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The Just Report: A Distress Signal, an Opportunity, or Both?
The Just Report: A Distress Signal, an Opportunity, or Both?
Happy May Day. Traditionally a day when the world celebrates workers, this year the homophone is perhaps more apt.
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The Just Report: Tim Cook’s Other Track RecordApr 24, 2026
The Just Report: Tim Cook’s Other Track Record
By now, you've seen the news that, after 14 years as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook is stepping down and passing the reins to…
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How To Address AI’s Generational Challenge?Apr 17, 2026
How To Address AI’s Generational Challenge?
I’m coming off a week at the Semafor World Economy Summit in DC. It was a whirlwind of conversations with 500+ CEOs and…
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The Answer to "Reskill to What?"Apr 10, 2026
The Answer to "Reskill to What?"
At Davos earlier this year, our Board Chair and Verizon CEO Dan Schulman posed an interesting question during a…
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The Just Report: Powerful Messages From Our Best of American Business CelebrationApr 3, 2026
The Just Report: Powerful Messages From Our Best of American Business Celebration
The Just Report: Powerful Messages From Our Best of American Business Celebration On Tuesday evening, Just Capital…
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“Don’t Repeat the Mistakes of Social Media”Mar 27, 2026
“Don’t Repeat the Mistakes of Social Media”
This week I attended the Common Sense Summit on Kids and Families, convening leaders across education, technology…
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"The Most Powerful Person in the World Is the Storyteller."Mar 20, 2026
"The Most Powerful Person in the World Is the Storyteller."
Producing rankings these days is not easy. Companies don’t relish being judged (who does?).
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The Extractor, The Operator And The Steward: A Call To Action For CEOsFeb 25, 2026
The Extractor, The Operator And The Steward: A Call To Action For CEOs
Co-authored by Martin Whittaker and Steve Hall AI’s arrival is rapidly changing the nature of business leadership. We…
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What I Learned From the CEO Building America's Healthcare WorkforceFeb 5, 2026
What I Learned From the CEO Building America's Healthcare Workforce
I’ve been spending time with CEOs to discuss how they’re navigating change and thinking about responsible leadership in…
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Capitalism at its Best: America’s Next 250 Years Starts NowJan 6, 2026
Capitalism at its Best: America’s Next 250 Years Starts Now
As America approaches the 250th anniversary of its founding, the nation confronts a question as old as the Republic and…
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Martin Whittaker shared thisHappy #MayDay. Traditionally a day when the world celebrates workers, this year the homophone is perhaps more apt. The American worker is, by many measures, sending up a distress flare. Job satisfaction has fallen to the lowest level in the 12-year history of the New York Fed's survey. #Wage growth expectations are down. Entry-level hiring is low as Gen Z competes with #AI to get a foot on the first rung of the ladder. But it isn’t all doom and gloom. Against the steady drumbeat of AI-driven layoff announcements, some companies are taking a different tack:The Just Report: A Distress Signal, an Opportunity, or Both?The Just Report: A Distress Signal, an Opportunity, or Both?Martin Whittaker
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Martin Whittaker reposted thisMartin Whittaker reposted thisThank you to Bank of America for your partnership as an Accelerating Sponsor of the 2026 #BestofAmericanBusiness Celebration! Chief People Officer Sheri Bronstein gives her take on what makes a company the "Best of American Business", and what employees need from their leadership right now.
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Martin Whittaker shared thisBy now, you've seen the news that, after 14 years as CEO of Apple, Tim Cook is stepping down and passing the reins to longtime hardware chief John Ternus. You've also likely seen the headline number that accompanies every retrospective this week. Apple stock is up a remarkable 1,946% since Cook took over in 2011. At Just Capital, we look at success through an additional lens of how well companies perform on the issues that matter most to the American public. On that scorecard, the Cook era looks notable too:The Just Report: Tim Cook’s Other Track RecordThe Just Report: Tim Cook’s Other Track RecordMartin Whittaker
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Martin Whittaker shared thisGlad to stop by SEMAFOR and give my thoughts on what economic signal #CEOs need to start paying attention to.Martin Whittaker shared this“If AI really is going to create a lot of opportunity for more people, that should show up in greater wealth building.” — Just Capital CEO Martin Whittaker from Semafor World Economy
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Martin Whittaker shared this"What does responsible leadership look like in the age of AI?" It's a topic we at Just Capital are hyper focused on. Which is one of the reasons I'm so excited about this conversation with Steve Beard at the Win-Win Workplace Summit....Martin Whittaker shared thisWhat does responsible leadership look like in the age of AI? As organizations navigate rapid transformation, the leaders who stand out are making intentional investments in both technology and people. They are building trust, managing complexity, and shaping organizations that can adapt and endure. Join Steve Beard of Covista and Martin Whittaker of Just Capital for a conversation on leading through transformation and what it takes to build resilient organizations in an AI-driven world. This discussion explores how leadership decisions today are shaping not only business performance, but the future of work and society. Register today to be part of the conversation: https://lnkd.in/exZcfrmG
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Martin Whittaker shared thisWhat Just leadership looks like.Martin Whittaker shared thisVerizon CEO Dan Schulman urged Fortune 100 leaders to follow his company’s lead in retraining workers laid off amid AI disruption by pooling together funds and collaborating with the public sector. https://lnkd.in/gPM_ippBDan Schulman urges Fortune 100 CEOs to follow Verizon’s lead in AI retrainingDan Schulman urges Fortune 100 CEOs to follow Verizon’s lead in AI retraining
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Martin Whittaker shared thisWrapping up a whirlwind week at the Semafor World Economy Summit. My top three takeaways? 1. There is a hunger to come together and have honest conversations in the business community, especially among corporate leaders. 2. There is a clear belief that business can, should, and must step in to make business successful for all of their #stakeholders. 3. No conversation is complete without a discussion on the impacts of #AI on the American workforce, particularly around the pace of change.
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Martin Whittaker shared thisThe polling is clear: Gen Z is skeptical of #AI. How do companies grapple with this generational impasse?How To Address AI’s Generational Challenge?How To Address AI’s Generational Challenge?Martin Whittaker
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Martin Whittaker shared thisAmong the American public, #AI optimism is growing. That's just one of the findings in our second quarterly survey of the American public, investors, and corporate leaders on AI. As business leaders continue to transform their companies and strategies around this new technology, they face a new and largely unmapped set of stakeholder expectations. Calls for responsible AI development and deployment are intensifying, yet clear guidance on what this looks like in practice remains scarce. Just Capital’s ongoing AI-focused polling initiative aims to fill this gap. Today's report reveals key changes between Fall 2025 and Spring 2026: 😀 AI optimism is growing ▪️ 66% of the public in spring 2026 say they foresee AI being a net positive for society within the next five years compared to 58% in fall 2025. ▪️94% of investors agreed, compared to 80% in fall 2025. ▪️Corporate leaders' optimism remained consistent around 90%. 🚧 Yet safety concerns persist ▪️52% of corporate leaders, 50% of investors, and 47% of the public rank safety and security (preventing accidents, misuse, or other harmful consequences arising from AI systems) as their highest AI-related concern. 👔 Workforce issues present an area of disagreement ▪️30% of the public worries about significant #layoffs due to AI displacing roles. ▪️55% of corporate leaders and 68% of investors expect to see a lower degree of hiring for entry-level positions, with higher skill requirements for remaining roles, compared to 30% of the public. 🌴 Corporate leaders increasingly recognize potential for environmental harm ▪️55% of corporate leaders indicate that environmental impact will be a negative consequence of growing AI use in spring 2026, compared to 34% in fall 2025. Explore these findings and more in our report below.
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Martin Whittaker liked thisMartin Whittaker liked thisThank you to Bank of America for your partnership as an Accelerating Sponsor of the 2026 #BestofAmericanBusiness Celebration! Chief People Officer Sheri Bronstein gives her take on what makes a company the "Best of American Business", and what employees need from their leadership right now.
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Martin Whittaker liked thisMartin Whittaker liked thisWhen Mark McCall and I embarked on the journey of creating Lime Rock New Energy in 2019, we firmly believed that economics and cost-effectiveness would drive the energy transition. Seven years later, this belief has not only been validated but has also gained momentum. In our first fund, we supported seven outstanding companies that are delivering both financial results and meaningful climate impact. Today marks the beginning of the next phase for Lime Rock New Energy with the announcement of our new $640 million Fund II. This fund closed well above our target and doubles the capital raised in Fund I. Notably, we have welcomed back nearly 90% of our Fund I institutional investors, along with many new limited partners from the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including our friends at Builders Vision. We have already made two investments in Fund II: Iconic Power Systems Inc. and Boulder Imaging, and the momentum continues. Despite the numerous challenges in the world today, it is an exciting time to deploy new capital to tackle the climate crisis. Making an impact motivates me every day, and I am immensely grateful to all our limited partners for their support and commitment to climate action. Onward and upward! You can read more about LRNE Fund II here: https://lnkd.in/gQ9iTvEW
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Martin Whittaker liked thisWell said, Guillaume Doane. What a week, and what an incredible SEMAFOR team!Martin Whittaker liked thisIt takes a village, or in this case the entire workforce of a young but hungry and determined news company that just staged inevitably our most ambitious undertaking to date -- Semafor World Economy 2026. Every member of the team contributed to the success this year, all of it in service of our journalism and a mighty newsroom that completed more than 400 interviews in 5 days. The result was a Semafor World Economy that climbed to new heights in scale, impact and influence: 500+ CEO's, 11 US cabinet secretaries, a quarter of the US Senate and 25 ministers. Thank you to Justin B. Smith and Ben Smith for giving us the opportunity to achieve the most important work of our careers. And to the incomparable Semafor reporters for an incredible festival of journalism. Mark your calendars for April 12-16, 2027 and book early to return to Semafor World Economy in Washington next year!
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Martin Whittaker liked thisMartin Whittaker liked this“If AI really is going to create a lot of opportunity for more people, that should show up in greater wealth building.” — Just Capital CEO Martin Whittaker from Semafor World Economy
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Martin Whittaker liked thisBrilliant thinking like this from IDEO is exactly why I love being a part of kyu Collective. Terrific article from Peter Jackson about how institutions can rebuild trust with AI. https://lnkd.in/eRRMjBwFMartin Whittaker liked thisWe’ve long assumed that consumers recoil at AI and data usage. Here’s a more nuanced truth. People don’t mind institutions using AI if the use of their data is genuinely helpful. Most of us welcome AI insights that feel like guidance: 🔸 A personalized budget forecast that helps pay down a mortgage faster. 🔸 A nudge toward preventive health care before a crisis happens—with clear explanations and options. 🔸 Smart alerts that visualize a cash-flow gap before it leads to an unnecessary fee. In a world where AI can feel impersonal and even “creepy,” IDEO’s Peter Jackson explores how institutions can translate transactional data into humane guidance that makes them advocates for individual success. Read the full story → https://lnkd.in/gwUfC83e
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Josep Oriol
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Anjli Jain
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Dave Kirkpatrick
SJF Ventures • 8K followers
Excited to launch the 2026 Climate Tech course with Bruce Usher and Alan West! Teams now will include Columbia Business School, Columbia Engineering and Columbia Climate School grad students. These interdisciplinary teams will work with 10 VC funds on deep dives in sectors for innovation in climate mitigation, resilience, efficiency, and decarbonization. Thanks to the participating funds - Active Impact Investments, Aligned Climate Capital, Blackhorn Ventures, Blue Bear Capital, Buoyant Ventures, Clean Energy Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Lime Rock New Energy, Prelude Ventures and Renewal Funds!
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Julio Urrutia
Hyve • 660 followers
We’re entering an era where fiduciary duty is being redefined. For decades, stewardship meant preserving capital. Today, it must mean preserving the systems that allow capital to exist: energy, data, logistics, climate resilience. Allocating to infrastructure isn’t just smart portfolio management. It’s an ethical realignment, a recognition that long-term value depends on physical stability in an increasingly digital world.
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Amanda Reed
RISE Family Office • 4K followers
Thanks to the team at Kayo Conference Series for the excellent Women's Family Office Retreat at the Salamander Middleburg in Virginia's beautiful horse country. I joined three outstanding leaders on the Future of Impact Investing panel moderated by the talented Julia Enyart Fish, Managing Director, Sustainable and Impact Investing at Glenmede, Rebecca Carland, CIO at The Knight Foundation and Carrie Rich, WSJ best-selling author, CEO & co-founder of The Global Good Fund. Key Takeaways: ✨ Today's families and foundations can successfully leverage a blend of grants, equity and debt in a single company for impact AND financial return. ✨ Benefits of blended investing include increased job creation, financial upside for people on the front lines and ultimately an *increase in capital* to reinvest into a larger and stronger family legacy. ✨ Three key recommendations improve outcomes and returns: (a) Anticipate *future* investors' requirements and what they will need to see in a 'backable' cap table. (b) Create milestones matched with a proactive + clear funding plan to avoid typical and often deadly funding gaps - especially important when investing in medical innovation and other long-haul/big payoff projects. (c) "Reality is a group project" - keep everyone engaged with candid and frequent communication across the entire syndicate (not just the board) to maintain a common understanding of likely outcomes as the business evolves. This is a challenging task for any early stage company and is especially critical when working across diverse stakeholders (families + foundations + VCs) who often have different definitions of success. ✨ We highlighted just a few of the impact/high return investments that solve big societal problems and are also on track to generate substantial $$$ returns for their investors, including Esusu, BuildWithin, and Cabinet Health, led by The Global Good Fund, RubyWell, Mercato and SteadyIQ, led by Loeb.nyc. ✨ We noted that women's health and wellness are often regarded as 'impact' despite serving 50% of the world's population (umm...hello?) ✨ Interested in learning more? We recommended CapShift and the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) North America as resources for established as well as new family investors. ➡️ YOUR CALL TO ACTION: In the Great Wealth Transfer, women are expected to control 70% of $124 trillion over the next 25 years — including $34 trillion by 2030. 🙌 We are committed to supporting and encouraging more next gens and women of all ages to broaden and deepen their skills as investors and intentionally *grow* their capital in addition to being stewards of it. Rising gen leaders like Katie Loeb Molayem and Kayo keynote speaker, SFO COO Heidi Nel are taking up the challenge as investors, educators and community leaders. Many more good friends are working to help all family leaders and generations be smart, high-impact, high-return investors. We'd love to hear from you.
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Garrett Molloy
Trunova Limited • 11K followers
"Closing the adaptation finance gap isn’t just about mobilising funds—it’s about creating systems that measure, verify, and monetise climate resilience in real time. At Axel Metro and Trustdata, we’re building the infrastructure for exactly that: A Verified Climate Economy where every adaptation measure—whether cooling a neighbourhood, reinforcing flood defences, or restoring wetlands—can be proven and funded through transparent, real-time data. Urban and regional platforms that ensure climate dividends flow directly to the communities delivering resilience on the ground. The Laudes Foundation and partners are making a pivotal move here. By connecting finance to verified impact, we can ensure adaptation is not just funded—but sustained." #JustTransition #ClimateResilience #AdaptationFinance #VerifiedClimateEconomy #SmartCities #UrbanResilience #ClimateFinance #SustainableInfrastructure #AxelMetro #Trustdata
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Scott Arnell
Geneva Capital S.A. • 5K followers
In this episode, Helen Avery, Director of Nature Programs at the Green Finance Institute, delves into the critical oversight in environmental investment strategies. By broadening the focus beyond just carbon, Helen highlights the essential investment in natural capital as a fundamental component of comprehensive climate action. 🎧 Tune in for the full interview as Helena talks about how integrating finance and ecology can drive significant environmental and economic benefits: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eEy3DkBw #SRI360 #ImpactInvesting #Sustainability #NaturalCapital #Biodiversity #HelenAvery #GFI
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Jo Ann Corkran
Golden Seeds • 2K followers
Angels can play an important role in what comes next with climate innovation, and women-led companies are showing us what's possible. Sharing my latest commentary in Reuters, where Loretta McCarthy and I explain how angel investors are helping close the funding gap: https://lnkd.in/e4nXRnYG
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