I was struck by just how thoroughly Flow is a product of two tenets recognizable across many versions of innovation on the periphery, including tech startups: powerfully open-source and creativity from constraints.
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Health and wellness for individuals—much like beauty, cosmetics, and even fashion—often operate on an inverse incentive system between suppliers and consumers. The real question many consumers may actually want help with in making these purchases isn’t just, “What should I take?” but rather, “How do I know what actually works for me?”
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Something really wonderful happened a few days before the inauguration. Immediately following Joe Biden’s use of the term oligarchy in his final address, google searches for the definition of the word oligarchy spiked. This is such a positive, redeeming signal. Evidence that people still want to understand things, especially things they didn’t know about before.
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Much like Google’s rise was facilitated by the antitrust litigation distraction and resulting measures taken against Microsoft, new entrants could capitalize on a Google’s current antitrust quagmire and a post-Google landscape where barriers to entry are lowered and innovative web browsing startups can emerge and thrive.
Read MoreSince we get daily weather forecasts from apps with instant updates, one might assume that atmospheric weather data flows into global climate models in near real-time too. It doesn’t. In fact, the data that informs the scope and scale of measurable climate change currently is more than a decade old.
Read MoreThe combination of the accuracy of each user’s digital record, the willingness of users to become new connections, and a given means of communicating with each connection at any time, suggests immense, underutilized data value, that’s created as the network itself transforms and expands.
Read MoreTo better understand the new AI-ML reality suggests an exploration of both the profound contours and unprecedented capabilities of the current creative moment as well as the interdependent history of technology innovation and the entertainment industry…
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A few months ago, I was meeting up with a friend for coffee, and she asked me if I was working on a dissertation on Marlon James when she saw all the sticky note nubs in the copy of his most recent book I had with me, pictured here.
Read MoreThe venture capital platform concept has been at times much less easily explained. I want to share my thoughts on the extraordinary power and endless potential of the venture platform and why defining it properly is an evolving process.
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Crypto is a lot right now. The hypemospheric worlds that web3 and its antecedent eponym have come to represent overflow with hot takes and volatile stakes. While the zeitgeist boils to a froth ping ponging between unbridled sure thing conviction and flame-throwing told ya so cynicism, the loudest voices absent are the satisfied users, enterprise and consumer.
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As important as building better institutions is societal acknowledgement of their quality. It takes nothing away from the value of traditional schools and colleges. However if, in their absence, online education is still perceived as just a bandaid needed to fill a pandemic vacuum, we won’t take that leap.
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Right now, it honestly feels more like we’ve slipped dimensional seams of the multiverse and are now living in an alternate reality in 2020. It seems like many sectors and business models that survive the pandemic may emerge in a post-vaccine world almost unrecognizable, by look and function, than they did up until mid-March.
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As a history nerd and a fan of cartography, I fell in love with the intent of the phrase Here Be Dragons, first found etched into the Hunt-Lenox Globe, c. 1504.
Read MoreWhen the inputs change, the outcomes do too. The innovations that produce smarter, faster, cheaper for sectors like education, personal finance, and health-wellness may look and function in ways contrary to or at least diverging significantly from what’s come before.
Read MoreI was recently sent this video of a panel discussion I participated in during Hakka Labs DataEngConf at New Lab, with Evan Nisselson, David Beyer, Matt Hartman, and moderated by Pete Soderling.
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The attraction to an 'up-and-to-the-right' trajectory can become toxic when maintaining it obscures the realities of a given market or business model. As a cool new startup gets more media coverage and ever-larger rounds of investment, zealous enthusiasm can quickly become unrealistic expectation…
Read MoreAt its best, venture capital can be an amount of new cash from new advisors, both additive, short-term growth resources. At its worst, venture capital can resemble these benefits but turns out to be an over infusion of cash…
Read MoreOn Sunday, Netflix dropped a trailer for 'Cloverfield Paradox' during the Super Bowl with a premiere date of: available to stream that night right after the game. Paradox is the third film in a big budget, CGI-action franchise - the first and second films premiered in theaters and earned a combined $280 million at the box office worldwide. This movie will never play in theaters.
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