Orthogonal Thinker - The Right Idea

Finding Genius Podcast

Richard Jacobs

Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

While some investors want to take a space ship to the moon (which we understand) Orthogonal thinker wants to be able to swim in a clean ocean. They believe success and high returns are intrinsically linked to the value that technology and services bring to people and the planet. The need is great, the market opportunity profound, the profits exponential.

Orthogonal is the Berkshire Hathaway of socially conscious capitalism. They are an operating company and collective group which invests in and incubates a range of companies that operate in future-forward industries such as cannabis, hemp, food science, plant medicine, blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. Their mission is to create good in the world through business that will manifest a positive impact for people and families across the world. As a holding company, Orthogonal, Inc. controls equity stake in companies in return for operational resources, a management ecosystem, and mentorship.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Almost Here,
0:03.0	Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs.
0:07.0	Future Technologies
0:08.0	Boys to transform our lives for better or worse are the focus of this podcast. Almost here means these
0:14.8	technologies are now here and starting to be used or just around the corner.
0:18.9	From Bitcoin to artificial intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more.
0:25.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Future Tech Podcast. I'm your host Juliet Lamar and
0:31.6	joining us today is David Nixeth. He is the founder at
0:36.2	orthogonal thinker.com. We're very glad to have him on. Welcome David.
0:41.6	Aloha Juliet, thank you for having me on. on, So he's just chilling on the beach probably doing this podcast right now.
0:53.2	Something like that, but yeah, we do take long walks on the beach.
1:01.4	So let's jump into, tell us a little bit about your company and what you guys do over there.
1:06.0	So Orsogonal Thinker is a holding company that basically it encompasses everything that I've basically experienced or been involved with for the last 20 years.
1:21.0	So what I ended up doing being in the startup industry for about 20 years is really got to a point where I saw, you know, invest in a company, founder calls you, says, you know, the company is done, I'm doing a new company, can you invest in that company?
1:38.0	And with Orsogonal, it was a all in, it was an all in play, meaning that I was going to put all my assets all my
1:46.0	advisory shares you know everything I have into this hold co and I would work on
1:51.7	basically everything that was my you know life's passion and in the
1:56.3	last decade I definitely have come back to something that is you know very special to
2:01.0	me which is playing with plant compounds and you know, very special to me which is playing with plant compounds and, you know, being involved in the cannabis space.
2:06.8	So I've been using cannabis for almost 30 years to deal with my personal issue where I was diagnosed with Asperger's and autism as a young boy and you know using these plant compounds to you know medicate and you know beautiful to see as we're very close
2:26.3	to these products becoming federally legal in the not-distant future.
2:30.5	And you know you're surrounded by such natural beauty and just the horror
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