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Ari Emanuel leads Endeavor and TKO Group Holdings, pairing talent representation with owned sports properties such as the UFC. His operating thesis links aggressive negotiation, live events’ scarcity amid infinite AI content, dealmaking, failure, and market change.
Frank Blake led The Home Depot’s turnaround as CEO by refocusing the business on store associates and customers. His “inverted pyramid” model and rule that leaders get what they celebrate place frontline workers at strategy’s center.
Andrew Ross Sorkin is a financial journalist, founder of The New York Times’s DealBook, and author of Too Big to Fail. He studies Wall Street’s machinery and personalities through market crises, interview tactics, and human psychology.
Meredith Kopit Levien is The New York Times Company’s president and CEO, who helped turn an advertising-dependent newspaper into a subscription-first digital business spanning news, games, cooking, sports, and shopping while defending human-led journalism’s durability amid AI.
Michael Lewis turns obscure systems into popular narratives, using works including Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, and The Big Short to clarify Wall Street, sports analytics, and behavioral psychology while probing writing, decision-making, and the biases shaping human behavior.
Ali Hamed is founder and CEO of Treville Capital Group (formerly CoVenture) and serves on Crossbeam Venture Partners' investment committee, investing across private credit and venture equity.
Rene Haas is Arm’s CEO, shifting the company from basic chip-design licensing toward complete compute subsystems. He treats power efficiency as AI’s physical constraint, connecting custom silicon and computing economics to the limits facing data centers.
Steven Bartlett founded marketing agency Social Chain and hosts The Diary of a CEO, reducing business strategy and personal development to direct rules about human behavior, rapid experimentation, company building, and the practical mechanics of success.