Safi Bahcall is the author of Loonshots. After studying physics at Harvard and Stanford, he founded a biotech company specializing in cancer drugs, led its IPO, and served as its CEO for 13 years. He was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2008 and in 2011, he worked with President Obama’s council of science advisors.
In this episode, we cover:
- 5:18 – The problem with ‘Disruptive Innovation’
- 9:45 – How to win the Nobel Prize
- 10:43 – What to ignore
- 12:03 – How to write a non-fiction book
- 13:48 – How phrase transitions work
- 14:43 – An emergent behaviour
- 18:15 – The power of competing forces
- 19:23 – Stake in the outcome vs Perks of rank
- 22:32 – What we can learn from Richard Branson about innovation and creativity
- 27:25 – How McKinsey promotes executives
- 28:44 – How ideas get crushed in companies
- 30:26 – Structure vs Culture
- 31:59 – Organisation as a weapon
- 37:20 – REAS
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- loonshots.com
- Tool: Copernic
- Album: Nina Simone Greatest Hits
- Book: Short Stories by Vladimir Nabokov
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