I called a family member in Boston and shared my thoughts on two topics I am deeply concerned about — i. ramping geopolitical tensions which are going unnoticed against the backdrop of the pandemic and ii. my view that any economic stimulus during a prolonged, multinational quarantine is doomed to…

I dropped out of Stanford to co-found ink with Slovenian entrepreneur and technologist Denis Benic. We created the company to be the new face of printing. Like a lot of start-ups before us, we chose our validating market to be higher-ed. I don’t think Denis and I would have ever…

A crew of unknown men mosey into a chip manufacturer in China and say, “to hell with the blueprints, jam this pencil-tip size chip in the middle of everything; if you do, you get a bunch of money; if you don’t, you fail your next inspection and your factory is…

Originally published February 2, 2018 Blockchain is a useful technology which allows us to assemble data in indestructible way at high velocity. The high rate of velocity owes itself to an incentive structure at the core of most current blockchain architecture. The more data you assemble, the more rewards —…

Last week, I attended the retirement party for my father held in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a city on the North Shore of Boston. Trained as a civil engineer, upon graduation from Northeastern, Joe Manzi Jr. joined a 12-person construction company building concrete water storage tanks. He worked for the same company…

In January, my Lyft driver, my barber, and a friend’s friend who runs an alternative medicine practice in Kentucky all had cryptocurrency trade tips. Since January, the aggregate market cap of all cryptocurrencies declined by 75 percent. The rapid rise and fall of cryptocurrency prices isn’t an indictment of the…

“Technology marches in seven-league boots from one ruthless, revolutionary conquest to another, tearing down old factories and industries, flinging up new processes with terrifying rapidity.” — Charles A. Beard The Businessman vs. the Engineer Beard, a prominent historian at Columbia University in the first half of the 20th century…

In a recent Medium post, I wrote about how we are approaching a defining moment for blockchain technology and its financial technology application, cryptocurrency. I further highlighted how the lack of understanding of blockchain technology among US law makers and regulators has stymied innovation, and how the success of blockchain…

Historically, Silicon Valley has been a bastion for innovation. It’s a place which embraces grandiose ideas for how the future might look and where a “betting the farm” mentality is celebrated. People from all walks of life come to Silicon Valley to help build and nurture our future. Founders and…