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The Stories of 2023

After Hours

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Hbr, Business/investing, Ideas, Mba, Economics, Professor, Business/management, News/business News, Management, News, Presents, Finance, Faculty, Harvard, Business

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Felix and Mihir reflect on the most important stories of 2023 including the remarkable rise of AI, the revolution in life sciences, the rising power of employees, the trial of SBF, how product market strategies are reflecting shifting financial logics, the reasons for increased warfare, the disjunction between financial markets and the real economy, the shocking rise of school absenteeism and the wonder of Simone Biles.

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0:00.0

Ted Audio Collective. Hello everyone you're listening to after hours I'm Felix I'm here and it's our year

0:21.8

end episode yes one of my favorite ones.

0:24.6

Time for us to look back and think about what happened.

0:27.2

The best stories of the year, maybe some things that didn't work out so well.

0:32.3

Indeed, well I can tell you already who the winner is.

0:35.0

What do you mean? Like the best story?

0:38.0

No, no, the more important competition, which is, it's actually a three-way tie.

0:42.0

There was the Parsnipumus, there was the Bria Savaran, and there were the rum cookies.

0:49.7

So all three of those from the annual Felix and Lisa Shindig, which was last night, were amazing.

0:57.6

Oh, thank you.

0:59.2

And you know, it's the first time that I made the Parsnip hummus, which I guess is a contradiction in terms because

1:07.0

hummus is chickpeas and so it doesn't have chickpeas, but if anyone ever wants to try that you boil the parsnips and then they

1:15.3

substitute for the chickpeas and it's quite amazing.

1:19.2

The other part of it that I loved was I have now come to your annual Shindeg several years in a row and the great thing about these kinds of parties is I meet some of your friends but I don't meet them otherwise.

1:30.0

Meaning this party becomes the occasion to spend time with these people and

1:35.1

hear what they've been up to so that is the other wonderful thing about these

1:37.8

annual holiday parties Felix yeah you and Lisa do it remarkably well I think the

1:42.1

rest of 2023 and all of 2024 is just going to be

1:45.0

downhill from that party. I hope not. So before we do that, let's remember some of the great stories that we have for 2023. Let's do you know what we have for 2023.

1:54.4

Let's do it.

1:57.0

All right, Felix, I am delighted to have you start, but I have to say there's always this weird

2:06.4

fear in these episodes that we're going to pick the same topic that somehow your idea will

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