My Brain Food This Week...

A.I, A.I, and more A.I... plus Mast Reforestation is building an amazing ecosystem business!

My Brain Food This Week…

• AI and space technology boost smallholders’ access to finance

• Microsoft Bets That Fusion Power Is Closer Than Many Think

• Zimbabwe backs new digital money with 140kgs of gold, but IMF has concerns

• Drone Delivery Startup Zipline Raises $330 Million In Funding, Skyrockets To $4.2 Billion Valuation As Global Leader

• With Artificial Intelligence, there has never been a better time for small, ambitious founding teams to positively transform life as we know it

• Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind?

• South Africa to start paying individuals and businesses for saving electricity

• What Does Last Year’s IPO Class Have To Teach 2023’s Public Market Hopefuls?

• The Risks and Rewards of ChatGPT Becoming a VC Tool

• Saudi Arabia Moves Closer to Another Aramco Stock Offering

• Musk Fans Conspiracies About George Soros After Billionaire’s Fund Dumps All Tesla Holdings

• A 32-Year-Old Nears Billionaire Status by Using AI to Broker Japan Mergers

• The impact of AI on the cost of starting and running a business

• Everybody seems unwell. Save for healthtech maybe

• Kim Kardashian’s investment firm hopes to raise $1 billion and leverage her ‘demonstrated ability to identify and define culture’

• The FuteresList Launches to Connect Africa’s Tech Startups to Global Investors

• From root to crown, Mast Reforestation is regrowing the tree economy for the 21st century

• Medical Tourism: The trip you don’t want to take

• Eskom Warns South Africa Faces Record Power Cuts This Winter

• Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen tells investors to ride the 'big wave' of artificial intelligence and stop focusing on recession odds

• Billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller's family office pumps a combined $430 million into Nvidia and Microsoft stocks in big, bold AI bets

• Billionaire Bill Ackman's hedge fund unveils a new Alphabet stake worth over $1 billion in a nod to the company's AI push

Podcasts & Video

• E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more

  (All-In)

• Benchmark Part I

  (Acquired)

• Sohn 2023 | Kiril Sokoloff in conversation with Stanley Druckenmiller

  (Sohn Conference Foundation)