How This Investor Helped After a Nuclear Disaster

This weeks American Alchemist is Josh Wolfe. Josh co-founded Lux Capital to support scientists and entrepreneurs who pursue counter-conventional solutions to the most vexing puzzles of our time in order to lead us into a brighter future. The more ambitious the project, the better-like, say, creating matter from light.
Josh is a Director at Shapeways, Strateos, Lux Research, Kallyope, CTRL-labs, Variant, and Varda, and helped lead the firm’s investments in Anduril, Planet, Echodyne, Clarifai, Authorea, Resilience and Hadrian. He is a founding investor and board member with Bill Gates in Kymeta, making cutting-edge antennas for high-speed global satellite and space communications. Josh is a Westinghouse semi-finalist and published scientist. He previously worked in investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney and in capital markets at Merrill Lynch. In 2008 Josh co-founded and funded Kurion, a contrarian bet in the unlikely business of using advanced robotics and state-of-the-art engineering and chemistry to clean up nuclear waste. It was an unmet, inevitable need with no solution in sight. The company was among the first responders to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. In February 2016, Veolia acquired Kurion for nearly $400 million-34 times Lux’s total investment.
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[@JohnCooganPlus]

6:25 Perfect articulation of the pro-nuclear argument I completely agree with.

[@davidmvg216146]

Such good content in this channel ! Good job alchemist

[@marciarobins5712]

Love Josh...so inspiring and easy to follow! Thnx

[@matt-in2nu]

You should upload the audio of these videos as a podcast on spotify. Would love to listen to these at work!

[@arcto5159]

Seriously my favorite channel👍🏽👍🏽

[@michaelinzo]

I’m pro nuclear I have understand how it works and how it’s energy is highly efficient compared to our modern energy plants. I love your videos Jesse Michels it helps me learn everyday! Keep it up ❤️

[@somethingliving4224]

Artists -> Hipsters -> Technies -> Techies w/ $ -> Beautiful People - > Rich People

[@CONEHEADDK]

Here I am - where do I aply for funding.?

[@wskinnyodden]

On the Musk vs Bezos space approach, fact is, both have merit and both are needed to ensure the future of mankind, and in fact, they can help each other at that, for example, co2 producing industry can help raise Mars temperature, but initially it will be Orbital and Moon industry lowering the cost of colonization.

[@DragonHeart5150]

What an interesting video. Gives me so many ideas.

[@ShawnPhoenix]

That's a lot of information, thankfully he didn't speak super fast and I was able to process the information as he said it.

[@marvinbecker388]

This guy is incredible. I'm talking Steve Jobs Archetype.

[@essexlad8151]

This man scares me.

[@maxkapalla2813]

Nice video.
Chernobyl is in Ukraine, not Russia tho 😅

[@JesseMichels]

Disaster occurred in soviet Russia, but yes - just made that clearer!

[@TheAlskdfj]

He's just eclectic and using common sense.