The Red Queen and the Inevitability of the Amazoogle Business Model

By Shomit Ghose / February 28, 2018 / Comments Off on The Red Queen and the Inevitability of the Amazoogle Business Model

“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else—if you run very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.” “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If…

The Key to a Good M&A Outcome for Your Start-up? Getting Started Yesterday!

By Shomit Ghose / January 2, 2018 / Comments Off on The Key to a Good M&A Outcome for Your Start-up? Getting Started Yesterday!

Designing Good Exits: It’s Not Just for Architects None of us would feel comfortable in a building where no thought had been given to how to exit the structure.  A rushed and panicked egress would be dangerous, and no building has its first brick laid without viable exit paths being designed into its architecture. The…

Beyond the Molecule and Beyond the Device: Machine Learning and the Future of Healthcare

By Shomit Ghose / August 21, 2017 / Comments Off on Beyond the Molecule and Beyond the Device: Machine Learning and the Future of Healthcare

“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. That sucks.” – Jeffrey Hammerbacher, Facebook Hammerbacher’s Lament Are we fated to suffer Hammerbacher’s Lament, with our best minds, and our best data, solely serving the gods of commerce?  What of serving mankind’s existential needs in an area as fundamental…