Jack Chong is the President of OX1 Incubator, the only ideation-to-seed stage incubator in Oxford which awards £50,000+ equity-free grants, and is a PPEist at Christ Church, Oxford. In this 1hr+ session, we discuss the entrepreneurial space in Oxford, London and Stanford, philosophy of technology, and the RICH brunch club. He's a builder and thinker at heart fashioning himself as a concept engineer, community engineering, and a token engineer. Tune in for a great session!

Blog: https://www.jack-chong.com/

0:55 Background on how we met

1:50 Jack’s journey from aspiring diplomat to tech founder and the hacker house

https://www.jack-chong.com/aboutme/

7:00 Tech scene in Jordan

7:46 On the FBI candidates in Jordan

9:01 Currently building in web3 and crypto!

10:26 Where do you see yourself in the ecosystem of deeptech, biotech and crypto scientists and engineers?

12:09 What is your theory of ideas people vs objects people vs people people?

13:48 What are the problems with stablecoin and building in it?

17:11 Mental models in tech and how to reduce noise to signal ratio

19:04 Signal to noise ratio on YouTube and Twitter

21:17 Researching topics for the blog - Pret Subscription, Great Man to Great Founder Theory

https://www.jack-chong.com/blog/why-prets-subscription-model-is-great-consumers-but-terrible-for-business/

https://www.jack-chong.com/blog/the-great-founder-theory-musk-bezos-and-instagram/

25:09 On the philosophy of technology. What does it mean?

29:07 Going to a deeper layer of abstraction

31:30 On a new Moore’s law? Improvements in space travel, software and biology

36:56 On Meta/Facebook and being quite meta

40:30 Corporate sector vs startups - why is everyone doing investment banking, consulting etc?

https://www.jack-chong.com/blog/adventurers-imperialism-hongkong/

47:09 What is it about startups and building that gets you excited? How do you think about money?

50:50 A Tale of Two Worlds: Stanford vs Oxford

52:55 Act against entropy: London RICH brunch club and OX1 Incubator

https://www.ox1incubator.com/

1:00:33 What is the RICH house in Oxford?

https://www.jack-chong.com/blog/a-manifesto-to-build-the-rich-house/

https://cherwell.org/2021/11/17/oxfords-first-hacker-house-for-the-rich-by-the-rich/

1:03:47 Next steps - concepts engineer, community engineer and token engineer

1:04:51 Where can people find your work and reach out to you?