Podcast #160 Alpha Connector

ALPHA10X - Predicting Impact

In this week's episode, Ken Forster speaks with Robert Marcus, Founder, and CEO of ALPHA10X. Specialized in AI, Robert is a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist, investment banker, public company CEO, Microsoft Manager, and founder of several successfully exited companies. 

ALPHA10X, founded in 2018, is a start-up that connects people, money, and ideas to address the world's biggest problems. The team comprises top academics, former Silicon Valley executives, and engineers with advanced degrees from premier technical institutions, and is based in Europe's leading clean-tech hub in Aix-en-Provence in the south of France.

Robert is the author of two books on knowledge management, "The Fifth Wave" and "Collective Knowledge," which both explain the ALPHA10X thesis.

Discussion Points Were:

• What would you consider to be your ‘Digital Thread’?
• What are the three most significant tech-enabled business trends you've seen over the last three decades?
• What inspired you to start your new venture, ALPHA10X in France?
• How is ALPHA10X addressing investment and business innovation opportunities?
• Where you are with respect to ALPHA10X's life cycle?
• Please expand on the thesis of your book, "The Sudden Mainstreaming of Impact Investing"?
  
  

Connect With Robert Marcus via LinkedIn 

Robert’s inspiration comes from... 

Reading intellectual and spiritual literature. Nelson Mandela, Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi, Steve Jobs, Ray Dalio, Malcolm Gladwell, and Viktor Frankl are among the individuals who have had a great influence on him. Robert is driven by a desire to make a difference in the world, no matter how little. He is thrilled about the prospect to use emerging technology to improve the lives of billions of people.

About ALPHA10X:

ALPHA10X is an AI-powered search and discovery platform that extracts hidden signals and insights from data and shapes them into knowledge, connections, scores, and future predictions. Designed as a solution for impact investors and enterprise innovators, it cuts research time and cost by 75% and improves ROI and ESG outcomes by delivering predictive accuracy of over 80%, looking 3-years into the future.