The Frontier State Podcast: Venture Capital, Innovation Policy & DeepTech
The Frontier State Podcast: Venture Capital, Innovation Policy & DeepTech
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Two Harvard researchers - Ira Jackson and Tushar Kanade - talk about the 'frontier state of things' in cutting-edge technologies and businesses and the frontier 'states' (Boston, NYC, Silicon Valley as well as India, Japan, Germany etc.) pioneering innovation and enterprise. Collectively, we interview trailblazers advancing innovation in USA, across public policy (Wasington-led IRA, ARPA-E), venture capital (first-time VCs to veterans from SoftBank), and disruptive technologies (nuclear fusion to AI). thefrontierstate.substack.com
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The podcast explores themes of innovation ecosystems, public policy, and emerging technologies, featuring discussions about nonprofit accelerators, climate policy leadership, and advanced technologies such as compact nuclear fusion and brain-computer interfaces, with episodes diving into topics like the economic imperative of climate action and the role of accelerators in fostering startup growth.
Two Harvard researchers – Ira Jackson and Tushar Kanade – talk about the ‘frontier state of things’ in cutting-edge technologies and businesses and the frontier ‘states’ (Boston, NYC, Silicon Valley as well as India, Japan, Germany etc.) pioneering innovation and enterprise. Collectively, we interview trailblazers advancing innovation in USA, across public policy (Washington-led IRA, ARPA-E), venture capital (first-time VCs to veterans from SoftBank), and disruptive technologies (nuclear fusion to AI).
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In this episode of The Frontier State Dialogues, I host Ravi Jain, former CTO of Project Tapestry at X the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X), to explore how AI and advanced technologies are transforming the century-old electric grid. Tapestry, described as the “Google Maps for electrons,” represents a moonshot approach to modernizing our most critical infrastructure at a time when it faces unprecedented challenges.
The timing couldn’t be more crucial. As Ravi explains, the electric grid – the world’s largest machine – is experiencing two fundamental disruptions: an explosion in demand driven by electrification and AI data centers, and the rapid integration of renewable energy sources that require bidirectional electron flow, something the grid was never designed to handle.
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Our wide-ranging dialogue explored several critical aspects of grid modernization and innovation:
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