In this conversation, we talk with Rohit Krishnan, a VC and the writer of Strange Loop. Strange Loop is a weekly newsletter about the systems underlying progress, innovation, and the world of technology — and in the process, he's trying to create a philosophy of business.
Chapters
00:00 Introducing Rohit Krishnan
00:36 Investing with incomplete information
02:18 From interests to company evaluation
03:29 How venture capital changes as it matures
05:47 Crypto: experimentation and caveats
08:17 Separating technology from financial speculation
09:57 Organizational models and cooperatives
11:11 Crowdfunding and coordination
12:50 Energy, materials and interdisciplinary work
15:26 How knowledge combines into progress
17:00 Software enabling hardware
18:26 Creative communities and more hubs
20:37 Nanotechnology and overlooked progress
23:13 From research results to commercial applications
26:36 Hype cycles, fusion and persistence
28:44 Incremental advances and major transitions
31:17 Commercialization and scientific ideas
32:16 Drug-development costs and uncertainty
35:24 Ruling out failures and connecting fields
38:35 Where to find Rohit
Links
Thanks for listening to this episode of the Build the Future Podcast. This is a project by World's Fair Co. You can learn more at worldsfair.org.
