Ep. 1018: Alec Ross Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Alec Ross, one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. Author of New York Times bestselling The Industries of the Future, he is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Bologna Business School and a board partner at Amplo, a global venture capital firm. He began his career as a 6th-grade teacher in Baltimore.

The topic is his book The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People and the Fight for Our Future.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

The Wire
Crime in Baltimore
Gun Violence
Big Tech Companies
Facebook Algorithm
War in Afghanistan
Face Masks
COVID-19 Vaccines

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

To start? I’d like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	My guest today is Alec Ross.
0:36.0	He is an expert in innovation.
0:38.3	A partner at a venture capital firm once ran for political office.
0:43.2	He has a very strong understanding of American politics.
0:47.1	I like to think I do as well.
0:49.5	Now, with all fairness, I've not worked with inside a presidential administration.
0:53.9	He has. So he knows some of
0:56.3	the players up close and personal. Now, of course, it will be obvious that we both come from
1:01.8	different sides of the spectrum in this conversation, but it's an important conversation.
1:08.1	His new book, The Raging 2020s, Companies, Countries, People, and the Fight for
1:14.5	Our Future. We both agree. There is a fight on right now. And we both don't know how it will end up.
1:22.7	So please sit back and enjoy a conversation, a back and forth, a debate, maybe even close to an argument
1:29.6	about where we're headed and if we can pull back from the abyss. I hope you enjoy this
1:36.5	conversation with Alicross. You're probably going to kick me for this.
1:52.0	I'm assuming you're going to say you liked this, but I am a first time watcher of the
1:58.4	wire in the last six weeks.
2:00.2	I detest the wire. Oh, interesting,
2:03.6	interesting. Let me keep going on for a second. So I had never seen it. I've always had this feeling
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