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At the core of the blockchain industry and bitcoin industry there is the concept of not your keys not your coins. I would go as far as saying not your AI not your intelligence. That's why it's…

Paolo Ardoino ·CTO ·Jun 2026

Disintermediation means how we can take an industry that is that for every single financial transaction has several several intermediaries that each one of them needs to make money hence make is…

Paolo Ardoino ·CTO ·Jun 2026

There are around 4 billion people in the world they don't have access to basic financial services. So half of the population of the world does not have access to basic financial services. Not because…

Paolo Ardoino ·CTO ·Jun 2026

I believe Tether is the biggest financial inclusion success story in the history of humanity. In the last 12 years we made more for financial inclusion that probably most of the rest of the companies…

Paolo Ardoino ·CTO ·Jun 2026

I had always believed that making these digital AIs work more like the brain, our brains, would make them smarter. But at that point, I suddenly realized they really have this thing that's much…

Geoffrey Hinton ·Professor Emeritus ·Jun 2026

It was a combination of two things that made me realize how dangerous this stuff is. One was seeing the chatbots, particularly ones produced by Google before OpenAI, that could understand why a joke…

Geoffrey Hinton ·Professor Emeritus ·Jun 2026

I believe they're already conscious, yes, but I don't talk about that much because that puts people off from the other safety messages. So, and the researchers actually believe that.

Geoffrey Hinton ·Professor Emeritus ·Jun 2026

I think that's complete nonsense. So, anybody who uses a chatbot regularly knows they understand. So, here's what these people are claiming. They're claiming that you have a system, you can ask it…

Geoffrey Hinton ·Professor Emeritus ·Jun 2026

Bitcoin is the greatest opportunity of the 21st century. It's worth anywhere from 3 trillion to 106 trillion depending upon how programmatic and aggressive we want to pursue this opportunity. These…

Michael Saylor ·Executive Chairman MSTR ·Mar 2025

You cannot remain a sovereign nation if you lose control of your airspace, outer space, or cyberspace. We're not talking about making a little bit of money here, we're talking about defending the…

Michael Saylor ·Executive Chairman MSTR ·Mar 2025

Bitcoin is not a threat to the dollar. The dollar is currency, Bitcoin is capital. If you need money for the next four weeks in Argentina then you're using the peso, if you need money for the next…

Michael Saylor ·Executive Chairman MSTR ·Mar 2025

The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve represents a strategy for United States digital supremacy in the 21st century. The president with his vision has established a strategic Bitcoin Reserve as of last week…

Michael Saylor ·Executive Chairman MSTR ·Mar 2025

Actually this is the greatest time to do anything on consumer and mobile. Millions and millions of customers are buying smartphones every day on Snap deal and other sites and they all need great…

Kunal Shah ·Founder ·Aug 2015

Recharge and bill payment are fundamental categories right. And I think a consumer is not going to learn to buy a shirt online or buying a laptop online till they learn to do the basic things of…

Kunal Shah ·Founder ·Aug 2015

Snap deal does not believe in one app solving all problems kind of thing. We are looking at an unbundled strategy where different apps are solving different problems. Free charge continue to operate…

Kunal Shah ·Founder ·Aug 2015

I think it's pretty fortunate to be in a category like recharge and bill payments because it is such poor infrastructure currently available to pay these bills that you don't have to do too much. A…

Kunal Shah ·Founder ·Aug 2015

I'm not the kind of person who dwells on the things that I can't do... I would like to see the people that have grown up with me at my company experience the kind of personal satisfaction that comes…

Stephen Wynn ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer WYNN ·Aug 2023

The installation of big integrated gaming facilities... the good news and the bad news is they draw a big crowd, they create a lot of jobs, they pay a healthy tax. But what's the bad news? They play…

Stephen Wynn ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer WYNN ·Aug 2023

If I had ever been under the control of some of the MBAs and accountants that have taken over Las Vegas in the modern era, we wouldn't have dolphins, we wouldn't have white tigers all over the place,…

Stephen Wynn ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer WYNN ·Aug 2023

I'm trying to broaden the appeal of Las Vegas to a wider group of adults so that people who don't think of coming here will now think of coming. I think that fine arts have a powerful bedrock kind of…

Stephen Wynn ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer WYNN ·Aug 2023

I've had this maybe naive notion that if you did a job well enough when it came to the business... that if you built a place that appealed to a broadest range of people, if you did it well enough...…

Stephen Wynn ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer WYNN ·Aug 2023

I always say that the definition of a leader is to define reality and inspire hope. And I think both are important. Like, if you just inspire hope, people don't think you have a firm grip on reality,…

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Oct 2021

If somebody, Ken, doesn't believe that the system is working for them, and again if you're struggling to make ends meet every single month, that's 185 million adults in the US, you don't believe that…

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Oct 2021

And so we committed $535 million to doing our part to reduce the racial wealth gap, giving grants to small businesses, not loans, but grants to Black-owned small businesses that were going out of…

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Oct 2021

I did a study inside PayPal, because I knew this was happening across the world. And I did a study. Honestly, I thought the study was gonna come out different and I commissioned it because I wanted…

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Oct 2021

It comes out of concept, I'm calling this Reverse Friedmanism, Friedman, of course, the famous professor at University of Chicago who basically said that the sole responsibility of a corporation is…

Daniel Schulman ·Former President & Chief Executive Officer PYPL ·Oct 2021

If your subject is climate change and wanting to solve it, China's probably more important than the US in the next 20 or 30 or 40 years. We need a relationship with China to solve this problem.

Jeffrey Immelt ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GE ·Apr 2021

I think climate change is real, it's caused by man, it's existential. But it's complicated and hard and in today's environment, you know, unless we change we're not going to solve this problem. So I…

Jeffrey Immelt ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GE ·Apr 2021

I wish we had taken a bigger bite in battery technology, partnered with one of the big automotive companies and done it 15 years ago. We made an effort, we tried to go it alone, we tried to build…

Jeffrey Immelt ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GE ·Apr 2021

You really need coherence between public policy, capital markets and innovation and you need it over an extremely long time horizon right in order to make that happen. And all of those in the current…

Jeffrey Immelt ·Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer GE ·Apr 2021