Aaron Appleton
Head of Venture Science Doctorate Programme @Deep Science Ventures
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Venture Science Doctorate Programme @Deep Science Ventures
The Venture Science Doctorate is a first of a kind PhD programme in scientific invention:• Embedded within a venture studio and running the same innovation model that\'s produced 59 deep tech companies (that are funded by VC\'s like Sequoia, Lowecarbon Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Atomico, and angel investors like Sam Altman, Patrick Collison, and many others).• Accredited• Funded • Culminating with each PhD candidate launching a deep tech companySolutions to many of the world’s greatest challenges are going to come from scientific research and science commercialisation–driven by venture scientists, who are equipped to navigate both worlds.
EDUCATION
Brooklyn College
Master's degree, Earth System Science Education
Harvard University
Master of Education - MEd, Applied Learning Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cross-Registered
SKILLS
ABOUT AARON APPLETON
I build systems that turn great scientists and engineers into great entrepreneurs — taking breakthrough science out of the lab and into the world to solve civilization-scale challenges.Most entrepreneurship education is broken.Too many accelerators, incubators, courses, fellowships, and startup programs are built on outdated assumptions about how people learn. They default to using the same \"information-processing\" learning model that has shaped conventional education for a century.and produce predictably high startup failure rates as a result.I take a different approach. I design learning experiences rooted in the first principles of how people develop expertise — specifically ecological dynamics and cognitive systems engineering: two fields that have transformed training in the highest-stakes domains, from defense and intelligence to space operations and elite sport. I design from those principles to help scientists and engineers develop the skills to become venture-scale founders.This work has been shaped through collaboration with hundreds of experts across the deep tech ecosystem — serial founders, investors, non-dilutive funders, operators, IP lawyers, and policymakers — and translate their insights into learning environments built alongside simulation and game designers. Playable environments that push founders to the edge of their abilities. And where the design reflects the real, nonlinear dynamics of deep tech venture building.My goal is to make that transition from scientist to deep tech entrepreneur repeatable and meaningfully more likely to succeed.
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