The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Josh Wolfe embodies The Pioneer, a leader who deliberately hunts at the edges of the known. As co-founder of Lux Capital, he built a venture firm around deep science and frontier technology, backing companies in nuclear waste cleanup, defense autonomy, brain-machine interfaces, and synthetic biology long before those sectors became fashionable.
“Which itself is another ethical issue we should touch on because military technology, I think, is going to be an absolute boon in venture capital. I think it's one of the most exciting and important areas.”
“The science fiction books. They wrote the graphic novels. They wrote the comic books. They made the movie. They did the special effects. And they imagined what could be. And it turns out you fast forward and you look at the Lux portfolio today. Huge number of the companies that we've invested in.”
“It's interesting because we respond to the bustle in the hedgerow, right? The little sound that's there. And is that a tiger? Or is it just the wind? In my world, I have to respond to that with heightened sensitivity. Oh, is that a little signal over there? Is that entrepreneur onto something big?”
“And in fact, desktop metal is working with, I think, seven different automotive companies for exactly this. The small bespoke parts, a water impeller, Something is part of a motor where it does not make sense to spend the fixed cost to tool and dye a part where you're not going to make $10,000 or $100,000 or a million of them.”
The Logan Bartlett Show: “Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital): Predictions on Emerging Technologies, AI, and the Future of VC”
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