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highlights?

You should get a villa and do it next year

Experience like no other, plenty of good and bad but quite collection of people

My highlights (in no particular order) Hosting the global shapers from around the world (under 30)

interactions with David Rubenstein

Dinner with bill

Chilling with mette and haakon

Watching Boris be Boris

I learned that I can bring a "spouse" with all access no questions asked. So it I get invited next year please be my "spouse". Not sure I will get invited back but maybe.

Basically I learned that none of these "elite" know much more individually than I do, but their networks are force multipliers

I enjoyed the philosophical discussions on capitalism

My panel went very well (urban development in 21st century) but other private sector panelists seemed underinformed about Africa. It was head of Africa development bank, a big real estate guy, Cisco guy, transport guy and me. Questions from audience felt very superficial.

Met some Russian oligarchs, one who told me "you are too beautiful to fly commercial" when I said I was leaving tomorrow

Christine lagarde is super insecure, which was unexpected

Arianna huffintlgton is mean to her staff

Nuriel roubini had a huge bunch of "girlfriend" types which was weird be he's gross

Mick jagger was tons of fun (he's 72) and surprisingly smart

Only about 10% of attendees are "real" females the rest of the ladies are staff

Oh met some woman from jp Morgan I think her name was Mary. She called you UNCLE F which made me think she was a friend but Boris later told me she was not a friend.

I also wrote an ft story about dressing challenges

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Overall a terrific learning experience. Boris is my hero. He was probably the most sought after man at the entire event and handled it with style.

Bill was the smartest guy on all the panels but I am not sure he was well received by the leaders. Certainly an ego boost for bill.