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Pablos is a hacker, inventor, and bestselling author of Deep Future – Creating Technology that Matters, the indispensable guide to deep tech. Now Managing Partner at Deep Future, investing in technologies to solve the world’s biggest problems. Previously, Pablos worked on spaceships at Blue Origin and helped build The Intellectual Ventures Lab to invent a wide variety of breakthroughs including a brain surgery tool, a machine to suppress hurricanes, 3D food printers, and a laser that can shoot down mosquitos – part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates. Pablos has been interviewed by Tim Ferriss, hosts the Deep Future Podcast and is a top public speaker – his talks have over 30 million views.
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Pablos is a hacker, inventor, and bestselling author of Deep Future – Creating Technology that Matters, the indispensable guide to deep tech. Pablos is Managing Director at Deep Future, investing in mad scientists, rogue inventors, crazy hackers & maverick entrepreneurs implementing science fiction, solving big problems and helping our species become better ancestors.
Always building the future, his projects include cryptocurrency in the 1990s; AI for stock market trading; building spaceships at Blue Origin for Jeff Bezos; and the world’s smallest PC. Pablos helped start the Intellectual Ventures Lab for Nathan Myhrvold where their team got 6,000 patents on their own inventions, including a brain surgery tool; a machine to suppress hurricanes; a nuclear reactor powered by nuclear waste; and a machine that can shoot mosquitoes out of the sky with lasers – part of an impact invention effort to eradicate malaria with Bill Gates.
With a unique ability to articulate practical solutions and visions for the future of technology, Pablos is often invited to speak at conferences about innovation, invention, hacking, and deep tech. He has spoken at Stanford, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum at Davos, the Microsoft CEO Summit, The FORTUNE CEO Summit, the CIA, Google Zeitgeist, The Milken Global Conference, and to many of the top tech companies and conferences in the world. Pablos has been interviewed by Tim Ferriss and his TED Talks have over 30 million views.
“Pablos is like a spy that we send to our own future, to find out what they know and help us catch up.”
— Kevin Slavin