Seth Bannon is a founding partner at Fifty Years who explicitly frames venture capital as "backing founders solving the world's biggest problems with technology" and emphasizes civilization-scale outcomes rather than incremental software companies. He's known for popularizing the "Mr. Burns test" - looking for deep-tech companies building products that even a villain like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons would want because they are so clearly better for the world. Seth Bannon is a founding partner at Fifty Years who explicitly frames venture capital as "backing founders solving the world's biggest problems with technology" and emphasizes civilization-scale outcomes rather than incremental software companies. He's known for popularizing the "Mr. Burns test" - looking for deep-tech companies building products that even a villain like Mr. Burns from The Simpsons would want because they are so clearly better for the world.