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🔮 The future of venture capital; Chinese technology; Cities; Australian energy; Shortages & electric aeroplanes ++ #347

Azeem Azhar
Nov 07, 2021
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Hi, I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.

This week on the podcast

I speak with Johnny Boufarhat, CEO and Founder of Hopin, one of the fastest-growing startups in history (you might remember the chart showing Hopin's growth from EV#340). Johnny and I go into...

  • 💻 How Hopin made the most of the opportunities afforded by the pandemic [6.55]

  • 📈 How learning to delegate helped Johnny scale his company rapidly [10.08]

  • 🌄 Why Johnny might never make it to Silicon Valley [23.34]

Listen to our conversation here or read the transcript.

Dept of near future

The changing nature of capital

💸 Venture capital has traditionally been good at exploring uncertainty, while public capital is more aligned with certain bets. As we progress through the Exponential Age, our economies will rely increasingly on the novel (and unproven), and less on the established. Hence the growing imp…

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