Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) - Investing at the Cutting Edge

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

Stanford eCorner

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🗓️ 7 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Josh Wolfe co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better—like, say, creating matter from light. Wolfe is a director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs, Variant, and Varda, and helped lead Lux Capital’s investments in Anduril, Planet, Echodyne, Clarifai, Authorea, Resilience, and Hadrian. He is a founding investor and board member with Bill Gates in Kymeta, which makes cutting-edge antennas for high-speed global satellite and space communications. In this presentation, Wolfe shares the principles that guide his entrepreneurship and investments, giving examples from companies he has founded and funded.

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:07.0	This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders series.
0:10.0	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:14.0	Welcome YouTube and the Stanford community to the Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders series. And I am Mo Fong, the Executive Director for STVP,
0:24.6	the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center.
0:28.6	So the ETL series is brought to you by STVP and BASIS,
0:32.6	which is the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
0:38.3	And today I am so honored to welcome Josh Wolfe to the ETL stage.
0:44.3	And I'm going to read a little short bio, but his amazing accomplishments, you should really look it up because it is incredible.
0:52.3	Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional
0:59.4	solutions to the most vexing problems and puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter
1:06.2	future.
1:07.5	He is a director at Shapeways, Stradios, Lux Research, Calliope, Control Labs, Variant, and Varda,
1:17.6	and help lead Lux Capital's investments in Andrel, Planet, Echodyne, Clarify, Authoria, Resilience, and Hadrian.
1:28.3	I don't know how you were able to do all those things.
1:31.3	Wow, that's a lot, but it keeps going.
1:33.3	He is the founding investor and board member with Bill Gates in Chi Meta,
1:39.3	which makes cutting edge antennas for high speed global satellite and space communications.
1:45.8	He has a Westinghouse semi-finalist and published scientists.
1:49.2	He previously worked in investment banking at Solomon Smith Barney and in capital markets
1:53.7	at Merrill Lynch.
1:55.2	In 2008, he co-founded and funded Curion, a contrarian bet in the unlikely business of using advanced robotics
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