Ken Malone - Extreme Certainty

Extreme Uncertainty

What do you know about aquaculture? Or machine vision? How about drug design? Custom materials?

It's a lot of ground to cover. Thankfully, our guest on the podcast this week is the perfect trail guide. Ken Malone is the Co-Founder of Early Charm Ventures, a Baltimore-based venture studio that turns science into business. Ken spent most of his career as an engineer-turned-entrepreneur, identifying promising technologies at the university research stage and accelerating them into the market. After over a decade in the private sector and academia, Ken and his wife decided there was an opportunity in Baltimore to take early stage innovations and turn them into profitable businesses. In a world where venture capital and market-making have an outsize role in technology startups, Early Charm takes a different approach: taking good ideas and building a sustainable businesses around them. Ken shares his stories of coming up in the corporate world, how his interest in working with smart people on groundbreaking research led to founding a venture studio, and his advice for founders. You can learn more about the new ventures they're building at EarlyCharm.com. And, in the words of Ken Malone: Embrace the certainty.