Pablos Holman grew up in Alaska teaching himself computers by taking them apart, and that hands-on hacker background still shapes how he invests today: he looks for technologies that are far better than what exists now, then builds a company around them, willing to take on tough technical uncertainty as long as the market is clearly huge. He's worked everywhere from the Shmoo hacker community to the early days of Blue Origin to the Intellectual Ventures Lab, and he actively tries to pull hackers out of computer security into harder problems like energy, manufacturing, and infrastructure, while explaining these ideas on hundreds of stages and in TED talks watched more than 30 million times.