Michael P. Gibson on the 1517 Fund, Thiel Fellowship, and DeSci

Welcome to another episode of the DeSci Podcast. In this episode, Michael Gibson, co-founder and general partner of the 1517 fund, author of the new book ‘Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University’ and one of the key people involved in launching the Thiel Fellowship in 2010 (where he helped Vitalik Buterin shape Ethereum), tells us about his vision of legacy institutions and how we can modernize them to encourage great global innovations once again.   You can already get his excellent book, discussed in the episode, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Belt-Fire-Fight-Progress-ebook/dp/B099FZR4C3  Navigate through the topics discussed in this podcast using the timestamps below. ____   ⭐ Timestamps:  0:00 Intro 4:03 Book: ‘Paper Belt on Fire’ 9:26 Michael’s Background 14:20 Innovation in America is slowing down 19:20 Why Michael drop out the Academia 24:08 ‘If the college degree were a drug they would not be passed by the FDA’ 29:07 Cloud Universities 30:23 How to rebuild the Scientific Structure 38:59 VitaDAO and Alternative Funds 40:39 Accredited Investors 42:33 Investment Issues 44:26 Public Companies 46:00 New Disclosure Standard 49:03 Reproducibility Issues 53:42 Decentralized Science 1:07:00 How to motivate the next generation of great scientists   ____  If you want to join us on the show as a speaker or have guest ideas, please shoot us a mail at [email protected]  Special thanks to:   Sebastian Brunemeier (Host): https://twitter.com/sebastian_gero   Michael: https://twitter.com/William_Blake   ____   Let's connect:   Website: https://bit.ly/3d6nh2C Twitter: https://twitter.com/Molecule_dao Discord: https://discord.com/invite/moleculedao