Christian Bailey

Entrepreneur, Inventor, Parent, Scientist

Christian is a serial entrepreneur and inventor, currently serving several startups as their Chief Invention Officer with a new model for IP strategy. Outside of inventing things from skin cancer detection to neurotechnology and hypersonic travel, Christian’s other lifelong passion is aviation: he’s an active venture partner with UP.Partners and he instructs and mentors in helicopters and fast airplanes. After Oxford and a couple of startups, he went back to another undergrad at MIT where he met his wife, and the two of them are raising three little future pilots.

Scientific breakthroughs don't come from analyzing data. They come from imagination. We then ask, "If this hallucination were true, what data should we observe? What does it explain?"

aviation, curating gatherings of inventive people, French wine appellations, helicopters, inventions, patents

Blessed to have found the community young at TED2002. Adopted the "talk to me about 3 things" on a nametag for my quarterly Laboratory of Inventive People event at MIT, for parties, and even for our wedding! We made them for every guest and an event the night before with craft cocktails and mini TED talks about love.

Getting toddlers to come up and brush their teeth with imaginative play. There's no such thing as "the terrible twos".