#003 - Transitioning to a higher-impact career with Soroush Pour

Soroush Pour

Soroush is an engineer and entrepreneur who, at the time of this recording, is on sabbatical from his role as head of Special Projects at Vow to investigate the safe and beneficial development of artificial general intelligence.

In this episode we discuss

  • Soroush’s transition from fintech to the cultivated meat industry

  • The value of continuous learning and challenging your own and other’s assumptions

  • The value of bringing people into your journey to build support

  • Synthesising your research and showing your work to maximise your learning and progress

  • Being an ambitious agent for change — blowing up the bioreactor

  • The role of industry in innovation

  • Alternate proteins and how engineers can contribute

  • How mid-career professionals can increase their chances of getting hired in fast-moving industries

  • Why to develop your own perspective on a problem

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Timestamps

00:00:00 Intro
00:01:14 Soroush's journey
00:12:05 The mindset for career change
00:22:26 Planning for a career change
00:25:52 Showing your work
00:32:58 Patience, embracing failure, and impact
00:36:38 Role of industry in innovation
00:43:39 Engineers in alternative protein
00:54:52 North star for career decisions
00:57:11 Personal capacity for impact
00:58:56 AI safety
01:04:25 Developing your perspective
01:07:47 Self-imposed limitations
01:09:13 What do you wish you had invented?
01:10:51 Getting in contact
01:11:46 Outro


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