Industry Insights

THE BAREFOOT VC \ OCTOBER 2023 War propaganda is nothing new. At the height of the Roman empire, Julius Caesar provided readers back at...

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

THE BAREFOOT VC \ MARCH 2022 “War is the realm of uncertainty; three quarters of the factors on which action in war is based are wrapped...

THE BAREFOOT VC \ DECEMBER 2020 There were days this past year that felt like decades, and days that flew by. I can’t quite remember...

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...

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

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

THE BAREFOOT VC \ DECEMBER 2018 Several big announcements this morning: Gemini, headed by the Winklevoss twins, announced that they had...

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

THE BAREFOOT VC \ OCTOBER 2018 A few weeks ago, I wrote about the proliferation of stablecoins, crytpocurrencies using different...

THE BAREFOOT VC \ AUGUST 2018 Last week I wrote about how geopolitics can impact demand for public blockchain cryptocurrencies such as...

THE BAREFOOT VC \ JANUARY 2018 I spent much of the past week at CES, the Consumer Electronics Show. It used to be a “must-go” in Web 1.0...