The Syndicate

Robin Chase is the founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a carsharing marketplace in France; and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community as well as co-founder of Veniam, a company that moves TBs of data between vehicles and cloud. Her recent book is Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism and current passion is working with cities to maximize the transformation possible with the introduction of self-driving cars.

Robin is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce and the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force.

She lectures widely, is frequently featured in major media and has received many awards including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers.

Listen and Learn:

* How Robin invented the ride-sharing market almost a decade before Uber

* What does the future of urban transportation look like

* The important difference between ridesharing and car-sharing, and what that means for climate change

* Why Europe is so far ahead of the US when it comes to livable cities

* The reason decentralization is so valuable and why it doesn’t always work

* How to fix our cities for healthier, happier people

* What will driverless vehicles mean for the future of car ownership

* Why electrics bikes and scooters change everything when it comes to transforming cities

* What Robin thinks about Lyft and Uber’s business models

* Why Robin is intrigued and worried about blockchain and Bitcoin

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.Robin Chase is the founder and former CEO of Zipcar, the largest carsharing company in the world; Buzzcar, a carsharing marketplace in France; and GoLoco, an online ridesharing community as well as co-founder of Veniam, a company that moves TBs of data between vehicles and cloud. Her recent book is Peers Inc: How People and Platforms are Inventing the Collaborative Economy and Reinventing Capitalism and current passion is working with cities to maximize the transformation possible with the introduction of self-driving cars.

Robin is on the Board of the World Resources Institute, the National Advisory Council for Innovation & Entrepreneurship for the US Department of Commerce and the OECD’s International Transport Forum Advisory Board. She also served on the Intelligent Transportations Systems Program Advisory Committee for the US Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Governor’s Transportation Transition Working Group and Boston Mayor’s Wireless Task Force.

She lectures widely, is frequently featured in major media and has received many awards including Time 100 Most Influential People, Fast Company Fast 50 Innovators and BusinessWeek Top 10 Designers.

Listen and Learn:

* How Robin invented the ride-sharing market almost a decade before Uber

* What does the future of urban transportation look like

* The important difference between ridesharing and car-sharing, and what that means for climate change

* Why Europe is so far ahead of the US when it comes to livable cities

* The reason decentralization is so valuable and why it doesn’t always work

Tae Hea Nahm is co-founding Managing Director of Storm Ventures and co-author of Survival To Thrival. Survival to Thrival is a mind-meld of a 3x entrepreneur (Bob Tinker) and a VC/board member (TH Nahm), and other enterprise entrepreneurs, which demystifies building enterprise startups. Tae Hea was the founding CEO of Airespace, later sold to Cisco for $450m.  Currently, he is interested in “AI + SaaS” companies.

 

Listen and Learn:

* How Go To Market evolves and affects funding milestones

* The different levels of company building as a startup scales

* Why Tae is so bullish on enterprise SaaS

* Lessons learned from scaling a $450M company

* The relational difference between being an angel and a VC

* An inside look into Korea’s startup ecosystem

* The way VCs think about product-market fit

* Why data is the ultimate moat

* How the tech giants affect innovation in America

Tae’s Projects:

Storm Ventures

Tae’s Twitter: @taeheanahm

Storm Ventures Twitter: @stormventures

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Tae Hea Nahm is co-founding Managing Director of Storm Ventures and co-author of Survival To Thrival. Survival to Thrival is a mind-meld of a 3x entrepreneur (Bob Tinker) and a VC/board member (TH Nahm), and other enterprise entrepreneurs, which demystifies building enterprise startups. Tae Hea was the founding CEO of Airespace, later sold to Cisco for $450m.  Currently, he is interested in “AI + SaaS” companies.

 

Listen and Learn:

* How Go To Market evolves and affects funding milestones

* The different levels of company building as a startup scales

* Why Tae is so bullish on enterprise SaaS

* Lessons learned from scaling a $450M company

* The relational difference between being an angel and a VC

* An inside look into Korea’s startup ecosystem

* The way VCs think about product-market fit

* Why data is the ultimate moat

* How the tech giants affect innovation in America

Tae’s Projects:

Storm Ventures

Tae’s Twitter: @taeheanahm

Storm Ventures Twitter: @stormventures

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

Jonathan Levi is an experienced entrepreneur, angel investor, superlearner and lifehacker from Silicon Valley.

He runs the SuperHuman Academy Podcast (3M+ downloads) and since 2014, has was one of the top instructors (over 60k students) on Udemy, with his course Become a SuperLearner® (now retired), in addition to his Masterclass course.

In addition to his own bestselling book, Becoming a SuperLearner, Jonathan’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, TEDx, Entrepreneur On Fire, Mixergy, Dream. Think. Do and many more.

Listen and Learn:

* The science of memory and speed learning

* What’s wrong with the education system and how to fix it

* How LSD transformed Jonathan’s life for the better

* Where we’re headed with brain-machine interfaces and cyborg citizens

* Why we’re headed towards a jobless future

* How to increase creativity and productivity

* The scary future of American democracy

* Why Jonathan is terrified about AI

* How blockchain threats governments and the status quo

* Which life hacks Jonathan’s implemented from his incredible guests

* Why depression and mental health issues are common amongst high performers

* How online education and courses plays into our future

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.Jonathan Levi is an experienced entrepreneur, angel investor, superlearner and lifehacker from Silicon Valley.

He runs the SuperHuman Academy Podcast (3M+ downloads) and since 2014, has was one of the top instructors (over 60k students) on Udemy, with his course Become a SuperLearner® (now retired), in addition to his Masterclass course.

In addition to his own bestselling book, Becoming a SuperLearner, Jonathan’s been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine, TEDx, Entrepreneur On Fire, Mixergy, Dream. Think. Do and many more.

Listen and Learn:

* The science of memory and speed learning

* What’s wrong with the education system and how to fix it

* How LSD transformed Jonathan’s life for the better

* Where we’re headed with brain-machine interfaces and cyborg citizens

* Why we’re headed towards a jobless future

* How to increase creativity and productivity

* The scary future of American democracy

* Why Jonathan is terrified about AI

* How blockchain threats governments and the status quo

* Which life hacks Jonathan’s implemented from his incredible guests

* Why depression and mental health issues are common amongst high performers

* How online education and courses plays into our future

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

Nick Thompson is the editor-in-chief of WIRED, the 5th since its founding. Under his leadership, WIRED has broken massive stories about Facebook, cyber-warfare, the Robert Mueller investigation, and numerous other topics. Prior to WIRED, he was the editor of newyorker.com. Nick is also a co-founder of The Atavist, a software company and National Magazine Award-winning digital publication that was acquired by WordPress in 2018. He’s the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War and has appeared multiple times on every major cable and broadcast news network. He has given public speeches on the most important issues facing the tech industry, the future of narrative journalism, how computers are changing our minds, the role of tech in political revolutions, and the way that Silicon Valley thinks about circular economics. Nick’s also testified in front of the Mexican Senate about fake news and moderated/spoken at events hosted by WIRED, The New Yorker, the World Economic Forum, CES, Google Zeitgeist, Google I/O, and many more…

Listen and Learn:

* The future of media and state of fake news

* A deeper dive into the issues of social media and how to address them

* Why Nick’s optimistic Facebook can become a force for good

* An insider’s perspective on the Huawei debate and China trade war

* Possible ways to redesign democracy

* Nick’s thoughts on AI and its potential to upend existing power structures

* Why Nick is very concerned with the prospect of nuclear war

* How Nick thinks about privacy, convenience, and future of the internet

* Why there’s no impeachment coming from Mueller’s investigation

* An in-depth examination of existential risk

* What the government should do about big tech

* The reason Nick’s not worried about AGI

* How AI can empower individuals or inspire tyranny

* Why climate change is still the biggest problem to tackle

* Can we save journalism

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

Nick Thompson is the editor-in-chief of WIRED, the 5th since its founding. Under his leadership, WIRED has broken massive stories about Facebook, cyber-warfare, the Robert Mueller investigation, and numerous other topics. Prior to WIRED, he was the editor of newyorker.com. Nick is also a co-founder of The Atavist, a software company and National Magazine Award-winning digital publication that was acquired by WordPress in 2018. He’s the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War and has appeared multiple times on every major cable and broadcast news network. He has given public speeches on the most important issues facing the tech industry, the future of narrative journalism, how computers are changing our minds, the role of tech in political revolutions, and the way that Silicon Valley thinks about circular economics. Nick’s also testified in front of the Mexican Senate about fake news and moderated/spoken at events hosted by WIRED, The New Yorker, the World Economic Forum, CES, Google Zeitgeist, Google I/O, and many more…

Listen and Learn:

* The future of media and state of fake news

* A deeper dive into the issues of social media and how to address them

* Why Nick’s optimistic Facebook can become a force for good

* An insider’s perspective on the Huawei debate and China trade war

Bruce Friedrich is co-founder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (@GoodFoodInst), a nonprofit that promotes plant, dairy, and eggs-based meats as well as clean meat (also known as cultured meat and cell-based meat), as alternatives to the products of conventional animal agriculture.

Bruce is a TED Fellow (whose TED Talk has been viewed over 1M times), Y Combinator alum, and popular speaker on food innovation. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Wired, and many other publications and appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, TED Radio Hour, and a variety of programs on MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN

Listen and Learn:

* The pros and cons of the various types of clean meat alternatives

* How market dynamics will determine the adoption of plant and cell-based meats

* Why animal agriculture is one of THE BIGGEST contributors to climate change

* Why Bruce believes lab-grown meat will ultimately be the biggest alternative meat

* The reason Bruce started a non-profit rather than a benefit corp

* How effective altruism makes non-profits more impactful

* What YCombinator startups taught Bruce about successful charity organizations

* How to engineering healthier meat

* What does the future of agriculture really look like

* Bruce’s thoughts on GMOs and their future

* Why plastic straws aren’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things

* Why individuals should evaluate their efforts and possible effect before choosing careers

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

Bruce Friedrich is co-founder and executive director of The Good Food Institute (@GoodFoodInst), a nonprofit that promotes plant, dairy, and eggs-based meats as well as clean meat (also known as cultured meat and cell-based meat), as alternatives to the products of conventional animal agriculture.

Bruce is a TED Fellow (whose TED Talk has been viewed over 1M times), Y Combinator alum, and popular speaker on food innovation. He has also been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Wired, and many other publications and appeared on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, TED Radio Hour, and a variety of programs on MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN

Listen and Learn:

* The pros and cons of the various types of clean meat alternatives

* How market dynamics will determine the adoption of plant and cell-based meats

* Why animal agriculture is one of THE BIGGEST contributors to climate change

* Why Bruce believes lab-grown meat will ultimately be the biggest alternative meat

* The reason Bruce started a non-profit rather than a benefit corp

* How effective altruism makes non-profits more impactful

* What YCombinator startups taught Bruce about successful charity organizations

* How to engineering healthier meat

* What does the future of agriculture really look like

* Bruce’s thoughts on GMOs and their future

* Why plastic straws aren’t a big deal in the grand scheme of things

* Why individuals should evaluate their efforts and possible effect before choosing careers

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

James Maskell is the founder of Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference and KNEW Health, a transformation alternative health-sharing insurance model. He’s health advocate and entrepreneur, that’s spent a decade encouraging a shift from conventional western medicine toward a wellness-centered, functional medicine model—starting with the doctors themselves. He’s also the founder of the Evolution≠ of Medicine, a community e-commerce platform for highly customized , tools, products, and services, to embark on a new way of managing healthcare. His book of the same name is available now. James lectures internationally and has been featured on TEDMED, Huffpost Live, TEDx, the HuffingtonPost and more.

Listen and Learn:

* What Western healthcare got wrong with medicine and health

* Ways to fix the healthcare incentive problem, which actually work

* How growing up on a commune influenced James’ life

* The problem with pharma’s quick-fix silver bullet

* Why James decided to reinvent the healthcare system

* How community and belonging can beat out any medicine

* What James thinks about wearables and genetic testing

* The one constant among Blue Zone societies

* Why functional medicine is the solution to health

* How to design health into our societies

* Why we need direct democracy

* The surefire way to avoid regret

* Why AI and brain-machine interfaces worry James

* The scary truth about soil quality

* What you NEED to know about Obamacare and insurance

* Why regenerative agriculture needs more focus now

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.James Maskell is the founder of Functional Forum, the world’s largest integrative medicine conference and KNEW Health, a transformation alternative health-sharing insurance model. He’s health advocate and entrepreneur, that’s spent a decade encouraging a shift from conventional western medicine toward a wellness-centered, functional medicine model—starting with the doctors themselves. He’s also the founder of the Evolution≠ of Medicine, a community e-commerce platform for highly customized , tools, products, and services, to embark on a new way of managing healthcare. His book of the same name is available now. James lectures internationally and has been featured on TEDMED, Huffpost Live, TEDx, the HuffingtonPost and more.

Listen and Learn:

* What Western healthcare got wrong with medicine and health

* Ways to fix the healthcare incentive problem, which actually work

* How growing up on a commune influenced James’ life

* The problem with pharma’s quick-fix silver bullet

* Why James decided to reinvent the healthcare system

* How community and belonging can beat out any medicine

* What James thinks about wearables and genetic testing

* The one constant among Blue Zone societies

* Why functional medicine is the solution to health

* How to design health into our societies

* Why we need direct democracy

* The surefire way to avoid regret

* Why AI and brain-machine interfaces worry James

* The scary truth about soil quality

* What you NEED to know about Obamacare and insurance

* Why regenerative agriculture needs more focus now

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

Galit Ariel is a transdisciplinary creative and strategic thinker and self-defined Digital Hippie, very focused on augmented reality and experiential tech. Her book Augmenting Alice – The Future of Identity, Experience and Reality explores the manner in which Augmented Reality’s diffusion will shift cultural and functional paradigms and redefine core concepts related to culture, space, experience and ethics.

Her agency, Wondarlands, helps clients and brands shape their augmented futures, exploring immersive narratives, interaction tools, brand touch-points, and experience creation. She’s an international speaker and mentor that’s been featured at TED, The Next Web, SXSW, Fifteen Seconds, Slush Tokyo, IVRPA and many more. She is also a member and co-founder of a UK based think-and-do-tank connected to the Ravensbourne University Architecture research center, looking at the future of urban environments and how they might influence the human experience.

Listen and Learn:

* Life beyond move fast and break things

* How augmented reality will connect us in unexpected ways

* What Galit thinks about automation, jobs and more…

* Why Galit’s worried about the lack of humanity in tech

* How to tackles society’s biggest challenges through collective action

* When can you expect AR epicness and where will it come from

* The reason the attention economy is so destructive

* Why AR will trump VR and be the next major paradigm

* What Apple means for the future of AR

* Why holograms and AR are already here

* The reason Google Glass failed and visual AR isn’t ready yet

* Why Galit’s worried about privacy and rights going forward

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

Galit Ariel is a transdisciplinary creative and strategic thinker and self-defined Digital Hippie, very focused on augmented reality and experiential tech. Her book Augmenting Alice – The Future of Identity, Experience and Reality explores the manner in which Augmented Reality’s diffusion will shift cultural and functional paradigms and redefine core concepts related to culture, space, experience and ethics.

Her agency, Wondarlands, helps clients and brands shape their augmented futures, exploring immersive narratives, interaction tools, brand touch-points, and experience creation. She’s an international speaker and mentor that’s been featured at TED, The Next Web, SXSW, Fifteen Seconds, Slush Tokyo, IVRPA and many more. She is also a member and co-founder of a UK based think-and-do-tank connected to the Ravensbourne University Architecture research center, looking at the future of urban environments and how they might influence the human experience.

Listen and Learn:

* Life beyond move fast and break things

* How augmented reality will connect us in unexpected ways

* What Galit thinks about automation, jobs and more…

* Why Galit’s worried about the lack of humanity in tech

* How to tackles society’s biggest challenges through collective action

* When can you expect AR epicness and where will it come from

* The reason the attention economy is so destructive

* Why AR will trump VR and be the next major paradigm

* What Apple means for the future of AR

Nir Eyal (@nireyal) is a writer, entrepreneur, teacher and investor focused on the intersection of psychology, technology, and business MIT’s Technology Review dubbed “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” Nir founded two tech companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Grad School of Business and Institute of Design and is the author of the bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, his writing has been featured in The Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. Nir is an active investor in habit-forming technologies and his past investments include Eventbrite, Product Hunt, Anchor.fm and a series of other very successful companies.

 

Listen and Learn

* Why the anti-tech trend is wrong about the big picture

* The ways to incentivize productivity and happiness

* How to overcome habit-forming products and be indistractable

* Why liberals overemphasize tech’s role in electing Trump

* What Nir thinks about surveillance, corporations and government

* The destructive–and constructive–power of social media

* Why regulation isn’t the answer to tech addiction

* Nir’s thoughts on pros and cons of privacy

* The important distinction between regrets and results

* Why Facebook and Google are inherently good and what we can do about it

* Are algorithms to blame for increasing radicalization

* Simple smartphone hacks to make you happier

* Why tech is more like cannabis than cocaine

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

Nir Eyal (@nireyal) is a writer, entrepreneur, teacher and investor focused on the intersection of psychology, technology, and business MIT’s Technology Review dubbed “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology.” Nir founded two tech companies since 2003 and has taught at the Stanford Grad School of Business and Institute of Design and is the author of the bestselling book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. In addition to blogging at NirAndFar.com, his writing has been featured in The Harvard Business Review, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today. Nir is an active investor in habit-forming technologies and his past investments include Eventbrite, Product Hunt, Anchor.fm and a series of other very successful companies.

 

Listen and Learn

* Why the anti-tech trend is wrong about the big picture

* The ways to incentivize productivity and happiness

* How to overcome habit-forming products and be indistractable

* Why liberals overemphasize tech’s role in electing Trump

* What Nir thinks about surveillance, corporations and government

* The destructive–and constructive–power of social media

* Why regulation isn’t the answer to tech addiction

* Nir’s thoughts on pros and cons of privacy

* The important distinction between regrets and results

* Why Facebook and Google are inherently good and what we can do about it

* Are algorithms to blame for increasing radicalization

* Simple smartphone hacks to make you happier

* Why tech is more like cannabis than cocaine

Abe Cambridge is a serial energy entrepreneur who establishes businesses and projects around the world that use solar energy to bring about out major socio-economic shifts. In 2010, he pioneered utility-scale solar in Britain and in 2012 one of his businesses, The Renewable Energy Co-operative, was nominated ‘International Co-operative of The Year’ in the United Nations Year of Co-operatives.

In 2014, Abe launched Sun Exchange—a global solar micro-leasing marketplace that closes the funding gap for commercial- and community-scale solar projects in emerging markets, while streaming monetized sunshine all over the world. Sun Exchange has been named Best Bitcoin & Blockchain Business in Africa two years in a row and Abe delivers keynote speeches around the world.

Listen and Learn:

* How to speed the transition to renewables and why it’s inevitable

* What blockchain and Bitcoin means for governments and commerce

* Why cryptocurrency is the future but the ownership is up for grabs

* What Facebook’s Libra coin means for the rest of the world

* The reason decentralization is so valuable and needed in our world

* Why Africa has a more sophisticated payments system than America

* What crowdfunding infrastructure means for emerging markets

* What areas are most ripe for blockchain-based disruption

* Pros and cons of decentralization

* Why climate change is 100% real regardless of global warming

* What distributed solar really means for the world

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.Abe Cambridge is a serial energy entrepreneur who establishes businesses and projects around the world that use solar energy to bring about out major socio-economic shifts. In 2010, he pioneered utility-scale solar in Britain and in 2012 one of his businesses, The Renewable Energy Co-operative, was nominated ‘International Co-operative of The Year’ in the United Nations Year of Co-operatives.

In 2014, Abe launched Sun Exchange—a global solar micro-leasing marketplace that closes the funding gap for commercial- and community-scale solar projects in emerging markets, while streaming monetized sunshine all over the world. Sun Exchange has been named Best Bitcoin & Blockchain Business in Africa two years in a row and Abe delivers keynote speeches around the world.

Listen and Learn:

* How to speed the transition to renewables and why it’s inevitable

* What blockchain and Bitcoin means for governments and commerce

* Why cryptocurrency is the future but the ownership is up for grabs

* What Facebook’s Libra coin means for the rest of the world

* The reason decentralization is so valuable and needed in our world

* Why Africa has a more sophisticated payments system than America

* What crowdfunding infrastructure means for emerging markets

* What areas are most ripe for blockchain-based disruption

* Pros and cons of decentralization

* Why climate change is 100% real regardless of global warming

* What distributed solar really means for the world

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

Richard Brion is the founder of Revolution Agriculture—a patent-pending solution to the food security challenge—and an ex-US Navy officer focused on making farming more adaptable to a climate change-driven world with less resource 60% less water, faster production, and higher yields. He’s the winner of the USAID & Humanity United Tech Challenge to Prevent Mass Atrocity, has lived in 66 countries and has a wealth of experience in every corner of the business.

 

In today’s episode we discuss:

* The future of agriculture: both big and small

* How humanity can solve our food shortage going forward

* Politics and realities of eating organic

* How Richard’s deployment in Afghanistan shaped his world outlook

* Why Richard’s worried about GMOs and unintended consequences

* The aquaponics and reinventing the future of food

* Why GMOs have faced such harsh criticism

* What Richard likes about the Swiss system of forced military service

* Why political leaders need more military perspective to govern effectively

* What happened with the Drug War and the law of unintended consequences

* The reason isolationism isn’t a good policy for the US or anyone

* Why AI is more dangerous than we think

* The scary truth about Trump’s rhetoric on Europe and NATO

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.

 

 Richard Brion is the founder of Revolution Agriculture—a patent-pending solution to the food security challenge—and an ex-US Navy officer focused on making farming more adaptable to a climate change-driven world with less resource 60% less water, faster production, and higher yields. He’s the winner of the USAID & Humanity United Tech Challenge to Prevent Mass Atrocity, has lived in 66 countries and has a wealth of experience in every corner of the business.

 

In today’s episode we discuss:

* The future of agriculture: both big and small

* How humanity can solve our food shortage going forward

* Politics and realities of eating organic

* How Richard’s deployment in Afghanistan shaped his world outlook

* Why Richard’s worried about GMOs and unintended consequences

* The aquaponics and reinventing the future of food

* Why GMOs have faced such harsh criticism

* What Richard likes about the Swiss system of forced military service

* Why political leaders need more military perspective to govern effectively

* What happened with the Drug War and the law of unintended consequences

* The reason isolationism isn’t a good policy for the US or anyone

* Why AI is more dangerous than we think

* The scary truth about Trump’s rhetoric on Europe and NATO

Are you an accredited investor? Apply to join our angel syndicate if you’d like to access our deal flow.