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CEO, The SpringHill Company
Maverick Carter
Cofounder & Co-Managing Partner, SKKY Partners
Jay Sammons
Co-Principal, Versaca Investments
Dambisa MoyO
Managing Partner, SoftBank Investment Advisers
Lydia
Jett
CEO, Wellington Management
Jean
Hynes
What I learned very quickly is talented people come with opinions. And smart people come with opinions. And that’s good, right? ... We need amazing ideas. Without amazing ideas, we can shut the door and all go home, right? It’s over.”
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Today, the consumer has more power than she’s ever had before because she has information. … And what that does is, it puts her in a position to expect more from the businesses and brands that she is buying from.”
The biggest opportunities? Absolutely energy. … The consequences for humanity, human progress are so real. So we’ve got to really look into not just traditional energy sources, but really thinking about what I would say (are) more innovative, scalable, cost effective—like a nuclear Gen IV [reactor].”
We’re working really hard on saying to our founders, ‘Get to sustainability first, but we can’t abandon those long-term growth plans if we want to build successful big businesses.’”
Shared values, that client fiduciary, having very high integrity, being very collaborative, being high meritocracy … all of those come into our shared values across the globe.”
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We’re seeing massive movements in fiat currencies amidst everything that’s going on in the world. And so when you take your developed world lens off, you actually want to own assets that aren’t government-backed, that aren't being intervened in by governments.”
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We believe it’s a cycle ... like 2002. It took a year or two before you bottomed, and then it took a couple of years before you recovered. So it’s longer, drawn out. And with higher rates … we believe it’s that sort of grinding cycle.”
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I would examine my companies to see if their business models were acceptable or profitable in an era of zero to 2% interest rates, and may not be in an era [of higher rates]. … A lot of people have been slow to understand that.”
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You have to empower your team. If you’re micromanaging people, that is probably the most condescending and worst thing that you can do. So what I try to do is foster a team atmosphere and have a lot of collaboration.”
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Every time we had to do something that was painful ... the question was why? We spent a lot of time making sure we knew what we were doing, but most importantly, why we were doing it and then respectfully transforming.”
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CEO, Grayscale Investments
Michael Sonnenshein
Founder & Chief Investment Officer, Strategic Value Partners
Victor Khosla
Founder & Managing Partner, Kynikos Associates
James Chanos
President, Managing Partner & Cofounder, Avenue Capital Group
Sonia Gardner
Founder & CEO, MeydenVest Partners
Michelle Seitz
It starts with authenticity, and there’s layers to it. … We want to use the businesses we build to create opportunities to economically empower our community.”
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If you look at where innovation is going to be for the next 10, 20 years, I think you want to be [long-term] innovation. I think you want to be long entrepreneurship. I think you want to be long tech.”
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A lot of the noise, a lot of the opportunists are largely being shaken out of the space. … If we look at the last crypto winter, the companies that were assertively building and investing during that time became the largest companies in the next bull cycle.”
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“I’ll make a prediction that the presidential candidates in 2024 will both be pro-crypto because you’ve got 70-plus million people that own it, and they don’t want to piss those people off.”
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There’s been a global, secular trend towards the adoption of alternatives, not just by the retail investor but by the institutional investor. … I think everybody’s eyes are opening up to the opportunity set that’s broadly available in alternative asset classes.”
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President, Combs Enterprises
Tarik
Brooks
Co-President, Managing Director & Chairman of the Global Technology Group, General Atlantic
Anton Levy
Partner & Head of Digital Asset Strategy, Apollo Global Management
Christine Moy
Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge
Anthony Scaramucci
Director, Cofounder, CEO & President, Ares
Mike Arougheti
Lunch is served with a side of networking at the New York Historical Society, the venue for the inaugural summit. Photo Credit: Ethan Covey
Forbes CEO Mike Federle (right) moderates a panel about the future of mergers and acquisitions. The panel featured (from left to right) Michal Katz of Mizuho Americas, Victor Khosla of Strategic Value Partners and James Sprayregen of Kirkland & Ellis. Photo Credit: Ethan Covey
