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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