EP 80 – Inspiration session #10: Startup subsidies, lean impact and dark side of AI

The Most Awesome Founder Podcast

We are excited to unveil the 10th installment of the inspiration session, featuring our co-hosts GerritMcGowan and Dries Faems.

They discuss a captivating mixture of different topics in the realm of entrepreneurship from an academic and a practitioner perspective, such as: • Why aren't there more sustainability-driven unicorns, although badly needed • Which startups get supported by government grants • What the academic research on the controversial topic of hybrid work yielded • The next big thing on the horizon: quantum computing

And have you always wanted to know how to create the boyfriend/girlfriend of your dreams? Then, gear up for a rollercoaster of knowledge, reflection, and pure amusement!

You won't want to miss this exhilarating episode!🔍

Chapters:

(0:10) Intro of Gerrit

(2:30) What is something that made Dries learn?

(3:40) Did Gerrit apply for governmental funding for one of his startups?

(7:45) Subsidy entrepreneurs: An inquiry into firms seeking public grants

(15:40) Which startups should get supported by grants?

(23:15) What is something that made Gerrit learn?

(28:23) Why aren’t there more social unicorns?

(37:15) What could Gerrit have done differently for his own social venture?

(41:58) The growing importance of social ventures

(47:55) Something that made Dries learn

(55:28) Deep dive into the paper: How hybrid working from home works out

(1:04:55) Something that made Gerrit learn

(1:11:30) Are we prepared for quantum computing? Did we learn something from AI?

(1:20:31) Something that made Dries laugh

(1:27:40) Something that made Gerrit laugh

(1:36:30) Outro

Discussed sources:

Something that made you learn:

Gustafsson, A., Tingvall, P. G., & Halvarsson, D. (2020). Subsidy entrepreneurs: An inquiry into firms seeking public grants. Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 20(3), 439-478.

Chang, A. M. (2018). Lean impact: How to innovate for radically greater social good

Something that made you learn:

Bloom, N., Han, R., & Liang, J. (2022). How hybrid working from home works out (No. w30292). National Bureau of Economic Research

Wadhwa, V., & Kop, M. (2022, October 4). Quantum computing is even more dangerous than artificial intelligence. Foreign Policy

Something that made you laugh:

https://lnkd.in/es5rkdqD

Marr, B. (2023, September 28). Artificial Intimacy: How Generative AI Can Now Create Your Dream Girlfriend. Forbes