
Inside Blackstone
Inside Blackstone is a podcast that looks beyond the headlines to anticipate what might come next. Host Christine Anderson gives listeners an inside view of signals from Blackstone’s portfolio, covering business, technology, and AI trends. The show features conversations with people shaping the future and offers a weekly perspective on financial markets. It avoids jargon to provide a clear read on the real economy, aiming to leave listeners smarter, sharper, and better prepared.
Episodes

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son: Superintelligence, AI Investing, and the Future of Robotics
On Inside Blackstone, host Christine Anderson sits down with SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi “Masa” Son. He explains why he believes AI will soon be 10,000 times smarter than people, and why he thinks that’s good news. He also shares why slowing down AI development is the wrong answer and why SoftBank invests across chips, data centers, and robotics. And he reveals the simple rule behind his ad

The RealReal CEO Rati Sahi Levesque: Resale, Robots, and the New Luxury Consumer
On Inside Blackstone, host Christine Anderson sits down with The RealReal CEO Rati Sahi Levesque on why most young shoppers now check the resale price before they buy anything new, how robots and AI authentication changed the economics of selling one-of-a-kind items, what agentic shopping means for e-commerce, and what her data says about the health of today’s consumer. From Blackstone, the world’

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: The Road to Superintelligence
On Inside Blackstone, host Christine Anderson sits down with Relativity Space CEO & former Google CEO Eric Schmidt on the AI data center build-out, what he thinks about Silicon Valley’s timeline for superintelligence, what it takes to be an AI-native CEO, and explains why deep reasoning should be the #1 thing that young people study today. From Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset

Goldman Sachs President & COO John Waldron: Rooting for the English Majors
On Inside Blackstone, host Christine Anderson sits down with Goldman Sachs President and COO John Waldron on the year AI productivity shows up in the numbers, financing the compute build-out, and what an apprenticeship culture looks like when machines handle the “toil.” From Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager.
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WHOOP Founder Will Ahmed: The Body as Data, Sleep Science & the Future of Healthcare
On Inside Blackstone, host Christine Anderson sits down with WHOOP founder and CEO Will Ahmed on building a screenless wearable against Apple and Fitbit, why sleep is the closest thing we have to a magic pill, the impacts of AI on healthspan, and why data, not algorithms, decides the future of healthcare. From Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager.
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Introducing Inside Blackstone
The headlines tell you what happened. Inside Blackstone helps you see what may be coming next.
Host Christine Anderson brings you inside our walls to share the signals we're seeing across our portfolio—trends in business, technology, and AI—and our conversations with the people shaping the future. Think of it as your weekly fix on what’s moving financial markets.
No jargon, just a unique read on t
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