Reposted from our newsletter. ** Friends, Leapin’ lizards! A month has passed from our last epistle. (Didn’t read it? Don’t worry, we’ll wait.) With fall has come good news. We have started work for FujiFilm’s Open Innovation Hub in Santa Clara. Open Innovation Hub is a showcase for core technologies developed by FujiFilm, and the company is now […]
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The Signal #18: Back to school and Blue Bottle unplugged
Belatedly posted from our August 28th newsletter. ** Friends – Late August means back-to-school, and, in the working world, when suddenly everyone and everything seems to come back to life after the summer. Around the corner, just beyond Labor Day, waits September, with the usual rush of conferences and deliverables. On a back-to-school note, Jon […]
The Signal #17: awkward board meetings
From our August 9 newsletter. (Don’t get it? sign up here) *** Friends, So you probably saw the news re Uber and Didi in China. Uber will sell its operations in China to Didi and receive 20% of Didi. Uber joins Didi’s board; Didi joins Uber’s board. The good folks at Pitchbook had a little […]
The Signal #16: SoftBank and spider powers
from our July 27 newsletter, The Signal. (Sign up for more installments here) *** Friends, So, like, SoftBank is buying ARM. We’ve gotten a fair bit of questions about this and so will comment here. First and foremost, it can be helpful to think of SoftBank as an investment company that owns a telco, rather […]