December 9, 2025 - Capital Evolution Seth Levine and EO Founder Verne Harnish

Seth Levine – Co-Author of Capital Evolution: The New American Economy

I ultimately believe in the long run that technology, humans, human ingenuity, will solve many of these problems, but we need to be deliberate about it. And we talk about the environment in the book, and we also talk about the middle class in the book, as kind of the same, same sort of actors in our economy, which are, these are things that we extract from under our sort of neoliberal form of capitalism.

Seth Levine is a longtime venture capitalist and global advocate for entrepreneurship. He serves as a partner at Foundry, a Boulder Colorado venture capital firm he cofounded in 2006 that now manages nearly four billion dollars in assets. His work spans the United States as well as emerging markets in the Middle East and Africa, where he advises governments, entrepreneurs, and policy leaders on economic development and startup ecosystem growth. Seth also cofounded Pledge 1 percent, a global movement that encourages companies to commit equity, time, or product to support their communities, and he serves as a trustee of Macalester College in Minnesota where he helped create the college’s entrepreneurship program and its annual student hackathon. He has spent his career promoting business innovation and remains an active advisor, speaker, and mentor. Seth lives in Colorado with his family and is an avid cyclist and outdoor enthusiast.

Verne Harnish – Owner, Gazelles, Inc. and Founder of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO)

If you don’t change your daily routine, goals are just hollow. Now, routines without goals are aimless, and so you need both.

Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 18,000 members worldwide, and founded and chaired for fi fteen years EO’s premiere CEO program held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today. Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 290 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past four decades helping companies scaleup. The Global Scaleup Fellow at The Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, he’s the author of Mastering the Rockefeller Habits; authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times,“ for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword; wrote Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) which has been translated into 26 languages and has won eight major international book awards including the International Book Award for Best General Business book; and is the co-author of Scaling Up Compensation. His latest book is Start to Scale. Verne serves on several boards including vice chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the social venture Million Dollar Women. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.