Why VCs Suck at Sci Fi Tech Investing, AI and Synthetic Biology are the Most Exciting Industries and Chinese Totalitarianism May Outperform Democracy With Pascal Finette of Singularity University

Pascal is Fastrack’s Executive Director and Singularity University’s Chair for Entrepreneurship & Open Innovation. He focuses on helping change makers tackle the most intractable problems of our times.

He got started on the net before there was a web browser, founded a series of technology startups, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group in Europe, launched a consulting firm helping entrepreneurs with their strategy & operations, invested into early-stage tech startups, led Mozilla’s Innovation Lab, created Mozilla’s accelerator program WebFWD, headed up Mozilla’s Office of the Chair and has invested into social impact organizations around the globe at Google.org. Further he founded the nonprofit organizations Mentor for Good and The Coaching Fellowship; the “GyShiDo” (Get Your S%#& Done) movement and publishes the opinionated newsletter, “The Heretic”, which is read by ten of thousands of change-makers globally. Recently he published “The Heretic – Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs” book.

Listen and Learn:

How Pascal thinks about AI and the future of intelligence
The exciting space technology that no one is talking about
What happens to nation-states when humanity goes interplanetary
How and when genetic engineering will start to impact society
Why synthetic biology may in fact be the most exciting industry of our generation
How tariffs and NAFTA could affect investment in Canadian startups
Why traditional venture capital sucks for true moonshot businesses
Why Pascal is doubtful of a Skynet situation
Is China’s totalitarian regime a better system