Crazy Until It's Not: Startups, Venture Capital & Big Ideas
Digital JPEGs selling for millions of dollars; machines that turn thin air into food; people buying a McDonald's with Bitcoin; an AI program that can replace illustrators; psychedelics being prescribed by doctors. What do these ideas have in common? They were all completely crazy notions until, one day, before most people had even heard of them, they were part of our world. So what’s next? “Crazy until it’s not” is a podcast by firstminute capital where we talk with tech visionaries about their predictions for the future — ideas that may seem crazy today but could be part of daily life tomorrow. We ask each guest to come onto the show with one big, bold and non-obvious vision for the next five years as a jumping-off point for debate about how the world will be tomorrow. Previous guests on the firstminute capital podcast include Tony Blair, David Bonderman, Roelof Boetha, Max & Nellie Levchin, Jeff Immelt, Rio Ferdinand, Sir Hermann Hauser, Nico Rosberg and Niklas Zennstrom.
Podcasting since 2020 • 45 episodes
Crazy Until It's Not: Startups, Venture Capital & Big Ideas
Latest Episodes
All human brains will be connected to the internet | Saturnin Pugnet | Worldcoin | firstminute capital
🔗 Humans, Connected: The Age of the Exocortex🌐 Imagine a world where you’re seamlessly connected to the internet, not through screens and keyboards, but directly through your brain.Our minds are already a marvel of evolutio...
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We can engineer biology | Stef van Grieken | founder of Cradle | firstminute capital
DNA is an alien programming language - that can be learned That's the mind blowing idea of Stef van Grieken, the founder of Cradle...
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Episode 4
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36:20
Product beats tech | Mehdi Ghissassi | Head of Product & Deepmind | firstminute capital
In the global AI race, product will matter more than tech. That's the prediction from Mehdi Ghissassi, the Head of Product & Deepmind Check out the latest episode of "Crazy Until It's Not" to discover more about wh...
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Episode 3
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Buildings will be grown | Tim Fu | Studio Tim Fu | firstminute capital
In the future, buildings will be grown not builtThat's the prediction from Tim Fu, the Generative AI architect and founder of Studio Tim Fu. We're already well on our way, with advances in synthetic biology. Bu...
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Episode 2
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We will program our biology | Dr Mark Kotter | bit.bio | firstminute capital
In the future we will be able to program biology. That's the prediction from Dr Mark Kotter, the founder of three synth bio companies bit.bio, clock.bio and Meatable.We're already well on our way, with the ability to perfor...
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Season 2
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