This is Subversive
We started Subversive as a forum for entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors involved in frontier technologies that aim to change the status quo. A place to share their ideas and what they are working on. We explore tech that challenges corrupt and entrenched industries. Tech that subverts institutionalized ways of thinking. Tech that, at times, may even walk a fine ethical or legal line not because it’s evil, but because of cultural conditioning or special interests.
We don’t deal in evil! These technologists are out to change things for the benefit of the masses who have lost trust in governments and big businesses. They and their users seek refuge in and find hope through technology.
You won’t find a lame pitch for a cold press juicer that just raised $130mn in venture money. You won’t find another food delivery startup that delivers organic meals to your doorstep in 2 minutes. In a perfect world, these things are great. Right now, they already get enough support from investors and the press.
What you will find at Subversive is a guy who runs a hedge fund to invest in companies working on innovative mind research, using the proceeds to fund his own research institute exploring the intersection between neuroscience and mysticism. You’ll find a guy with a cutting edge artificial intelligence company he started in order to end global conflicts once and for all. You’ll find a woman who is using a hundred emerging technologies to figure out what motivates us to do great things so that we can replicate that to make the world a better place. These are the people we want to talk to at the first of our many events.
Later on you might find a digital currency exchange being used to anonymously pay for marijuana because existing financial institutions have pulled out of the market entirely. Or a company building a massive encrypted mesh network that will allow people to communicate even if a despotic regime shuts down the telcos, or there is a zombie apocalypse. Or a startup that is enabling you to 3D print drugs in the privacy of your own home when pharmas have priced out the people who need them the most.
There is a lot of interesting stuff happening and we want to give those innovators a voice. Let’s start talking!
