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.
“We have been very focused on research, and as I mentioned earlier, this concept that your microbiome could change the way your genes are expressed and reduce the outcome and the severity of many diseases particularly cancer. But you could not prove any of these ideas.”
“And when the kids come into his class, he comes in and he thinks about which student got there because of their family or their family's wealth and what student got there because of their intellect and hard work and determination. And he's Tez, it only takes about two weeks for him to identify in his class which got there on which route.”
“And in nineteen sixty five, I wrote down this formula at Berkeley that prosperity, job creation, whatever goal you're trying to achieve was on one side of the formula, but it was a byproduct of access to financial capital, financial technology that served as a multiplier effect on human capital and its potential, social capital, and then…”
“And two months or so after we put on the margin nineteen ninety eight in Washington and around the US a half a million people, President Clinton signed into law the doubling of the NIH budget. And we also discovered that we could accelerate medical research by giving birth to the disease specific foundations.”
Money Maze Podcast: “Can We Eliminate Cancer? The Medical Revolution - With Mike Milken, Chairman of the Milken Institute”
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