My entrepreneurial and investing activities have been focused on frontier technologies that push humanity forward including AI, biotech, and space. Along the way I have backed visionary entrepreneurs like Elon Musk (SpaceX I Tesla I Neuralink) and Amir Husain (Sparkcognition), and rockstar venture partners like Maryanna Saenko and Steve Jurveston (Future Ventures).
I also partnered with Dmitry Starson to make significant advancements in the state of the art of beamed-energy propulsion technology, which for long was the stuff of science fiction—until the dedication of our team of Caltech and MIT scientists and the results of our R&D program brought beamed energy propulsion onto the NASA Technology Roadmap in 2015. (more…)