Important social impact projects are receiving less attention and funding than they deserve. — E. David Ellington, the Founder and the Executive Chairman of the Silicon Valley Blockchain Society, thinks the blockchain revolution is inevitable. “Every aspect of who you are is going to change,” said Ellington at a recent What’s Now: San Francisco event hosted in partnership with Capgemini’s Applied Innovation Exchange. Ellington…

Upworthy’s CEO and Co-Founder shares potential solutions for reducing polarization in American politics and society. — Upworthy, founded in 2012 by Eli Pariser and Peter Koechley, quickly became well-known for its viral, feel-good stories, and attention-grabbing headlines. …

The author of “The Lean Startup” weighs in on the ongoing tech backlash, and explains why we need a long-term stock exchange. — Just a few short years ago, tech companies were largely viewed as the darlings of the American economy. …

Eric Ries, the author of The Lean Startup and founder and CEO of The Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), hopes that a new stock exchange focused on long-term gains will help solve the short-sighted thinking plaguing our financial markets. In an interview with Reinvent, into the root causes of our economy’s…

If we want to make the future of work more hospitable to independent workers, we need to get these two things right. — Thumbtack Founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta wants to reframe the conversation around the future of work from focusing on what it isn’t to focusing on what it is. But first, here’s what it isn’t: it isn’t characterized by an abundance of manufacturing jobs, powerful unions, or people using on-demand platforms…

How the decentralization inherent within blockchain could reinvent social networks and the sharing economy. — It’s difficult to keep up with the almost daily churn of scandals emerging from the Trump White House. Some of them inevitably have longer legs than others, particularly those that tap into Americans’ pre-existing fears. The recent news that the Trump campaign gained access to the data of 50 million…

Will the future of space exploration be funded by NASA, VC firms, or a mix of the two? — As a high school student, Jonny Dyer spent a lot of what he describes as his misspent youth “building fire things.” But anyone familiar with Dyer’s work at Skybox (purchased by Google in 2014) would hardly call his youth misspent. His early interest in building rockets has led to a…

Unity Stoakes, President and Co-Founder of StartUp Health, believes no goal is too ambitious when it comes to reinventing global health. — If you’ve been focused on the healthcare debate in the Unites States over the past few years, it might seem as though progress in healthcare is all but stagnated. …

Stuart Feldman, Chief Scientist of Schmidt Futures, believes that the current transition to a more automated economy shares important similarities with previous eras of disruption. This disruption is far from all bad, Feldman argues, and first and foremost often leaves us with services superior to the ones we had before. …