In this conversation, we talk with Jason Green, the CEO and Cofounder of Upward Farms. At Upward Farms they're helping shape the future of food by growing organic, leafy greens and fish in a complete vertical farming ecosystem. In this conversation we cover the future of food, the work they're doing at Upward and how the tide is turning, how business as usual is over, and how we now have the opportunity to step up and build the future that we want to live in.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Jason Green and Upward Farms

Links

• Upward Farms — March 2023 cofounder update

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In this conversation, we talk with Ian Rountree the founder and partner of Cantos.vc, a venture fund investing in near frontier technologies that will change the world. In this conversation Ian and I cover the changing landscape of venture, financing the future, and bounce around quite a bit between the various facets of the future that are being built right now.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Ian Rountree and Cantos

Links

• Cantos — firm and Ian Rountree biography

• Ian Rountree

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In this conversation, we talk with Sam Bhagwat, the Cofounder and Chief Strategy Officer at Gatsby. Gatsby's an open source web framework that enables developers to create websites optimized for the modern web. In doing so, they're ensuring that this digital web infrastructure, that we all take for granted, keeps improving and getting better.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Sam Bhagwat and Gatsby

Links

• Gatsby — open-source framework

• Sam Bhagwat
• Gatsby

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In this conversation, we talk with Alex Trembath, the deputy director of Breakthrough, a global research center focused on promoting technological solutions, environmental and human development challenges. Specifically, we touch on two facets of the future here - feeding our growing population and creating a high-energy planet but not at the expense of our climate.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Alex Trembath and Breakthrough

Links

• Breakthrough Institute
• Alex Trembath — biography and writing

• Alex Trembath

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In this conversation, we talk with Thomas Eiden, the founder of Atomic Alchemy who studied and researched nuclear engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Thomas is the expert of all things nuclear, so he gave us an awesome primer on the future of energy, nuclear space and the exciting future that might lie ahead with the clean and abundant nuclear energy.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Thomas Eiden and Atomic Alchemy

Links

• Thomas Eiden — biography
• Atomic Alchemy — original company link, now redirects to Oklo
• Oklo — current isotopes business

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In this conversation, we talk with Adrian Fenty, the founding managing partner at MaC Venture Capital and the former mayor of Washington DC. We cover everything from investing in the future, changing the landscape of education, the importance of local political involvement and the future that we hope to build.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Adrian Fenty

Links

• MaC Venture Capital
• Adrian Fenty — official biography

• Adrian Fenty

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In this conversation, we talk with Courtney Boyd Myers, the founder of Akua. At Akua they're building a household brand for sustainable sea greens based foods including their delicious kelp jerky and kelp burger. I loved talking about the future of food, kelp and about changing global travel landscape with Courtney in this conversation.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Courtney Boyd Myers

Links

• AKUA — historical company profile and closed 2021 campaign

• Courtney Boyd Myers

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In this conversation, we talk with Justin Kolbeck, the CEO of Wildtype. At Wildtype they're advancing the future of food with cellular agriculture, starting with Sushi Grade Salmon.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Justin Kolbeck

Links

• Wildtype

• Justin Kolbeck

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In this conversation, we talk with Gary Sheng, the co-founder of Civics Unplugged. Gary and I connected over our shared belief that this decade, the 2020s, is a make or break for humanity and that we have a lot of exciting work to do. On his end, Gary's working to train a new generation of leaders, committed to universal human flourishing.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Gary Sheng

Links

• Gary Sheng
• Civics Unplugged — CU Society

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In this conversation, we talk with Aaron Slodov. Aaron's the founder of the stealth startup Atomic Industries where they're building the future of manufacturing with the goal of building a more efficient and less wasteful world.

Chapters

00:00 Introducing Aaron Slodov

Links

• Atomic Industries

• Aaron Slodov

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