Ben Longmier and Mike Cassidy, co-founders of Apollo Fusion

Bringing Moore’s Law to Space

Entrepreneurship

My Investment in Apollo Fusion Simply put, Moore’s “law” states that processor speeds, or overall processing power for computers, will double every two years. While there has been some debate about whether or not Moore’s Law characterizes advancements we’ve seen in space technology, and many believe that Moore’s Law in computation has slowed, what is not…

TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot

Keeping the “Human” in the “Human Cloud”

Entrepreneurship

If software is eating the world, it’s using the marketplace model as the fresh cracked pepper to flavor its meal. Services from Uber to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk promise to layer clean, systematic APIs on top of messy human interactions for greater efficiency. Yet while economics papers might model human beings as Homo Economicus—a hyper-rational utility maximzer—in the real…