Roland Fryer - Episode 34

Harvard Professor Roland Fryer on Relentlessly Pursuing Truth, ‘Closing Social Gaps with Market Caps,’ and Celebrating Failure

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On this episode of Invested, Michael hosts Roland Fryer, a Professor of Economics at Harvard University and a co-founder of Equal Opportunity Ventures, an early stage seed fund, and several start-ups.

Roland sits on several boards with an emphasis on business analytics, talent management, and product strategy. His research combines economic theory, big data, AI, and randomized social experiments to help design policies that can increase social mobility in America. Roland was awarded a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, the John Bates Clark Medal (given by the American
Economic Association to the best American Economist under age 40), the Presidential
Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, among others. He was a member of the
2009 Time 100 (most influential people in the world) and has been twice featured in
Esquire "Genius issue." Roland earned a Bachelor of the Arts degree in economics from
the University of Texas at Arlington and a Doctor of Philosophy in Economics from Penn
State University.


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Harvard Society of Fellows 

Jeff Bezos

FOIA

The Guardian 

VICE 

Ron Sullivan 

Sender Cohen 

Steven Pinker
Freakonomics 

Unit 8200 

Magshimim 

Bill Helman 

Nature

Google Ventures 

Equal Opportunity Ventures

Jeff Swartz

Forage 

InstaCart

Stepful

Kaipod

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