We are endlessly fascinated at betaworks by software that helps you ideate, create, and share ideas with those around you. As I wrote in July, “The web has flattened our information landscape giving us access to an unimaginable breadth of information — yet making sense of that landscape is challenging…

What’s a tool for thinking? For many people their primary tool for thinking is a writing tool since writing itself is a tool for thought. Writing documents, note taking and memorization tools made up much of the first generation of tools for thinking. What’s a tool for thinking? For many people their primary tool for thinking is a writing tool…

Honestly, we have been overwhelmed by the level of interest and quality of responses we have seen since we announced the Circles program.Within one week of launch, we received close to 700 applications from company leaders spanning a wide variety of industries, stages and categories. …

Under normal circumstances founders need ways to share the challenges of entrepreneurship with other founders ~ today isn’t normal. With the sudden onslaught of COVID-related challenges, more than ever, founders need peer support. Today we are launching a product to meet this need. Circles is a free 6-week, peer-to-peer, mentorship program for founders and company leaders Circles at Betaworks Studios is a 6-week…

The internet is broken. And yes, we tried turning it off and back on, but that didn’t work. Rather we are launching a new program at Betaworks starting today called Betalab, where, in collaboration with Lupa Systems, we will fund early stage startups that aim to Fix The Internet. We’re…

We, the undersigned, met in December at Betaworks Studios to discuss immediate steps the major social media companies can take to help safeguard our democratic process and mitigate the weaponization of their platforms in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. elections. Collectively, we represent a Facebook co-founder, former Facebook, Google…

In a post two weeks ago, I outlined a human-first framework for development and startup creation. In this post, I want to summarize the emerging technologies we are focused on at betaworks. Most of these new technologies are end-user, consumer-focused, many of them are new interfaces — all of them…

Technology has a hole in it, I can feel it. Something isn’t right and while the current era of technology platforms feels like it has reached its zenith, there is something missing from the way many people are talking about the future. — Technology has a hole in it We have 2.5 billion smartphone users today — each of whom has access to all the knowledge of the world — yet these devices often aren’t working for them nor consistently making their lives better. And rather than a flourishing of creativity and cultural energy, we are seeing people drift…

Vivian Schiller and I ran a session this past week at betaworks Studio about synthetic media. …