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Brave early adopters are the hallmark of an innovation set to create immense human value. In this story, the innovation is cutting-edge technology for interfacing with the nervous system, and the brave early adopter is Ian Burkhart.Ian, a youn
CNBC reported on Friday that Amazon is building a health and wellness team inside its Alexa division to work on making Alexa a better tool for healthcare.Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan recently announced plans for a joint healthcar
Ready Player One showcased both the promise and the pitfalls of our technological future. A virtual world that enables your wildest dreams, on demand, on top of a real world that rots in decay because the virtual one is so much better. All grea
Epic Games’ Fortnite has exploded in popularity over the past few months for four reasons.1. It’s accessible to all (free to play, compared to similar games that cost $60, and easy to play, different than most complicated console games).2. I
We’re bullish on eSports and committed to learning more about the space. The following note is an introductory piece that ‘shows our work’ as we get up to speed.Given the recent explosion in popularity of eSports leagues, we wanted to take a l
After our first visit to Amazon Go, Amazon’s automated retail store in Seattle, we’re not surprised to hear the company has plans to open up to six more cashierless convenience stores later this year.Our experience was flawless, leaving us inc
Op-ed published February 7, 2018 on Business InsiderThroughout history, different eras have begotten different heroes of productivity in industry. In the 80s, the stock broker was the rock star of the business world. In the late 90s and 2000s,
Last week we wrote about simplicity as a driving force behind the world’s biggest technology offerings. We’re extending our thoughts on simplicity into a series that explores the necessity of simplicity in frontier technology. First, we’ll dive
We’re investing in Enjoy as a counter-automation play on the future of retail. Read our thesis on retail’s future here. In short: retailers must either embrace full automation or compete on experience by focusing on uniquely human capabilities:
Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer, about five times bigger in that space than Walmart and its Jet.com subsidiary. Yet despite Amazon’s deep online roots and dominance over Internet shopping, I believe it will buy Target in 2018.Af
Simplicity is underappreciated. In many things. But most obviously right now in our world of consumer technology.Simplicity is a requirement of mass adoption. Look at the iPhone, Google, Amazon, and Uber as examples: The iPhone never shipped w
Conclusion. Get ready for another $10 a month drag on your credit card. It’s a rebranded, all in one Apple video and music offering in 2-3 years.An Emerging Area of Investment. It’s no secret that original content will be an emerging area of
Every VC says they only invest in great founders, but the majority of venture-backed businesses still end in relative failure. Does that mean we as VCs are just bad judges of founders or do we not know what great founders look like? This is a q
When Apple launched the iPhone SDK in March 2008, they correctly anticipated a gold rush for iOS developers selling apps on the new App Store. Another gold rush is about to begin with the debut of iOS 11 and ARKit.Given how the App Store story
Special thanks to David Kroger, Steve Van Sloun, and Austin Bohlig for their work on the Non-Tech AI Portfolio.In ten years, every company will have to be an artificial intelligence company or they won’t be competitive. While traditional tech
The sickness adoption hurdle. The timing of most tech adoption curves can be anticipated by a combination of cost and utility. The lower the cost, the higher the utility, the faster the adoption. We define mass adoption as 500m or more monthly
If we had to sum up our investment approach in one word, it would be non-incremental. Venture capital is a power law game: the vast majority of venture returns come only from a few investments. We believe we have to have the chance to hit a gra
It’s no secret that online retail is slowly killing offline retail.  In Q4 2016, 8.3% of total US retail sales were online (about $103 billion), up from 5.1% just five years ago (about $53 billion). Offline sales were 91.7% of the total, about
If artificial intelligence is the brains, then robots are the brawn in the future of work.Earlier this week, we attended the AUVSI XPOENTIAL trade show in Dallas, the largest global gathering of unmanned systems providers, robotic software dev
This note was originally published on Business Insider.Apple is the world’s largest company with a market cap of nearly $770 billion as of this writing. Tesla is one of the world’s largest automakers with a market cap of close to $55 billion,
Vibrant culture driven by shared values separates the best companies from the rest. Without clearly stated values, a “company” is just a temporary group of people, not a sustainable organization. Working together over the past 10 years, we’ve i
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