Maryanna Saenko on Venture Capital, Philanthropy, and Ethical Technology

Maryanna Saenko joins the podcast to discuss how venture capital works, how to fund innovation, and what the fields of investing and philanthropy could learn from each other. You can read more about Maryanna's work at https://future.ventures

Timestamps:

00:00 How does venture capital work?

09:01 Failure and success for startups

13:22 Is overconfidence necessary?

19:20 Repeat entrepreneurs

24:38 Long-term investing

30:36 Feedback loops from investments

35:05 Timing investments

38:35 The hardware-software dichotomy

42:19 Innovation prizes

45:43 VC lessons for philanthropy

51:03 Creating new markets

54:01 Investing versus philanthropy

56:14 Technology preying on human frailty

1:00:55 Are good ideas getting harder to find?

1:06:17 Artificial intelligence

1:12:41 Funding ethics research

1:14:25 Is philosophy useful?

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