Utility + Function, a multifaceted, eclectic, and probing podcast hosted by Nanotronics co-founder and CEO, Matthew Putman, covers subjects from Machine Learning, to Jazz, to Community Development.
Utility Function, a definition: individual preferences for goods or services. It calculates desire, and therefore, is relative.
Chris Miller is Associate Professor of International History at Tufts University, where his research focuses on technology, geopolitics, economics, international affairs, and Russia.
He is author of Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology, a geopolitical history of the computer chip.
He is the author of three other books on Russia, including Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia; We Shall Be Masters: Russia's Pivots to East Asia from Peter the Great to Putin; and The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR. He has previously served as the Associate Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy at Yale, a lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, a visiting researcher at the Carnegie Moscow Center, a research associate at the Brookings Institution, and as a fellow at the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Academy. He received his PhD and MA from Yale University and his BA in history from Harvard University. For more information, see www.christophermiller.net (https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.christophermiller.net%2F&data=05%7C01%7CJKerwin%40nanotronics.co%7C34d8dc7107ac424b9e9308db4cb572f8%7C3aa6bc0a42ea4df3ab9432669ef069f9%7C1%7C0%7C638188114427845440%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0JZi3RaYGMLPSC6lVMvX56DJJTqGeimPhilDSGvSnmM%3D&reserved=0).
18 Apr 2023
Anwaar AlMahmeed: Solving the false scarcity problem
Anwaar Al Mahmeed is the Managing Director of Republic MENA, Board Member at CubeFabs Inc, and a Venture Capitalist. She founded Menaverse Ventures to invest in early stage deep tech, and had previously co-founded the East Chain Co. focused solely on blockchain infrastructure investments. She was also the lead organizer of The East Chain Open Hub (ECOH) Conference in Kuwait. Prior to that, Anwaar was product development manager at Boursa Kuwait. She started her career in the Kuwait Investment Authority’s training program where she interned at State Street London, and later joined the Hedge Fund department at the KIA. Anwaar is a CFA Charterholder since 2015
5 Apr 2023
Zoe Weinberg: On the future of our informational democracy
Zoe Weinberg is the founder & managing partner of ex/ante, an early-stage fund that works to counter surveillance capitalism and digital authoritarianism by investing in technology that is more private, secure, and decentralized. Prior, Zoe worked on ethics and policy at the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and at Google AI. Previously she focused on fragile and conflict-affected states, working on the emergency response in Mosul, Iraq during the counter-ISIL operation in 2017, and at the World Bank (IFC) in over a dozen countries, including Somalia, South Sudan, and Liberia. Prior to the World Bank, she worked in Goldman Sachs’s alternative investment group. Her research and writing has been published in the New York Times and Foreign Affairs, among other publications. She is also a host of the podcast Next in Foreign Policy. Zoe earned her B.A. from Harvard University, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and an M.B.A from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where she was a Knight Hennessy Scholar.
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