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“What if design just ran the boardroom?”
In this episode of The CEO Signal, @Airbnb CEO @bchesky explains how his training as an industrial designer shapes his unconventional approach to running the company. He describes Airbnb as a three-dimensional model in his head and explains why he remains so personally involved in recruiting and organizational decisions.
“The founder is the keeper of the dream,” he says.
On artificial intelligence, Chesky warns that Silicon Valley is losing touch with the people whose lives its technologies will transform.
“Society feels like AI is happening to them, not for them,” he says. Chesky believes the industry needs bridge builders to reconnect with people beyond the Silicon Valley bubble. And he thinks he could help.
Founder & Mentor @RayDalio of @Bridgewater has joined the Silicon Valley & The World Global Advisory Board, a first-of-its-kind, multi-year initiative connecting the leaders building transformative technologies with the policymakers shaping their deployment.
The Global Advisory Board is central to this mission of fostering dialogue and generating new ideas, drawing on the expertise of leaders who reflect the core stakeholder segments that will determine the success of the global AI economy across technology, business, finance, and public policy.
Learn more about Silicon Valley & The World and get virtual broadcast access here:
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Betting operators and prediction markets have spent record amounts on campaign donations and lobbying, hoping it will help win back millions of bettors and gambling dollars that prediction markets have lured away.
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Prediction market companies are fighting against several state attorneys general, who argue that the sites operate as illegal online gambling operations and should be shut down, limited to non-sports betting or regulated on a state-by-state basis instead of by the federal agency.
Read more from Jake Angelo and Lauren Morganbesser: semafor.com/article/10/23/20…
🟡 NEW: Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign is launching a new TV ad with a unique approach: spotlighting conservative pundits’ praise for the progressive — and criticism of GOP nominee Mike Rogers.
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🟡 NEW: House Democrats are making a play for a red seat in Kansas, but Republicans are competitive in a California seat — and both are releasing polling to back it up.
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Democrat Don Coover is down by three points against incumbent Republican Rep. Derek Schmidt, within the 3.9% margin of error, according to Democratic polling conducted in mid-October and shared with Semafor.
Read more from @nicholaswu12: semafor.com/article/10/23/20…
President Donald Trump's alliance with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. helped deliver Make America Healthy Again voters. But the movement Trump spent years cultivating is showing signs of splintering. Now the question is whether Kennedy could reconsolidate the same voters if he launches a new bid for the presidency.
Read more from @davidalim on Semafor: semafor.com/article/10/22/20…
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🟡 In today’s @semafor Tech briefing: the auto industry is going to treat cars like robots with agentic capabilities
and GM’s chief product officer goes off on humanoids:
"We are entering a dark age."
@Cognition CISO @alexstamos talks to @reedalbergotti about emerging AI hacking threats on Future Proof from Semafor Technology.
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New polls!
DCCC poll has Dem Don Coover down by 3 within margin of error against Derek Schmidt in KS-02 (Trump underwater, Hamilton/Holscher narrowly lead)
Poll from Rs in CA-48 has Jim Desmond down by 3 against Marni von Wilpert within margin of error
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Hello from Maine, where this week was a perfect contrast in what Ds and Rs are doing: Collins running as the irreplaceable "soul of the senate," Jackson running as a Berniecrat who wonders what exactly's worth saving about a Senate that won't tax the rich semafor.com/article/10/23/20…
Warhound, a new defense technology company, has launched with $200 million in seed funding from investors including Sequoia Capital to create dogs genetically engineered for military use.
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Joe Manchin and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are making dueling closing arguments in Maine’s Senate race, campaigning for opposing candidates in the final stretch before Election Day.
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