Su Dan is speaking at Money Frontier 2026. Professor Su Dan is Assistant Professor of Finance at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business. He received his PhD in Finance from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities in 2022. His research focuses on macro finance, fintech, and international capital flows, and he has deep insight into industry compliance and ecosystem development across cryptocurrency, stablecoins, and cross-border finance. His research has been published in leading international academic journals including the Journal of International Economics, International Economic Review, Management Science, Journal of Financial Markets, and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, and has been widely covered by Bloomberg, VOXCHINA, and other authoritative media. He has received multiple awards, including the Western Finance Association PhD Student Award for Outstanding Research, the Financial Management Association Best Paper Award, the China Financial Research Conference Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance, the China FinTech Research Conference Best Paper Award, the MLU Faculty of Economics and Business Best Paper Award, the Capital Market Research in the AI Era Annual Conference Best Paper and Best Discussant Awards, and the CFRN Young Scholar Workshop Best Paper Award. Join him at Money Frontier 2026. Get your tickets and learn more:

Lisa Su is having a moment — and she's earned it. AMD's stock crossed a $1 trillion market cap for the first time this week, and CEO Lisa Su rang the opening bell with first lady Melania Trump. A huge week for her and the company, with AMD's earnings up next on Nov. 3.

Philip Su grew quickly to a Distinguished Engineer at Facebook and OpenAI. We talked about the psychology behind peaking in a tech career and the pressure at the highest levels. In this episode: • Not wanting IC9 and requesting demotion • How motivation changed across his career • Fulfillment and motivation after FIRE • Why sustaining IC9 was difficult Where to watch: • YouTube - • Spotify - • Apple Podcasts - • Transcript - Thank you to the sponsors of this episode for supporting my work: • WorkOS: makes your app Enterprise Ready with easy to use APIs to add SSO, SCIM, RBAC, and more in just a few lines of code, check them out at • Jira by Atlassian: Get more work done with your favorite agents and models all in one place, check them out at Chapters: 00:00 Intro 00:37 Growth past IC9 05:39 Motivation changes over his career 11:36 Asking to not be promoted 17:33 What made it hard to sustain IC9 performance 22:22 What motivated him outside of promos 26:21 Is career advice useless 29:34 Motivation after you've hit FIRE 36:08 Meaning and fulfillment 38:17 Top book recommendation 40:14 What he would change 43:24 Outro

Julie Su: New York City created 21,000 jobs in six months and attracted $21 billion in venture capital, up 102% from last year. The national economy is slowing. Mamdani’s New York is moving forward.

BREAKING: Lisa Su just became the first female CEO to take a company to $1 trillion. $AMD was worth $2 billion when she took over. That's a 500x. $100 then is $50,000 now. Which CEO are you backing to do it next?