47. Pascal Finette: The Heretic

Pascal is Singularity University’s Chair for Entrepreneurship and Open Innovation. He is the cofounder and enfant terrible of Radical Ventures, which he explains what that means. His work focuses on the intersection of technology, entrepreneurship, culture, and global impact. Pascal has founded a series of startups and he has a deep background in technology including being on the Internet before web browsers. He led Ebay’s platform solutions group in Europe. He held leadership positions at Mozilla and he’s helped build startups. Pascal has written a book called The Heretic, Daily Therapeutics for Entrepreneurs and has blogged and written a newsletter for a long time, more than 1,200 posts. In this interview, he shares a lot of what he’s seen in the world of technology, what’s on the horizon, how our world will be different from these disruptive exponential technologies that are coming down the pike, things that are already transforming our world, artificial intelligence, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, 3D printing, autonomous driving, gene editing and so on. He talks about the importance of a purpose for your organization and the difference between a purpose and a mission. He also walks through a simple framework to help you articulate yours in a very clear, compelling, powerful way. We go deep into his methods to prepare and deliver really powerful messages from the stage. Things that I’m not sure how many lifetimes I would live before they occurred to me, but fortunately I learned them in this interview with Pascal. SUMMARY00:02:44 – What’s life about?00:07:41 – Growing up.00:13:33 – Processing information for the Heretic.00:31:23 – Sure bets in the future.00:38:09 – First principals thinking.00:52:36 – Mulago Foundation.01:07:42  – Lightning round.01:26:10  – Thoughts on writing. LINKS – (In order of appearance)**The School for Good Living receives commissions for purchases made through Amazon links in this post. **Pascal’s WebsiteRadical VenturesThe HereticMulago Foundation The post 47. Pascal Finette: The Heretic first appeared on School for Good Living Podcasts.