Talk Videos from DealBook Online Summit 2021

Ken Griffin is the Founder and CEO of Citadel, one of the world’s most respected and successful investment firms. Ken started trading convertible bonds from his Harvard dorm room and founded Citadel in 1990, shortly after graduating. Today, Citadel manages over $30 billion in capital for its partners including pension funds, endowments, foundations, hospitals, governments, sovereign wealth funds, and private individuals. In 2002, Ken founded Citadel Securities. Citadel Securities is a leading global market maker, delivering a broad array of fixed income and equity products to banks, broker-dealers, government agencies, corporations, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds around the world. Ken has given nearly $800 million to educational and cultural causes that drive community engagement and improvement. In 2014, he donated $150 million to support need-based financial aid at Harvard, the largest gift in school history at the time. In 2017, he gave $125 million to the University of Chicago to support the Department of Economics. Ken serves on numerous boards including the Board of Directors of the Chicago Public Education Fund and the Board of Trustees for the Art Institute of Chicago. Ken earned his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

Sorkin is an award-winning journalist and author. He is a financial columnist for The New York Times and a co-anchor of "Squawk Box," CNBC's signature morning program. Sorkin is also the editor-at-large of DealBook, a news site he founded in 2001 that is published by The Times.
Sorkin is the author of the best selling book, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves, which chronicled the events of the 2008 financial crisis. The book was adapted as a movie by HBO Films in 2011. Sorkin was a co-producer of the film, which was nominated for 11 Emmy Awards.
Sorkin began writing for The New York Times in 1995 under unusual circumstances: he hadn’t yet graduated from high school.

Matthew David McConaughey is an American actor and producer. He first gained notice for his supporting performance in the coming-of-age comedy Dazed and Confused (1993), which was considered by many to be his breakout role. After a number of supporting roles in films including Angels in the Outfield (1994) and Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), his breakthrough performance as a leading man came in the legal drama A Time to Kill (1996). He followed this with leading performances in the science fiction film Contact (1997), the historical drama Amistad (1997), the comedy-drama The Newton Boys (1998), the satire EDtv (1999), the war film U-571 (2000), and the psychological thriller Frailty