Contrarian Investing and Inventing the Future | Josh Wolfe | TEDxWilmingtonSalon

• published: 04 Feb 2015
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Josh Wolfe shares the framework through which venture capitalists look to invent the future. Hint: it has to do with Star Trek and time. Josh Wolfe is co-founder of Lux Capital and focuses on investments in the physical and life sciences. He manages Lux’s investments in Nanosys, Cambrios and Siluria and serves on the board of directors of Shapeways, Kymeta, Kurion and Lux Research. Before forming Lux Capital, he worked in Salomon Smith Barney’s Investment Banking group, in capital markets at Merrill Lynch on its Financial Futures & Options/Government Strategy desk and at Prudential Securities in Municipal Finance. He is a columnist with Forbes, editor for the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report and host of a show on the Forbes Video Network. He has been an invited guest to the White House and Capitol Hill to advise on nanotechnology and emerging technologies, a lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia and NYU, and a frequent guest on CNBC and CNN. His weekly essays and insights are published at forbeswolfe.com. Prior to venturing into the financial world, Mr. Wolfe published cutting-edge AIDS-immunopathology research in Cell Vision and The Journal of Leukocyte Biology, leading medical-immunology journals. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in economics and finance. Mr. Wolfe serves as co-founder and chairman of the board of trustees of Coney Island Prep, the first charter school in his native Coney Island, Brooklyn, and has been actively involved with the East Harlem School at Exodus House for over a decade. The son of a public school teacher, he is passionate about science, inner-city education and kids having a deep desire to learn and find the right heroes. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx