Josh Wolfe (Lux Capital) - Investing at the Cutting Edge [ETL Looks Back]

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (ETL)

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4.4 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

For the winter 2025 installment of ETL Looks Back, we asked the team at the Stanford Technology Ventures Program to recommend some of their favorite ETL episodes from the past. Our first pick comes from Ravi Belani and features Josh Wolfe, co-founder of Lux Capital, which funds scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing problems of our time. Wolfe believes ambitious projects, like creating matter from light, are essential for a brighter future. Also a founding investor with Bill Gates in Kymeta, Wolfe discusses the principles guiding his entrepreneurship and investments, sharing insights from his experiences with various innovative companies.

The episode first aired on June 7, 2023

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0:00.0	Who you are defines how you build.
0:07.0	This is the Entrepreneurals Thought Leaders series.
0:10.0	Brought to you by Stanford E-Corner.
0:14.0	Welcome YouTube and the Stanford community to the Entrepreneurals
0:19.0	Thought Leaders series. And I am Mo Fong, the Executive Director for STVP,
0:24.6	the Stanford Engineering Entrepreneurship Center.
0:28.6	So the ETL series is brought to you by STVP and BASIS,
0:32.6	which is the Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students.
0:38.3	And today I am so honored to welcome Josh Wolfe to the ETL stage.
0:44.3	And I'm going to read a little short bio, but his amazing accomplishments, you should really look it up because it is incredible.
0:52.3	Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional
1:00.0	solutions to the most vexing problems and puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future.
1:07.0	He is the director at Shapeways, Stradios, Lux Research, Calliope, Control Labs, Variant, and Varda,
1:17.6	and help lead Lux Capital's investments in Andrel, Planet, Echodyne, Clarify, Authoria, Resilience, and Hadrian.
1:28.3	I don't know how you were able to do all those things.
1:31.3	Wow, that's a lot. But it keeps going.
1:33.3	He is the founding investor and board member with Bill Gates in Chi Meta,
1:39.3	which makes cutting edge antennas for high speed global satellite and space communications.
1:45.8	He has a Westinghouse semi-finalist and published scientists.
1:49.2	He previously worked in investment banking at Solomon Smith Barney and in capital markets
1:53.8	at Merrill Lynch.
1:55.3	In 2008, he co-founded and funded Curion, a contrarian bet in the unlikely business of using advanced robotics
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