Juan Orbea

We've been joined by CEOs from Alight, Quaise Energy, Ecosene and more. David has spoken with some of the leading innovators in every field of renewable energy, and dived deep into the emerging tech that could solve some of the biggest problems facing the energy transition.

As VCs imagine the future for any given company, take the time to go through that exercise. Talk to the founders and operators who understand that market most intimately. What do people believe will happen? What could they be wrong about? 

Chris Olah has had a fascinating and unconventional career path.

- Economic Layer: this layer is about physical infrastructure, skills, distribution of resources where people are working and things of that sort.- Sociopolitical layer: this layer is about the effectiveness, legitimacy and trust in various kinds of social institutions including schools, government and things like that.- Cultural layer: this layer... See more

- Strategies for growing as a researcher.

3) Pushing against regulatory conservatism in general, by increasing the chance that there's some jurisdiction that will let you do any particular thing. Allowing people to opt into network states that accept higher levels of risk could be a successful strategy for pushing against this.

In 2018, venture capital funds directed +$35B of investment to software, while directing $1.9B to synthetic biology. Why is this happening? Only 5% of people in Forbes 400 have formal scientific training, and it makes sense that people don't invest in things they don't understand. So this is a big problem.