Beginner’s Mind
Long-form conversations with the people who build and finance deep tech and the life sciences.
Beginner’s Mind is part of my business: a B2B format that goes directly to my network of 25,000+ VCs, private-equity and public-market investors, M&A dealmakers and executives in Europe and the United States. Each conversation runs one to three hours on video, as a dialogue between peers. The transcripts go into the search engines and AI systems that investors and partners use to find companies.
Deb Houry on leading in a crisis
Former Chief Medical Officer of the CDC and author of Triage, on deciding with incomplete data and when the best decision is to wait. Wednesday 25 November, 20:30 CET (14:30 ET), LinkedIn Live.
Shoshin, the beginner’s mind
Shoshin is the Zen idea of meeting every subject with openness, eagerness and no preconceptions, even after decades in the field. The ensō, a circle painted in a single brushstroke, stands for it. The brush lifts before the circle closes, and the gap leaves room for what comes next.
That is how I approach every conversation on the show. After 26 years of building companies, the most valuable question is still the one I have yet to ask, and the best answers come from people who see the field differently than I do.
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” Shunryu Suzuki
230 releases since 2020, reaching 25,000+ investors, board members and executives.
Selected conversations
| Name | Role | Recording |
|---|---|---|
| Eric Ries | Author, The Lean Startup | EP 180 |
| Karl Nehammer | Vice-President, European Investment Bank; former Austrian Chancellor | EP 166 |
| Alex Dang | Co-author, The Venture Mindset | EP 152 |
| Suzanne Heywood | Chief Operating Officer, Exor | EP 133 |
| Alex Zhavoronkov | CEO, Insilico Medicine | EP 108 |
| Joško Bobanović | Partner, Sofinnova Partners | EP 179 |
| Marie Schroeder | Seed investor, Novo Holdings | EP 183 |
| Ivy Nguyen | Partner, GFT Ventures | EP 184 |
| Philipp Baaske | Co-founder, NanoTemper Technologies | EP 109 |
| Alasdair Milton | Partner, Life Sciences, KPMG | EP 168 |
| Janos Pasztor | Former UN Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change | EP 156 |
| Angeli Möller | Chief Digital Health Officer, DocMorris | EP 142 |
| Jack Scannell | CEO, Etheros Pharmaceuticals; coined Eroom’s Law | EP 107 |
| Christoph Lengauer | CSO, Curie.Bio | EP 41 |
| Collin Ewald | Novartis Biomedical Research | EP 69 |
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