Josh Wolfe

Founder, Lux Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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Josh Wolfe is the founder of Lux Capital. He is a venture investor focused on emerging technologies and artificial intelligence.

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Opinion

Wolfe: Europe Is Screwed by Demographics and Failure to Assimilate

“I think that Europe is fucked, and there are bright lights of amazing entrepreneurs that are doing the very thing that Europe has historically not done, which is risk taking. The floor for Europe is higher than the US, so people do not fall through that, but t…”

Josh Wolfe Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 55:05 Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast

Insight

Wolfe: AI infrastructure debt has a dangerous duration mismatch

“And then you have like duration mismatch between like the hard assets and the financing. So like the chip, depending if you look at meta or Amazon debate, whether it's a three year or five year depreciation, but it's, you know, called three, the debt, Amortize…”

Josh Wolfe Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 31:36 Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast

Assertion Partly supported

Wolfe: OpenAI has produced six spin-offs valued at tens of billions

“So far with OpenAI, valuation has gone from, like, you know, sub hundred million to trillion and plus, and you've had six diaspora companies that have all achieved, you know, tens of billions of dollars that have spun off of it.”

Josh Wolfe Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 45:38 Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast

Prediction Not checkable as stated

Wolfe: Vast Majority of People Will Keep Using and Trusting Closed AI Labs

“I think that still going back to the first point about habituation, the vast majority of people are just going to continue to use closed labs and trust it more.”

Josh Wolfe Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 24:33 Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast

Opinion

Wolfe: Europe Is One Sahel Terror Event from Its Next Afghanistan

“And I do believe that the Sahel in Africa and the Maghreb, which is, you know, Mali, Sudan, Niger, Burkina Faso, you are one terror event away projected into Europe that that entire region becomes the west next to Afghanistan, all of which culminates in my con…”

Josh Wolfe Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 55:41 Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast

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Opinion

Lessin: Defense and deep tech have shifted from contrarian to consensus

“So Josh, co-founder and managing partner at Lux, which has done, basically did the contrarian thing, which has now become consensus around defense and deep tech and hard tech, and is kind of one of the men of the moment for things, calling things like Andrel, …”

Sam Lessin Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 4:21 Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter	Aug 14, 2026	11m

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