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Citadel Founder Ken Griffin at the Stanford Leadership Forum 2026 discussing how AI agents compress elite analytical work from months into hours: "It has been interesting to watch...work that we would usually do with people with master's and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months, being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days. So these are not mid-tier white-collar jobs. These are like extraordinarily high-skilled jobs being ...automated by agentic AI. And I got to tell you, I went home one Friday, actually fairly depressed by this because you could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society."
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Buffett while holding up his Coca-Cola can: "For 94 years, I’ve been able to drink what I want, do what I want & I’ve defied all the predictions of what should’ve happened to me..Charlie & I...never really exercised all that much. We weren’t carefully preserving ourselves"
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The end of an era at Berkshire Hathaway: "At year-end, Greg would be the CEO of Berkshire. I would still hang around and could conceivably be useful in a few cases. But the final word would be Greg’s...Greg doesn’t know anything about this until what he’s hearing right now."
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$ORCL CTO Larry Ellison: "I went to dinner with Elon Musk, Jensen Huang..& I would describe the dinner as Oracle & me & Elon begging Jensen for GPUs. Please take our money....No, no, take more of it. You're not taking out enough. We need you to take more of our money, please"
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$AMZN AWS CEO on the impact of AI on jobs: "I can tell you we are hiring just as many software developers as we ever had inside of Amazon. And in fact, I see the demand for that really accelerating...Amazon is hiring 11,000 new SDE interns and full-time employees this year. That is not jobs going away"
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Databricks CEO shares some real AI use cases starting with one in finance: "The agent goes, gets the earnings report, gets all the previous earnings reports, gets all the competitors' earnings reports, gets everything that's going on in the market, does the full analysis, the news, everything, puts it all together & they can get the equity report out in 15 minutes from the earnings call. Industry standard is two hours."
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$NVDA CEO on why he does not fire people: "I rather improve you than give up on you...I don't like giving up on people because I think they could improve. And it's tongue in cheek but people know that I'd rather torture them into greatness [thank give up on them]"
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$JPM CEO Jamie Dimon on how he keeps productivity high in meetings: " I'm never harried, I'm never late, I've always done my pre-reads. In my meetings, I do not have my phone, I do not get my notifications on my iPad. I'm looking at you, I'm focused, I'm learning from you"
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Powell demonstrating how he will be keeping a low profile as Governor:
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$MSFT CEO in an interview with nilay patel talking about Google's likely response to the new Bing: "...they will definitely want to come out & show that they can dance. And I want people to know that we made them dance & I think that'll be a great day" [The Verge]
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Question to $JPM CEO Jamie Dimon: " If you had to pick one big risk that keeps you up at night right now, what is it?" His response: "It's geopolitics. I think we're at a crossroads...about the future of the free & democratic world. That to me is the only important thing"
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$JPM CEO Jamie Dimon invested $60M (~half his net worth) on joining Bank One as CEO back in 2000: "I wanted 'em to know I was in 100%, lock, stock, and barrel. There was no question—I would never sell that stock & I'm gonna go down with the ship, or go up with the ship"
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$MSFT CEO Satya Nadella on ChatGPT & the AI wave: "[ChatGPT] was all trained on the Azure supercomputer...If you look at & check with any elite AI team out there, they will tell you that the best infrastructure for doing anything AI is Azure...We're leading when it comes to AI"
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$TSM TSMC CEO: "In..Arizona..we're producing the most advanced chip made on US soil. With the success of our 1st plant, we are now very happy to announce we are going to invest an additional $100B, in addition to our current $65B investment...we're going to build 3 more new fabs"
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