Problems Sighted

Mike Solana - Problems inventing the future

March 19th, 2019  |  43 mins 2 secs

capitalism, future, media, problems, space

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

When you imagine our future, what do you see—flying cars, robot kitchens, maybe even life on Mars? To Michael Solana, host of Anatomy of Next and VP of Founders Fund, the most important thing for creating the future is having a plan.

Ambassador McFaul - Problems with Russia, SV Investment, and Social Media

March 7th, 2019  |  18 mins 27 secs

politics, problems, social media

We all hear about problems with Russia in the current political climate, but there is much more to the story. We sat down with Michael McFaul, former Ambassador to Russia to talk about problems with Russia, Russian investment in US companies, social media, and we we also touched on how many students and young people are staying away from the public sector, a shift that could hurt us for decades.

Brian Norgard - Problems in product, angel investing, and more

March 1st, 2019  |  45 mins 15 secs

crypto, investing, problems, product

Product building is like art, and with art comes a mass of problems with philosophy and building choices to ensure your product is right for the space. We sat down with Brian Norgard, Angel Investor and former CPO of Tinder and talked about problems in product building, what tools are needed to help this process, problems targeting and delivering to customers, angel investing and what’s needed to facilitate the process, problems with the crypto space, remote work, and more.

Riva Tez - Optimistic about problem solving

February 21st, 2019  |  25 mins 16 secs

media, philosophy, problems, science

There are a lot of problems when it comes to Silicon Valley, the heart of innovation — research scientists with inadequate design software, companies that aim to solve problems that aren’t really problems, and a culture that promotes these debatably bad idea. We sat down with Riva Tez to talk about this all and about building optimism to solve these problems.

Austen Allred - Help solve the problems in education

February 4th, 2019  |  34 mins 33 secs

education, problems

Austen talks problems in the education space, what he and his team still need at Lambda, how to help fix education, and more.

Dr. Ashby Monk - 100 trillion dollars needs reshaping

February 4th, 2019  |  38 mins 6 secs

finance, investing, problems

100 trillion dollars of wealth sit in the hands of institutional investors. Not hedge funds or Wall Street—but pensions funds, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. We sat down with Dr. Ashby Monk to hear the problems these investors face and helping these groups reshape finance and investing.

Problems, problems, problems

January 25th, 2019  |  2 mins 8 secs

problems, trailer

We are here for knowledgeable complaining. We connect problems to problems solvers.