Michael DempseyRobotics, Food, and People — Announcing our investment in Ono Food Co.“If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.” — Anthony Bourdain5 min read·Aug 15, 2019----
Michael DempseyTechnology is making us crave the similar, and the uniqueWhat happens when we can facetune to something “better”, generate to something familiar, and filter to something different.4 min read·Feb 26, 2019----
Michael DempseyAvatar-First Products & PlatformsThoughts on our future avatar identities and how to build avatar-first products6 min read·Sep 12, 2018--1--1
Michael DempseyEverything to know about digital celebrities and how they could change the worldHatsune Miku and Gorillaz were just the beginning.10 min read·Jul 6, 2018--6--6
Michael DempseyScaling Autonomous Vehicles with Machine Learning — Our Investment in WayveFrom a 2015 email to a seed investment: How Wayve uses novel machine learning to bring autonomous vehicles to the masses.5 min read·May 22, 2018----
Michael DempseyAI.ReverieTurning daydreams of simulation into scalable synthetic data — Announcing Compound’s investment in AI.Reverie2 min read·May 8, 2018----
Michael DempseyMoving from a default trust to default skeptic societyWhat the future of technology does to the future of trust.3 min read·Feb 14, 2018--2--2
Michael DempseyHow to win with robots in restaurantsEvolving thoughts on where the venture scale opportunity lies at the intersection of robotics and food service.5 min read·Jan 3, 2018----
Michael DempseyHow to drive 10 billion miles in an autonomous vehicleGoogle, Tesla, Zoox, and many more plan to drive billions of miles autonomously with simulation6 min read·May 31, 2017--3--3