Catégorie : Strategy
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2024 Annual Letter
Social Capital Performance Summary To the friends and supporters of Social Capital: This is the seventh of our annual letters in which I share our observations, reflections, and lessons learned over the past year, including how the technological, economic, and political trends of the year have influenced my thinking and investment portfolio. Since I started…
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EHL Innovation Rewind: Diane Binder on Redefining Sustainability, Regeneration, and the True Meaning of Luxury
During the EHL Open Innovation Summit, we sat down with Diane Binder to talk about the role of virtual reality, regeneration, and what real luxury means today. As Founder and CEO of Regenopolis and Co-founder of 700’000 heures Impact, Diane brings a unique lens that bridges sustainable development, hospitality, and systemic change. In our conversation,…
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Hospitality Is The Place To Be Now, And For The Future (My Thoughts from NYU IHIF) – Josiah Mackenzie
Josiah: Hey friends, it’s Josiah here with a special solo episode today. Just wrapped up the NYU International Hospitality Investment Forum here in New York. I love this show. I’ve been going for many years and always leave the show feeling inspired, especially over the last couple of years. There’s been a lot of chaos…
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LukeW | The Receding Role of AI Chat
While chat interfaces to AI models aren’t going away anytime soon, the increasing capabilities of AI agents are making the concept of chatting back and forth with an AI model to get things done feel archaic. Let me first clarify that I don’t mean open-ended text fields where people declare their intent are going away.…
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Google kills the checkout
Why this is the beginning of the end for e-commerce as we know it. Google’s new agentic checkout isn’t just killing pages, it’s killing entire business models.Google introduced « Shop with AI mode ».You can now shop and buy without ever visiting a retailers website.This isn’t about payments.It’s about who owns the customer. And Wall Street noticed:…
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Paul Smith’s 10 Tips On How To Build A Successful Brand That Lasts
SHAUN JAMES COXAhead of the final round of the BFC/Vogue Fashion Fund selection process, Paul Smith invited the seven finalists to stop by his London studio to pick his brains on how best to prepare and what it takes to play the fashion long game. Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY, Grace Wales Bonner, Rosh Mahtani of Alighieri,…
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US Marines AI Implementation Plan | Stuart Winter-Tear | 148 comments
Huh. Turns out the best enterprise AI playbook I’ve read this year comes from the US Marines. And it’s one every organisation should study. While most companies are still tinkering with LLM demos or siloed innovation labs, the Marine Corps published a masterclass in how to implement AI at scale – with clarity, urgency, and…
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How a Five-Person AI Team Is Powering Innovation at The New York Times: In Conversation with Zach Seward
Zach Seward speaks during a live recording of the Newsroom Robots podcast at the AI Leadership Summit in Detroit. (Credit: Nick Hagen) When The New York Times appointed Zach Seward as its first Editorial Director of AI Initiatives in late 2023, he stepped into the role just as the paper was making headlines—for suing OpenAI…
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Neil Vogel on Google Zero
The media business is about to enter AI mode. In the latest episode of The Rebooting Show, I speak with Dotdash Meredith CEO Neil Vogel. We spoke during the keynote session earlier this month at the Media Product Forum, which was a collaboration between The Rebooting and WordPress VIP. I appreciate that Neil is a…
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai on the next AI platform shift
The head of Google discusses the next AI platform shift and how it could change how we use the internet forever. Today, I’m talking with Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai. We recorded this conversation in person after the Google I/O developer conference last week in what’s becoming a bit of a Decoder tradition. This…
