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.
Episodes
45 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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Season 2
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Episode 5
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46:41
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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Season 2
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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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Season 2
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Episode 3
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40:38
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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Season 2
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Episode 2
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29:11
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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Episode 1
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34:19
All content will be AI powered | Nina Schick | The Era of Generative AI | firstminute capital
Welcome to another episode where we plunge into the world of artificial intelligence and its rapidly growing influence on the media landscape. This podcast explores the revolutionary assertion that all media - yes, you heard that right, ALL med...
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35:19
We will have LLM-powered implants in our skulls | Julien Simon | Hugging Face | firstminute capital
What’s next in Generative AI? Could it be LLM-powered implants in our skulls directing us everywhere? That’s something that Julien Simon from Hugging Face (a platform with over 120k open-source machine learning models) expects to s...
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39:57
Call centres will no longer exist | Nikola Mrkšić | PolyAI | firstminute capital
Society needs to brace itself. Tens of millions of people around the world work in call centres - but the latest advances in Generative AI and synthetic voice are set to make around 🤯🤯 🤯 80% of their jobs redundant 🤯 🤯 🤯 .That's...
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29:24
Machines will be truly creative | Jonas Andrulis | Aleph Alpha | firstminute capital
Welcome back to Crazy Until It's Not, a podcast about big ideas and the amazing people behind them. Every episode we bring on a new guest who has a prediction for the future, which on the face of it, sounds a little bit crazy.&n...
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There will be 8-10 Tesla-sized climate companies built in the next decade | David Helgason | Unity | firstminute capital
We are going to see 10 Tesla-sized companies springing up in the coming years tacking big issues in climate. That’s 10 new companies with a market cap of over $520bn 🏢💪🏻♻️That’s the big idea of David Helgason, the fo...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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2:48
Viruses won't cause disease | Ariane Gomes | Baseimmune | firstminute capital
In the future, viruses will no longer cause disease. 🦠😷That’s the big prediction of BaseImmune’s Ariane Gomes, who says that in the future vaccines will be so good that viruses and other pathogens will not make...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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2:48
There will be no more unemployment | Riccardo Zacconi | King | firstminute capital
Are AI and automation going to lead to mass unemployment? We spoke to King’s Riccardo Zacconi about his ‘crazy’ prediction for the future, and he said that we are going to have the opposite problem.
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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6:04
Nothing will displace the smartphone | Carl Pei | Nothing | firstminute capital
Are you reading this on your smartphone?Nothing’s CEO and co-founder Carl Pei’s ‘crazy’ prediction for the future is that nothing will displace the smartphone. Last fall at an FF event, we disc...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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2:39
Our inboxes will be paywalled | Jim McKelvey | Square, Invisibly | firstminute capital
A glass which is impossible to drink from, sustainable diapers and an email paywalls. Here are just some of the business ideas going through the head of Jim McKelvey, one of the most extraordinary entrepenurs we know.
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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6:54
We'll No Longer be Farming Cows | Dan Widmaier | Bolt Threads | firstminute capital
Science is making MOOOOOOOves to eliminate cow farming! At the FF event in Scotland last autumn, we spoke with Dan Widmaier the CEO and co-founder of Bolt Threads about his ‘crazy’ idea for the future. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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4:33
Cities will Ban Private Cars | Markus Villig | Bolt | firstminute capital
In the future, there will be no private cars in cities. That’s according to Bolt’s CEO and Founder Markus Villig.Many European cities have already passed legislation to reduce traffic — from London’s congestion charg...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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3:43
Self-driving Cars will Displace Driving | Chris Urmson | Aurora | Firstminute Capital
Currently, 75% of the US and 62% of the UK drive to work*. Now imagine if that commute looked more like a relaxing session in a first-class airport lounge than a dull and stressful experience in a cramped seat. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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5:46
Online scams will use deepfakes | Poppy Gustafsson | Darktrace | Firstminute Capital
While on a video call, if you’re boss asked you to open a link, would you do it? If the answer is yes, maybe you should think again as it could be a cyberattack! 🏼🕵🏻♀️We spoke with cybersecurity software Darktrace’s...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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3:51
Physical Money Will No Longer Exist | Cyril Chiche | Lydia | Firstminute Capital
Is cash really king? 💳 >💵Physical coins have been around for 28 centuries. But that is all coming to an end in the next decades. During a chat at FF’s event in autumn, Cyril Chiche predicted that cash will no longer exist i...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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3:31
Every Product & Service Will Have a Real Cost | Lubomila Jordanova | Plan A | firstminute capital
On this week’s “Crazy Until It’s Not”, Lubomila Jordanova discusses her ‘crazy’ prediction that every product and service will have a real cost. What does she mean by rea...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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35:48
We are going to become our own physicians | Josh Clemente | Levels | firstminute capital
Who wants to add Dr. to their names? Soon, we’ll become our own physicians. This is the CEO and founder of Levels, Josh Clemente’s crazy prediction. Clemente discusses his health battles and experiments he conducted while working at Spa...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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41:41
Quantum computers will solve chemistry | Steve Brierley | Riverlane | firstminute capital
Quantum computers will solve all of chemistry (and a large part of physics). That's the latest big prediction on the "Crazy Until It's Not" podcast, this time by Steve Brierley, the founder and CEO of the quantum computing startup ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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28:48
Social Media Will Be Decentralised | Esteban Ordano | Decentraland | firstminute capital
Social media will be decentralised. That is the big bold prediction of Esteban Ordano, the co-founder of Decentraland.How come? Well, the answer is simple: because a decentralised social media would be much better.
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41:33
Kids Will Start Reading At Two-Years Old | Mike Maples | Floodgate | firstminute capital
Soon kids as young as two-years-old will be reading.That is the big bold prediction of Mike Maples, the co-founder and partner at Floodgate (and the host of the excellent Starting Greatness podcast).How? Well, education apps hav...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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46:21
More People Will Make a Living Gaming Than Making Cars | Robby Yung | Animoca Brands | firstminute capital
In a few years' time, there will be more people making a living playing video games than making cars. So more people making money from just PLAYING video games they enjoy than in making the 80m cars that are made every year.
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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