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Michael Dempsey

Michael Dempsey

Robotics, 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 Bourdain

5 min readAug 15, 2019

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Robotics, Food, and People — Announcing our investment in Ono Food Co.

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Michael Dempsey

Technology is making us crave the similar, and the unique

What happens when we can facetune to something “better”, generate to something familiar, and filter to something different.

4 min readFeb 26, 2019

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Technology is making us crave the similar, and the unique

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Michael Dempsey

Avatar-First Products & Platforms

Thoughts on our future avatar identities and how to build avatar-first products

6 min readSep 12, 2018

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Michael Dempsey

Everything to know about digital celebrities and how they could change the world

Hatsune Miku and Gorillaz were just the beginning.

10 min readJul 6, 2018

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Everything to know about digital celebrities and how they could change the world

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Michael Dempsey

Scaling Autonomous Vehicles with Machine Learning — Our Investment in Wayve

From a 2015 email to a seed investment: How Wayve uses novel machine learning to bring autonomous vehicles to the masses.

5 min readMay 22, 2018

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Scaling Autonomous Vehicles with Machine Learning — Our Investment in Wayve

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Michael Dempsey

AI.Reverie

Turning daydreams of simulation into scalable synthetic data — Announcing Compound’s investment in AI.Reverie

2 min readMay 8, 2018

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AI.Reverie

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Michael Dempsey

Moving from a default trust to default skeptic society

What the future of technology does to the future of trust.

3 min readFeb 14, 2018

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Moving from a default trust to default skeptic society

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Michael Dempsey

How to win with robots in restaurants

Evolving thoughts on where the venture scale opportunity lies at the intersection of robotics and food service.

5 min readJan 3, 2018

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How to win with robots in restaurants

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Michael Dempsey

Tia

A quick note on our investment in Tia.

3 min readOct 10, 2017

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Tia

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How to drive 10 billion miles in an autonomous vehicle

Google, Tesla, Zoox, and many more plan to drive billions of miles autonomously with simulation

6 min readMay 31, 2017

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How to drive 10 billion miles in an autonomous vehicle

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Michael Dempsey

Michael Dempsey

Want to live in a better future so investing in Frontier Technology @compoundvc. Learn more @ www.michaeldempsey.me

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