Martin Varsavsky on fertility and birth rate decline, gene editing, modern evolution, and why humanity needs more babies.

In this episode, Sabrina Halper sits down with renowned entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky. Martin has founded five unicorn companies across industries. He discusses his cutting edge work in the fertility space and how technology will revolutionize our biology.

Timestamps:

(0:00) - Intro

(1:30) - Catalyst for building in fertility

(3:00) - Reasons for increased infertility in society

(7:00) - Climate change and overpopulation narrative

(10:00) - Reasons for declining birth rates & how to design a society that combats this

(16:40) - Europe vs America on abortion, surrogacy, and the anti-science movements

(22:00) - How to decrease the cost of fertility treatments by an order of magnitude

(27:15) - Embryo selection vs CRISPR

(32:34) - Mapping out IQ to a gene, editing for intelligence

(34:00) - How regulation of CRISPR will vary between China and the west

(36:00) - The potential disparity between humans, and the context of AI

(37:20) - Why evolution doesn't work anymore

(39:40) - Why humans may speciate and evolve into multiple species

(41:59) - Is CRISPR happening today? 45:30 - In-vitro gametogenesis (IVG)

(47:00) - What having a baby will look like in the future

(49:05) - Male birth control, longevity, gene therapy

(52:00) - Martin's philosophy around company building

(54:15) - Having clear views around where the future is going

(58:00) - Fast-paced popcorn questions: space, Einstein, quantum physics

(1:00:30) - Outro

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