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Josh Wolfe, Lux Capital: Macro, Mentors, Motivation

The Alchemy of Money

CHAPTER

The Origins of Lux

I like being right when other people are wrong. We ended up writing a report to gain credibility and came up with mental frameworks, which is something that we've carried to this day. I was in rooms where there were noble laureates on the one side, but like the sci fi fringe freaks on the other. And nanotech had this total weird fringe group of people with like, extrao beans and transhumanists. They were just bizarre. But then you had like Rick Smalley who won the Nobel Prize for discovering the carbon 60,. bucky ball and ushering in this new material science revolution. That was an interesting period because nobody was really looking at that. It was

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