Juan Orbea

"We help companies build, survive, and scale, but one of the main components of my job is understanding how and when the world is going to change. Our portfolio is a collage of various futures that we believe in, and our capital and expertise are assets to hopefully pull these futures forward."

What Happens Next?There is a LOT of money still sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed. And it WILL be deployed, that’s what investors do. Pitchbook estimates that there is about $290 billion of VC “overhang” in the US alone. But I believe it will be patiently deployed , waiting for a cohort of founders who aren’t artificially clinging to... See more

Often, companies are underestimated because people believe the market isn't large enough, and the execution will have risks (e.g. Crowdstrike). So how does that translate into the valuation I can pay today? If you have a fundamentally different belief about the size of the market then you believe that the company will be able to address more... See more

His current project is to learn MIT's 4-year curriculum for computer science in 12 months, without taking any classes. Scott earned his Bachelor of Commerce Honors from the University of Manitoba and his blog features more than 850 articles and books focused on "getting more from life".

Over the past several years, Roger Penrose, a noted physicist and philosopher, has suggested that fine structures in the neurons called tubules perform an exotic form of computation called “quantum computing.” Quantum computing is computing using what are called “qu bits” which take on all possible combinations of solutions simultaneously. Just... See more