How To Process Information Like A Contrarian
Fitzgerald, Twain, and Schopenhauer.
In the competitive game of venture capital, it’s often the contrarians — those who uncover information or hidden talents hidden in plain sight, or go against the grain of trends and public sentiment, or who wind up on the right side of a low probability bet — that find the most success and come out on top.
Venture capitalist Josh Wolfe is one such contrarian. His firm Lux Capital primarily invests in the hard sciences — with over $1 billion in assets and a portfolio of companies ranging from autonomous vehicles to advanced and innovative manufacturing to biotechnology to sustainable nuclear waste disposal.
Lux Capital sits at the cutting edge of business and science. Given the wide range of industries they invest in, as well as the rapid rate of scientific and technological advancement, it’s crucial that Josh process information at an equally rapid rate.
By his own admission, Josh suffers from information anxiety. It’s not just about processing the abundance of information that everyone else is consuming, but it’s about processing information that others aren’t processing or seeing. Uncovering the white space, where others aren’t looking, is what gives Lux its competitive advantage.
