak Jobanputra: The Rise of Venture Capital in Crypto | SALT Talks #166

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:25:50 +0000

Jalak Jobanputra is the Founder of Future\Perfect Ventures. An early-stage Venture Capital firm focused on decentralized technologies including blockchain, crypto, IoT, and AI. FPV's portfolio includes Abra, Blockstream, Bitpesa, Fusemachines, Everledger and Blockchain.

Jalak was awarded Institutional Investor's Most Powerful Fintech Dealmakers from 2016-2018. In May 2018, she was awarded Microsoft's VC Trailblazer Award for "her early and bold" investments in the sector. She has been listed as a 100 Most Influential Fintech Leader of 2016 and 2017 based on her investment strategy at FPV. In 2017, she was cited as a "Top 5 Investor Powering the Blockchain Boom" and Crunchbase noted FPV as one of the top VC funds in blockchain "before it was cool." Since founding the firm, she has spoken on blockchain technology, IoT, and artificial intelligence at many global conferences.

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Saleh Romeih: Venture Capital Investing During COVID-19 | SALT Talks #165

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:24:06 +0000

Saleh Romeih is the Managing Partner SoftBank Group. SoftBank Capital is a venture capital group in the United States, focusing on technology and telecom early-stage businesses. It was founded by SoftBank.

“We're in the midst of a transformational shift in society, powered by AI. And like those that came before it, this transformation will reach virtually every sector of our global economy. It's why we back a diversity of companies responsibly leading us toward new tools, new capabilities, and new possibilities.”

Prior to joining SoftBank, Saleh was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. Before that, he spent 17 years at Deutsche Bank, notably as Head of Corporate Coverage for Asia; and as Head of Central Europe, Middle East, and Africa regions for the Corporate and Investment Bank divisions of Deutsche Bank.

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Mark Mobius: Private Equity & Emerging Markets | SALT Talks #164

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:22:22 +0000

Mark Mobius is the Founder of Mobius Capital Partners. Mobius Capital Partners is an emerging and frontier markets asset manager offering an innovative private equity approach to public markets. Supported by a first-class investment team, Mobius Capital Partners is focused on a single long-only strategy based on actively partnering with portfolio companies to improve their corporate governance and to deliver a clear ESG pathway.

Mark is a key figure in developing international policy for emerging markets. In 1999, he was selected to serve on the World Bank's Global Corporate Governance Forum as a member of the Private Sector Advisory Group and as co-chairman of its Investor Responsibility Task Force. His work and expertise have earned him numerous industry awards, including most recently the Life Time Achievement Award in Asset Management (2017) Global Investor Magazine; 50 Most Influential People (2011) Bloomberg Markets Magazine; Africa Investor Index Series Awards (2010) African Investor; and the Top 100 Most Powerful and Influential People (2006) Asiamoney.

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Secretaries of State Brad Raffensperger & Jocelyn Benson on Election Operations | SALT Talks #163

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:20:02 +0000

This is part three of the three-part series on election security. Brad Raffensperger is the CEO and owner of Tendon Systems, LLC. Tendon is a specialty contracting and engineering design firm with nearly 150 employees. The firm has operated in 35 different states. Raffensperger also owns and operates a specialty steel manufacturing plant based in Forsyth County. Additionally, he served two terms in the Georgia General Assembly from 2015-2019.

Jocelyn Benson is Michigan's 43rd Secretary of State. In this role, she is focused on ensuring elections are secure and accessible, and dramatically improving customer experiences for all who interact with our offices. Benson is the author of State Secretaries of State: Guardians of the Democratic Process, the first major book on the role of the secretary of state in enforcing election and campaign finance laws. She is also the Chair of Michigan's Task Force on Women in Sports, created by Governor Whitmer in 2019 to advance opportunities for women in Michigan as athletes and sports leaders.

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Dante Disparte: The Rise of Stablecoins in Crypto | SALT Talks #162

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:18:03 +0000

Dante Disparte is the Executive Vice President of the Diem Association. Dante serves as a member of the executive committee leading public policy, social impact, membership and communications. The Diem payment system is built on blockchain technology to enable the open, instant, and low-cost movement of money. People will be able to send, receive, and spend their money, enabling universal access to financial services.

Diem, previously known as Libra, is a permissioned blockchain-based payment system proposed by the American social media company Facebook, Inc. The plan also includes a private currency implemented as a cryptocurrency.

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Michael Dyson: “Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America” | SALT Talks #161

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:16:28 +0000

Michael Dyson is an academic, author, ordained minister, and radio host. Dyson has authored or edited more than twenty books dealing with subjects such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Marvin Gaye, Barack Obama, Illmatic (Nas's debut album), Bill Cosby, Tupac Shakur and Hurricane Katrina.

Long Time Coming grapples with the cultural and social forces that have shaped our nation in the brutal crucible of race. In five beautifully argued chapters―each addressed to a black martyr from Breonna Taylor to Rev. Clementa Pinckney―Dyson traces the genealogy of anti-blackness from the slave ship to the street corner where Floyd lost his life―and where America gained its will to confront the ugly truth of systemic racism. Ending with a poignant plea for hope, Dyson's exciting new book points the way to social redemption.

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Joe Terranova & Liz Young: Global Investing Landscape & Market Analysis | SALT Talks #160

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:14:44 +0000

Joe Terranova is a series regular on CNBC's Fast Money and the Chief Market Strategist for Virtus Investment Partners, a $25 billion Hartford-based asset management firm. In his current role, Mr. Terranova is involved with Virtus' investment oversight function and represents Virtus as a client-facing thought leader, providing insight into the domestic and global investing landscape. Prior to joining Virtus, he spent 18 years at MBF Clearing Corp., where he was the director of trading and managed more than 300 traders.

Liz Young is Director of Market Strategy for BNY Mellon Investment Management. In this role, she works directly with the ﬁrm's Chief Economist to formulate and deliver economic and market views to external audiences. She focuses on educating investors on current macroeconomic themes and their effects on capital markets. Liz is a CNBC Contributor and is frequently quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post and other industry publications.

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Anthony “Pomp” Pompliano: The Investment Case for Bitcoin | SALT Talks #159

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:12:46 +0000

Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano is the co-founder of Morgan Creek Digital. He is the host of The Pomp Podcast, where he talks to investors about business, finance, Bitcoin, and crypto.

Morgan Creek Digital is a hedge fund that specializes in blockchain technology and digital assets and is backed by investment management firm Morgan Creek Capital. The firm was founded by Mark Yusko, Jason Williams and Anthony Pompliano in 2018.

He has built and sold numerous companies, ran Product & Growth teams at Facebook and Snapchat, and invested over $100 million in early-stage technology companies.

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Venture Capitalists Explain How They Evaluate Startups | SALT Talks #158

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:10:37 +0000

Lauren Kolodny and Theresia Gouw are the Founders of Acrew Capital. Acrew DCF is a new growth stage investment fund from Acrew Capital, that aims to diversify the ownership and leadership of leading growth-stage companies through value-added capital.

Prior to co-founding Acrew, Lauren was a partner at Aspect Ventures. She joined at the founding of the firm and helped to build out the team. Previously, Lauren worked in product marketing at Google, where she led a number of launches for GSuite, including Google Drive. Lauren began her career building tech and finance partnerships for the Clinton Foundation in India.

Previously, Theresia was a co-founder at Aspect Ventures and a Managing General Partner at Accel. Theresia has been fortunate to work with many successful companies through IPOs or acquisitions including Forescout (FSCT), Imperva (IMPV), Trulia (TRLA), Hotel Tonight (ABNB), Astro (Slack; WORK), LearnVest (Northwestern Mutual), Jasper Design (CDNS) and Kosmix (WMT).

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Jeff Ubben: A Look at Impact Investing Post COVID | SALT Talks #157

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 19:08:54 +0000

Jeffrey Ubben is an American businessman and Founder of Inclusive Capital Partners. He recently retired as CEO of ValueAct Capital, a hedge fund focused on environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) and impact investing. Ubben is an activist board member of Exxon Mobil.

Prior to founding ValueAct Capital in 2000, Mr. Ubben was a Managing Partner at Blum Capital Partners for more than five years. Mr. Ubben is a director of The AES Corporation, where he is a member of the Compensation and Financial Audit Committees, Enviva Partners, LP, where he is a member of the Compensation and Health, Safety, Sustainability and Environmental Committees, AppHarvest, and Nikola Corporation.

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Venture Capital & Early Stage Science Startups | SALT Talks #156

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:55:42 +0000

Joe Lonsdalewas an early institutional investor in notable companies including Wish, Oculus, Oscar, Illumio, Blend, Orca Bio, RelateIQ, Joby Aviation, Synthego, Guardant Health, and in 2016 and 2017 was the youngest member of the Forbes 100 Midas List. He is also the co-founder of Palantir, a multi-billion dollar global software company best known for its work in defense and finance. Most recently, he was a founding partner at Formation 8, one of the top-performing private funds and the precursor to 8VC.

Dakin Sloss is an entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. He is the Founder and General Partner of Prime Movers Lab, the world’s leading partner of breakthrough scientific startups. He has led investments in and is a Board Member at Momentus, Heliogen, Covaxx, Tarana, and Carbon Capture. Prime Movers Lab I is on track to be one of the top-performing funds of 2018. Prior to founding Prime Movers Lab, Dakin served as founding CEO of Tachyus and OpenGov.

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Financial Advisors Explain Wealth Management & Financial Literacy | SALT Talks #155

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:14:52 +0000

Backed by over 20 years of experience, Stacy Robinson works with her clients to understand their goals, define risk, manage liabilities, and proactively plan for their overall financial future. Stacy’s focus on a client-centric wealth management process has spanned her entire career.

Octavius Reid is a Senior Vice President and Wealth Advisor with Morgan Stanley. Over the past 30 years, he has developed an area of focus, working with clients in the sports and entertainment industry. As a Morgan Stanley Global Sports and Entertainment Director, provides financial management services and helps guide many professionals through what can be an incredibly difficult space.

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Dr. Akilah Cadet: How to Promote Racial Equity in the Workplace | SALT Talks #154

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:12:13 +0000

Dr. Akilah Cadet is the Founder and CEO of Change Cadet. Change Cadet provides people and companies with services that support anti-racism, diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging (DEIB).

As a young Black woman, Dr. Akilah Cadet experienced judgment, "isms", and numerous barriers in the workplace. One day she thought, “what if I could change that?” and Change Cadet was started. Cadet, her last name, is a French term that means soldier. Change Cadet prepares individuals and companies to be soldiers of change in the workforce so there can be more women and people of color at the top. She wants everyone to feel empowered in their career. She advises tech startups from concept to staffing, facilitates strategic workshops, coaches leaders, and speaks at various engagements.

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Election Lessons 2020 with Commissioners Benjamin Hovland & Donald Palmer | SALT Talks #153

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:09:32 +0000

This is episode two of a three-part series on election security. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) was established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). EAC is an independent, bipartisan commission charged with developing guidance to meet HAVA requirements, adopting voluntary voting system guidelines, and serving as a national clearinghouse of information on election administration. EAC also accredits testing laboratories and certifies voting systems, as well as audits the use of HAVA funds.

Benjamin Hovland was nominated by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by unanimous consent of the United States Senate on January 2, 2019, to serve on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). Commissioner Hovland serves as the Designated Federal Officer for the Technical Guidelines Development Committee (TGDC).

Donald Palmer was nominated by President Donald J. Trump and confirmed by unanimous consent of the United States Senate on January 2, 2019, to serve on the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). Commissioner Palmer is a former Bipartisan Policy Center Fellow where he advanced the recommendations of the Presidential Commission on Election Administration to resolve the voting technology crisis, find ways to reduce lines of voters and improve the voting experience.

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Dr. Jonathan Simons: The Evolution of Cancer Research | SALT Talks #152

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:08:07 +0000

Dr. Jonathan Simons is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Prostate Cancer Foundation. Dr. Simons is an internationally recognized physician-scientist, oncologist and acclaimed investigator in translational prostate cancer research. Prior to joining PCF in 2007, he was Distinguished Service Professor of Hematology and Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Materials Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) is the world's leading philanthropic organization dedicated to the research and eradication of prostate cancer. PCF funds the world's most promising research to improve the prevention, detection and treatment of prostate cancer and ultimately cure it for good.

In 2016, as a part of Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative, Simons announced a 5-year, Foundation-Government partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs for a precision oncology clinical research and care program for every US veteran with prostate cancer in the VA.

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Paula Schneider: Breast Cancer Research | SALT Talks #151

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:06:24 +0000

Paula Schneider is the president and CEO of Susan G. Komen®. She is responsible for the strategic direction and day-to-day operation of Komen’s research, community health, public policy advocacy and global programs. Schneider brings a personal perspective to Komen’s mission as a breast cancer survivor whose mother died of metastatic breast cancer.

Schneider is widely regarded as an expert in organizational management and finance, serving as president and CEO of American Apparel and Delta Galil Premium Brands and as president at Warnaco Swimwear Group. She served in strategic advisory roles at the private equity firm, The Gores Group.

A featured speaker at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit in 2016, Schneider also was named one of Los Angeles Business Journal’s 500 Most Influential People for 2016 and garnered the National Association of Women’s Business Owners Inspiration Award in 2010.

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The Psychology of Investing | SALT Talks #150

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:04:43 +0000

Lo is the Founding Managing Partner of Plexo Capital, which he incubated and spun out from GV, based on a strategy to increase access to early-stage deal flow. Jihan is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Bracket Capital. He began his investing career in London on Goldman Sachs’ esteemed Global Macro Proprietary Trading Desk, the first analyst in the firm’s history to be asked to join.

Plexo Capital is a venture fund formed inside GV (formerly Google Ventures). The fund is based on GV's strategy to increase access to differentiated deal flows and seeks to make investments into women and minority seed-stage VCs.

Bracket Capital is an alpha-driven global investment manager focused on later-stage, technology-enabled companies with asymmetric risk-reward profiles. We leverage decades of experience at Investment Banks and Hedge Funds investing in semi-liquid assets to optimize net returns and cash distributions for investors.

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Wes Moore: The Fight Against Poverty | SALT Talks #149

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:03:06 +0000

Wes Moore is the CEO of Robin Hood, a leading foundation in the fight against poverty. He is also the author of the bestselling books “The Work,” “Discovering Wes Moore,” and “This Way Home.”

Venture philanthropy involves using business-oriented data to identify the best solutions to poverty around the country. The capital investments in communities are delivered in partnership with on-the-ground collaboration with the affected community members. It's important that the investments made are not seen as charity, but as tools for change. This also requires understanding why poverty exists. Poverty does not happen in a vacuum but is structurally predictable because of the public policy we implement. "We have policies that are very much still in place that are putting people and keeping people in poverty; Where we have a legacy of public policy… that's making poverty incredibly predictable."

Poverty affects every aspect of a community and its members. The pandemic presented just another example of how the effects of COVID-19 were felt disproportionately in poor communities and communities of color. "Poverty has this way of showing itself in every way. It's the water you're drinking, the air you're breathing, the food you have access to, the schools your children attend, transportation assets you have or don't, the way you're policed."

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Jake Wood: Leading Through a Crisis | SALT Talks #148

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 18:01:50 +0000

Jake Wood is the founder and CEO of Team Rubicon, a non-profit organization that utilizes the skills of military veterans to deploy disaster response teams to a variety of different humanitarian crises.

The US military provides some of the most advanced skill training in the world to its service members. Too often when these veterans leave the military, there are no smart ways to apply those skills. Team Rubicon has recruited over 750K veterans and responded to over 750 communities in crisis. Disaster zones provide a unique opportunity for veterans to use those skills for good around the world. "January 2010, the Haiti earthquake hit. It was the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. Seeing all the chaos and destruction, it really looked familiar to me. I’d just gotten done with two really hard combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan."

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Michael Chertoff: How Election Security Has Become a Top Issue | SALT Talks #147

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:59:54 +0000

This is the first episode in a three-episode SALT Talks series focused on election security. Michael Chertoff was the Secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009 where he led the country in blocking would-be terrorists and transformed FEMA following Hurricane Katrina.

Elections security became a greater focus as the Internet became more integrated with voting systems. One of the most effective safeguards against a mass breach of voting systems is the distributed and decentralized nature of elections. The nature of election concerns has evolved greatly to include potential domestic terrorism and foreign government disinformation. "There was actually very little interference with registration databases or the voting process itself."

The real issues turned out to be after the election, culminating in the violent mob seeking to block congress' certification of the election results. This was due to sustained misinformation propagated by then President Trump, his allies and conservative media outlets. The irresponsibility displayed should and could likely lead to successful legal action. "Frankly, I understand why these companies (like Dominion) are suing. They're basically saying, 'put your money where your mouth is.' There needs to be accountability."

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Juliet Scott-Croxford: How to Create Wealth in the Founder Community | SALT Talks #146

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:58:07 +0000

Juliet Scott-Croxford is the CEO for the media brand Worth, responsible for leading its transformation from a print magazine to a content platform that focuses on 'Worth beyond Wealth.'

Building around a mission that a person's worth is more than a person's financial wealth offers a compelling approach for a media company. All media has been in the process of handling the rapid shift from print to digital. This digital advertising space poses a whole new set of challenges. All of the challenges were made even more complicated by the pandemic that eliminated an important live event revenue vertical. "We flipped into more of a mindset of experimentation rather than being paralyzed by it."

The pandemic necessitated outside-of-the-box thinking that has benefited the company. This includes building out the Women in Worth audience with a subscription model and finding new ways to connect.

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Griffin Johnson & Josh Richards: TikTok Careers & Investing Interests | SALT Talks #145

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:56:29 +0000

Josh and Griffin are two of the biggest influencers on TikTok, a social media network where users share short-form videos, where they have a combined 34+ million followers. Their media and business ventures extend across multiple channels.

Business-minded from a young age, early media success born out of TikTok has opened doors across media and finance. Social media content houses, like the Sway House, are becoming popular and major content hubs for Gen Z. This is launching many careers of young people and showing new ways people can pursue professions outside traditional frameworks. "There are so many other routes than just going to college, 9-to-5 and mortgages… to achieve your dreams."

Success on social media has opened doors to many other opportunities in business. This led to ventures in angel investing that involve networking and learning lessons from entrepreneurs, founders and executives. "I remember trying to buy Bitcoin in 9th grade…and my parents didn't let me."

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Mike Novogratz & Ari Paul: The Future of Crypto | SALT Talks #144

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:53:57 +0000

Mike Novogratz is the CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners, a cryptocurrency investment firm. Ari Paul is the co-founder and chief investment officer of BlockTower Capital, an investment firm that manages a portfolio of crypto assets.

In the early stages around 2013, Bitcoin was a speculative asset that appealed mainly to libertarians and those with frustrations surrounding recent economic crises. The passion behind the decentralized finance community was unmatched and served as an early indicator of its eventual rise. Before recognizing Bitcoin as the answer, it was clear that the rapid expansion of the money supply would call for a response. With concerns around inflation, Bitcoin serves as the guard against that. "The bet of a lifetime is going to be betting on currency depreciation… it didn't click for me that Bitcoin could be that asset until 2014."

Until recently, the majority of Bitcoin purchases happened at the retail level. That is partly responsible for its initial volatility. As major financial institutions become more involved and put it on their balance sheets, expect Bitcoin to stabilize and grow in value.

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A New Era for Psychedelic Medicine | SALT Talks #143

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:52:05 +0000

Sa'ad Shah is the co-founder and managing partner of Noetic, a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in emerging and early-stage psychedelic-based wellness, therapeutic and pharmaceutical companies. JR Rahn is the co-founder and co-CEO of MindMed, a leading psychedelic medicine biotech company that discovers, develops and deploys psychedelic-inspired medicines and therapies to address addiction and mental illness.

Psychedelics in medicine represent an entirely new biotech asset class. Psychedelics still carry with it the stigma of its recreational use in the 60s and 70s, but its application as therapy is intended to help people with mental health and addiction issues. Psychedelic-assisted therapy involves a trained therapist who guides the patient through the experience. "The science has been incredibly compelling. The efficacy rates cannot be ignored."

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Lyn Alden: Bitcoin vs. Inflation | SALT Talks #142

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:50:20 +0000

Lyn Alden is the founder of Lyn Alden Investment Strategy where she provides investors with research, information, and tools to help them build wealth.

Initially, there were concerns around Bitcoin that made it too risky to feel confident in. Over a few years, concerns over potential competitors and vulnerabilities were addressed, greatly de-risking the asset. To cap a strong 2-3 year run, 2020 presented an ideal environment for Bitcoin to make a big jump. "2020 was the perfect storm for Bitcoin… The macro-environment couldn't be more attractive. We saw broad money supply increase 25% year-over-year."

Bitcoin follows Metcalfe's Law which means that as the number of users increases, the cryptocurrency's value grows exponentially- this is often known as the network effect. In addition, due to the verification process, Bitcoin becomes more secure as the price goes up.

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Michael Saylor: The Importance of Bitcoin | SALT Talks #141

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:48:26 +0000

Michael Saylor is a technologist, entrepreneur, business executive, philanthropist, and best-selling author. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of MicroStrategy.

Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple represent the big winners in the technology space. The last ten years were marked by investments in these giants. Now, it is harder to see such high returns through retail investing. With a massive expansion of the money supply, the biggest opportunity now lies with Bitcoin. Bitcoin acts as a digital gold guarding against inflation caused by government stimulus. “If you’re going to make money the 21st century way, you’ve got to do it virtually… Bitcoin has the potential to be digital gold… thermodynamically perfect.”

Bitcoin is now moving mainstream and major financial institutions are getting on board. These companies are putting Bitcoin on their balance sheet as an institutional safe-haven asset. This growth in adoption will drive an exponential increase in value. “Bitcoin is the one asset that as the price goes up, it becomes more attractive to an investor.”

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Michael Oren: Foreign Policy & US-Israel Relationship | SALT Talks #140

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:46:42 +0000

Michael Oren is a former member of the Knesset, a former deputy minister in the Israel prime minister's office and was Israel's ambassador to the United States (2009-2013).

The US-Israel relationship is the most special among all of the United States' allies. This is due to three pillars: democratic values, defense, and the spiritual connection. The recent Abraham Accords represent a major breakthrough in the Middle East peace process and overturned conventional wisdom. It was thought peace between Israel and Palestine needed to occur before any normalization with the broader Arab world took place. Now, Israel has agreements with countries like the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco. "These Arab countries remain committed to a resolution of the Palestinian problem, but they weren't going to wait anymore."

Formal normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia is one of the biggest goals in the peace process. Saudi Arabia holds significant influence in the Arab world as custodians of Mecca and Medina. Israel and Saudi Arabia share strategic interests in their desire to act as checks against Iran.

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Christopher Hahn: The Aggressive Progressive | SALT Talks #139

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:44:44 +0000

Christopher Hahn is a progressive pundit and host of the Aggressive Progressive podcast. Hahn served for five years as a senior aide to US Senator Chuck Schumer.

As a regular guest on Fox News for ten years, providing a progressive perspective, Hahn has seen the network's dramatic shift to the right, particularly from its opinion hosts. The conservative movement more broadly reflects this shift where fringe conspiracies and white supremacist ideology have come to the fore. This is born out of the sense that a shifting demographic represents an existential threat to white-centric culture. This culminated in a terrorist attack of the Capitol by Trump supporters in order to disrupt the election certification. "This was not a protest; this was a terrorist attack by forces that wanted to overthrow the government of the United States of America. They were coming to kill Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Mike Pence."

Since Ronald Reagan, the center of politics in the US has moved right. The most liberal members of the Democratic party like AOC, Bernie Sander and Elizabeth are trying to move that conversation left and create a more progressive compromise.

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The Future of Renewable Energy | SALT Talks #138

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:41:04 +0000

Louis Evans is the president and CEO of Commonwealth Energy Group. Ed Fortunato is the chief economist at Exelon Corporation.

For many years, renewable energy could be seen simply as a subsidized inferior product compared to fossil fuels. As the technology has improved, renewable energy is now not only independently viable, but superior in many ways. Energy storage represents the most important next step in the evolution of renewables. The proliferation of personal renewable energy like home solar panels can go a long way in avoiding that challenge because energy does not have to travel far or be stored as long. “About 60% of energy is used to transport energy from the power plant to your home.”

The growth of renewable energy will have major effects on the geopolitical stage. By establishing energy independence through renewables, the United States will be less and less dependent on the Middle East and Russia for oil.

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Benn Steil: “The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War” | SALT Talks #137

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:24:47 +0000

Benn Steil is a senior fellow and director of international economics, as well as the official historian in residence, at the Council on Foreign Relations. His most recent book, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, was named the winner of the New-York Historical Society's Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize, awarded each year to the best work in the field of American history or biography.

Before his death, FDR developed four pillars of a post-WWII foreign policy: peaceably dismantle the British Empire; build permanent peace between the United States and the Soviet Union; profitably dismember and deindustrialize Germany, and integrate the global economy with short-term IMF loans. This represented the hope for a one-world architecture where the US and Soviet Union got along. Circumstances quickly forced then-President Harry Truman to pivot and begin dividing the world between Marshall states- countries that asserted liberal democracy and free markets- and Soviet states under communist rule. This marked the dawn of the Cold War. “When we get to 1947 and the Marshall plan, the Truman Administration is already in a major corrective mode. The State Department is already talking openly about a two-world vision for the post-war order.”

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Heidi Heitkamp: Issues With Identity Politics | SALT Talks #136

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:22:25 +0000

Heidi Heitkamp is the first woman ever elected to be a U.S. Senator from North Dakota (2013-19). Senator Heitkamp also served two terms as North Dakota State Tax Commissioner and two terms as North Dakota Attorney General as a member of the North Dakota Democratic-Nonpartisan League Party.

A political career that started at 28 years of age, and has spanned over 35 years, has seen a massive shift in North Dakota’s electoral makeup. The Democratic party’s base once consisted of the elderly, the working class and small family farmers. That group has shifted almost completely over to the Republican party, replaced by working professionals as the party’s base.

The partisan polarization seen from Republican voters is due, in part, to ideas around identity. Swaths of the country feel judged by a more multicultural, multiethnic coalition more likely to admonish politically incorrect behavior. This has created a defensive posture and accelerated an urban-rural divide in American politics that has quickly turned states like North Dakota red.

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Oliver Stone: Surviving Hollywood | SALT Talks #135

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:20:45 +0000

Oliver Stone is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director of over 20 full-length feature films, among them some of the most influential and iconic films of the last decades. Some have been at deep odds with conventional myth—films such as “Platoon” (1986), the first of three Vietnam films; “Born on the Fourth of July” (1989); “JFK” (1991); “Natural Born Killers” (1994); and “Nixon” (1995).

Oliver is known as a master of controversial subjects and a legendary filmmaker. His films are filled with a variety of camera angles and film styles, he pushes his actors to give Oscar-worthy performances, and despite his failures, has always returned to success.

He is a three-time Oscar winner, and although he has mostly been stung by critics of his films, he remains a well-known name today in the film industry. The films he directed have been nominated for 31 Academy Awards, including eight for acting, six for screenwriting, and three for directing. There is no denying that Stone has cemented himself a position among the legends of Hollywood.

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Pandemic Venture Investment Series - Episode 7 | SALT Talks #134

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:19:02 +0000

For the seventh and final installment of SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, the advent of social media and online forums sophisticated deepfakes have become a growing problem, intent on the spread of misinformation and pose an alarming threat to public discourse. In this episode we will hear from experts in the disinformation and fake news sector, and learn how Cyabra’s patented Deep Learning technology is protecting large organizations by mitigating the threat in real-time, ensuring access to genuine information, while gaining and maintaining credibility.

Featuring Dan Brahmy, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Cyabra; and Vincent O'Brien, State Department Foreign Service Officer & Former US Army Special Operations Officer.

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Stephen A. Smith: Becoming a Difference-Maker | SALT Talks #133

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:17:09 +0000

Stephen A. Smith is ESPN's most recognizable personality and studio analyst. He is a commentator on ESPN's First Take, where he appears with Max Kellerman and Molly Qerim. He also makes frequent appearances as an NBA analyst on SportsCenter. Smith also is an NBA analyst for ESPN on NBA Countdown and NBA broadcasts on ESPN. He also hosts The Stephen A. Smith Show on ESPN Radio. Smith is a featured columnist for ESPNNY.com, ESPN.com, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

"My goal has never been limited to being a preeminent figure in the world of sports," he says. "It's to be a preeminent figure, period. I'm about making a difference. You don't become a difference-maker by putting limitations on yourself in any capacity. You shoot for the stars. Or nothing at all."

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Ida Beerhalter: Helping Women Find Their Voice in Business | SALT Talks #132

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:15:27 +0000

Ida Beerhalter is the co-head of IOME, a private investment partnership of women principals from the Gulf with its head office in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Additionally, Beerhalter currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Astia, USA.

It is important for a member of an educational family office to first understand who they are. This involves recognizing both strengths and weaknesses in order to then set up an effective structure and team. More women in family businesses are getting involved and taking control of their financial destiny which offers a new form of empowerment. It is important for women to learn about themselves in the workplace and ultimately use their skills to thrive. This often involves helping women find their voice, literally. “We had training for [women’s] voices, for them to speak up. As an example, we did it by screaming through a park.. I have them read something, different sentences, and I need to hear it even 50 meters away.”

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Lorenzo Thione: Elevating LGBTQ+ Leaders in Venture Capital | SALT Talks #131

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:13:42 +0000

Lorenzo Thione is the Managing Director of Gaingels and a co-founding chairman of StartOut, two of the leading groups dedicated to supporting and elevating LGBTQ+ leaders in the venture startup ecosystem.

There is a negative business impact when a gay person is uncomfortable being open about their orientation. The time and attention dedicated to that issue takes away from time building out an idea or company without fear. Gaingels and StartOut help support that movement by increasing awareness and highlighting members of the LGBTQ+ community who hold top tech positions. As Apple CEO, Tim Cook famously came out publicly, after some hesitation, in support of this mission. “He came to the realization that the value of representation is the power of giving people an idea of what's possible for them and seeing themselves reflected as a source of strength and diversity as opposed to just a reason to be called other.”

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Arjun Sethi: Venture Capital, Bitcoin & China | SALT Talks #130

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:11:57 +0000

Arjun Sethi is the co-founder of Tribe Capital, a venture capital firm built by engineers and scientists. Arjun sits on the board of Carta, Relativity, and Bolt. As a founder and operator, he has also been an active angel investor in over 100 tech companies, including Lyft, Opendoor, Gusto, and Front.

Success is never a straight line and involves failure and unsuccessful attempts. Achieving success requires exposure to the people and community where you’re involved. Ultimately, it’s then about the arrival of an inflection point where you decide whether to push forward or stagnate. Silicon Valley offers exposure because of the vast community of like-minded individuals in close proximity. Lessons learned from previous unsuccessful start-ups can help create an even stronger team, where each member brings distilled ideas. “There was a set of folks that I would say, had shared DNA around thinking about iterating innovation and what could you build that's different around looking at technology companies.”

When considering whether to invest in start-up companies, it is important to recognize one’s own thought patterns and biases. Focusing on what is known about a company instead of a person’s background or network is important in avoiding those pitfalls. “We have a motto internally, which is, ‘how do we focus on what versus who you know?"

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Ric Edelman: Is Bitcoin a Mainstream Institutional Investment? | SALT Talks #129

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:10:25 +0000

Ric Edelman is the founder of the nation’s largest independent RIA, with 350 advisors in 170 offices nationwide, managing $230 billion for 1.2 million individuals and households. The firm is also the nation’s largest independent provider of advice to 401(k) plans, serving thousands of companies, including 150 of the Fortune 500.

Advisors are obligated to look into the future for opportunities and challenges. This now includes the emergence of crypto and digital asset, including Bitcoin. Bitcoin has been the top-performing asset class of the last 1-, 5- and 10-year period, but due to its newness, skepticism is understandable. RIA Digital Assets was set up to help advisors and consumers become more comfortable with this revolutionary technology. Ultimately, a 1% asset allocation of Bitcoin is recommended.

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Pandemic Venture Investment Series - Episode 6 | SALT Talks #128

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:08:16 +0000

Prior to COVID-19, digital transformation projects were at a pace of their own - slow and experimental. For the sixth installment of SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, foodtech startups are not just reimagining the future of agriculture and food, but also the sustainability of our planet. 2019 saw the sector grow to a $20 billion venture capital sector. Technology has proven to be crucial during this global pandemic and highlighted our dependence on a global functioning food chain.

Featuring Laura Flanagan, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Ripple Foods; Lou Cooperhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer of BlueNalu; and Freddy Raitan, Chief Commercial Officer of Tevel.

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Saifedean Ammous: “The Bitcoin Standard” | SALT Talks #127

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:06:16 +0000

Dr. Saifedean Ammous is the author of The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking, the best-selling groundbreaking study of the economics of bitcoin. The book was a pioneer in explaining bitcoin's value proposition, and the implications of its unique properties.

As a peer-to-peer software for operating payment network, Bitcoin acts as the native currency. Bitcoin is totally protected from inflation because Bitcoin’s source code makes it mathematically impossible to exceed 21 million Bitcoins- a fixed monetary supply. The entire world was effectively on the gold standard, because it was the hardest money at the time, but more gold can continually be introduced into the supply. “Anything that gets held as a form of money, the value of it rises, and because the value rises, it gives people an incentive to make more of it.”

Bitcoin offers a way to remove the third-party intermediaries in the financial transaction. The decentralized nature of the blockchain, on which Bitcoin exists, creates security via transparency. There is no one single point of failure in the way that a third-party financial institution, entrusted with money, must secure itself from hackers or thieves.

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PlanB: Modeling Bitcoin’s Value with Scarcity | SALT Talks #126

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:04:35 +0000

PlanB is a Dutch institutional investor with a legal and quantitative finance background. He created the Bitcoin Stock-to-Flow (S2F) model where he uses scarcity to quantify Bitcoin value. PlanB is currently working as an investment manager in a team managing a multi-billion-dollar balance sheet.

Bitcoin has been the best performing asset of the last one, five and ten years. It represents a very asymmetrical bet, meaning the return is much higher than its volatility. The Bitcoin white paper written by the cryptocurrency’s anonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto served as the “Aha” moment, laying out the revolutionary technology in simple terms. “I liked the white paper so much. It's a very simple description, nine pages, very elegant, not that mathematical… from there you start your journey.”

It’s common among anyone considering Bitcoin to feel like they are late in getting involved. In reality, Bitcoin is still in the early innings. The asymmetric nature of Bitcoin and its growth potential could see its price go above $300k by the end of 2021.

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Governor Phil Murphy: Recovering From COVID-19 | SALT Talks #125

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:02:58 +0000

Phil Murphy is the 56th Governor of the State of New Jersey. He has signed legislation putting New Jersey on the path to a $15-an-hour minimum wage, enacted the nation’s strongest equal pay law to combat gender wage discrimination, ensured all workers have access to paid sick days, and expanded the state's Paid Family Leave provisions. From 2009-13, under President Obama, Murphy served as the U.S. Ambassador to Germany.

New Jersey was among the states, along with New York and Connecticut, hit hardest by COVID-19 early in the pandemic. This forced a series of difficult decisions around restricting indoor sports, indoor dining, concerts etc. Consistent national messaging plays a critical role in getting state residents to understand the need for responsible behavior. The lack of leadership and messaging early on, when it has the most impact, continues to have negative downstream effects. This has required states like New Jersey to be aggressive in supporting small businesses hurt by the restrictions. “We have put grants, loans, capital into, I think at this point, 35,000 small businesses.”

In order to avoid a massive economic fallout, a large federal stimulus is required. The moment calls for around $3 trillion in spending. State and local governments are facing budget shortfalls and federal support will allow these governments to continue employing frontline workers facing the pandemic head-on.

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Strauss Zelnick: The Future of Esports | SALT Talks #124

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:00:12 +0000

Strauss Zelnick is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. In addition, he recently served as Interim Chairman of The CBS Corp. Board of Directors.

Quitting a role as a film studio president in order to launch a video game company 25 years was a major risk, but this relatively new genre of entertainment showed signs similar to motion pictures in the 1920s. On top of the meteoric rise in video games and interactive entertainment of the last couple decades, the pandemic has accelerated its growth and adoption as people spend more time at home. The technological developments of video games have made human interaction central to its experience, offering a social element for many who wouldn’t have it during a stay-at-home period. “We like to consume entertainment with other people; we like to participate with other people; we like to watch with other people.”

Esports represents a new frontier in the video game space with over 250 million viewers. It even serves as the primary entertainment for 125 million. The industry will continue to grow and likely evolve into an ecosystem similar to the professional sports leagues.

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Szymon Idzikowski: ESG & Climate Related Investments | SALT Talks #123

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:58:30 +0000

Szymon Idzikowski joined the Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank (ADCB) in January 2015 to lead the 3rd party fund selection and co-manage discretionary client investment portfolios. He is a lead fund manager of ADCB Target Date Funds and ADCB Multi-Asset Funds.

There are three major factors driving the market and forecasts of future returns: demographics, globalization and global growth. We see aging demographics across the world which will serve as a drag on the economy. Globalization peaked around 2010 and its decline will ultimately moderate the pace of global growth. This portends lower investment yields in the coming decade. “If I look on the IMF forecast, growth is only going to continue to moderate [due to globalization and demographics] and debt that companies and governments have built.

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Pandemic Venture Investment Series - Episode 5 | SALT Talks #122

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:56:40 +0000

Prior to COVID-19, digital transformation projects were at a pace of their own - slow and experimental. For the fifth installment of SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, leading digital health startups provide a unique view into the revolution in artificial intelligence and how it’s shaping MedTech trends, and where investment opportunity lies. Hear from Zebra Medical providing automated, accurate AI imaging diagnosis, Diagnostic Robotics’s AI triage and clinical-predictions platform, and BrainQ, developing an AI-powered electromagnetic field therapy to reduce neuro disorders related disabilities.

Featuring Ohad Arazi, Chief Executive Officer of Zebra Medical Vision, Maya Orlicky, Vice President, Strategy of Diagnostic Robotics, and Yotam Drechsler, Chief Executive Officer of BrainQ.

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Julia Collins: Combating Climate Change | SALT Talks #121

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:54:50 +0000

Julia Collins is the CEO of Planet FWD, a company on a mission to tackle climate change by expanding regenerative agriculture adoption. The company is building a software platform for regenerative agriculture alongside a climate-smart snack brand.

Climate change is the most important and pressing issue facing our planet and the food we eat plays a significant role. Regenerative agriculture represents an environmentally thoughtful approach central to combatting climate change. Between the 1940s and 1970s, the Green revolution introduced new nitrogen-based farming practices that helped boost crop yields but simultaneously destroyed soil. “Regenerative farming has the capability not only to create healthy soil, healthy plants, healthy people, but also to sequester carbon and address the legacy load, which is part of the solution to climate change.”

Moonshot snack brand is the first explicitly climate-friendly snack brand. On top of launching crackers as its first snack product, Moonshot helps other companies shift their operations towards a more planet-forward approach. This includes offering data and tactical recommendations other companies can use and implement in their production.

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Amal Dokhan: The Importance of Resilience | SALT Talks #120

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:53:12 +0000

Amal Dokhan is the CEO of Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) Saudi Arabia. Dokhan is one of the early innovation and entrepreneurship educators and facilitators in the MENA region.

A Stanford course in design thinking offered a simple yet profound lesson for marketers and entrepreneurs: by focusing on the underlying human motivations, one can determine the solution. It requires a methodology to process and ultimately apply, but human behavior provides the most powerful data points for any business. “[Design thinking] will change something in the way you actually address problems, in the way you address strategies and the way you understand designing anything in life, even within a small organization.”

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Women's Wellness | SALT Talks #119

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:51:17 +0000

Jordana Kier is the co-founder of LOLA, the first lifelong brand for her body. Created for women, by women who have been there too, LOLA aims to address every reproductive life stage with a commitment to product transparency and a community built on candid dialogue about all of the things we don’t openly talk about.

The female monthly reproductive cycle has been very reactive and left women vulnerable. There simply was no space for women to talk and engage with one another around this major part of their lives. This led to a holistic company that provided not only a supportive and open community but a full suite of products to service those needs. This has sparked greater engagement among women who are becoming more conscious about their consumer choices when it comes to their bodies. “You're talking about products that a woman may use for up to 40 years of her life, why aren't there long-term studies about the different ingredients that might go into these products?”

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Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss: Why Bitcoin Is Superior to Gold | SALT Talks #118

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:49:28 +0000

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the co-founders of Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange and custodian, to empower the individual through crypto. Gemini is a New York Trust company that allows customers to buy, sell, and store crypto such as Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, Ether, Zcash, and Litecoin.

While being identical twins, Cameron is left-handed and Tyler is right-handed. This seemingly creates a complementary skillset between the two. Utilizing the unique partnership has led to a life full of start-ups that always seek to solve a problem. This started with the creation of the high school rowing team, then with roles coming up with the idea for Facebook, and ultimately forays in the crypto asset space. Predicting global currency inflation caused by money printing and stimulus spending, investors will need to find protection. Gold was historically the best way to guard against inflation, but Bitcoin offers an even better solution. “Bitcoin is basically the expression of gold in that digital sense. When you line up all the properties, it's not really a fair fight. Bitcoin is far superior to gold across the board.”

The growth of Bitcoin is inevitable as it lives on the Internet and is accessible wherever someone has a connection. Bitcoin will be able to coexist alongside existing government-backed currencies and will ultimately see its mainstream acceptance. Gemini serves as a crypto platform where individuals can more easily access this new alternative asset class.

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Joe Scarborough: Knowing How Washington Works | SALT Talks #117

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:47:24 +0000

Joe Scarborough is the co-host of MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" alongside Mika Brzezinski - a show with a reported increased viewership of 113% by Variety. "Morning Joe" starts each weekday conducting interviews with top newsmakers and discussing the day's headlines. The New York Times ranked Morning Joe as one of today’s top morning news shows and has praised Joe and Mika's natural repartee and off-the-cuff commentary. The New Yorker also described the show as "appallingly entertaining.” In 2016, Joe, joined by co-host Mika, was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame.

Joe was named to the prestigious “Time 100” list of the world’s most influential people, and Vanity Fair named both Joe and Mika to their 2012 list of “Top Media Power Players.”

In addition to his television career, Joe is a two-time New York Times best-selling author. His first work, "Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day", predicted the collapse of the Republican majority and U.S. economy due to his party's reckless spending. His second work, "The Last Best Hope: Restoring Conservatism and America's Promise", draws on the forgotten genius of conservatism to offer a road map for the movement and the country. Joe also frequently contributes political opinion pieces to The Washington Post.

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Understanding the Municipal Markets | SALT Talks #116

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:44:54 +0000

Hector Negroni is the Founder and CEO of Foundation Credit. Hector has been a pioneer in the municipal market over the last 3 decades, leading innovation in investing and proprietary trading, public/private financing, derivatives, securitized products and a broad range of structured solutions.

Gary Hall is a Partner with Siebert Williams Shank & Co., LLC (the nation's largest minority-owned investment bank) and a Partner with American Triple I Partners (an infrastructure private-equity firm). He formerly was an investment banker with JPMorgan, an attorney with

Municipal markets are at the center of how infrastructure and essential services are delivered, but it is very fragmented. The market is very local and decisions reflect the specific nature of the city/region, geographically and culturally. The need for infrastructure projects in the United States has been made even more urgent due to the pandemic. Municipal bonds have been responsible for many of the biggest and most iconic infrastructure projects in American history. “We have this sort of disparate view about the government and its ability to operate and manage assets, but these are really important investments that we need to make in our country.”

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Josh Giegel: Making High-Speed Travel a Reality With Hyperloop | SALT Talks #115

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:42:31 +0000

Josh Giegel is the CTO and Co-Founder of Virgin Hyperloop where he is leading a world-class team of engineers making the hyperloop a reality. Josh founded the company in 2014, when hyperloop was an idea drawn on a whiteboard in a garage. A little over two years later, VH built a full-scale prototype capturing the attention of governments worldwide. Today, Josh is leading the development of paradigm-shifting electromagnetic, high power, autonomous technology, bridging the engineering work with unparalleled passenger experience, and working at the highest levels of government to develop a regulatory framework for hyperloop technology.

Growing up in a family of engineers opened Giegel’s eyes to a world of possibility. He learned from his dad early on to tackle any project by simply understanding the problem-solving process. An early role with SpaceX building rockets eventually led to a shift towards more earth-based interests. “We're going to do make life interplanetary, that's awesome as well, but I really started to focus on the responsibility of the engineer here on earth.”

Hyperloop aims to completely revolutionize the way we travel. “What we're trying to do is move people at airline speeds, but here on the ground.” This more environmentally-friendly technology will allow someone to live in NYC and commute daily to Washington DC with the ease of a commuter driving into the city from the suburbs.

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Pandemic Venture Investment Series - Episode 3 | SALT Talks #114

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:40:44 +0000

Top voices in venture capital provide insights into how startups are leveraging and driving the revolution in working, communicating, and staying healthy brought about by COVID-19. This third installment of the SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, includes insight into disruption in MedTech. Hear from the CEOs behind Israel’s leading COVID-19 vaccine company, MigVax, SaNOtize which is developing a breakthrough preventative treatment for those exposed to the virus, and Medaware, which is transforming patient safety by digitally eliminating medication error.

Featuring Eyal Desheh, Chairman of MigVax, Dr. Gilly Regev, Chief Executive Officer of SaNOtize, and Dr. Gidi Stein, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Medaware.

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Pandemic Venture Investment Series - Episode 4 | SALT Talks #113

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:38:32 +0000

Prior to COVID-19, digital transformation projects were at a pace of their own - slow and experimental. For the fourth installment of SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, Ron Moritz, serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and sector expert, will quiz top CEOs from startups Morphisec, ITsMine and ThetaRay on how they are dealing with the unprecedented rush to move enterprise applications from the traditional data center to the cloud, managing rapid cybersecurity innovation successfully and the resulting challenges and opportunities.

Featuring Ronen Yehoshua, Chief Executive Officer of Morphisec, Mark Gazit, Chief Executive Officer of ThetaRay, and Kfir Kimhi, Chief Executive Officer of ITsMine.

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Todd Sears: Driving Equality in the Workplace | SALT Talks #112

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:36:48 +0000

Todd Sears is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Out Leadership, the global LGBT+ business advisory company that partners with the world’s most influential firms to build a business opportunity, cultivate talent, and drive equality forward.

In 2001, gay marriage was not legal. That meant there were over 1,049 rights at the federal level that the LGBT+ community did not enjoy, over 90% being financial. This presented a massive opportunity as there was an entire segment in desperate need of financial guidance related to protecting livelihoods and estates. This ultimately led to the creation of global conferences in 2011 called Out on the Street that brought CEOs together in support of the LBGT+ community in business. “Everything that we've done globally with 650 CEOs, and now 85 companies, is focused on the idea that business can drive equality, but from a business imperative.”

Beyond the social value, LGBT+ advocacy has real economic benefits. Leaders in the business communities of places like Singapore, where homosexuality is still illegal, can be influential in applying pressure.

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Stergios Voskopoulos: Understanding Impact Investing | SALT Talks #111

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:34:40 +0000

Stergios Voskopoulos is the CEO of Kanoo Capital, the Investment Division within YBA Kanoo, one of the largest and oldest family conglomerates in the Middle East. As CEO of Kanoo Capital, Mr. Voskopoulos is responsible for the active management of direct and indirect investments regionally and globally.

Kanoo as an institution was incorporated all the way back in 1890 and after many decades of an oil-based economy in the region, YBA Kanoo leveraged its longstanding credentials in countries like Bahrain, Saudi and UAE to establish a wide-ranging professional investment practice. This shift to more diverse investing has created a regional entrepreneurial ecosystem designed to sustain into the 21st century and beyond. “I'm a believer of impact investing when you have the balance between impact and also economic and financial returns.”

Developing the local workforce is a key element in the mission to remake and support the regional economy. This means a strong focus on improving local universities so that fewer families feel the need to send their children to the United States or Europe for a top education.

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Jeff Sonnenfeld: 5 Qualities of an Effective Leader | SALT Talks #110

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:31:52 +0000

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is the Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies at Yale University’s School of Management and The Lester Crown Professor of Management Practice, as well as the Founder, President of THE YALE CHIEF EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE– the world’s first “CEO College”. Previously, Sonnenfeld spent ten years as a professor at the Harvard Business School. He has been named one of the world’s “ten most influential business school professors” by Business Week and one of the “100 most influential figures in governance” by Directorship. He is also a winner of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

There are five qualities that make up an effective leader: personal dynamism, empathy, authenticity, inspirational goals, and boldness. Any CEO’s story involves plenty of setbacks that required resiliency and determination in moving past. That process involves honestly facing the problem, engaging your network of acquaintances, and ultimately rebuilding yourself into something better. “It's a failure that punctuates success. It's a defining moment… those who make it through are forever changed.”

It is important for a leader to demonstrate the ability to let go of grudges or personal slights. President Biden serves as an example of someone famously known for his willingness to move past temporary disagreements. This lays the groundwork for future compromise and collaboration between opposing sides.

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Michael Saylor: “Bitcoin is a Dominant Monetary Network” | SALT Talks #109

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:27:35 +0000

Michael Saylor is the CEO of MicroStrategy. He is a technologist, investor, business executive, philanthropist, and best-selling author. He has become famous in the Bitcoin community for purchasing more than $450+ million of Bitcoin using the company's balance sheet.

Bitcoin represents a similar transformation in the financial space. Similar to the likes of Amazon, Apple and Facebook, Bitcoin has proven itself the winner in the crypto asset space and will continue its inevitable climb. Institutions and major players in the financial space are already coming around to Bitcoin which will accelerate its adoption and growth.

As we approached 2010, companies like Apple, Facebook and Amazon were poised to transform the world. The analog world we once lived in would soon fit in the palm of a hand. Apple was replacing Canon; Facebook and Instagram were replacing Kodak; Amazon was replacing retail stores. In the process, these companies became exponentially more valuable than the ones they eliminated. “Software networks are dematerializing everything in the world.”

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Marlon Nichols: Cultural Investing | SALT Talks #108

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:25:33 +0000

Marlon Nichols is a founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital (formerly known as Cross Culture Ventures), which finds the entrepreneurs who are building the future for the rest of America.

A career started in consulting eventually led to venture because as a VC, one has skin in the game for the length of that investment. It offers the ability to directly shape the nature of the companies, supports more diverse entrepreneurs and identifies opportunities to address traditionally underserved communities through entrepreneurialism. Slowly, there are signs of increased focus on diversity in the venture capital space with many groups reporting on their diversity numbers. “A nerve has been struck, and people are digging in and seeing the value; not only the social value but the economic value of diversity.”

Coining the term, “cultural investing,” it seeks to identify global behavioral shifts with potential staying power. Pop culture is the driving force, so it is used as a key indicator in predicting where major cultural movements are heading.

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Changpeng Zhao: Why Crypto Matters for Freedom | SALT Talks #107

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:23:23 +0000

Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, is a serial entrepreneur with an impressive track record of successful startups. He launched Binance in July 2017 and within 180 days grew Binance into the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. An expert in blockchain and trading systems, CZ has built Binance into the leading blockchain ecosystem, comprised of Binance Exchange, Labs, Launchpad, Info, Academy, Research, Trust Wallet and Charity Foundation.

Moving all around the world, living in different major cities prevented a lack of connection or reliance on anyone government-backed currency. This set the stage for a life dedicated to cryptocurrency and Bitcoin and ultimately led to the creation of Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. Bitcoin has taken on only greater importance as governments issue more currency. “We're witnessing probably the largest amount of quantitative easing by governments all around the world. And when governments do that, everybody becomes poor because there are more currencies being printed, and you're not given much of that directly. Bitcoin has limited supply, 21 million of them ever [get made]… You know that's mathematically guaranteed. No one can change it.”

Binance aims to use its company to further build the foundation of crypto and grow its adoption. The goal is to use cryptocurrency to deliver freedom of money in the same way we view freedom of speech.

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Peter Baker & Susan Glasser: “The Man Who Ran Washington” | SALT Talks #106

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:19:55 +0000

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. Peter is the Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times, political analyst for MSNBC, and author of Days of Fire and The Breach.

Susan is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of its weekly Letters from Trump's Washington, as well as a CNN global affairs analyst. Susan and Peter are married, and their first assignment as a married couple was as Moscow Bureau Chiefs for the Washington Post, after which they wrote Kremlin Rising.

Jim Baker sits relatively under-discussed considering the enormous influence he wielded from the end of Watergate to the end of the Cold War. Baker ran five different national presidential campaigns, served as Chief of Staff in both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush’s White House, Treasury Secretary and ultimately Secretary of State from 1989 to 1992 during which time the Soviet Union collapsed. “Jim Baker as a subject turned out to be, I think, sort of oddly relevant to the moment… Donald Trump had yet to appear on the scene in terms of Washington politics at least… our interest was in a big subject about Washington and understanding ‘how had Washington become such a dysfunctional gridlocked place?’”

H.W. Bush urged Baker to get into politics and started Baker’s multi-decade political career that shaped Washington and how it’s operated in the decades that followed. One can trace the kind of deal-making politics, in which Baker played a major role creating, all the way to today’s climate that has seen a rejection of the status quo, exemplified by President Donald Trump’s ascendency.

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Pandemic Venture Investment Series - Episode 2 | SALT Talks #105

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:17:03 +0000

Top voices in venture capital provide insights into how startups are leveraging and driving the revolution in working, communicating, and staying healthy brought about by COVID-19. This second installment of the SALT Talks: Pandemic Venture Investment Series, presented in partnership with OurCrowd, includes a look at the mobility sector in the current COVID-climate, how top entrepreneurs and their mobility startups are navigating the unprecedented business challenges and opportunities in our era and what we can expect for the future mobility revolution. Moderated by Yakir Machluf, Mobility Lead, OurCrowd

Featuring Michael Dick, Chief Executive Officer of C2A; Graham Gullans, Vice President, Business & Corporate Development of Superpedestrian; and Adi Pinhas, Chief Executive Officer of Brodmann17

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Philip Bagdasarianz: How to Evaluate Investment Decisions | SALT Talks #104

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:14:44 +0000

Philip Bagdasarianz has been working with wealthy families from Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia for over 18 years. This year he joined PWA Private Wealth Advisors AG, a swiss multi-family office boutique as a managing partner.

Our identities play a central role in our personality and it ultimately has a huge effect on how we work and interact professionally and personally. Identity can be categorized into three pillars: DNA, culture and upbringing, and our purpose. Understanding different identities and how they manifest themselves is important to consider when evaluating investment decisions. For example, western societies place more emphasis on individualism. “They are generally the individualists who are generally what we call overconfident. Meaning they have the illusion of being in control of what they're doing in the markets.”

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Dr. Taghreed Al-Saraj: The Anxious Language Learner | SALT Talks #103

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:12:20 +0000

Dr. Taghreed Al-Saraj is currently working as a Post Doctorate fellow at University of California, Berkeley. She is the first Saudi female Post Doctorate in the history of UC Berkeley. Dr. Al-Saraj earned both a Bachelor and a Masters in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) from the University of Miami, Florida. She earned her Ph.D. from UCL Institute of Education, University of London.

Learning a language creates its own type of anxiety in students. Something that should be seen as a positive opportunity, it often fills students with dread and shame. In fact, foreign language anxiety is a real condition that exists in the same way as math or public speaking anxiety. Students described the full range of anxiety symptoms experienced when they walked into the foreign language class. “I learned a third language, and that's when I started connecting my experience with what I heard the students were saying.“

Upskillable was created to match a person’s cognitive personality and skills with jobs. Resumes often do not accurately depict a candidate, reducing the likelihood of success in a role. By taking a personality assessment, candidates are offered more effective assessments of their skillsets and even how to improve in certain areas.

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Raoul Pal of Real Vision Finance: Is Bitcoin a Hedge Against Inflation? | SALT Talks #102

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:10:18 +0000

Raoul Pal is the co-founder of Real Vision Finance, a financial media company offering in-depth video interviews and research publications from the world’s best investors.

Bitcoin appeals to three different types of people: Libertarians like its decentralized and anonymous nature; technologists see its potential as an engineering solution to the financial system; early adopter investors identify its value as an uninflatable store of value. Bitcoin serves as a hedge against inflation caused by fiat currency. “What's clever is this money can't be devalued. You can't create more of it. There are only 21 million Bitcoins.”

Bitcoin basically amounts to a mathematical formula that guarantees there will never be more than 21 million Bitcoins. The decentralized structure, run on about 10,000 different nodes and recorded on the blockchain, ensures it can never be changed. Bitcoin is the only asset with a completely knowable supply.

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Ruston Smith: How the Pandemic Impacted Pension Funds | SALT Talks #101

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 16:08:04 +0000

Ruston Smith is the Chairman of the Tesco Pension Fund (DB and DC) and Tesco Pension Investment Ltd, Non-Exec Chair of JP Morgan Asset Management (EMEA), Non-Exec Chair of Smart Pension Ltd, Non-Exec Chair of PTL Ltd, Independent Trustee and Chair of the Funding and Investment Committee for the BAE Pension Fund, Governor of the PPI and Chair of GroceryAid (charity for the grocery industry).

Due to the pandemic, pension funds in the UK and Europe were hurt, but are set to return much of their strength as we return to normal. The relative strength of pension plans is due in part to strategic de-risking that started back in 2006. This has involved a significant reduction in equity holdings and an increase in bonds. “The Pensions Regulator is really keen that UK pension funds have a very clear journey plan, which basically is a plan to de-risk so you get to a point of funding where essentially you can have just a low dependency on the employer that supports that pension fund.”

As we approach the end of the pandemic and the vaccine rollouts are near completion, there will be an opportunity for a more sustainable recovery. This necessitated investments in areas like infrastructure and job training, important to jumpstart the economy.

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Gert Dijkstra: The Business Case for ESG in Real Estate | SALT Talks #100

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:47:24 +0000

Gert Dijkstra is the Senior Managing Director at APG Asset Management, responsible for Global Networks and Peers and for Investing in the Netherlands. Formerly he was Chief Strategy & Communication and member of the Board at APG Asset Management.

More and more, asset management companies are placing an emphasis on investing in socially responsible companies. APG created GRESB, standing for Global Real Estate Sustainable Benchmark, now used by over 180 asset managers. This measures responsible environmental behavior like energy and water reduction. Pension fund management companies are beginning to collaborate in order to streamline the ability to evaluate and monitor institutions’ commitment to key environmental factors like carbon reduction. “We can report on listed companies with regard to their sustainable development goals and results.”

Adherence to ESG commitments involves communication with clients and shareholders. Five-year sustainability goals are set and these standards are weighed along with the likelihood of investment returns. 20-30-year targets are also overlaid in building a global portfolio aligned with long-term ESG goals.

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Governor Cuomo: Getting Control of the COVID-19 Pandemic | SALT Talks #99

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:45:47 +0000

Andrew M. Cuomo is the 56th Governor of New York. Governor Cuomo is the Dean of the nation’s Democratic Governors and currently serves as Chairman of the National Governors Association. Prior to his election as Governor, Cuomo served as the 64th Attorney General of New York. From 1997-2001, Cuomo served as the 11th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton.

A deeply divided and polarized nation has presented unique challenges in getting control of the COVID-19 pandemic. Large swaths of the population will refuse to abide by guidance or direction simply because of their dislike and distrust of the political party delivering the message. These issues were exacerbated by President Trumps denial of the facts where he intentionally downplayed the seriousness of the virus. “It was just total government incompetence. It was a denial, in that the President now admits he lied about it… He was afraid that if they knew the truth it would hurt the economy.”

The Biden administration must put almost all of their focus into getting COVID under control and administering the vaccine coupled with stimulus aid to people and states. In the meantime, effective public messaging can allow economies to function while maintaining safe protocols to limit COVID spread.

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Mishal Kanoo: See Change as an Opportunity | SALT Talks #98

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:44:15 +0000

Mishal Kanoo is the Chairman of The Kanoo Group, one of the largest, longest-running and independent family-owned groups of companies in the Gulf region. He holds chief positions as Chairman/Director of various reputable companies, including AXA Insurance Gulf, Gulf Capital, KHK & Partners Limited, Dalma Capital, Johnson Arabia LLC and KAAF Investments.

Started in 1890 in Bahrain, The Kanoo Group has been effective at avoiding the generational drop-off as control passes down. Often times, there is a disconnect between a family group’s founding and the third generation of control. The Kanoo Group has maintained longevity by treating each generation as an opportunity to change. “We were lucky in that every generation within my family looked upon the new one as a rebirth of a new business.”

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Anthony Scaramcucci on the 2020 Election | SALT Talks #97

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:42:00 +0000

Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Co-Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital. He also the founder and chairman of SALT Conference, a leading global conference that brings together leading investors, creators and thinkers to discuss big ideas in the world of finance, technology and public policy. He is the author of four books: The Little Book of Hedge Funds, Goodbye Gordon Gekko, Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole (a 2016 Wall Street Journal bestseller), and Trump: The Blue-Collar President.

Growing up in the blue-collar town of Port Washington on Long Island offered Scaramucci the chance to hone his business skills that set the stage for the rest of his adult life. Selling Newsday magazine subscriptions around age 12 to help with his family’s bills served as a formative experience. “There was a seminal moment for me, and I believe this happens to everybody, you figure out somewhere between 11 and 17 what you're doing for your life… For me, I love sales.”

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Pandemic Venture Investment Series - Episode 1 | SALT Talks #96

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:40:00 +0000

Featuring Steve Krausz, Managing Partner of U.S. Venture Partners, moderated by Alec Ellison, Chairman of OurCrowd U.S.

Introduction by Jon Medved, Chief Executive Officer of OurCrowd.

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Abdulmohsin Al Omran: The Modernization of the Financial Technology | SALT Talks #95

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:37:55 +0000

Abdulmohsin Al Omran is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Family Office Co. BSC(c) (“The Family Office”), and Chairman of the Board of Petiole Asset Management AG, the investment arm of The Family Office, based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Born into one of the oldest families in Riyadh, Al Omran set out from an early age to gain experience in different areas of finance with an eye on moving his country’s economy into the 21st century. Despite having 25% of the world’s oil reserves, Saudi Arabia is transitioning towards a more diversified economy that sees data as the new oil. “If I wanted to renew my passport or my driving license… I could do all this digitally … the private sector including the banks are trying to catch with what the government has been doing in the last five years.”

The next stage in Middle East development will center on the rapid modernization of the financial technology space and sovereign wealth funds made of diverse and strategic investment portfolios. This new approach is guided by the four C’s: Commitment, Client, Culture and Cost.

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Deven Parekh: How COVID-19 Revealed the Need for Tech | SALT Talks #94

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:50:22 +0000

Deven Parekh, Managing Director of Insight Partners. He also manages the firm’s largest investment team, doing deals across the spectrum of venture, growth, and later-stage leveraged transactions.

Heading into the pandemic, investment from Insight Partners was expected to slow down, but that ultimately was not the case. Technology investments have proven resilient in the age of COVID as it becomes even more integral in socially-distant environments. Major companies and industries had to compress 6-7 years of e-commerce investment into six months in order to meet the pandemic-induced demand. “I think what people underestimate is how much they touch software in their lives.”

With the continued upward trend of AI and data collection/analysis required, tech sectors like software will see huge growth. Predicting a 15% a year compound as an industry, expect to see category winners grow more than that, resulting in more companies at half a trillion- or trillion-dollar market caps.

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Voice of Cannabis Series - Episode 4 | SALT Talks #93

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:44:58 +0000

A Democratic trifecta in congress and the presidency is the best-case scenario for the advancement of the cannabis industry. Initially, expect to see a Biden White House use executive orders that address the decriminalization and rescheduling of cannabis. Though, the start of the administration will be consumed with the COVID-19 pandemic. Support for cannabis has grown steadily over the years and has become a bipartisan issue. In congress, legislation will likely focus on passing a new version of the MORE Act. Such a bill will likely make it to the floor for a vote but would struggle to earn the 60 senate votes needed (if the filibuster remains intact). “There’s a lot of parallels here from 2008 in the marriage equality issue with Obama… We could have the same thing with Biden and Harris [supporting cannabis].”

David Culver, Vice President of US Government and Stakeholder Relations for Canopy Growth Corporation.
Patrick Martin, Principal & Director of Midwest Public Strategies for Cozen O’Connor.
Erik Huey, President of Platinum Advisors
Melissa Kuipers Blake, Shareholder at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck.

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Jon Medved: Equity Crowdfunding, Venture Capital & Angel Investing | SALT Talks #92

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:43:16 +0000

Jonathan Medved is a serial entrepreneur and according to the Washington Post “one of Israel’s leading high tech venture capitalists”. Medved currently is the founder and CEO of OurCrowd, the leading global equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors and angels. OurCrowd has $1.2B in commitments and has made investments in 200 companies and funds, and 30 exits since its launch in February 2013.

Venture capital has long been inaccessible to the majority of investors who don’t have $5-$10m available for a limited partnership. A crowdfunded platform gives individuals and institutions an opportunity to invest in venture portfolios. “Today, these private companies stay private much longer. When they finally go public, most of the money has been made by smart investors in the private markets and those are venture capitalists.”

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Angela Matheny: Diverse Asset Managers Initiative | SALT Talks #91

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:40:04 +0000

Angela Matheny is the CIO of Crewcial Partners. Angela also continues to drive the firm’s manager diversity initiative to attract and source diverse asset managers while monitoring protocol and the internal vetting process of women and diverse asset managers.

The private equity and venture capital space continues to see a dearth of black and brown asset managers. For too long, companies and their leaders operate within their existing networks, leading to less exposure of diverse candidates. Beyond the social good, diverse teams offer real financial benefits by bringing in different perspectives that ultimately lead to stronger investment portfolios. “One of the ways that we like to think that you can incorporate that downside protection is actually implementing diversity, which leads to diversity of thought, which then leads to diverse outcomes.”

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Winston Ma: The Global Digital Economy | SALT Talks #90

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:37:27 +0000

Winston Ma is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. He is one of a small number of native Chinese who has worked as investment professionals and practicing capital markets attorneys in both the United States and China. Most recently, he was Managing Director and Head of North America Office for China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund, for 10 years. Prior to that, Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

Hedge funds and asset managers typically get most of the spotlight from the media when it comes to large investment groups. In reality, sovereign funds play massive roles in the capital markets, yet are under-discussed and not fully understood relative to their importance.

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Fareed Zakaria: Author "Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World" | SALT Talks #89

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:34:10 +0000

Fareed Zakaria is th host of Fareed Zakaria GPS for CNN Worldwide and a columnist for The Washington Post, a contributing editor for The Atlantic, and a bestselling author. Fareed Zakaria GPS is a weekly international and domestic affairs program that airs on CNN/U.S. and around the world on CNN International. Since its debut in 2008, it has become a prominent television forum for global newsmakers and thought leaders.

Globalization over the last 100+ years has been responsible for many of the most important advances in western civilization. Though, in the last 25 years, globalization fueled by an information/technological revolution has created greater inequality with a priority placed on more skilled work. “What's happening is the higher and higher value stuff is being made digitally and operates in a digital world, and the lower and lower value stuff is the physical world… It's more technological than it is globalization and the pandemic has massively exacerbated it.”

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Marty Chavez: How Tech is Transforming the Financial Industry | SALT Talks #88

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:31:25 +0000

Marty Chavez is a widely renowned trailblazer and leader in venture capital. Most recently, Marty served in a variety of senior roles at Goldman Sachs, including Chief Information Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and global co-head of the firm’s Securities Division. Chavez began his long and illustrious career breaking from tradition as an openly gay Latino working on Wall Street, an industry that had not yet earned a reputation as widely accepting.

Chavez is now applying the AI technology and ideas he helped develop in finance to the life sciences, his original passion. This includes a company that has created a digital microscope designed to outline cells and their tissue specimen to identify potentially cancerous properties.

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Michelle Williams: Public Health is "Undervalued & Underinvested" | SALT Talks #87

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:28:56 +0000

Michelle Williams is Dean of the Faculty for the Harvard Chan School of Public Health as well as the Angelopoulos Professor in Public Health and International Development. Dean Williams is an internationally renowned epidemiologist and public health scientist, an award-winning educator and a widely recognized academic leader. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2016.

The failures of the United States’ COVID response can be connected to a distinct lack of leadership and institutional distrust of science, but that’s only part of the problem. Long-term problems existed before the pandemic, due to chronic underinvestment, that has been exposed by the pandemic. While it’s highlighted the problems, it also presents an opportunity to renew the call for impactful and long-term public health investment. “Public health for far too long has been sort of unseen and undervalued and underinvested.”

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Saeed Al Mazrouei: Investment Banking & Debt Management | SALT Talks #86

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:25:53 +0000

Saeed Al Mazrouei is the Deputy Chief Financial Officer of Mubadala Investment Company, a sovereign wealth fund for the government of Abu Dhabi. In this role, he oversees the group-wide finance function, supporting the delivery of the company’s growth strategy and ensuring the successful execution of strategic transactions and financing projects, as well as supporting the company’s business units in various acquisitive transactions and assets monetization.

Mubadala was created to focus on investing in and growing a more diverse business ecosystem within Abu Dhabi. This includes working with American organizations like the Cleveland Clinic to build a world-class healthcare system in Abu Dhabi.

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Dr. Finian Tan: The Future of Deep Tech | SALT Talks #85

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:21:53 +0000

Dr. Finian Tan is the founder of Vickers Venture Partners. Vickers is a top-performing, global deep-tech firm with $3B under management across six funds and co-investments. Vickers invests in early-stage companies with technical solutions to solve large, global problems. Finian was Deputy Secretary of Trade and Industry for the Singapore government.

Serving as Deputy Secretary of Trade and Industry at 34, a major project was turning Singapore into a Silicon Valley for Asia. Creating that ecosystem is difficult and similar to building a national park that develops a natural self-sustaining circle of life; it cannot be artificially maintained. This effort sought to use venture capital, work hubs and regulations to allow start-ups to thrive in Singapore. “If you want to create a circle of life for venture capital, you need every single part of it, and you need the country to have the political will to do this, and the capital and the R&D spend, and they must be in the right R&D environment.”

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How Crypto Is Democratizing Finance | SALT Talks #84

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:19:31 +0000

Michael Sonnenshein is the Managing Director at Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager with more than $5.9 billion in assets under management across its family of 10 products – all of which provide access and exposure to the digital currency asset class in the form of a traditional security, without the challenges of buying, storing, and safekeeping digital currencies directly.

Dan Morehead founded Pantera Capital in 2003 – managing a billion dollars in hedge fund strategies. He previously served as Head of Macro Trading and CFO at Tiger Management with Julian Robertson.

Bitcoin represents the launching pad for global financial inclusion. The Internet moves all kinds of data all over the globe and a reliable e-cash system represents the final piece of that puzzle. Financial value can now be moved seamlessly without going through the expensive and obstructive intermediaries.

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Noah Kerner: Micro-Investing & Robo-Investing | SALT Talks #83

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:16:05 +0000

Noah Kerner is the CEO of Acorns, a financial technology and financial services company specializing in micro-investing and robo-investing. Born in New York City, Kerner got involved with Acorns two months after launch as an adviser, investor, board director and then CEO. He is a 4X entrepreneur, Co-author of Chasing Cool with the former CEO of Barneys, and former DJ for Jennifer Lopez.

Acting on a lifelong mission to level the playing field in a world of haves and have-nots, Acorns was founded to bring tools of wealth creation to everyone. The goal is to make it easy to save and invest even small amounts of money, where typically investment tools are reserved for the financial elites. Acorns has an initiative focused on opening children’s investment accounts, highlighting the importance and value of early, compounding growth. It also seeks to offer investment education to prevent less experienced investors from overreacting to short-term market swings. “The market swings every day. It's in the red, the blue, black. It's impossible to stay calm and make rational decisions… great investors stay the course.”

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Nathalie Molina Niño: The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs | SALT Talks #82

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:13:16 +0000

Nathalie Molina Niño, an entrepreneur, builder capitalist (at O³) and tech globalization veteran focused on high-growth businesses that benefit women and the planet. She is the author of LEAPFROG, The New Revolution for Women Entrepreneurs (Penguin Random House, Tarcher Perigee) and serves as a Venture Partner at Connectivity Capital Partners. Molina Niño launched her first tech startup at the age of twenty and is the co-founder of Entrepreneurs@Athena at the Athena Center for Leadership Studies of Barnard College at Columbia University.

Finding issues identifying as either venture or private equity, a group of like-minded entrepreneurs with a passion for long-term vision and sustainability coined a new term: Builder Capitalist. Venture capital too often promoted the kind of short-term think that prioritized quick turnarounds for profit rather than a long-term holistic approach to building. “What worries me is when the Shark Tank effect starts to happen and you have organizations like the media making it seem like it’s the end-all, be-all for all entrepreneurs.”

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General H.R. McMaster: "Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World" | SALT Talks #81

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 05:09:56 +0000

After serving many years in Afghanistan and Iraq, General McMaster was on the receiving end of policies and strategies disconnected from the reality on the ground. The tendency to view strategy only through one’s own lens can be described as “strategic narcissism,” where we don’t consider the influence other players have on an outcome. This calls for a shift towards “strategic empathy.” “Empathy is really our ability to consider, in particular, the ideology, the emotions, and the aspirations that drive and constrain the other.”

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Investors Talk Digital Decolonization | SALT Talks #80

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:59:48 +0000

David Halpert is the founder & chief investment officer of Prince Street Capital, a specialist emerging and frontier market asset management firm based in New York and Singapore. With 30 years of experience researching and investing in the developing world, David coined the term ‘Digital Decolonization’ – a new paradigm for assessing investments in emerging and frontier markets, unveiling the concept in a 2019 white paper.

Mark Matthews is Head of Research Asia Pacific for Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd., an appointment he has held since June 2011. His research coverage comprises single stock, sector and select country analysis. In addition, he is a member of the bank’s investment committee, which determines asset allocation recommendations to clients.

“There is a sense really all over the world, including in the United States, that cross border technology companies playing such a big role in people's lives, whether their financial lives or their social and political lives, is problematic.”

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Nathan Gelber: Profiling Personalities in Investing | SALT Talks #79

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:54:41 +0000

Nathan Gelber, the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Stamford Associates Limited. Stamford was launched in 1984 with the vision to materially improve the traditional investment consulting model for UK pension schemes with a focus on providing superior investment solutions, generating superior risk-adjusted returns and establishing effective governance structures. It has subsequently grown to become a leading international investment consultancy firm.

Behavioral psychology has only more recently entered the mainstream. At Stamford, though, behavioral psychology professionals have been used to better understand investment professionals and their decision-making process. Analytics are combined with in-person observations during the employee-hiring process as well as the day-to-day work environment. “Psychologists have 14 criteria which they are interested in; those include curiosity, independent thinking, and the willingness to go against the crowd and not be a follower.”

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Michael Schmidt: Can the Government Be Repaired Following a Trump Presidency? | SALT Talks #78

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:51:44 +0000

Michael Schmidt is a Washington correspondent for the New York Times, covering national security and federal investigations. He was part of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2018 — one for reporting on workplace sexual harassment issues and the other for coverage of President Donald Trump and his campaign’s ties to Russia.

It remains an open question as to whether the government institutions can be repaired following a Trump presidency. Perhaps his most lasting legacy will be his role in remaking the courts with young, conservative judges.

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Zulfiquar Ghadiyali: Why Success Is All About Execution | SALT Talks #77

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:20:47 +0000

Zulfiquar Ghadiyali is the Executive Director of Directions Investment Holding Company (DIHC), under the chairmanship of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Sultan bin Hamdan Al Nahyan. Ghadiyali’s family business spans across Asia and the Middle East in the fields of real estate, hospitality and general trading.

Growing up in India in a family involved in major construction projects provided early exposure to the real estate business. It also developed early an ability to manage the politics of a project.

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Kurt Andersen: Author "Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America" | SALT Talks #76

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:15:57 +0000

Kurt Andersen is the bestselling author of the novels Heyday, Turn of the Century, and True Believers. He contributes to Vanity Fair and The New York Times and was the host and co-creator of Studio 360, the Peabody Award–winning public radio show and podcast. He also writes for television, film, and the stage. Andersen co-founded Spy magazine, served as editor in chief of New York, and was a cultural columnist and critic for Time and The New Yorker. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College.

In the 1970s, a subtle yet radical shift took place in American politics that culminated in Reagan’s election. A pro-business vision of the economy displaced the working class policies of FDR’s New Deal. This set the stage for the next 30-40 years of policy consensus that ultimately drove the economic inequality we see today. “I was a little oblivious to and indifferent to the systemic change in the economy that had happened around it, starting in the seventies… I didn't realize until I went back and did the research that had been not the beginning, but the end of a decade of strategic work of CEOs and rich billionaires and libertarians.”

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John Brennan: Life Inside the CIA | SALT Talks #75

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:13:34 +0000

John O. Brennan, served as director of the Central Intelligence Agency from March 2013 until January 2017, following a long career in U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism. As director, he was responsible for intelligence collection, analysis, covert action, counterintelligence, and liaison relationships with foreign intelligence services.

Division among Americans on issues ranging from taxes to climate change creates opportunities for people and groups both foreign and domestic to weaken the United States’ standing in the world. Cyber tools have become more powerful in their ability to deceive and distort the truth. “They want to sow chaos and confusion here in the United States, really undermining our ability to fulfill our global responsibilities as well as to grow economically, politically and militarily.”

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Peter Gleysteen: The Future of CLOs | SALT Talks #74

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:11:20 +0000

Peter Gleysteen is the CEO of AGL Credit. Before AGL he had two prior employers, JPMorgan Chase and CIFC, a loan asset manager he founded. More recently he built CIFC Asset Management into a leading private debt manager with $13B in AUM, serving as founder and CEO from 2005-2014.

Syndicated bank loans are a non-traditional asset class in that they’re not securities, but loans, meaning they’re not sold on an exchange. Its appeal to long-term investors go up when interest rates are high and see most retail investors sell when rates drop. Because of the unstandardized nature of bank loans, each one is customized by the regional bank. “It's also one of the reasons why the returns are so high because compared to almost anything else, there's a lot of excess return in bank loans.”

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Sarah Kunst: How Diversity Leads to Better Investment Performance | SALT Talks #73

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:09:13 +0000

Sarah Kunst is the managing director of Cleo Capital. Sarah is an investor and entrepreneur who has worked at Apple, Red Bull, Chanel & Mohr Davidow Ventures. She is also a contributing editor at Marie Claire Magazine. She founded LA Dodgers backed Proday and has served as a senior advisor at Bumble where she focused on Bumble Fund, their corporate venture capital arm. She is also on the board of the Michigan State University Foundation endowment.

Growing up middle class in a 300-person Michigan town, it was understood that to go out and achieve more would require hard work. Early career positions offered exposure to tech-heavy hitters like the Winklevoss twins and Jack Dorsey. Insatiable curiosity in their work and the Silicon Valley industry eventually provided the opportunity to break through as an emerging fund manager, raising a $3.5M venture fund in 2018. “That was the second largest, first time fund by a black woman, VC in America ever. Three and a half million, I'm not misspeaking.”

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Christopher Toomey: Money Management Principals | SALT Talks #72

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:06:39 +0000

Christopher Toomey, a partner of a top NYC-based Private Wealth Management team managing ~$5 billion in client assets. Their clients include high net worth individuals, family offices, foundations and organizations, money management principals, institutional money managers, small-cap banks and offshore investors.

With regard to tech stocks, “there’s a reason why tech companies have outperformed so dramatically.” They are changing how we do business and live our lives, all while maintaining pristine balance sheets. These businesses are here to stay, but they are comparatively expensive. Depending on the election, there may be sell-offs later on in the year to take advantage of potentially lower tax rates.

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Matt Salloway: AR, VR & Artificial Intelligence | SALT Talks #71

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:03:46 +0000

Matt Salloway is an international business executive, venture capitalist, investor and attorney. He serves as the Chief Executive Officer of GSI Ventures, a top 50 Global Family Office, with a focus on venture capital and portfolio market expansion into the MENA region.

Matt is also the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of SIP Global Partners (“SIP”), an independent, cross-border venture capital firm anchored by a top global corporate. Based in Japan, the US, and the Middle East, SIP targets market-expansion and value-add investments in high-growth US technology startups. It invests primarily in US companies driving the "Global Connected Economy" in sectors such as AR/VR/XR, artificial intelligence, machine learning, edge computing, digital media, network infrastructure (5G) and enterprise software.

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Seke Ballard: Investing in the Cannabis Industry | SALT Talks #70

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:00:55 +0000

Seke Ballard is the Founder & CEO of Good Tree Capital, a financial technology firm that grants loans to vetted, licensed cannabis companies.

After graduating from the University of North Carolina, Seke spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer working with small businesses in the Republic of Georgia. After leaving the Peace Corps, Seke earned his MBA from Harvard University and subsequently spent years working for Procter & Gamble and Amazon. In 2015, Seke started Good Tree Capital, based upon his proprietary loan algorithm and with a goal of balancing available economic opportunities for qualified borrowers.

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Jason Cummins: Outlook on the Economy, Politics & Markets | SALT Talks #69

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:56:40 +0000

Jason Cummins is the Head of Research and Chief US Economist. In his role, he develops the firm's outlook for the economy, politics and markets, advises the traders on portfolio management, and manages the global research team.

Jason serves as a trustee on the boards of The Brookings Institution (executive committee) and The Peterson Institute for International Economics (executive committee), and is a member of the Investment Committee of Swarthmore College. He was Chairman of the US Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, a government-appointed panel that advises on debt management, market structure, and financial developments. Formerly, Jason was a Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Board, where he led the macro forecasting team.

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Ryan Williams: How Fintech is Changing the Way People Invest in Real Estate | SALT Talks #68

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:54:32 +0000

Ryan Williams is the founder of the technology-enabled investment platform Cadre. Cadre is an online marketplace that provides institutions and individuals access to previously inaccessible quality real estate and alternative investment opportunities. As Chief Executive Officer of Cadre, Ryan has raised more than $130mm of corporate capital backed by investors such as Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Ford Foundation, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, General Catalyst, and others.

At the time of filming, Cadre Cash had just been launched. Investors on Cadre’s real estate investment platform can earn an annualized 3% reward on their cash, 4x higher than leading banks and 60x the national average. “This is all part of our mission to provide more individual investors with greater access to financial products that drive their futures forward.”

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Russell Read: Transformative Technologies & Infrastructure | SALT Talks #67

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:51:40 +0000

Russell Read is a Group Managing Partner for the C Change Group of investment funds, companies, and advisors, dedicated to materially transforming the production, distribution, and consumption of natural resources around the globe.

In addition, Dr. Read serves as Senior Advisor to MSCI with respect to crafting solutions for the global asset owner community. Prior to C Change, he was Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, the Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC), and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS).

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Jeb Bush: The Current Discord in American Society | SALT Talks #66

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:49:30 +0000

Jeb Bush is the 43rd governor of the State of Florida, serving from 1999 through 2007. He was the third Republican elected to the state’s highest office and the first Republican in the state’s history to be reelected. He was most recently a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. Governor Bush offers his views on the current discord in American society and where he sees paths forward.

With Baby Boomers aging, younger generations have taken the reins of American culture. There is an erosion of shared identity that has led to more conflict and antagonism among people and their politics. "It's bigger than the current occupant of the White House. I think it is a cultural phenomenon." Gen Z and millennials will likely spark a change akin to other major American movements like the civil rights movement and the 19th century's Second Great Awakening.

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Stuart Leckie: Investments & Pensions in the Far East | SALT Talks #65

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:45:36 +0000

Stuart Leckie is the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Retirement Schemes Association and was Chairman of the CFA Institute Advisory Council on Standards and Financial Market Integrity. He is the author of books titled "Investment Funds in China" and "Pension Funds in China".

Hong Kong adopted the Mandatory Provident Fund in the 1990s that required residents to put money away monthly towards a retirement savings account. The Hong Kong Retirement Schemes Association was created to address many of the questions surrounding the new program and offer guidance and expertise.

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Stuart Stevens: “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump" | SALT Talks #64

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:43:00 +0000

Stuart Stevens is the author of seven previous books, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Esquire, and Outside, among other publications. He has written extensively for television shows, including Northern Exposure, Commander in Chief, and K Street. For twenty-five years, he was the lead strategist and media consultant for some of the nation's toughest political campaigns. He attended Colorado College; Pembroke College, Oxford; Middlebury College; and UCLA film school. He is a former fellow of the American Film Institute.

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Lawrence Rocks: The Green Revolution & Robotics | SALT Talks #63

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:39:33 +0000

Lawrence Rocks received his Master of Science in Chemistry from Purdue University, and his Doctor of Science from Technische Hochschule Vienna, where he wrote his doctoral thesis in German in the field of analytical chemistry. He authored two books, The Energy Crisis (1972) and Developing Your Chemistry Fundamentals and Fuels for Tomorrow, with the former proving influential in creating the United States Department of Energy.

In the immediate future, our dependency on oil will remain constant. Technology needs to advance around extraction and storage before we can look at dialing down our consumption. However, oil and natural gas will likely never fully go away. Instead, we’ll learn how to use both more efficiently and only for industries that truly require the resource.

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Morgan Housel: "The Psychology of Money" | SALT Talks #62

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:36:51 +0000

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund, a venture capital firm focused on providing seed and early-stage funding to technology companies, and a former columnist at The Motley Fool and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of the new book, The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness.

Investors should be writing out their ideas more frequently. When you’re writing, ideas that may have seemed logical and fantastical in your mind may actually turn out to be disjointed and nonsensical. Only through the logic-inducing process of writing can investors make more sound financial decisions.

There is also no one-size-fits-all description of a successful investor. However, two principles govern their potential for success: patience and the ability to put up with uncertainty. In finance, soft skills like these often get swept under the rug because they’re immediately measurable in charts or returns.

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Dr. Vivek Murthy: The Crisis of Loneliness | SALT Talks #61

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:33:03 +0000

Dr. Vivek Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States from December 2014 to April 2017.

As America’s Doctor, he called the nation’s attention to critical public health issues including the opioid epidemic, e-cigaretes and emotional health and wellbeing. Prior to serving in government, he conducted research on vaccine development and clinical trial participation and founded several organizations focused on HIV/AIDS education, rural health, physician advocacy and clinical trial optimization.

He is the author of Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World. After being sworn in, Dr. Murthy embarked on a listening tour to see what was affecting communities across the United States. He found that, regardless of occupation, location or economic status, there was a crisis of loneliness that was not being formally addressed. Anywhere from 22-50% of people suffer from loneliness, far more than the number of people currently living with diabetes.

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Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi: Investing Interest in Foodtech | SALT Talks #60

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:29:44 +0000

His Excellency Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi is the Director General of the Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO), the central government hub supporting investment in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining ADIO, His Excellency held leadership roles at Emirates NBD, Mubadala and Citibank.

AgTech has long been a focus of the Abu Dhabi government. With the pandemic requiring countries to refocus on basics like food and pharmaceuticals, the Emirate has leaned even further into the burgeoning industry, attracting companies like US-based AeroFarms to set up local operations. “If anything, in core sectors that are fundamental to the stability of an economy, we’ve been very active.”

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William Cohan: Author "Why Wall Street Matters" | SALT Talks #59

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:25:26 +0000

William Cohan is a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, is the New York Times bestselling author of three non-fiction narratives about Wall Street. He is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair and is hard at work on his new book about the rise and fall of GE. Bill led an unforgettable interview at SALT Las Vegas with Magic Johnson in 2014.

“People love to bask Wall Street,” frequently without fully recognizing what it is Wall Street does and how it keeps the economy going as we know it. Without Wall Street providing capital to businesses around the world, opportunities to create new companies and industries wouldn’t be possible. On the flip side, more needs to be done to support companies like mom-and-pop shops that cannot gain access to this capital, especially during economically distressing times.

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Voice of Cannabis Series - Episode 2 | SALT Talks #58

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:20:08 +0000

Episode 2 includes an overview on the MORE Act, social justice reform and the possible results of the 2020 Presidential Election.

David Culver, Vice President of US Government and Stakeholder Relations for Canopy Growth Corporation.

Patrick Martin, Principal & Director of Midwest Public Strategies for Cozen O’Connor.

Erik Huey, President of Platinum Advisors.

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Boaz Weinstein: How to Handle Market Volatility | SALT Talks #57

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:15:45 +0000

Boaz Weinstein is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Saba Capital Management, a $3.2 billion credit hedge fund based in New York City. Saba was founded in 2009 as a liftout of the Deutsche Bank proprietary credit trading group he started in 1998. Boaz leads a team of 33 professionals, with the senior members having worked together for 15 years.

As a credit investor whose formative years were spent in volatile periods, Boaz was far more interested in finding ways to capture moments where you can own volatility. Prior to COVID, credit markets were ultra stable, even in equity markets. The team at Saba examined market volatility and found opportunities when credit spreads were overvalued, leading to gains in early and mid-2020.

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Badr Al Olama: What's Next for Aerospace? | SALT Talks #56

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:13:51 +0000

Badr Al Olama is the Executive Director of Aerospace for Mubadala Investment Company, a global investment company with a mandate to create sustainable financial returns for Abu Dhabi. He oversees key portfolio assets including Strata Manufacturing, where he served as Chief Executive Officer at the age of 32, and Nibras Al Ain Aerospace Park, a development supporting the establishment of a sustainable aerospace industry in the Emirate.

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Nabyl Al Maskari: Betting Big on Clean Energy | SALT Talks #55

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:11:46 +0000

Nabyl Al Maskari is the Executive Chairman of Al Maskari Holding (AMH), a privately-owned holding company of the Al Maskari portfolio and controls the family's operating subsidiaries, joint venture companies, strategic partnerships, and private equity. AMH traces its foundation to 1968 with the establishment of the Al Maskaria Group in Abu Dhabi to engage in petroleum trading and oil field services.

Founded in 1971, the United Arab Emirates is the youngest country in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). For comparison, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, celebrated its 90th Saudi National Day on the day of filming. The region has been characterized by its relationship with oil, but families like the Al Maskari are showing that it’s far more than a source of capital.

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Fintech Is Growing & Here's Why | SALT Talks #54

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 03:08:44 +0000

Michael Weisz is the Founder & President of Yieldstreet, an alternative investment platform focused on generating passive income streams for investors.

Gil Mandelzis is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Capitolis, the leading SaaS platform driving financial resource optimization for capital markets.

Post-financial crisis, we are seeing fewer, larger banks with more constraints on their capital, meaning there is abundant independent capital seeking out returns. With this comes the need for regulation, something that separates FinTech from other industries like ride sharing.

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Brian Stelter: “Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News & the Dangerous Distortion of Truth” | SALT Talks #53

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:59:45 +0000

Brian Stelter is the anchor of “Reliable Sources,” which examines the week’s top media stories every Sunday at 11:00am ET on CNN. He’s also the network’s Chief Media Correspondent. His new book, Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth, tells the twisted story of the relationship between Donald Trump and Fox News.

The internet changed how we interacted with the news. “It made us all our own publishers.” There’s an obvious benefit to a diverse ecosystem of thought, and bad-faith actors playing to extremes take advantage of it. Trump and his media outlets are then able to go out and tell a powerful, compelling story about the “deep state” and white victimhood, but in the end, “it doesn’t add up.”

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Ed Roman: Enterprise Software in a Remote World | SALT Talks #52

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:54:04 +0000

Ed Roman is the Managing Director of Hack VC, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, with the mission of democratizing access to top start-ups for investors. He is also the Founder of hack.summit(), the world’s largest blockchain event, which aims to support technology non-profits.

Hiring and investing during the COVID-19 pandemic may seem counter-intuitive, but tech unicorns like Slack, Square and GitHub we use today were borne out of crises. “The greatest challenge start-ups face is finding the right people.” Hire at a time when top-tier talent is most readily available.

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Mark Stoleson: Principles Before Profit | SALT Talks #51

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:40:49 +0000

Mark Stoleson is the Chief Executive Officer & Partner of Legatum, a global investment firm based in Dubai with the mission to generate and allocate the capital and ideas that help people prosper. Prior to Legatum, Mark was a corporate finance and M&A attorney with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.

Mark focuses on simple, big ideas: Where is the growth? What simple idea can they express with a really big company? Points of focus for Legatum include the expansion of China’s middle class by 300 million people over the next 10 years, as well as the 450 million unbanked people in India.

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Joshua Friedman: Out of the Box Investing Strategies | SALT Talks #50

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:37:16 +0000

Joshua Friedman, the Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Canyon Partners, LLC, a leading global alternative asset management firm. He received the Institutional Investor’s “Lifetime Achievement” Award.

Growing up in a working-class household with parents who emphasized education and entrepreneurialism set Friedman on a path of academic achievement and professional success. Friedman takes us through his experience starting his own company and why he prefers the term “alternative-credit” firm to hedge fund in describing his company’s outside-of-box investing approach. “We like things where there's a lot of change and with change there's a lot of complexity, and with complexity there's an opportunity to create a dollar for fifty cents…”

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Voice of Cannabis Series - Episode 1 | SALT Talks #49

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:33:56 +0000

Jason Wilson is the Cannabis Banking & Research Expert for ETFMG | MJ, a firm developing innovative thematic ETFs that provide investors unique exposure to new markets.

Axel Bernabe is Assistant Counsel for Health to Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, and Kelly D. Fair, Director of Legal, USA for Canopy Growth Corporation.

Episode 1 includes an overview on the federal government’s approach to cannabis legalization, how specific states are developing their own regulatory standards and processes, and the science behind CBD.

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Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding: The Global Response to COVID-19 & Lessons Learned | SALT Talks #48

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:32:16 +0000

Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding is a Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington DC, an American nonprofit global policy think tank with the stated intent of using science and scientific analysis to attempt to make the world more secure. In January 2020, he was recognized in the media as one of the first to alert the public on the pandemic risk of COVID-19.

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Robert Draper: "To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq" | SALT Talks #47

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:27:14 +0000

Robert Draper is a Writer-at-Large at The New York Times Magazine, as well as a contributing writer to National Geographic.

He is the author of several books, including the recently published "To Start a War: How The Bush Administration Took America Into Iraq." Robert first became acquainted with the then-Governor of Texas, George W. Bush, when he was writing for the Texas Monthly. He then moved to Washington, D.C. to write a biography on President Bush after seeing existing ones fall short of capturing his full story.

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Rachel Bitecofer: What Political Polarization Means for the 2020 Election | SALT Talks #46

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:23:35 +0000

Rachel Bitecofer is the Senior Fellow for Elections at The Niskanen Center, a nonpartisan think tank that works to promote an open society. Her innovative election forecasting model predicted the 2018 midterms five months before Election Day, far ahead of other forecasting methods.

“If Donald Trump had handled the pandemic well, it probably would have benefited him in the 2020 election.” However, we see that the pandemic response does not have the power to move people away from the President because of political polarization. Trump enjoys a high floor, but also suffers from a low ceiling, consistently polling in the low 40s.

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Michael Vranos: One of the Best Bond Traders on Wall Street? | SALT Talks #45

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:21:49 +0000

Michael Vranos is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ellington Management Group, a firm founded in December of 1994 to capitalize on distressed conditions in the MBS derivatives market. Michael’s Wall Street career began in 1983 at a time when the Federal Reserve was opaque in its actions and long-term plans.

“Keep more cash on hand to anticipate the panic of others.” Michael has taken this learning from the Crisis of 1998, coupled with best practices from the economic downturn in 2008, to prevent losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, the firm was able to put $3 billion to work when others experienced sell-offs.

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Panayiotis Lambropoulos: Risk Mitigation, Portfolio Construction & Seeking Alpha | SALT Talks #44

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:19:58 +0000

Panayiotis Lambropoulos is a Portfolio Manager at the Employees Retirement System of Texas, a $28 billion retirement plan located in Austin, Texas. His responsibilities include sourcing, analyzing and evaluating potential third party managers deploying all types of alternative investment strategies.

“There is a lot of diversification and dispersion going on beneath the surface of the S&P 500.” This should benefit active managers and active hedge funds. Although passive management is getting attention, the recent rebound in the S&P is due to 4-5 stocks, which account for a quarter of the rally. More than 50% of the S&P is trading below its all-time highs.

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David Dayen: Author "Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power" | SALT Talks #43

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:18:20 +0000

David Dayen is the Executive Editor of The American Prospect magazine and the Author of Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power. He writes about the effects of power consolidation across technology, manufacturing and more.

One company has no incentive to provide an exceptional product. Having one company responsible for large amounts of people and products creates severe supply chain risks and results in city abandonment. With regard to companies like Amazon, “You cannot control a platform and compete on the same platform.”

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Jim McKelvey: Co-Founder of Square & Author of "The Innovation Stack" | SALT Talks #42

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:16:05 +0000

Jim McKelvey is the Co-Founder of Square and Author of The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time. Jim had the idea to start Square when he couldn’t take a customer’s credit card at his glassblowing studio. Square would go on to survive a major challenge from Amazon due to its Innovation Stack.

“If you put yourself in a situation where the only solution is to create something new, then you need to understand that the process of innovation is different.” An Innovation Stack is a series of interlocking inventions. While individual elements cannot be viewed individually, the entire Stack fails if one block is missing. We are surrounded by hundreds of examples, but we don’t consider them innovative because they serve as the basis for entire industries.

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Ellie Rubenstein: What is Sustainable Food & Why Does it Matter? | SALT Talks #41

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:13:49 +0000

Gabrielle “Ellie” Rubenstein is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Manna Tree Partners, a private equity company focused on growth equity investments in companies that will revolutionize the food supply chain.

In the COVID era, health and wellness can save your life. Only 12% of the United States population is metabolically healthy, and the Middle East has the highest rates of diabetes globally. “I don’t think we fully understood the linkages between human health and a poor diet until the last five years.”

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Daniel Okrent: Author "The Guarded Gate" | SALT Talks #40

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:12:00 +0000

Daniel Okrent is the prize-winning author of six books, most recently The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America. He was also the corporate Editor-at-Large at Time Inc., and was the first public editor of The New York Times.

Daniel’s latest book covers the false science of eugenics, a set of practices aimed to “improve” the genetic quality of the human population. “It seems to me that we as a species need somebody to look down on. I don’t know why that’s the case.” Daniel also discusses the blanket term “whiteness” and how its expansion seems to be based on familiarity with a race or culture.

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Shelley Zalis: The Fight for Gender Equality | SALT Talks #39

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:10:11 +0000

Shelley Zalis is the Chief Executive Officer of The Female Quotient, a female-owned business committed to advancing equality. At the current rate of progress, it will take over 200 years to close the global gender pay gap and over 100 years to close the overall gender gap. Since 2013, Shelley has been working full-time to catalyze equality.

How do we enact meaningful change? “We need to rewrite policies with better parental leave policies, healthcare policies and mobility policies.” Pledges are great and well-meaning, but action is needed like that of Salesforce.

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Peter Mallouk: How to Accelerate Your Journey to Financial Freedom | SALT Talks #38

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:08:40 +0000

Peter Mallouk is the President of Creative Planning, which provides comprehensive wealth management services to its clients. Peter is a pioneer of the Independent RIA model, with clients in all 50 U.S. states and abroad.

Turning to active vs. passive management, he notes that the latter has indeed outperformed the former since 1980. “Large tech companies make up almost a fourth of the S&P 500,” he explains. Should their performance change, it will have a profound effect on passive management’s appeal, and there may be a move away from yield-oriented assets to alternative assets.

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Jim Mccann: The Universal Need for Social Connections & Interactions | SALT Talks #37

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:06:53 +0000

Jim McCann is the Founder & Executive Chairman of 1-800-Flowers.com, Inc., which he grew into one of the world’s leading floral and gourmet gifting companies. The company’s namesake was the result of a well-timed purchase during the 800-number craze.

Jim ran St. John’s Home for Boys, a group home for teenage boys, for fourteen years. He also worked multiple side jobs: covering odd shifts at a clothing store, flipping houses and bartending. Jim had the opportunity to buy his first flower shop for $10,000 just after he had sold a building in Brooklyn for $10,000, a serendipitous event he couldn’t say no to.

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Jim Sciutto: Author "The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World" | SALT Talks #36

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:04:39 +0000

Jim Sciutto is CNN’s chief national security correspondent and CNN Newsroom anchor. In his latest book, The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World, Sciutto looks at how a provocative approach to foreign relations, made famous by Richard Nixon, is today employed by President Trump on the world stage.

Trump’s mindset around America's relationship with other nations is understood in one word: transactional. “Trump's view of the world with adversaries and allies is ‘What are you doing for me? What are you doing for us?’” This has often led to extremely narrow points of view on issues where President Trump doesn’t see the big picture as it relates to broader alliances. We see this playing out with China. Tensions have escalated sharply under the Trump administration with a trade war and attacks on industries like Huawei and TikTok.

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Alan Patricof: Longevity & the Future of Aging | SALT Talks #35

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:02:43 +0000

Alan Patricof is the founder of Apax Partners, leading global private equity advisory firm, and co-founder of Greycroft, a venture capital firm focusing on investments in the internet and mobile markets.

With a 50-plus year career in venture capital, Alan Patricof has been instrumental in growing the venture capital field from a base of high net-worth individuals to its position today with broad institutional backing, as well as playing a key role in the essential legislative initiatives that have guided its evolution.

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Benjamin Huneke: Mutual Funds, ETFs & Hedge Funds | SALT Talks #34

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 02:00:51 +0000

Ben Huneke is a Managing Director and Head of the Investments Solutions Group of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

His responsibilities include product development, marketing and distribution of investment products. These include annuities and insurance, mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, private debt, equity and real estate funds, as well as individual equities, fixed income, and structured products.

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Douglas Monticciolo: Financing a Post-Coronavirus ‘Reboot’ of the Economy | SALT Talks #33

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:58:18 +0000

Douglas Monticciolo is the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer & Co-Founder of Brevet Capital Management, a leader in helping government agencies to solve complex problems. Doug has now been leading Brevet for over 20 years.

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a significant opportunity for Brevet’s finance-as-a-service model. As a result of the CARES Act, Doug is partnering with research and development companies to manufacture potentially game-changing point-of-care tests.

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Stephanie Link: Wealth & Portfolio Management | SALT Talks #32

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:56:56 +0000

Stephanie Link is the chief investment strategist and portfolio manager at Hightower, a national wealth management firm that provides investment, financial and retirement planning services to individuals, foundations and family offices, as well as 401(k) consulting and cash management services to corporations.

In this conversation, Stephanie discusses how the economic fallout from a pandemic is uniquely different from previous crises like the 2008 recession where financial institutions were responsible for much of the disaster. Lessons learned from the Federal Reserve are being put to use this time around. Chairman Jerome Powell has proven comfortable providing aggressive quantitative easing to support a pandemic-ravaged economy.

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Erika Nardini: Building Barstool Sports into a Digital Media Juggernaut | SALT Talks #31

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:55:15 +0000

Erika Nardini is the CEO of Barstool Sports. Known for its original takes and unfiltered view, Barstool Sports is a driving force in comedy, sports, entertainment and culture.

Under Erika’s leadership, Barstool Sports has experienced explosive brand and business growth as one of the fastest-growing companies on the internet. It is the 6th largest podcast platform in the world with the number one sports podcast and female podcast, and the 10th largest distributed media company in the US. Barstool Sports drives 1.6 billion social views and 26 million video views monthly and 11.9 million listeners across its platforms, owning the 18-34 year old demographic.

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Chris Fenton: Author "Feeding the Dragon" | SALT Talks #30

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:52:03 +0000

Chris is an author and has served as president of DMG Entertainment Motion Picture Group and GM of DMG North America, internationally orchestrating the creative and business activities of DMG—a multi-billion dollar global media company headquartered in Beijing.

Chris has also produced or supervised twenty-one films, grossing $2 billion in worldwide box-office. As an author, Fenton chronicled much of that work in "Feeding the Dragon: Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Business."

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Brad Thor: Author "Near Dark: A Thriller" | SALT Talks #29

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:49:38 +0000

Brad Thor is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty thrillers, including: Near Dark, Backlash (One of Suspense Magazine‘s Best Books of the Year), Spymaster (“One of the all-time best thriller novels” – The Washington Times), The Last Patriot (nominated Best Thriller of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association), Blowback (One of the “Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time” – NPR), and The Lions of Lucerne (“One of the best political thrillers ever” – Barnes & Noble).

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Kirstjen Nielsen: How Cyber Security Has Evolved Over the Last Decade | SALT Talks #28

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:48:00 +0000

Kirstjen Nielsen is an internationally recognized expert and proven leader on critical security issues facing governments and institutions. She served as the sixth Secretary of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from 2017-2019, directing widespread actions to increase the security and resilience of the nation against evolving threats across land, air, sea and cyber domains.

In this conversation, Kirstjen discusses the significant progress in cyber security over the last 4-6 years, how to better share information, and what the government should do regarding the private sector.

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Dr. Richard Haass: Top Foreign Policy Issues Facing the U.S. | SALT Talks #27

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:46:23 +0000

Richard Haass is the President of the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, publisher and educational institution dedicated to being a resource to help people better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.

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Daniel Silva: The Greatest American Spy Novelist | SALT Talks #26

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:44:30 +0000

Daniel Silva is the award-winning, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Unlikely Spy, The Mark of the Assassin, The Marching Season, The Kill Artist, The English Assassin, The Confessor and A Death in Vienna. Daniel’s books are critically-acclaimed best sellers around the world and have been translated into more than thirty languages.

Prior to his novelist career, Daniel became a journalist at the age of thirty-three, directing CNN’s political talks. There is a tremendous amount of historical content worked into all of his novels.

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Ketan Patel: Author "The Master Strategist: Power, Purpose and Principle" | SALT Talks #25

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:41:16 +0000

Ketan Patel is the CEO and the founder of Greater Pacific Capital, an investment firm focused on India and its links to international markets, and on technology, healthcare and financials and services. Greater Pacific Capital (“GPC”) has developed a distinctive platform that invests to support value creation in businesses through the application of strategy and ideas, thematic insights and capital. Patel is also the author of "The Master Strategist: Power, Purpose and Principle."

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Eric Daimler: AI, Robotics & Consciousness | SALT Talks #24

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:38:52 +0000

Eric Daimler is a leading authority in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Eric served under the Obama Administration as a Presidential Innovation Fellow for AI and Robotics in the Executive Office of the President, with the sole authority for driving the agenda for United States leadership in research, commercialization and public adoption of AI & Robotics.

“Don’t confuse a clear vision with a short time horizon.” Take the Jetsons, for example. We had a clear vision of a robot who would do all these things. Nowadays, we have a Roomba. AI will be most successful when deployed in very structured environments.

On AI and consciousness, “this will certainly not happen in the next 10-20 years, if ever. We don’t even understand our own consciousness.”

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Jason Mudrick: Event-Driven Investing | SALT Talks #23

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:36:56 +0000

Jason Mudrick is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Mudrick Capital Management, an investment firm that specializes in long and short investments in distressed credit. Jason began his Wall Street career in 2000 as an associate at Merrill Lynch’s Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banking group.

Jason’s focus on the middle market and taking advantage of smaller opportunities has differentiated Mudrick Capital Management from other shops. One notable position is with e-Cigarette company, N-Joy. With 70% of smokers wanting to quit, “you have a preventable problem if these people make the switch from traditional cigarettes.” The COVID-19 pandemic has only served as a catalyst for those looking to make the switch.

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Jerry Pascucci: Building a Successful Investment Team | SALT Talks #22

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:35:16 +0000

Jerry Pascucci is a Managing Director of UBS Financial Services. He also serves as Head of Global Alternative Investment Solutions, where he is responsible for research, sourcing, underwriting, structuring, risk management, administration and distribution of all alternative investment products, as well as private equity, credit, real estate, infrastructure and impact offerings.

The hedge fund industry is doing well in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As opposed to the 2008 financial crisis, there is more capital to work with. With time and operational capability, companies will persevere. Otherwise, there is ambiguity in what will happen when capital investors get into some friction.

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Venture Capitalists on the Importance of Data in HealthTech | SALT Talks #21

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:32:40 +0000

Three leaders in the HealthTech space joined our roundtable to discuss their careers investing in healthcare, technology and wellness industries. Dr. Vishal Gulati is a partner at Draper Espirit, a leading European venture capital firm; Noor Sweid is founder of Global Ventures, a Dubai-based, growth-stage venture capital firm focusing on investing in emerging markets; and Vasudev Bailey, PhD, is a partner at ARTIS Ventures, a long-term venture partner.

In this conversation, we discuss the debate between investing in healthcare to make money vs. guaranteeing it as a right is a false choice, how investments in cutting edge health technology has placed a premium on data which has become the currency in healthcare, and the application of artificial intelligence used to assist and transform existing medical practices.

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Josh Harris: Billionaire Investor on Identifying Opportunities Where Others Panic | SALT Talks #20

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:30:15 +0000

Josh Harris is the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, one of the world’s largest alternative investment firms. Harris is also principal owner and managing partner of the NHL’s New Jersey Devils and NBA’s Philadelphia 76ers, and also a general partner in Crystal Palace of the English Premier League.

Harris learned early on his career, during the 1990 financial crisis, how to identify opportunities in moments where others panic. Some of those first examples involved buying big companies with bad balance sheets, deleveraging and ultimately saving the business all while generating great returns. Harris evaluates the current pandemic, its economic fallout and the civil unrest borne out of persistent systemic racism.

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Afsaneh Beschloss: Renewable Energy & ESG Investing | SALT Talks #19

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:26:34 +0000

Afsaneh Beschloss is the founder and CEO of RockCreek, a women-founded leading investment firm investing globally with a focus on sustainability. Previously, she was a partner at the Carlyle Group, Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer of the World Bank, and worked at Shell International and J.P. Morgan. Ms. Beschloss has advised governments, central banks, and regulatory agencies on global public policy, energy and financial policy.

Beschloss’ globe-trotting career started with a childhood in her native Iran pre-revolution that went on to include multiple stints at the World Bank. An early interest in ESG investing, which has become increasingly the focus of investment portfolios, saw Beschloss as a pioneer in industries like renewable energy.

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Essential Cannabis with ETFMG | SALT Talks #18

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:24:12 +0000

Jason Wilson of SALT-partner ETFMG, home of MJ which is the world’s largest cannabis ETF, hosted a virtual roundtable on the future of cannabis and its investing opportunities. Joined by Wilson are three leaders in the cannabis space: David Culver of Canopy Growth, Patrick Martin of Cozen O’Connor and Eric Huey of Platinum Advisors.

The guests offer their perspectives as governmental cannabis regulation experts to discuss all the ways the rapidly growing cannabis industry will affect jobs, tax revenue and elections among many other impacted areas. Cannabis retail stores’ designation as an essential business all over the country has highlighted the increased acceptance and product demand. With impending state budget shortfalls, cannabis legalization is likely to only quicken, especially in states like New York and Pennsylvania. “Governors are now desperate for revenues,”

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Michèle Flournoy: Isolationism & Smarter Engagement | SALT Talks #17

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:22:02 +0000

Michèle Flournoy is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors. She was also the United States Undersecretary of Defense for Policy from 2009-2012 under President Obama, where she served as a principal advisor to Secretaries of Defense Robert Gates and Leon Panetta. At the time of her confirmation, Michèle was the highest-ranking female official in the Pentagon.

“We can’t afford to divorce ourselves from the world.” While isolationism has its merits, we should be using our presence to shape the direction of the world, instead of enacting large-scale regime change. We need a core set of principles as it relates to countries like Russia and China. Smart or smarter engagement is the way forward, not lack of engagement.

What region worries Michèle the most? The Asia Pacific and Indo Pacific. This area will have the greatest impact on our economy, as our prominence as their primary security partner clashes with China’s position as the primary trading partner.

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Sam Zell: Billionaire Explains How COVID-19 Impacted the Real Estate Market | SALT Talks #16

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:19:08 +0000

Sam Zell is the Founder & Chairman of Equity Group Investments, a private investment firm that invests in real estate markets. He is also the Chairman of four NYSE-listed companies: Equity Residential, Equity Lifestyle Properties, Equity Commonwealth and Covanta Holding Corporation.

“Things are looking better than they did three months ago, but not good enough to be optimistic.” Sam anticipates a U-shaped recovery, at least until a vaccine arrives, while noting that the pandemic has acted as an accelerant to the themes that have begun changing the economy. That said, fossil fuels are likely not going away.

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Marc Lasry: Pandemic Investment Opportunities | SALT Talks #15

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:15:16 +0000

Marc Lasry is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of Avenue Capital Group, as well as the Co-Owner of the Milwaukee Bucks. Marc expressed confidence and optimism in the post-pandemic future.

“Companies are talking about hiring back over 50% of employees. With two-thirds of GDP being consumer spending, it will be much more difficult for the economy to recover with high unemployment.”

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Mayors Steve Benjamin & Michael Tubbs: The History of Institutional Racism | SALT Talks #14

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:12:51 +0000

Stephen K. Benjamin, mayor of Columbia, SC since 2010 after getting his political start at age 29 in Governor Jim Hodges cabinet. Michael D. Tubbs is the mayor of Stockton, CA and was the city’s youngest ever to hold the office at 26. Benjamin and Tubbs each represent their city’s first-ever African-American mayor.

Both mayors offer their thoughts on some of the most pressing issues around racial inequity and civil unrest. They share their unique perspectives on the history of institutional racism and how it manifests today. “The conversation we're having about, not just police brutality, but really about equality under the law, has been a 400-year conversation in this country.”

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The Right Honorable Philip Hammond: Brexit, Boris Johnson & Financial Regulation | SALT Talks #13

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:10:35 +0000

Philip Hammond is a UK Cabinet Minister and key member of the British Government for almost a decade. Leading four departments over nine years and rising to the second most powerful job in government, he is one of only three people to serve continuously in the UK cabinet from 2010 to 2019, serving under Prime Ministers David Cameron and Theresa May.

In this conversation, Hammond explains his decision to leave his cabinet role as Chancellor of the Exchequer when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister because of Johnson’s openness to a no-deal Brexit. Hammond explains the economic, cultural and political factors that combined to bring about Brexit, and its consequences. “There's been a lot of resentment in the U.K. at the creeping encroachment by Brussels over our everyday lives… And it was really a reaction to that, a feeling that people wanted to restore sovereignty to our own parliament, make our own decisions, and control our own borders.”

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Hedge Fund Managers on Structured Finance, Credit & Risk Management | SALT Talks #12

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:07:42 +0000

Three leaders in the structured credit space, Clayton DeGiacinto of Axonic Capital, TJ Durkin of Angelo Gordon and Chris Hentemann of 400 Capital to discuss the state of structured credit following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Zachary D. Carter: Author "The Price of Peace" | SALT Talks #11

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 01:05:13 +0000

Zach Carter is a Senior Reporter for HuffPost and the Author of The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes.

After reading Keynes’ The Economic Consequences of Peace, Zach realized there was more to the economy than dollars, deficits and numbers. Keynes presented social theory and the idea that a national economy could enable a broader social vision.

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Kai-Fu Lee: The Potential for AI in Healthcare | SALT Talks #10

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:55:00 +0000

Kai-Fu Lee is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Sinovation Ventures, a leading venture capital firm. Before this, Dr. Lee held various leadership roles at Microsoft, SGI, Apple and most recently Google, where he was the president of their China business.

“Artificial Intelligence has tremendous power to help humans do their jobs better. Yes, some ‘routine’ jobs can and may be replaced by AI, but most will be supplemented by its presence. AI can handle System 1 tasks (repetitive, routine), whereas humans beings will handle System 2 tasks (thinking, analysis).”

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Alex Denner: Biotech Billionaire | SALT Talks #9

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:50:41 +0000

Alex Denner is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of Sarissa Capital Management, an activist firm investing in opportunities created by the unique dynamics of the healthcare sector. Alex also has a background in biomedical engineering.

The estimated Net Worth of Alexander J Denner is at least $4.11 Billion dollars as of 26 February 2021. Alexander Denner owns over 1,350,000 units of Biogen Inc stock worth over $4,110,207,300 and over the last 12 years he sold BIIB stock worth over $1,800,788.

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Stephanie Kelton: Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) | SALT Talks #8

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 00:41:00 +0000

Stephanie Kelton is a Stony Brook University professor of economics and author of the NYT-Best-Selling book The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy. Professor Kelton was also the former chief economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee.

In this conversation, Professor Kelton discusses many of the misconceptions around the national debt vs. more normative thinking around financial management and fiscal responsibility.

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Valerie Jarrett: Advising President Obama, Social Unrest & Life After Office | SALT Talks #7

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 23:37:29 +0000

Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to The Obama Foundation and former Director, Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs under the Obama Administration, joins SALT Talks after the murder of George Floyd to discuss social unrest in the United States.

“Every Black family has conversations and lessons with their sons about how to deal with police when they encounter them.” Interactions with the police serve as a microcosm for race relations in America, where Valerie thinks we’ve reached an inflection point in what we will and will not tolerate.

Turning to the 2020 election, Valerie voiced her support for the presumptive Democratic nominee. “No one understands Vice President Biden’s qualifications and capabilities better than President Obama.”

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Bob Diamond: Investment Management & Private Equity | SALT Talks #6

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 21:00:00 +0000

Bob Diamond is the Founding Partner & Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Merchant Capital, investing primarily in the Financial Services sector. Previously, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Barclays Bank.

In this conversation, Bob discusses how to optimize business and financial performance, his experience in private equity, and investment management.

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Investment Advisors Explain Active vs. Passive Investing | SALT Talks #5

Tue, 30 Mar 2021 00:37:11 +0000

Welcome to another episode of SALT Talks with host Anthony Scaramucci, and guests Karen Firestone of Aureus Asset Management, Keith Cardoza of Brownson, Rehmus & Foxworth, and Shannon Saccocia of Boston Private.

In this conversation, the guests discuss their reaction to the pandemic-driven stock volatility, how the Federal Reserve and monetary policy will play a major role in driving investment strategy through the pandemic, and the effectiveness of active vs. passive investing.

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Steve Case: How Tech is Reshaping the Economy | SALT Talks #4

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 02:56:05 +0000

Steve Case, the CEO of Revolution, a Washington D.C.-based investment firm. He’s notably the Founder of AOL, where he focused mainly on marketing aspects for the company.

In this conversation, Steve provides his insights on three important waves in history: the Agricultural Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and Technology Revolution.

What does a post-COVID economy look like? Broadly, Steve says companies will need to reimagine themselves to not only compete but survive.

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Sal Khan: The Era of Online Learning | SALT Talks #3

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 01:51:57 +0000

Sal Khan is the Founder of Khan Academy, a non-profit educational organization that provides free online classes by way of video, as well as supplementary educational tools.

The good news: the digital divide at schools has greatly been reduced. The bad news: 70% of kids who, when they go to community college, have to be remediated in some way, usually at the middle school level.

Learning should not be bound by time or space. In a potentially unpopular opinion, Sal believes summer break should be eliminated in favor of shorter, 2-3 week-long breaks throughout the year.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.

Chamath Palihapitiya: The State of Venture Capital | SALT Talks #2

Mon, 29 Mar 2021 01:45:10 +0000

Chamath Palihapitiya is the CEO of Social Capital, Chairman of Virgin Galactic, and owner of the Golden State Warriors.

Chamath believes there is a dispersion occurring in both the public and private markets between the “have’s” and the “have-nots.” The cycle of building a company and profiting from it is broken, as it now takes too long to see a profit. Politically, he believes there will be a change of the guard come 2024. “Politically, this is the last gasp for Boomers.” There will be new alternatives on both sides but in general, there will be a shift to the left. Things like higher education cannot become akin to luxury goods.

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Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.

David Rubenstein: Personal Finance, Private Equity, & the Economy | SALT Talks #1

Sun, 28 Mar 2021 03:48:58 +0000

David Rubenstein is the Founder & Co-Executive Chairman of The Carlyle Group.

In this conversation, David takes us through his thoughts on the economy, private equity landscape and Carlyle’s positioning in the context of the current crisis.

In many cases, people are not willing to go back to work unless there is a proven vaccine readily available. Corporations are realizing that they may not need as many employees because of how efficiently they’re working from home. They also may never need to fully return to the office.

His advice to young people today: no one ever succeeds in doing something that they do not love doing. “Take advantage of the change that COVID-19 is forcing onto the world.”

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To learn more about this episode, including podcast transcripts and show notes, visit salt.org/talks

Moderated by Anthony Scaramucci.