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The Coming Electrification of Everything

At Obvious Ventures, we believe stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the preferred method to power everything in our lives. From cars to scooters to boats to locomotives to industrial equipment…

The Grid Edge as a Platform

The US electricity grid is the original mesh network. The original web. The original net. It’s just a really archaic version of a net. Until now.

Finally, the electricity grid in the United States (and many other places) is starting to get smart. It’s…

Lithium is The New Silicon

Energy storage as an industry is no longer a curiosity or academic pursuit. Creating a future which is 100% renewable will require the collective focus of the entire energy industry. With its ability to support the weaknesses of variable resources such as wind and solar, low-cost…

The Obvious Future

Today I’m joining Obvious Ventures. While it’s a career change, to be sure, it was an easy decision. I feel like I’ve been training for this shift most of my professional career.

The Obvious Ventures vision aligns with my view of the world. Great companies, large and small, bring…

It’s Obvious. Again.

Today marks the official launch of Obvious Ventures, the third chapter in the history of ‘Obvious.’ In order to tell you where we’re going, I should first tell you where we’ve been.

Chapter one of Obvious began back in 2006 when my long-time collaborator Biz Stone…