Immigrants are entrepreneurs. They leave the comfort of their home contexts, take personal risk to seek a better future, in pursuit of an ideal. This risk often means learning a new language, navigating streets and cultures foreign to them, learning a context while trying to compete and live in it…

Some problems are hidden in plain sight — invisible to the casual observer, but glaring to the discerning eye. Conception is one of these. 1 in 6 couples struggles to reproduce around the world. Miscarriage, infertility, and other conception challenges turn up everywhere you look. And yet, they are hidden…

We spend a third of our lives sleeping (or attempting to do so!): it is our most common activity. And 20% of us — 70 million Americans — struggling with it. This is an incredible combination of statistics. You know when you haven’t been sleeping well for a while, and…

As the saying goes, “Where there’s money, there’s fraud.” And as I have come to realize, Solving financial fraud across all enterprise software is, clearly, a big hairy deal. It’s tricky, though. KYC (know-your-customer), an identity verification mechanism, is required by law for every financial institution. Application fraud protection…

If you are reading this right now, you have seen “HTTPS” show up on many websites. In fact, you may even notice that sometimes it says HTTP, and other times it says HTTPS. You know a website is more secure if it is HTTPS, but perhaps couldn’t explain why. The…

I always like to say that technology is not software, or hardware, but systems and tools that are used to solve problems uniquely well. In that way, not only was the computer an invention of technology, but so was the printing press, writing itself, and the wheel. The history of…

We are living in a time of high variance. The internet lowers barriers to entry, and lowers barriers for communication. More people can start things, and as those things get bigger, everybody can hear about them –– fast. I think of it as whales and tails. The whales are bigger…

A Decentralized Credit Platform — In 2007, Safaricom, the Kenyan subsidiary of Vodafone, launched M-Pesa, the mobile money service that would go on to transform Kenyan culture, and ultimately set a new standard for the world. With M-Pesa, users could transfer money onto their phones, and then send it seamlessly and immediately to each other…

I found myself getting emotional watching this video: As I watched it, I thought, help is on the way. The pandemic has made the fanciful feel real. A sense of surreality shapes what has otherwise been mundane –– in this case, trucks pulling out of a warehouse to deliver…