Ep. 549: Scott Hartley with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

Michael Covel's Trend Following

Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Scott Hartley, a venture capitalist and startup advisor. He has served as a Presidential Innovation Fellow at the White House, a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, and a venture partner at Metamorphic Ventures. Prior to venture capital, Hartley worked at Google, Facebook, and Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is a contributing author to the MIT Press book Shopping for Good, and has written for publications such as the Financial Times, Inc., Foreign Policy, Forbes, and the Boston Review. Hartley speaks on global entrepreneurship with MIT, the World Bank, Google, and the U.S. State Department. He holds an MBA and an MA from Columbia University, and a BA from Stanford University. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

The topic is his book The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Ethical side of technology
Addictions on top of addiction
Artificial intelligence
Curiosity and skepticism
Frontier markets
Liberal arts in the technical world
Myth busting the standard path to a tech career

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	My guest today is Scott Hartley.
0:35.7	He's a venture capitalist and author.
0:38.9	Scott brings a wealth of experience from across Silicon Valley and beyond.
0:44.0	I have to say, I quite admire, I don't know how many marathons this man has done, how many triathlons he's done, he's been to 70 countries.
0:53.1	Absolutely, I want to know when this man sleeps.
0:56.8	Today we discuss his newest book,
0:59.4	The Fuzzy and the Techie,
1:01.2	Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World.
1:05.3	That title alone is probably going to cause half the audience to say,
1:09.5	Yes, and the other have to go, no way. Scott's not so
1:15.0	dogmatic. He's giving a very learned perspective to a really interesting subject. Because for
1:22.4	those of us out there that don't code, or at least code just a little bit, we've been often positioned,
1:30.3	and I'm kind of one of them, that we're the outsiders. Programming, coding is ascendant.
1:37.1	Well, for sure, when you look at the success of Mark Zuckerberg, it's absolutely ascendant.
1:45.1	Scott opens up this topic.
1:47.0	The comparison of the liberal arts perspective versus the tech perspective.
1:53.8	It's worth our consideration.
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