Episode 8: Gary Lauder: The Adventurer

Gary Lauder is a venture capitalist and the Managing Director of Lauder Partners, LLC., a Silicon-Valley based venture capitalist firm. He has degrees in international relations from Pennsylvania University, economics from the Wharton School, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has invested in over 160 private companies, mostly in the technology or communications industries. In the film Innovation Race, he described the “venture” in venture capitalism as being short for “adventure,” and after spending time with Gary it is clear that he has a passion for the adventures he embarks on every time he helps a start-up business or inventor with their innovative ideas. As an investor, Gary has a unique perspective on the importance of patents and the various improvements that need to be made to protect inventors and harness the American spirit of innovation.

Links discussed in this episode:

The Roll (sic) of Patents in Corporate America - a presentation by Gary Lauder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPLnd6irPIM

Eroom’s Law
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/eroom-s-law

America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy that Built a Nation - by Joshua Kendall
https://amzn.to/3iIWAnf

In the Mind's Eye: Creative Visual Thinkers, Gifted Dyslexics, and the Rise of Visual Technologies - by Thomas G. West
https://amzn.to/3Bmzd9K

For more information on how to watch Innovation Race, visit https://www.innovationracemovie.com