Welcome to The Quest Pod Season 2: Episode 19 with Laura Deming: the prodigy longevity VC talks about home-schooling, becoming a Thiel Fellow, and pushing the limits of human life through bio-tech.

Laura Deming is not your typical VC. She is the founder and partner of The Longevity Fund, a venture capital firm focused on the study of aging and life extension in humans. Home-schooled in New Zealand, she moved to the U.S with her family to work in an age genetics lab at just twelve years old before dropping out of MIT at fourteen following her acceptance as a Thiel Fellow.

In this episode, Laura and I discuss her journey to become an effective leader, taking risks, dealing with failure, and being motivated to change the world for a better place. Beyond her impressive resume, she is a reminder that great founders can come from anywhere, so long as you have the passion to pursue something relentlessly and are not afraid to step outside your comfort zone.

0:00 Intro
01:10 Perceiving atoms
05:31 Working in an ageing genetics lab at 12
11:17 What was it like being one of the first Thiel Fellows?
14:24 Starting a venture capital fund with $100,000
19:19 The science of ageing
26:24 Will we achieve immortality in our lifetime?
31:22 Habits, toughest VC moments and an ageing accelerator
41:28 What can we do to make longevity possible?
43:24 Quest Fellow: Stefany

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