Safi Bahcall on Why You Need to Take Crazy Risks
Masters in Business
Bloomberg
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2020
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Bloomberg Opinion columnist Barry Ritholtz interviews physicist and biotech entrepreneur Safi Bahcall, author of 2019's "Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases and Transform Industries."
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| 0:00.0 | Change can be disruptive, but a Bloomberg we think bigger. |
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| 0:08.7 | evolve, scale, and embrace change. |
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| 0:15.3 | This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio. |
| 0:22.7 | This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest. |
| 0:25.7 | His name is Safi Bakal, and he is the author of a fascinating book called Loonshots. |
| 0:31.6 | Not only was he on President Obama's counsel on the future of technology, but he has |
| 0:37.4 | consulted for the CIA, the Navy, all sorts of organizations, teaching them how to nurture |
| 0:44.0 | innovation in institutions that normally are not very good at that sort of thing. |
| 0:50.1 | He is really a fascinating guy, background in physics, ran a biotech company, and along |
| 0:55.4 | the way picked up lots of insights into what leads to successful moonshots as projects, |
| 1:03.0 | and why so much innovation is really just smothered in the lab, smothered in the cradle |
| 1:08.8 | when it has potential to literally change the war. |
| 1:13.4 | The radar is arguably the technology that won the war for the Allies. |
| 1:18.5 | It had been sitting in the Navy for 18 years unused and had it not been discovered and |
| 1:25.6 | brought forward by Van our Bush and other people. |
| 1:29.4 | There's a very real chance the global map would look totally different. |
| 1:33.4 | So I think you'll find this conversation to be absolutely fascinating. |
| 1:37.1 | My conversation with Safi Bakal. |
| 1:41.6 | This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio. |
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