Return Of The Renaissance Man: Industry Hopping Entrepreneurship
Executive Summary
Lars Christian Wilde, a 2021 In Vivo Rising Leader, is president and co-founder of Compass Pathways, a psychedelic medicines company developing psilocybin for mental health disorders. An entrepreneur who began his career in finance before launching an athletics company, two cooking supply companies and an investment fund, among other achievements, Wilde describes himself as ‘a generalist who surrounds himself with amazing people.’
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