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Josh Wolfe shares Lux Capital's thesis on directional arrows of progress — technologies that are inevitable because the underlying science demands them. Defense tech, synthetic biology, and advanced materials are the themes he sees defining the next decade.
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Wolfe describes Lux's strategy as systematic luck creation: fund 40-50 frontier science companies per fund, knowing that breakthroughs are probabilistic and unpredictable. When a breakthrough occurs, pour in follow-on capital to maximize the return on that lucky event.
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Directional arrows of progress: some technologies are inevitable because the underlying physics and economics demand them — the only question is timing and team, not whether
Wolfe argues that investors should identify technologies where progress is inevitable (fusion, autonomous systems, synthetic biology) and fund the teams most likely to get there first, rather than trying to predict which specific technologies will emerge.Was this useful?