Pensive: Recent Episodes
Patrick Daniel
A pioneer in applying social data analysis to investing and also the co-founder of Ticker Tags, which is a crowdsourced association taxonomy that connects trending social content to investable companies. I first heard about Camillo on CNBC where he talked about how he turned 20K into 2M. By now he has grown this figure to $8 million and besides investing in public markets, he also invests in startups as an angel investor. His latest venture was created to evolve financial news monitoring to include social-monitored tags that serve to parse the world’s data streams without bias.
Tetrick started Hampton Creek, a San Francisco food startup that is going to make it easier for millions of people to eat better. Bill Gates selected his company as one of three companies that will shape the future of food. He has led a United Nations business initiative in Kenya and worked for former President Bill Clinton. As a Fulbright Scholar he taught school children in Nigeria and South Africa. He is also a graduate of Cornell and the University of Michigan Law School. He is an entrepreneur that not only thinks big but also has the stamina and power to transform his vision into reality, and plus he is a cool guy.
The second part of the interview of Doug Carmichael, a strategy consultant at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. We talk about his advice to younger people, news media consumption, what he did to understand the world, his regular get togethers in Palo Alto, his experience as a psychoanalyst and his daily ritual.
Carmichael started physics at Caltech, got a PhD from Berkeley in human development, a post doc of Harvard’s Center for Cognitive Studies and lived in Mexico City while studying at Eric Fromm’s Institute for psychoanalysis. He consulted the White House and ran the network for Al Gore’s Reinventing government. For the last ten years has focused on the broad social science issues relevant to rethinking humanity’s relationship to nature. Started the Stanford Strategy Studio and is most interested in the relationship between the humanities and economics.
This pilot episode features Doug Carmichael, a strategy consultant at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. We talk about how to understand the world, where he grew up, how he developed his interests, his influences, what you should study to understand the world, the importance of history and physics, the origin of capitalism.
Carmichael started physics at Caltech, got a PhD from Berkeley in human development, a post doc of Harvard’s Center for Cognitive Studies and lived in Mexico City while studying at Eric Fromm’s Institute for psychoanalysis. He consulted the White House and ran the network for Al Gore’s Reinventing government. For the last ten years has focused on the broad social science issues relevant to rethinking humanity’s relationship to nature. Started the Stanford Strategy Studio and is most interested in the relationship between the humanities and economics.
I also wanted to give thanks to Matthias Gohlke, who was kind enough to produce our intro and outro jingles for the podcast.