"You need to have your private markets beating your public market," Gaia Investment Partners' Serena Tan said.

CNBC host David Faber busted out laughing when co-host Sara Eisen peppered Trump Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick over his claim that overseas manufacturers will come back to the United States.

"Mundane research" can be done by machines, but human beings will still play a role, Alibaba's Chairman Joe Tsai said Wednesday at CNBC’s CONVERGE LIVE.