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Earlier this year, quota and governance reforms were finally, finally implemented, and I'm very pleased and proud to say that India has now joined China and Japan in the list of the top 10 members of…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Mar 2016

Across the region, income inequality has worsened since 1990. We just recently published a study that concludes that income inequality has increased in 15 of the 22 Asian economies since 1990, and…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Mar 2016

Most of the countries have to undertake significant structural reforms in order to boost productivity growth and create jobs. Let me give you a few examples taken from some of your own countries. In…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Mar 2016

Asia has a lot to be proud of. It is the world's most dynamic region today, accounts for 40% of the global economy, and over the next four years, even with slightly declining momentum, it stands to…

Christine Lagarde ·President ·Mar 2016

These are tragic times. It's a great opportunity to invest in black education and UNCF, United Negro College Fund, has been a great supporter of education for more than 50 years and the HBCUs are the…

Wilmot Hastings ·Co-Founder & Chairman NFLX ·Jul 2020

I think it's a tipping point in white consciousness. I mean black people have been aware of these things forever and so it's a change to think of it as a broader collective problem where white people…

Wilmot Hastings ·Co-Founder & Chairman NFLX ·Jul 2020

This is the biggest gift we've ever given and the times are the most stressed, the most painful that we've ever seen in our lives. But out of that pain can come some opportunity too and maybe this…

Wilmot Hastings ·Co-Founder & Chairman NFLX ·Jul 2020

I do believe there'll be multiple platforms. Google has a very good play. Microsoft has embraced OpenAI. Baidu will, of course, with backing from the Chinese governments, try and win. I do think…

Vinod Khosla ·Founder ·Mar 2023

As to the battle, it's a much more critical battle than that TikTok battle and the general race for technological superiority in AI and hence all the areas that compact which in 20 to 25 years will…

Vinod Khosla ·Founder ·Mar 2023

It's related to the larger technological race we have for global technology power and hence economic power globally. And I think many of us feel the US and the Western world should in general invest…

Vinod Khosla ·Founder ·Mar 2023

I believe what SVB was doing was running a hedge fund based on interest rates inside a bank and that was bad. The fault lies, I believe, to the best of the information I have and that this should be…

Vinod Khosla ·Founder ·Mar 2023

We break through some of the historical myths that because we are committed to everyday low cost, because we require everyday low price as an operating philosophy for our customers so that they can…

John Furner ·Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer & President of Walmart US and Director WMT ·Jun 2021

The beautiful thing as you mentioned, John, about a membership program is it gives us the capacity to learn and grow. And so this is really gonna be our way of being able to continue to grow and…

John Furner ·Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer & President of Walmart US and Director WMT ·Jun 2021

I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of Walmart+ which is going to be Walmart's first ever true membership program. So, many of you may be enrolled in or will have heard of Delivery…

John Furner ·Executive Vice President, Chief Executive Officer & President of Walmart US and Director WMT ·Jun 2021

I think the machine learning world, we are not very good at understanding the scaling. Uh, the best algorithm for one training example, you know, as far as we are able to invent algorithms as a…

Andrew Ng ·Co-Founder & Chairman COUR ·Apr 2020

Some of the teams I work with these days, actually like Landing AI. Um, I actually spent a lot of my time thinking about small data problems, because a lot of the practical applications of machine…

Andrew Ng ·Co-Founder & Chairman COUR ·Apr 2020

One of the really overlooked parts of the machine learning world is small data problems, right? So there's a lot work in big data... and I think, uh, there's actually a lack of attention, like a…

Andrew Ng ·Co-Founder & Chairman COUR ·Apr 2020

This investment will help us realize our ambition to reach our 80 billion target by 2030. But the dollar number is an important one of course because you need turnover, you need profitability to be…

Pascal Soriot ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director AZN ·Jun 2026

We have 23 sites in the US. We have a workforce of about 25,000 people around the country. And this $50 billion will help us continue to increase our footprint not only in manufacturing but also in…

Pascal Soriot ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director AZN ·Jun 2026

Innovation in our industry is led out of this country and we need to make sure that everything is done to keep the lead that this country has in bioharmaceutical innovation around the world because…

Pascal Soriot ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director AZN ·Jun 2026

We decided to do this because we wanted to become more American for sure and allow American investors to access our shares more directly than NDR. But we also wanted to align our shares across the…

Pascal Soriot ·Chief Executive Officer & Executive Director AZN ·Jun 2026

We are building a full-stack system helping customers build AI factories and deploying AI factories is incredibly important and the reason for that is this. Compute is revenue now.

Jensen Huang ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President & Director NVDA ·Jun 2026

Just like you have a home theater in your house, you have stereos in your house, you want a assist AI agent computers running in your house. And these in time, it becomes more like C-3PO to you.

Jensen Huang ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President & Director NVDA ·Jun 2026

This computer literally runs everything the world has ever created plus it now runs agents.

Jensen Huang ·Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President & Director NVDA ·Jun 2026

The regulatory environment for all of the hoopla has really not improved that much. I mean there's still a lot of restraint constraints on banks for the most part in terms of their ability to return…

Michael Wilson ·Chief U.S. Equity Strategist & Chief Investment Officer MS ·Sep 2020

The Fed has done a really good job of doing their role of providing support to the markets... and then last week of course they gave us this next step which is basically telling us they're not going…

Michael Wilson ·Chief U.S. Equity Strategist & Chief Investment Officer MS ·Sep 2020

The market is telling us that 2021 is going to be a pretty good year for the economy and for earnings.

Michael Wilson ·Chief U.S. Equity Strategist & Chief Investment Officer MS ·Sep 2020

Minha tia que fundou do Magazine Luiza tinha sido vendedora numa loja muito tempo e o sonho dela quando ela casou ela voltar para Franca e montar uma loja para gerar emprego para a família ela só…

Luiza Trajano ·Brazilian billionaire businessperson MGLU3 ·Mar 2022

Eu nunca escutei muito a palavra crise sabe é sempre assim trabalha que dá certo vamos te dar certo então eu sempre escutei isso.

Luiza Trajano ·Brazilian billionaire businessperson MGLU3 ·Mar 2022

I think the real unlock that AI brought to tools like Zapier is the ability to work with unstructured data and unstructured text. You know, before to your point, everything had to be like very…

Wade Foster ·CEO & Co-Founder ·Jun 2026