Johannes Lenhard
University of Cambridge
Johannes Lenhard is an ethnographer of venture capital and homelessness and currently teaching and researching at the University of Cambridge (as the Centre Coordinator of the Max Planck Centre Cambridge for the Study of Ethics, the Economy and Social Change).
Having worked towards a better understanding of survival practices of homeless people in London and Paris for his PhD, he has spent the last four years researching the ethics of venture capital investors. His monograph ‘Making Better Lives - Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among people sleeping rough in Paris’ will be published later this year and so will his co-authored book 'Better Venture’ focused DEI in tech and VC.
He contributes regularly to journalistic outlets, such as Techcrunch, Prospect, Sifted, Aeon, the Conversation and Crunchbase.
Find his Twitter @JFLenhard.
Past Presentations
Stop blitscaling unicorns - look out for (green) Zebras instead
13:00 - 13:30, 15th of October (Friday) 2021/ INSPIRE STAGE