Industry Insights

Blockchain and AI: The battle for your data

Over the past few months, I have been watching the live convergence of blockchain, crypto, AI and IoT with a fascination unique to those...

Resilience in Crisis

THE BAREFOOT VC \ May 2020 As investors try to navigate the COVID-19 world, they’re taking a hard look at their portfolios and solving...

How Edge Computing Can Make Us More Resilient in a Crisis

COINDESK \ April 2020 “Edge computing” has been heralded as a way to increase access to real-time information and to analyze that...

Fomo in Washington DC: Mnuchin, Trump and Tomorrow's Libra Hearing

THE BAREFOOT VC \ July 2019 The last time I wrote was on the eve of Facebook’s cryptocurrency Libra announcement. At this time tomorrow,...

Bitcoin at $10k - The Beginning

THE BAREFOOT VC \ NOVEMBER 2018 The price of bitcoin reached $10K earlier today. Over the years I have seen a significant change in...

Token Thoughts on the Blockchain Boom

THE BAREFOOT VC \ July 2017 There is also a lot of buzz about ICO’s, or initial coin offerings, a new asset class of cryptocurrencies...

Are Banks the Next Dinosaurs?

COINDESK \ October 2015 Last week, I spoke at The Economist’s Buttonwood Gathering in NYC about how emerging markets (and Africa in...

Rethinking Impact Investing

THE BAREFOOT VC \ October 2015 Impact investing, venture philanthropy and social entrepreneurship are all areas in practice and theory...

When Third Is First

THE BAREFOOT VC \ JUNE 2015 In 2011, I wrote about Jugaad, according to Wikipedia “a colloquial Hindi word that can mean an innovative...

Smart Data, Diversity, and Our Decentralized Future

THE BAREFOOT VC \ JANUARY 2015 As an avid traveler, observer of the world and a technophile, I’ve been struck by the parallels in the...