Saad Hirani
Kun Gao, a UC Berkeley alumni and the co-founder of CrunchyRoll, the Netflix + of anime, recently addressed the Newton Lecture Series. Crunchyroll is a leading global destination and platform for Japanese anime and Asian content, and has more than 750,000 active paying users. Kun Gao and his team have spent the past decade or…
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Startup Grind, a global community for entrepreneurs powered by Google Entrepreneurs, recently concluded its largest conference in the Silicon Valley. This year’s lineup was filled with Silicon Valley and USA’s largest names – Marc Andreessen (Andreessen & Horowitz), Stewart Butterfield (Slack & Flickr), Clayton Christensen (Harvard Business School), Aaron Levie (Box), Steven Chen (YouTube), Vinod…
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UBS’s recently produced white paper, released regarding the theme of this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Switzerland, explores the current industrial world and the implications of a 4th Industrial Revolution. It believes that the global economy is ‘on the cusp of profound changes that are comparable in magnitude to the advent of the…
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Cognitive computing is the simulation of human thought processes in a computerized model – it involves self-learning systems that use data mining, pattern recognition and natural language processing to try and imitate the way the human brain works. Companies such as IBM among others are finding increasing uses of cognitive technology in software enterprise –…
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Vivienne Ming is the untold Steve Jobs. Scientist, entrepreneur, wife, mother, are just a few of numerous titles on her highly impressive resume. When speaking to an absolutely amazed crowd at this week’s Newton Lecture Series, one message resonated the most, and she didn’t have to specifically point at it: The power of being yourself…
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In efforts to boost their credibility with Blockchain and gain first mover advantage in what promises to be the most emerging industry of 2016, a number of corporations have started testing the potential of Blockchain applications. Companies including JP Morgan, Intel, Sony and others have been testing the program in recent months, and many other…
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The Sutardja Center is hosting a Blockchain Technology Collider which will focus on emerging applications of blockchain technology beyond the commonly known “bitcoin” use case. Launch date is March 2nd at 5pm, please RSVP at http://blockchaincollider.eventbrite.com. Contact David Law at dlaw@berkeley.edu with questions. Click here for more information. Blockchain, the decentralized ledger system used…
Read MoreLast week, at the Newton Lecture Series, Ryan Gilbert, Executive Chairman of Better Finance & Smartbiz talked to students about his journey as an entrepreneur. Better Finance is one of the fastest growing fin-tech startups in Silicon Valley that provides credit solutions to small businesses through its loan platform and marketplace. The company enables banks…
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Blockchain Technology Collider This collider will focus on emerging applications of blockchain technology beyond the commonly known “bitcoin” use case. Launch date is March 2nd at 5pm, please RSVP at http://blockchaincollider.eventbrite.com. Contact dlaw@berkeley.edu with questions. Click here for more information. The Blockchain is a powerful yet widely misunderstood invention that has the ability to change the…
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The Super Bowl has always been known as the best platform to reach mass media and launch make or break advertising campaigns. Total spending on Super Bowl ads in 2015 aggregated to over $345m, with companies paying CBS an estimated $5m for 30 seconds worth of advertisement time. Surprisingly, this year it wasn’t the beverage…
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