Seth Bannon is a Founding Partner at Fifty Years, a venture firm backing founders building a Star Trek future. He’s seeded companies like Solugen (bio-based chemicals), Astranis (small satellites for global Internet), and Upside Foods (cultured meat). Fifty Years also runs 5050, a company-creation program for scientists and engineers, which recently launched a track focused on AI safety and alignment. Mentors include an OpenAI co-founder, an Anthropic co-founder, Don’t Die founder Bryan Johnson, and Harvard’s professor of AI safety. Seth previously dropped out of college to found a startup, and can occasionally be found in parks around the world attempting to hustle chess hustlers.