Episode #25: Josh Wolfe
The Chartcast with TC & Georgia
TC & Georgia Orwell
3.4 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Join TC and Georgia to go behind the bright lights of Lux Capital with founder Josh Wolfe who talks frankly about his ruptured upbringing, the role of luck and grit, and culling the truth from fiction in futuristic technology claims (ahem, autonomy).
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| 0:00.0 | Was it hockey great Wayne Gretzky who said the shots you don't take can't go in? |
| 0:11.6 | On the other hand you can't be be a puck hog. For instance, you couldn't call We Work a win. |
| 0:17.0 | From Breaking Bad to Shakespeare, come listen in on a chat with Josh Wolf. |
| 0:25.0 | That's right, we're going back to Shakespeare, |
| 0:28.0 | though not as far back as Chaucer or Beoulf. Yeah, it's wonderful. |
| 0:35.0 | Hi Josh. |
| 0:38.0 | Hear ye, hear ye, all ye, who hear this here, podcast. Know this. This podcast is for entertainment purposes only. |
| 0:50.0 | Nothing discussed on this podcast should be considered investment advice. |
| 0:55.1 | The hosts hold no licenses and are not financial advisors. |
| 1:00.2 | Do your own research before making investment decisions, and we do hope you enjoy this podcast. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, we're ready to go. Josh Wolf, welcome to T.C. Charcass, so great that you could join us. |
| 1:15.0 | Awesome to be with you guys. |
| 1:17.0 | Yes, we're very thrilled to have you on. |
| 1:19.0 | Followed most of your work for a very long time and very interested to have a deep discussion with you today. |
| 1:26.0 | You know you have a very remarkable career and life story and you know as is tradition on this show maybe you could begin by telling us who Josh Wolf is, you know, where you were born, where you were raised, where you went to school and sketch the arc of your career out because it's a fascinating story and I'm sure |
| 1:43.4 | our listeners would be very interested to hear it. Well it all makes sense in |
| 1:47.2 | hindsight obviously my the governing force of my life I would say is randomness |
| 1:50.6 | and optionality and ex post facto, you know, it seems like this |
| 1:54.5 | perfect linear chain of events, but April you never know. I was born in Fullerton, California. |
| 2:00.3 | Both parents were from Brooklyn. They split when I was two and a half, Dad's infidelity. |
| 2:05.6 | Mom and I moved to Coney Island Brooklyn with her parents, her mother and then her stepfather. |
| 2:12.0 | My grandmother was a meter made in Brooklyn. My biological |
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