Behind the Markets Podcast: Mark Mills

Show from 5/12/23 Join Jeremy Schwartz, Prof. Siegel, and Chris Gannatti as they talk about Mark Mills’s path through academia and his career in tech and energy. Mark discusses how macro-level energy logistics can have global influence on productivity and economies. The show goes in depth on the role of new technology in improving the energy sector, and how energy can also be optimized for powering new technology. Mark talks about how far away a break-even nuclear fusion energy reactor truly is. They also touch on how the consumption of energy around the world is increasing as more technology is developed and adopted globally, and the significance of cloud computing in the energy space. Guest: Mark Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is also a strategic partner with Montrose Lane (an energy-tech venture fund). Previously, Mills cofounded Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in 2007. Mills is author of the book The Cloud Revolution: How the Convergence of New Technologies Will Unleash the Next Economic Boom and a Roaring 2020s, and host of the new podcast The Last Optimist. He is also author of Digital Cathedrals, and Work in the Age of Robots. Mills earlier coauthored The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy. Learn more at https://manhattan.institute/person/mark-p-mills Follow Bilal on Twitter: @MarkPMills Co-host Chris Gannatti is Head of Research at WisdomTree Europe Follow him on Twitter: @CGannatti