Jeff Bezos, Jerome Powell, Serena Williams and More at the DealBook Summit

Andrew interviewed top newsmakers at last year’s summit, including Vice President Kamala Harris.Credit…Amir Hamja/The New York Times

Our interview lineup for the DealBook Summit 2024

We are pleased to announce our lineup for the DealBook Summit, which will be held on Dec. 4 at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Andrew will host a series of conversations with the biggest newsmakers in the world of business, politics and culture. We hope you can join us in person.

• Sam Altman, co-founder and C.E.O. of OpenAI

• Jeff Bezos, founder and executive chairman of Amazon

• Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States and author of “Citizen: My Life After the White House”

• Alex Cooper, host of the “Call Her Daddy” podcast and founder of The Unwell Network

• Shawn Fain, president of the United Automobile Workers

• Ken Griffin, founder and C.E.O. of Citadel

• Sara Nelson, international president of the Association of Flight Attendants-C.W.A., A.F.L.-C.I.O.

• Sundar Pichai, C.E.O. of Google

• Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve

• David Ricks, chair and C.E.O. of Eli Lilly

• Fatima Cody Stanford, obesity medicine physician at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

• Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam singles champion and managing partner at Serena Ventures

We will announce more speakers in the coming weeks. You can apply to attend here.

HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING

Boeing raises $21 billion in a big stock sale. The transaction is one of the biggest ever of its kind and represents an effort by the plane maker to shore up its balance sheet as it deals with a crippling strike and a potential credit-rating downgrade. The company is weighing other steps to overhaul its business, including selling assets like its troubled Starliner division.

Waymo collects $5.6 billion to expand its robotaxi fleet. The round — which included outside investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Silver Lake, Tiger Global and T. Rowe Price — is meant to help the dominant autonomous-vehicle business grow its presence in more cities. In other automotive news, shares in Ford fell 6 percent in premarket trading after the carmaker delivered disappointing profit guidance, and Volkswagen may close factories in Germany for the first time and lay off thousands.

Starbucks threatens to fire employees who aren’t in the office enough. The coffee giant said corporate workers must be in the office at least three days per week from January, or face possible “separation.” Critics of Starbucks’s hybrid working policies note that Brian Niccol, the company’s new C.E.O., commutes to corporate headquarters in Seattle from his home in California via company jet.