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“If somebody’s going to punch me, I’m going to punch back.” Verizon CEO Dan Schulman on changing the company’s mentality after years of ceding market share. From The CEO Signal. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/gxezQVyQ

🟡 YouTube creator and Newpress co-founder Johnny Harris joins Mixed Signals to break down how he went from selling his own plasma to running a YouTube channel with over 7 million subscribers. Maxwell Tani and Ben Smith ask how he built a sustainable business around difficult topics without chasing the outrage that drives so much attention online, and why millions of people are obsessed with long-form video explainers. Listen to Mixed Signals from Semafor Media wherever you get your podcasts, or watch it on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eqJYu8T4

The decisions being made in Silicon Valley are reshaping economies, alliances, and governments worldwide – and yet there's no definitive global journalistic forum to bridge the builders of the world’s most revolutionary technologies with the global leaders shaping their consequences across companies, nations, and societies. Today SEMAFOR is changing that – on the heels of our unprecedented success with Semafor World Economy, we’re launching our next ambitious new initiative today: Silicon Valley & The World. SEMAFOR 's inaugural Silicon Valley & The World convening will bring together top technology founders and CEOs, senior government officials, key figures in finance and venture capital, and decision-makers from the world's most consequential economies for two days of live journalism in Silicon Valley this November 2026. We're honored to be joined by an extraordinary Advisory Board, Co-Chaired by Divesh Makan, Satya Nadella , Jensen Huang , Ruth Porat , Lisa Su , with board members including Daniela Amodei , Reid Hoffman, Sarah Friar, Nikesh Arora, Chuck Robbins , and Dina Powell McCormick We are building this global platform with both an urgent sense of purpose and a long term horizon. Stay tuned for more on this exciting new endeavor.

🟡 Semafor’s Silicon Valley & The World will bridge the widening gap between the leaders building artificial intelligence and other breakthrough technologies and the leaders responsible for shaping the strategies, policies, and institutions around them. Co-Chaired by Divesh Makan, Satya Nadella, Jensen Huang, Ruth Porat, and Lisa Su, this new initiative will bring together top technology CEOs, senior government officials, and global financial leaders in Silicon Valley in November. Building on the success of the 2026 annual convening of Semafor World Economy, Semafor’s Silicon Valley & The World will be the definitive forum to connect builders of transformative technologies with the global institutional leaders shaping their consequences. Through Semafor’s signature live journalism, the initiative will examine the forces now sitting at the center of global leadership: artificial intelligence, national competitiveness, energy demand, capital formation, security, labor markets, and the shifting relationship between technological power and public authority. Request an invitation to join Silicon Valley & The World: https://lnkd.in/eafnQxRJ

"I'm not gonna throw Trump under the bus. I don't agree with him on everything, but what he is doing in health care is great." Mark Cuban offers his assessment of TrumpRX on Compound Interest from Semafor Business. Watch the full interview: https://lnkd.in/eYBifmhq

🟡 In the latest episode of The CEO Signal, Verizon CEO Dan Schulman tells Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Penny Pritzker why he came out of retirement — after twice turning down the job — to take over a company he says had “gently ceded market share” after years of customer losses. Schulman says Verizon has to start playing to win again. “If somebody’s going to punch me, I’m going to punch back”. The conversation gets into what that means in practice: restructuring, customer trust, AI, and what Schulman calls the job of leadership: defining reality, then inspiring hope. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/ePEAJuES

From real-time payments to fully digital banking, Washington is racing to keep up with financial innovation. On May 20, SEMAFOR will convene top policymakers and industry leaders in DC for Semafor’s Banking on the Future Forum to unpack what shifting regulations mean for the next phase of fintech. Hear from: • Cetin Duransoy, US CEO, Revolut • Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn.; House Majority Whip; Vice Chairman, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee • Jonathan Gould, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency • Joseph Heck , US CEO, Zip Co • Rep. French Hill, R-Ark.; Chairman, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services • Sarah Kirshbaum Levy, CEO, Betterment • Rep. Bryan Steil, R-Wis. ; Chairman, U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence • Ingo Uytdehaage, Co-CEO, Adyen Request an invitation here: https://lnkd.in/gG2jub66

“Listen to my smart people.” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on how leaders stay close to fast-moving technology: listen to experts, question the conclusions, and form your own knowledge base. From The CEO Signal. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/g5Auymyz

“Quantum is probably three to five years away in terms of timing.” IBM CEO Arvind Krishna on why quantum is getting closer, what kinds of problems it could unlock, and why CEOs should already be thinking about how to use it. From The CEO Signal with Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson and Penny Pritzker. Watch the full conversation: https://lnkd.in/g5Auymyz

🟡 Mark Cuban is on a mission to rid the US health care system of the middlemen he blames for soaring costs. He joins Liz Hoffman and Rohan Goswami on the latest episode of Compound Interest from Semafor Business to dive into his approach with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, PBC.   He also discusses skyrocketing valuations in sports, his own regrets around the Dallas Mavericks sale, and offers a surprising assessment of TrumpRX. Listen to Compound Interest from Semafor Business wherever you get your podcasts, or watch it on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/ebN_rCaJ