Realpolitik in Tech by Maggie Xiao

You may be surprised to discover that in the past 10 years, overall venture capital return is zero, according to a conversation between Clayton Christensen (Innovator’s Dilemma) and Marc Andreessen (a16z) (a must see video here from StartUp Grind Conference in 2017 Redwood City). It may be even more

On the recent college admission scandal, author Michael Locke McLendon (The Psychology of Inequality) argues “the idea that some have climbed to the top through their own merit is an aristocratic ideology, not a democratic one, therefore meritocracy caused the college admissions scandal.”   In his article, Mr. McLendon referenced French

Jibo, the world’s first family robot who promised us nearly everything, now left us with its last dance. Aibo, with a hefty price tag at $2,900, announced its envoy to the States and immediately received press attention a niche product can hope for. Two opposite events occuring at

Our bodies are built to run but not to find water. Therefore our need to exchange information about the location of water have evolved us to become more successful than apes.  In his book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making

On March 4, Financial Times reported  that David Cicilline, the head of the House antitrust subcommittee, suggested separating social media platforms from selling information and data, or so-called “Glass-Steagall for tech”. (The Glass Steagall Act was enacted in 1933 in the wake of 1929 stock market crash to separate investment

Anti-aging is one of the fastest growing fields in today’s biotech advancement. According to this Guardian article, it was in in 2008, Novato, CA-based Buck Institute researcher Judith Campisi discovered secretion from senescent cells causes inflammation, the driver of almost every age-related diseases. This discovery shed light on scientists