At the 2024 Forbes Iconoclast conference on Thursday, Viking Global co-founder and CEO Andreas Halvorsen and Eric Wilmes, president and head of Americas private equity at Singapore's GIC, joined Forbes Chief Content Officer Randall Lane to discuss a wide range of topics from building talent to utilizing artificial intelligence. Halvorsen does not often do interviews or speak at conferences so this was probably the keynote speech of the event.
Focus on building talent
Halvorsen said when they started Viking Global 25 years ago, their objective was to build an asset-management business that isn't dependent on any one individual. Of...