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Todays show:

Alex leads us into two great talks from Liquidity Summit 2024.

First Jason sits down for a one-on-one with Valor’s Antonio Gracias (1:38), followed by a great talk with Gavin Baker of Atreides (39:01)

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Timestamps:

(0:00) Teaser of today’s Liquidity Summit talks from Alex.

(1:13) Alex kicks off the show.

(1:38) Valor’s Antonio Gracias joins Jason

(4:26) Unbiased data and business models in AI

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(11:14) Achieving AGI and robots in real-world applications

(14:26) Venture capital dynamics and innovation

(18:09) Athena case study: Investor operational support

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(23:04) Traditional venture playbook and crossover hedge funds

(28:33) US balance sheet implications and emerging entrepreneurship regions

(33:39) Immigration policy's role in recruitment

(36:19) Investing in socially impactful companies

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(39:01) Atreides Management’s Gavin Baker joins Jason

(47:38) The importance of investing in relationships

(54:32) Resilience in public equity investing and learning from failure

(1:00:29) AI adoption differences between startups and enterprises

(1:02:32) America's innovation through resilience and immigration

(1:03:43) Google and Apple's AI strategies and infrastructure

(1:11:32) Meta's strategic moves in search and the metaverse

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