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of enso relief ilara health africa keas lb pharma litmus health lucidify medesk russia uk medicalalgorithmics poland medivo nanowear neurogeneces nextsense new life solution through acquisition of mequilibrium nuna health nurture health omada health openwater patients know best uk praava health bangladesh rasello tanzania resilient networks systems shotsy solera startup health started as organized wisdom supportiv syllable tocagen turbine valkee finland tech ai investments adkeeper alphabet formerly google amicus block formerly square bloom energy cognitive match crowdbooster daivergent devpost epam esai ai eventbrite factual fancy flattr fluidinfo gooddata goqii grasshopper bancorp gridpoint 21st century utilities ji grahak mobility solutions knack ledunia kenya linkstorm linqia litmus health localized nomanini oradian croatia pressreader canada rallypoint school loop skygrid sojo studios sparked technorati trusted id uber via acquisition of social bicycles uipath you com zedo zeta zillow other aerospace logistics irl investments agritecture icon aircraft acquired item farm lensdetect makhers studio voyager holdings via acquisition of nanoracks space adventures spacex trella worldview zerog current nonprofit boards charity navigator expanded schools it history society sustainable media center advisory board the commons project chair past boards and investments selected board seats past 23andme left before spac ipo ultimately acquired by founder eventful com acquired by cbs evernote acquired by bending spoons ibs group transferred my role to swiss subsidiary luxoft left when acquired by dxc technology medscape now owned by webmd meetup inc acquired by wework now owned by bending spoons proofpoint met my own term limits voxiva acquired by welltok wpp group exceeded term limits served 2000 2014 xcor aerospace filed for bankruptcy yandex resigned early 2022 and its non russian successor nebius nbis 2023 2024 closed investments selected airship ventures rip brightmail acquired by symantec boxbe acquired by edatasource del icio us acquired by yahoo dopplr acquired by nokia dotomi acquired by valueclick dulance acquired by google facebook ipo sold mostly to fund wellville fathom technology acquired by epam flickr acquired by yahoo flourish labs dissolved graphisoft acquired by nemetschek jana closed kurbo acquired linkedin acquired by microsoft mashery acquired medico acquired by everyday health medspace now part of webmd medstory acquired by microsoft mequilibrium acquired metacarta acquired by nokia nest health dissolved netbeans acquired by sun micro nickels dissolved paragraph international acquired by silicon graphics payperks closed plazes acquired by nokia postini acquired by google powerset acquired by microsoft realtravel acquired by uptake sugarwork acquired by decidr vizu acquired by nielsen nonprofit boards past electronic frontier foundation chair eurasia foundation icann founding chair 1998 2000 long now foundation national endowment for democracy personal genome foundation stopbadware org sunlight foundation truste worldquant university russian investments past altergeo ostrovok scala terralink vitaportal yandex zingaya get in touch you can email me at edyson using this site s domain name books upcoming term limits time and scale in the age of ai due out in spring 2027 by mit press published release 2 0 a design for living in the digital age view on amazon get in touch you can email me at edyson using this site s domain name about i am an investor see full list journalist author commentator and philanthropist over the years i have learned earned and served in many sectors and places including more than 90 countries my activities cover a variety of areas many intersecting partial list below i write about some of these areas on my substack in the pool with esther currently i m busy finishing my second book term limits time and scale in the age of ai due out early in 2027 from mit press edventure com used to refer to my company edventure holdings which my business partner daphne kis and i sold to cnet back in 2004 with the caveat that i got to keep the name it s a pun using my initials though there s a subtle hint of editor and education as well my areas of interest include health and it i m optimistic about the potential of it ai to improve human health most of all by reducing administrative and operational friction and thereby allowing humans to earn more money by delivering human care at scale in a system that supports rather than constrains that work yes that s still a bit aspirational and it s hard to find companies that actually do that sustainably so i m also an investor in a variety of non predatory health companies that help by involving individuals in maintaining their own health and by improving the delivery of care and treatments and the institutions that provide it my activities here include past board seats with 23andme voxiva and numerous other investments as well as my role as the third of ten initial research subjects in george church s personal genome project along with a seat on its board currently i m board chair of avanlee care supporting caregivers of medicare advantage patients and of the non profit the commons project and an active investor in a variety of players in mental health neurotech pharma and digital health emerging markets i started traveling in central and eastern europe in 1989 and that s where i first started angel investing to avoid the conflicts of investing as a journalist in the us i now have investments in several companies in the region i speak russian and i have a certain affinity for the country s people though my heritage is farther west according to family records and to 23andme more recently i have spent a lot of time in eastern asia and india and now in africa i have visited 90 countries overall and seen way too many failed governments along with some more hopeful trends in other places wellville wellville was a 10 year nonprofit project operating in five small us communities clatsop county or lake county ca muskegon county mi north hartford ct and spartanburg sc i founded funded and volunteered for it its impact lives on and with the many people inside and outside those places who are continuing to cultivate their own sustainable social fabric in many different forms you can read much more about wellville at its own website unlike most of my interests and projects wellville had a clear beginning and end 2013 2024 in some complex way that fact led to my musings about term limits and ultimately the book on term limits i am now completing non profits generally i prefer to do good through sustainable profit making enterprises which come with a lottery ticket attached but there are some things companies simply can t do such as fighting corruption and fostering transparency and the rule of law around the world organizations i support include the long now foundation the commons project the sustainable media center and expandeed schools logistics insurance nitty gritty the first company i ever worked with as an analyst for new court securities 1977 80 looked like an impending disaster 100 million of capital spent now raising a down round at a valuation of 15 million before earning its first revenues its name federal express i loved the way it reimagined the overnight courier business and shifted gradually from simplicity unlike couriers and passengers packages didn t mind the overnight stopovers in its memphis hub to complexity when computers made dynamic scheduling and more efficient routing possible i love watching how things work how you need to balance efficiency with a bit of slack to manage exceptions and how to match brilliant design to complex reality in addition to spacex where careful manufacturing matters as much as clever software my investments include swvl an egyptian born company providing fleet management software and services for human passengers in the middle east and elsewhere and trella a tech enabled shipping company in the middle east and africa then there s makhersstudio based in atlanta ga which re purposes shipping containers into cost effective worker housing and retail units and finally i love insurance that does not just price and spread risk but that actually reduces it the latest iteration of this interest is my investment in lensdetect com which applies ai to monitor highway cameras and summon rural police when conditions warrant not just crashes but also real time risks like falling trees that may cause crashes air space 2 0 likewise i m active in fostering the emergence of start ups in commercial space flight i have flown weightless six or seven times my favorite credential is my 2009 certificate of completion from the yuri gagarin cosmonaut training center outside moscow where i spent six months training as a backup cosmonaut more about that in my next book present without leave i have a vague intention to retire on mars with its gentle 40 of earth gravity easy on aging bones but not too soon it s not my life s ambition but more a good way to end it when i hand my tasks on earth over to the next generation what i want on my epitaph i wasn t done yet there is still more to learn and to fix but over to you ed note second half prompted by writing term limits biography esther dyson is an investor journalist author commentator and philanthropist she is the author of two books including the upcoming term limits time and scale in the age of ai due out in spring 2027 from mit press she also writes a biweekly substack in the pool with esther throughout her life she has devoted herself to exploring various bubbles seeing what people inside bubbles take for granted and trying to open their and her own eyes to broader perspectives she speaks four languages russian french german and english and believes that being multilingual is a key advantage in our complex world she likes to quote ai pioneer david waltz words are not in themselves carriers of meaning but merely pointers to shared understanding esther grew up in a bubble herself at the institute for advanced study in princeton nj her parents met there as post docs in the late 40s they returned to europe esther was born in zürich switzerland her parents returned to the institute in 1952 her british father freeman dyson now as a faculty member reporting to robert oppenheimer and her swiss mother as a wife freeman loosely anticipated today s notion of data centers in space in a 1960 science magazine article called search for artificial stellar sources of infrared radiation which posited that the best way to find alien intelligence would be to look for excess infrared energy leaking from a loose shell of orbiting solar ray collectors that such a civilization would construct around its star to capture most of its energy that crazy idea soon got the name dyson spheres esther s career has taken many twists but all sit within her venn diagram of interests in it ai economics and writing plus the trajectories of civilizations companies markets governments spacecraft and yes human lives from 2013 to 2024 she was founder of and a volunteer for wellville a nonprofit project focused on helping five small us communities build their own sustainable community fabric from 1983 through 2006 she and ceo daphne kis who joined her in the mid 80 s owned and operated the annual pc forum conference and published the influential release 1 0 newsletter which analyzed the effect of emerging technologies and markets on organizations economies and societies from 1990 to 1995 they also ran a conference the east west high tech forum and newsletter rel east that focused on the tech industry in eastern europe and russia and for a few years in the early 2000s they also produced the flight school conference for the air taxi and commercial spaceflight industries they sold the whole business to cnet in 2004 esther is a board member and angel investor in a variety of start ups mostly in online services health care and medicine logistics artificial intelligence emerging markets and space travel from 1998 to 2000 she served as founding chairman of icann the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers she has served on the boards of nonprofit organizations including bridges org the national endowment for democracy the eurasia foundation the long now foundation stopbadware and the sunlight foundation she was previously a member of the global business network she also sat on the board of the personal genome project and was its third research subject you can find her full genome on the project website her first book release 2 0 a design for living in the digital age 1997 explored the impact of digital technology on every aspect of our private and public lives earlier in her career esther worked as a fact checker and then a reporter at forbes 1974 77 followed by a five year stint as an analyst on wall street 1977 82 in 1983 she bought rosen research from her employer ben rosen she renamed the company edventure holdings and his rosen electronics letter newsletter release 1 0 sic for the first few years in honor of the original s initials esther trained for six months at the yuri gagarin cosmonaut training center in star city russia as a back up for spaceflight participant charles simonyi s march 2009 trip aboard the soyuz tma 14 to the international space station she has taken seven parabolic weightless flights she received her ba in economics from harvard university though she spent most of her time at the harvard crimson where she proofread for money and wrote for free get in touch you can email me at edyson using this site s domain name archives huffington post flickr archive of pc forum photos flight school archives release 1 0 archive release 2 0 on amazon com featured articles aenne burda award bestowed on esther dyson january 25 2009 the award is presented to women in the media who successfully implement their extraordinary visions flight school weightless at last january 21 2009 being weightless is tremendous fun you really are flying the amazing thing is that it does not feel amazing it feels natural the quantification of everything september 17 2008 as we drown in information we try to make sense of it just as economists measure us en masse we can now measure ourselves one by one and it is insidiously fascinating the coming ad revolution february 11 2008 my op ed piece in the wall street journal see also bits bands and books june 6 2008 paul krugman op ed in the new york times the predictions of 90s technology gurus are coming true more slowly than enthusiasts expected but the future they envisioned is still on the march in 1994 one of those gurus esther dyson made a striking prediction that the ease with which digital content can be copied and disseminated would eventually force businesses to sell the results of creative activity cheaply or even give it away get in touch you can email me at edyson 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