Michael P. Gibson on the 1517 Fund, Thiel Fellowship, and DeSci

Welcome to another episode of the DeSci Podcast. In this episode, Michael Gibson, co-founder and general partner of the 1517 fund, author of the new book ‘Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University’ and one of the key people involved in launching the Thiel Fellowship in 2010 (where he helped Vitalik Buterin shape Ethereum), tells us about his vision of legacy institutions and how we can modernize them to encourage great global innovations once again.  

You can already get his excellent book, discussed in the episode, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Belt-Fire-Fight-Progress-ebook/dp/B099FZR4C3 

Navigate through the topics discussed in this podcast using the timestamps below.

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⭐ Timestamps: 

0:00 Intro
4:03 Book: ‘Paper Belt on Fire’
9:26 Michael’s Background
14:20 Innovation in America is slowing down
19:20 Why Michael drop out the Academia
24:08 ‘If the college degree were a drug they would not be passed by the FDA’
29:07 Cloud Universities
30:23 How to rebuild the Scientific Structure
38:59 VitaDAO and Alternative Funds
40:39 Accredited Investors
42:33 Investment Issues
44:26 Public Companies
46:00 New Disclosure Standard
49:03 Reproducibility Issues
53:42 Decentralized Science
1:07:00 How to motivate the next generation of great scientists  

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Special thanks to:  

Sebastian Brunemeier (Host): https://twitter.com/sebastian_gero  
Michael: https://twitter.com/William_Blake  

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