Part 1 of 2: David Friedberg is All-In on Science (#297)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Please support the podcast by taking our short listener survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/intotheimpossible David Friedberg believes that science is the best hope to save humanity. He is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and angel investor. After several years in investment banking and private equity, Friedberg joined Google in March 2004 as one of the first 1,000 employees and a founding member of Google’s Corporate Development group. As Corporate Development and Business Product Manager, Friedberg helped run Google's online advertising platform, AdWords, and negotiated acquisitions and worked with Google co-founder Larry Page. David appears each week as one of the four Besties on the @allin Podcast - one of Apple and Spotify’s Top podcasts — alongside fellow investors and pundits David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, and Jason Calicanis. He founded and was chief executive of The Climate Corporation, whose $1.1 billion sale to Monsanto in 2013 made it the first unicorn (finance) in the agricultural technology space. He is founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB). He is a co-host of the All-In podcast. Spanning his career, he has contributed to 32 patents. His investment portfolio includes Afterparty, Dave, The Every Company, Soylent, Supergut, Medico and many more. In this extended discussion, the indefatigable Friedberg weighs in entrepreneurship styles, investing, how to incentivize research and the problems with commercialization of institutional research. David provides some rare insight into his strategies for his almost superhuman productivity, his venture capital philosophy for successful investments, a tutorial on the microbiome, his thoughts on AI and so much more! twitter.com/friedberg www.tpb.co https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-jason-sacks-friedberg/id1502871393 Connect with Professor Keating: 🏄‍♂️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/DrBrianKeating 📸 Instagram: https://instagram.com/DrBrianKeating 🔔 Subscribe https://www.youtube.com/DrBrianKeating?sub_confirmation=1 📝 Join my mailing list; just click here http://briankeating.com/list ✍️ Detailed Blog posts here: https://briankeating.com/blog.php 🎙️ Listen on audio-only platforms: https://briankeating.com/podcast Subscribe to the Jordan Harbinger Show for amazing content from Apple’s best podcast of 2018! https://www.jordanharbinger.com/podcasts 🎧 On Apple devices, click here, https://apple.co/39UaHlB scroll down to the ratings and leave a 5 star rating and review The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast. Other ways to rate here: https://briankeating.com/podcast Support the podcast on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/drbriankeating or become a Member on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmXH_moPhfkqCk6S3b9RWuw/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I can't tell you how many people I sat at dinner with or at a poker table with or had drinks with or sat next to an airplane and everyone said I had that idea. I came up with that thing and it was the thing that someone else turned into a big business and even when you have the same thing you can give the same
0:19.9	IP or the same technology or the same thing to 10 different entrepreneurs or 10 different
0:24.7	businesses or 10 different investors and nine of them won't work and maybe one of them will work.
0:28.8	So you never know what path, what team and what it's going to take to take a concept or a discovery or an invention and make it into
0:36.5	a business that generates money. Welcome everyone to this two-part episode of Into the Impossible with
0:47.2	special guest visionary investor and business leader David Friedman
0:50.4	Greenberg. They're going to find out why companies like Alphabet and Black Rock trust this guest to invest
0:55.6	over $300 billion of their capital to transform agriculture and other vital industries.
1:03.3	Be forewarned, dear listeners, this two-parter may feel a bit like drinking from a fire hose.
1:08.5	Our host Brian Keating dives deep with David into a wide range of topics from successful entrepreneurship
1:14.0	styles investing strategies how to incentivize science and the problems with
1:19.4	commercializing institutional research and inventions. Mr. Friedman provides rare insight into his strategies for achieving his almost superhuman productivity.
1:29.0	His investing strategies, a tutorial on the microbiome,
1:33.3	his thoughts on AI, the biology of aging,
1:36.2	and so much more.
1:38.0	Stay in touch with Professor Keating
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1:52.1	form of a rare meteorite fragment.
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2:06.5	T.J. in New York City. Dr. Keating does a great job of making complex topics
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