016| Country 1.0 And How to Edit Inequality Out of the Equation with Kay Van-Petersen

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IH016 - Country 1.0 And How to Edit Inequality Out of the Equation with Kay Van-Petersen

Kay Van-Petersen is the Director and Global Macro Strategist at Saxo Bank. He looks at the world from a top-down perspective, assessing the big picture and meta trends of monetary policy, fiscal policy, and geopolitics. He has a passion for deciphering the tailwinds and headwinds that push the world and how they cascade across traditional asset classes for investment strategies in equities, bonds, commodities, and currencies. He is also an advisor and a proud investor in SoGal Ventures, pioneering venture capital funds for female entrepreneurs. Kay has a Masters in Applied Economics & Finance from the Copenhagen Business School and a BA in Finance from Niels Brock, Leicester Business School.

Kay joins me today to discuss what ‘Country 1.0’ might look like if we could start from scratch and how we could edit inequality out of the equation. We discuss corporations, leaders, and educators' roles and share the mindset changes that need to occur to create a country, nation, or world where there is no consideration of color, gender, ability, ethnicity, age, or geography. We discuss why people in leadership need empathy and an understanding of other people and discuss how words play their part in intent or deception. Kay shares how gender prejudices exist in venture capital and the biases within our public education system. We also explore if society can aid the actualization of people's potential and the need to upgrade basic human rights.

“The overall objective here is to bring humanity back into everything we are doing.” - Kay Van-Petersen

This week on Insert:Human

• How COVID-19 affected the response to the George Floyd incident 

• Why we need to forget the current system and start from scratch to transcend biases

• Why we need to build in transparency and accountability into policymaking and Country 1.0

• Why we should embrace AI integration in decision making to remove human ego and bias

• How the ‘growth at all costs’ business model is starting to fail and cause social unrest

• Where leadership and the role of parents fit in Country 1.0

• How legacy has played a different role in different generations

• The issues surrounding virtue signaling and the intent and deception of words

• The skewed paradox of 98% of venture capital going male when women lead consumer spending

• How venture capital is sculpting where society is going

• Why we need to upgrade basic human rights and introduce rights to healthcare, education, and income

Resources Mentioned:

• Trillion Dollar Coach by Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg

• Your Undivided Attention Podcast

Connect with Kay Van-Petersen:

• Saxo Bank

• Saxo Bank on LinkedIn

• Saxo Bank on Facebook

• Saxo Bank on Twitter

• SoGal Ventures

• Kay Van-Petersen on LinkedIn

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