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Magic Leap – Reinventing How We See the World
Jack K
Posted on April 28, 2017 at 5:40 pm
By 2017, Magic Leap has raised nearly 1.4 Billion Dollars and most Americans have never even heard of them.[i] Founded seven years earlier, this tech behemoth is still operating in stealth mode having raised 3 institutional rounds of funding without [...]
Palantir- A Secretive Unicorn
Jack K
Last modified on April 5, 2017 at 6:55 pm
On December 14th, 2016 President-Elect Donald Trump met with the leaders of the largest tech firms in the US. Seated directly across from Mr. Trump was a relatively unknown 49 year Ph.D. named Alex Karp-CEO of Palantir Technologies.
Boaty McBoatface- Lessons From Failed Crowdsourcing
Jack K
Last modified on March 20, 2017 at 6:49 pm
Britain’s NERC elected to ‘crowd-source’ the name of its new $300mm research vessel. The Public responded with 124,000 votes for “Boaty McBoatface.” As The Atlantic reported, “The people of the Internet had spoken, and they’d spoken like a five-year-old.”
Li & Fung – The Downfall of a Platform
Jack K
Last modified on February 27, 2017 at 12:05 pm
On March 6th of this year, the supply chain management giant Li & Fung will be unceremoniously removed from the Hang Seng Index, a globally recognized index of Blue Chip Hong Kong Companies, to be replaced by Greely Automobile. It [...]
Fire Phone- Amazon’s $170 million Summer Fiasco
Jack K
Last modified on February 3, 2017 at 10:32 am
In October of 2014, Amazon reported a $170 million write off relating to the Amazon Fire Phone. This is the story of that epic failure.

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