Tomy Lorsch_E28: Seekers and Innovators [5/17/2021]

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3 min readMay 18, 2021

Tomy Lorsch, GP at Oneness Ventures in The Bay Area [5/17/2021]

https://anchor.fm/posi2ive/episodes/Tomy-Lorsch_E27-Seekers-and-Innovators-5172021-e1134pt

Note: References with links are listed at the end of the show notes.

INTRO:

1:00 We transition from Tommy’s guided meditation. Tomy shares his experience living in Argentina, Madrid, Germany, and living in the Bay Area. Talks about his experience of running his customer experience company working with Fortune 500 companies in Latin America and Europe. Shares his startup experience of starting a company, and the void of uncertainty as a Founder. Shares the stages of his life, and why he transitioned to a healthier lifestyle.

SECTION1: Compassionate Investments

9:00 Shares origin story of Oneness Ventures, and the meaning of the experience of Oneness. Shares the paths that people take to experience, the unified feeling. Points to the environment, people, and elements being integrated as a closeness of truth. Talks about the path of awareness, and conscious business.

15:00 We break into social science, and how it ties into conscious business. We discuss the origins of business and the purpose of them. We break out into the risks of business, and how companies like Tesla takes some capital from government. Discusses inspiration from Jed Emerson’s book, The Purpose of Capital. And talks about open discussion with Marc Benioff (Salesforce) about public benefit corporations — on why CEOs can’t be political.

SECTION2: Psychedelic Therapy

28:00 Tomy shares his passion for this vertical. Talks about his early experience with psychedelics, and how it tied into his research. Describes his experience at MAPS, and joining a community of people in this arena. Started asking about how to expand access to the health side of the industry. Led him to found his VC fund.

35:00 Shares opportunity areas in three dimensions from policy perspective: Legalization priority, Therapy and growing legalization, FDA (also Canada, Israel) medicines authorization — e.g., MDMA in PTSD, psilocybin in treatment resistant depression.

SECTION3: Peace Technology

40:00 Discusses the emerging market of Peace Technology. And being in the moment could lead to more happiness. Highlights the ability to reduce conflict in the world — through inner peace and outer peace. Points to poverty and climate, and how it relates to peace.

45:00 Shares story of AirBnb bias with others perceptions — and training hosts to be debiased, giving a badge to hosts that were debiased. Shared example of conflict zones and tech in early-warning of personal safety. Talks about Peace-with-Nature as one of the next nexuses — increasing peace with nature, after being at war with nature for so long.

50:00 Reach out and share a book recommendation for Tomy!

SOURCES:

-Tomy Lorsch [LinkedIn]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomylorsch/

-Oneness Ventures: https://www.notion.so/Oneness-Ventures-f089598eca564100ac65b01336851cb4

-Tomy’s company Findasense: https://us.findasense.com/

-Jack Cornfield [mindfulness meditation]: https://jackkornfield.com/meditations/

-Second Time Founders: https://secondtimefounders.com/

-Conscious Capitalism: https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Capitalism-New-Preface-Authors/dp/1625271751

-Stakeholder Capitalism: https://www.investopedia.com/stakeholder-capitalism-4774323#:~:text=Stakeholder%20capitalism%20is%20a%20system,employees%2C%20shareholders%20and%20local%20communities.

-The Purpose of Capital [Jed Emerson]: https://www.blendedvalue.org/the-purpose-of-capital

-BCorp: https://bcorporation.net/

-Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies: https://maps.org/