The Ideaspace

Earlier this year the venture capital firm Union Square Ventures announced a new $162 million fund to invest in “companies and projects that provide mitigation for or adaptation to the climate crisis." Albert Wenger is the Managing Partner leading those efforts, and the author of a fascinating book called "World After Capital." In this eye-opening conversation, Albert explains how bad things are and will get, why the solutions are better than we think, and an original and compelling vision for a world after capital.

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The Sum of Us author and economic and social policy expert Heather McGhee talks about the economic costs of racism and why this is the moment to turn away from zero-sum thinking.

“As this fast food worker named Bridget told me, as long as we're divided, we’re conquered. I began to see what I call solidarity dividends. These things that we can gain through collective action across lines of race that we simply can't do on our own. Higher wages, cleaner air, better funded schools. That's the new economic model, but we need to pursue the idea only through solidarity.” — Heather McGhee

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The panel:

Esther Dyson: journalist, tech investor, and the Executive Founder of Wellville, a nonprofit project devoted to helping communities sustain health for the long term

Kay Makishi: entrepreneur, advisor, and mentor who serves as Principal of KEM Growth, a growth marketing consultancy

Mario Vasilescu: a robotics engineer turned humane technologist and the CEO of Readocracy

Silka Sietsma: Head of Emerging Design at Adobe

Angeline Gragasin: a writer, filmmaker, and artist, and the Co-Founder and Director of Happy Family Night Market

Claudia Gonella: Marketing & Communications Director at GRESB, an investor-led initiative that assesses and benchmarks the ESG performance of real assets

Lakshmi C: a software engineer, data analyst, and admissions manager for Teach for India based in Tamil Nuda, India

Seth Killian: a game designer best known for his work in fighting games, including Street Fighter

Zach First: the Executive Director of the Drucker Institute founded by the legendary business writer Peter Drucker

Brandon Silverman: the CEO of Crowdtangle, a social media analysis tool that’s part of Facebook

Recorded December 11, 2020

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Yancey is joined by Salome Viljoen, a legal scholar, to explore her paper on a new theory called Democratic Data. "The positive conditions of freedom [are] going to require data infrastructure. The bet that I’m making is that people are down to contribute to the positive conditions of their freedom if it's pitched to them that way" — Salome Viljoen

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This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ideaspace.ystrickler.com