Unconditional basic income instead of captivity between online shopping and Instagram advertising: the investor and author Albert Wenger on the end of the industrial age, the social system of the future and the opportunity for Europe.
Among the investors of the digital age, Albert Wenger is one of those who not only deal with growth and future, but also with the common good. He learned computer scientist, his doctoral thesis at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (with) supervised the Nobel Prize winner Bengt Holmström. After several start-up foundations, he went to the risk capital company Union Square ventures in New York in 2006. The company was one of the first donors of companies such as Twitter, Etsy, Kickstarter and Coinbase. Like most successful investors, he thinks about the course of things and the future. In the book “Die Welt after the capital – strategies for the age of scarce attention”, which was published by Piper, he says in the book.