
Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson
CEO Editor at Semafor
US News Editor of the FT, with a name approaching 140 characters. Writing in a personal (but not too personal) capacity
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6 days ago |
semafor.com | Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson
Kunal Kapoor’s first job at Morningstar in 1997 involved entering fund data by hand that he had pulled off a fax machine. It’s a role the investment research company automated long before its Kapoor-led push into the AI chatbot era. But he says his roots as an analyst have informed a leadership culture that encourages independent thinking, debate, and even argument.
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6 days ago |
semafor.com | Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson
Pat Gallagher sits in a brown leather chair in his headquarters in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, and recalls his early memories of the man who named the insurance brokerage he has now led for 30 years. “As a little boy, I could tell the passion he had for this business.
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6 days ago |
finance.yahoo.com | Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson
Kunal Kapoor’s first job at Morningstar in 1997 involved entering fund data by hand that he had pulled off a fax machine. It’s a role the investment research company automated long before its Kapoor-led push into the AI chatbot era. But he says his roots as an analyst have informed a leadership culture that encourages independent thinking, debate, and even argument.
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1 week ago |
semafor.com | Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson
An “environment of uncertainties” is holding back corporate investment in artificial intelligence technology, according to Gary Cohn, the IBM vice chairman who served as a key interlocutor between Donald Trump and the business community in the president’s first term. An IBM survey of 2,000 CEOs in 33 countries, released on Tuesday, found that the average executive expects their investment in AI to grow by 31% over the next two years — about double the rate they reported for last year.
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1 week ago |
semafor.com | Andrew Edgecliffe Johnson
When the data warehousing company Snowflake went public in September 2020, investor excitement for its cloud-driven growth story propelled its first-day valuation to $70 billion — more than 100 times its annualized revenues at the time. That made it the biggest software IPO on record, but the enthusiasm didn’t last.
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"I’m an analyst, so I grew up in a world of tension." @MorningstarInc CEO Kunal Kapoor on why he's fine with a little conflict in his top team, via @semafor https://t.co/0MgN9qgSHE

‘We’re building a moat around a castle’: How Arthur J Gallagher’s third-generation CEO struck 500 deals in 30 years https://t.co/bYSmZndgzQ

RT @semafor: Warren Buffett’s impending retirement will move Pat Gallagher one notch higher on the list of America’s longest-serving CEOs.…