Mike Milken
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Mike Milken speaks throughout this interview in the first person, answering at length as the interviewed guest. He embodies The Catalyst archetype through his lifelong pattern of identifying undervalued systems, whether credit markets or cancer research, and injecting capital, urgency, and networks to accelerate change.
“It struck me at a very young age that very few people ever did research. Everyone had a strong opinion. What was that opinion based on? Was it based on reality? Was it based on facts?”
On his early commitment to factsundated
“Nine weeks, 63 days before the very first vaccine went into a human being. Not a decade, not a year, nine weeks.”
On COVID vaccine speed enabled by prior investmentundated
“Financial capital allowed you to make dreams a reality. I have spent most of my life since the mid-60s identifying individuals to empower.”
On his philosophy of deploying wealthundated
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