Longevity Fund’s Laura Deming: “Age is a disease”

The Times Tech Podcast

Will Morley

Business, Unknown, Technology

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The Sunday Times’ tech correspondent Danny Fortson brings on Laura Deming, a 24-year-old longevity investor to talk about young scientists (3:05), the goal of the Longevity Fund (4:30), her incubator Age 1 (5:55), starting out as a 11-year-old (7:00), skipping school (10:00), getting funded by Peter Thiel (11:40), raising a venture capital fund as a teenager (13:15), targeting ageing through specific diseases (15:00), her goal (16:20), trying to become superhuman (18:45), “de-ageing” beetles (21:00), whether we should actually try to defeat ageing (23:00), how a little money can go a long way (25:10), who has invested in her fund (27:25), the key scientific advancements (28:35), the effects we’ll start to see first from this revolution (32:30), turning off menopause (34:45), the next step in our evolution (38:50), and winning over the sceptics (40:45).

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0:00.0	Yo, technology.
0:02.9	What is it all about?
0:04.7	The frame shift from aging is an amorphous kind of process too.
0:10.9	You know, when I was a kid, this is what went through my mind was, oh, okay, cancer is bad, but aging is kind of like the meta disease.
0:18.1	Like if you cure aging, then you get all the other diseases for free
0:20.9	once you feel that it's really hard to think about working on anything else hello and welcome to
0:27.5	danny in the valley your weekly dispatch from deep inside the silicon valley future machine i am your
0:33.3	host danny forts and i am also the West Coast correspondent for The Sunday Times.
0:39.7	And a couple weeks ago, the paper sent me along to meet Laura Deming, who is this week's
0:45.0	guest. Now, Laura is a former child prodigy, who for the last dozen years has been working on
0:52.1	that very vexing problem of aging. Now keep in mind,
0:57.3	Laura is only 24 years old. So yes, a dozen years, 24 years old. Your math is correct.
1:04.6	Now Laura is the founder of the longevity fund, which is a venture capital fund. She started
1:10.3	actually when she was a teenager. and it backed startups working on ways to combat aging.
1:16.6	So a couple weeks back, I toddled along down a dingy little side street in the south of market area in San Francisco.
1:24.3	And I must admit, I was a bit confused because the address led me to an apartment building,
1:30.3	which looked like one of these standard buildings you find in San Francisco, full of overpriced
1:35.3	bachelor pads.
1:36.3	But one of those bachelor pads was actually Deming's office, and she gave me a very quick tour.
1:43.3	All right, pretty chill.
1:45.0	It's beautiful day.
1:46.0	It's gorgeous.
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