Seth Bannon is an entrepreneur, investor, and happy warrior. As a Founding Partner at Fifty Years, helping great scientists & engineers become entrepreneurs is his jam. Seth has seeded a range of startups shaping the world for the better — unicorns like Solugen (engineering enzymes to produce industrial chemicals sustainably), Astranis (small satellites to cover the Earth in Internet), Upside Foods (culturing meat to eat), Athelas (next generation healthcare OS), and Opentrons (affordable lab robots).

Seth was previously the founder & CEO of a startup. After dropping out of college to found his startup, Seth “graduated’ from Y Combinator. Seth can occasionally be found in parks around the world attempting to hustle chess hustlers.