This podcast episode features experts who focus on AI safety investing and ESG investing: Jenny Xiao, Abbas Kazmi, and Utkarsh Amitabh.
We cover topics such as:
What got them into investing in the first place
What impact one can have through investing
Their thoughts on investing in AI
What advice they would give to young investors
Jenny Xiao is a Partner at Leonis Capital, a research-focused VC fund based in Silicon Valley. Before Leonis, she was a researcher at OpenAI and a Ph.D. at Columbia University. With deep domain expertise in AI/ML, Jenny pioneers a research-driven approach to seed and pre-seed investing, focusing on AI, developer tools, and B2B software. Her research has been featured in Nature, the New York Times, the WSJ, the Economist, and CNBC. Her work at Leonis is the topic of an extensive Harvard Business School (HBS) case study. She is a frequent speaker at leading tech and business conferences, including the Fortune Brainstorm Tech Conference, the GenAI Summit, and the Northwestern Kellogg Business Conference.
Abbas Kazmi is a multi-award-winning serial entrepreneur and investor who founded his first of several successful companies at 16. Abbas has been chosen as a Forbes 30Under30 Standout, as a Maserati 100, as one of the Great British Entrepreneur Awards Entrepreneurs' Champions of the Year, and as one of startups.co.uk’s Young Entrepreneurs of the Year and Business Growth Enablers, to name just a few amongst many other awards. He has been appointed as a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Fellow and as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. Ex-BlackRock working across EMEA and the US, Abbas co-founded both the Oxford Accelerator and VC fund Collegiate Capital, and an IC member of, advisor to and LP investor in several funds in EMEA including BlackWood Ventures. He is now co-founder of the first VC between Central Asia and MENA, SABAH.Fund. Abbas sits on several boards, often being called upon to share his insights and expertise. He was recognised and selected by the UAE's VP and Deputy Prime Minister, Sheikh Mansour, as an Arab Youth Pioneer. He has also been appointed as an Entrepreneurship Expert at Oxford's Saïd Business School and Investor in Residence at London Business School. An academic scholar both at Westminster School and Oxford University and a VC Fellow at London Business School’s Newton Venture Program, Abbas is Chairman of the illustrious Oxford Guild, the world's largest university society, hosting the likes of major CEOs, celebrities and Nobel laureates from Sam Altman and Kanye West to Woody Harrelson, Malala etc.
Utkarsh Amitabh is the CEO of Network Capital and the Chief Marketing Officer of 5ire.org, a blockchain unicorn valued at $1.5 Billion. 5ire.org acquired a stake in his company Network Capital (networkcapital.tv), one of the world’s largest mentorship platforms that empowers 7.5 million+ school students and 200,000+ young professionals to build meaningful careers.He is a writer at Harvard Business Review, Ph.D candidate and Chevening Fellow at University of Oxford, an angel investor and a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. He is the author of two best selling books published by Sage and Penguin on the future of work. An engineer by training, Utkarsh read philosophy at Pembroke College, University of Oxford and earned his MBA from INSEAD Business School where he was recognized as the Andy Burgess Scholar for Social Entrepreneurship. He is also the Torchbearer of Ashoka University’s Young India Fellowship. Utkarsh worked at Microsoft for 7 years across US, Europe and India, leading business development for big bet projects. He is a TED speaker, Raisina Fellow, and the recipient of the INK Fellowship.
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