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The Infant Learner
Some stuff I read this week:
A. This week’s Special:- Interview with Josh Wolfe
Josh is a Director at Shapeways, 3Scan, Lux Research and Kallyope and helped lead the firm’s investments in Planet, Echodyne, Clarifai, and Authorea. 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—more than 40 times Lux’s total investment.
Josh is a columnist with Forbes and Editor for the Forbes/Wolfe Emerging Tech Report. He has been invited to The White House and Capitol Hill to advise on nanotechnology and emerging technologies, and a lecturer at MIT, Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Columbia and NYU. He is a term member of The Council on Foreign Relations and Chairman of Coney Island Prep charter school, where he grew up in Brooklyn. He graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Economics and Finance.
Recently he was interviewed at investorfieldguide.com. Click the link given below to listen to the interview:
B. Entrepreneurial Diary
C. Other Stories
The Staircase Chart (VI)
Simplifying Investing (AB)
John Huber Investing Talk at Google (SC)
Fortis Healthcare: Repeat of Satyam? (IG)
The Best Way To Lose $5 Billion Dollars (OD)
Why Doesn’t More Money Make Us Happy? (II)
Li lu – Foreword To Poor Charlie’s Almanack (LL)
Puneet Khurana: Winning The Loser’s Game (AI)
Why We Didn’t Invest In This Good Business (II)
20 Questions You Should Ask Mgmt At AGM! (CI)
20 Peking University Student To Lunch With Warren Buffett (JS)
“I read everything: annual reports, 10k’s, 10q’s, biographies, histories, five newspapers a day. On airplanes, I read the instructions on the backs of seats. Reading is key. Reading has made me rich over time” – Warren Buffett
“I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines. They go to bed every night a little wiser than they were when they got up and boy does that help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you” – Charlie Munger
You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better”- Carol Dweck