Suraj Rajwani is the managing partner and co-founder of DoubleRock. Located in San Francisco, the company is a venture capital firm established in 2012. Investments promoted by the company include IoT, mobile, SaaS, and big data solutions. Companies whose growth was fostered by DoubleRock investments have experienced a high level of success in their later stages. Suraj Rajwani has an extensive background in building and operating businesses. Beginning with a business degree from the National University of Singapore, he has always been interested in the ways that businesses can grow when given the proper investment and timing. Rajwani’s business ventures range…
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Sam Arnold
Arnold is a senior British tech reporter at Tekrati. Before joining Tekrati, Arnold worked as an editor for his University Newspaper, writing sharable content for a student audience. Sam loves movies, running, and anything written by Oliver Sacks. The drink he chose is tea, which he does not recommend in large quantities.
In his peer review of Gebru, Jeff Dean, the head of Google Artificial Intelligence, left only one comment when asked what she could do to have a greater impact, according to documents viewed by The Washington Post: Ensure that her team helps make a promising new software tool for processing human language “consistent with our AI Principles.”In an email thanking Dean for his review, Gebru let him know that her team was already working on a paper about the ethical risks around the same language models, which are essential to understanding the complexity of language in search queries. On Oct.…
If we could win?That’s the idea behind the subreddit r/outside, where about 650,000 users imagine our reality as “a free-to-play MMORPG with 7 billion+ active players,” as stated in its bio. Users post questions or stories about life as if they’re discussing a video game such as “World of Warcraft.” Though the subreddit has been around since 2009, 100,000 of those users joined in 2020. What better year, after all, to point out life’s absurdities through the lens of a video game?“Prepare to update your games because 2021.v1 is dropping only weeks from now. Hoping it patches the COVID bug,”…
Mingjie Zhai is an author, speaker, and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of The Love Story Media Inc., a non-profit organization that combines media with the mission of improving mental wellbeing through expressive journaling. She is also the founder of a new writing genre called “Journal-Artism,” which fuses journaling, journalism, and the personal journey to arc one’s character while writing their narrative. This genre is the central practice of her organization. Zhai is a published author of three books; The Producer’s Playbook, Diary of a Crazy Entrepreneur, and The Love Story Playbook. She has spoken at UCLA, UC Berkeley,…
“I went on for half an hour just talking about everything that’s just amazing about Ireland and Irish people and the country, just everything. At the table next to us, a guy got up and he was gonna leave and he came over and he just said: ‘Couldn’t have said it better myself,’” said John in his best Irish accent, cracking up with laughter. Brenda jokingly called John “the greatest unpaid spokesman for Ireland.”For her, a 54-year-old Bafta-winning designer widely known for her work on the “Wizardry” series, the connection to the country goes back to her great-grandfather. Paddy O’Donovan…
Chris Onyett is the co-founder of Roketto, a SaaS marketing agency focused on large scale content strategies. His responsibilities include operations, finances, HR, and process development. He’s a digital marketing veteran with 15+ years of experience in Google Ads, analytics, and content marketing strategies and is also a HubSpot enthusiast. He enjoys sharing about the things he’s learned along the way and has been published on websites such as Foundr.com, Campaignmonitor.com, Callrail.com, and more. Prior to Starting Roketto in 2009, Chris worked for one of Canada’s biggest digital marketing agencies, Major Tom, where he quickly developed a passion for data-driven marketing. Chris…
Adriana Keefe is a Life Strategist & Empowerment Coach from Uxbridge, Massachusetts. She’s a mom of two girls, wife, and animal lover. Adriana was an award-winning Realtor, but couldn’t overcome the feeling of being stuck and lost in her life a few years ago. After a long journey of finding herself, she now helps overwhelmed and overworked women who are in the same rut recapture their identity and find fulfillment in a life they love. Where did the idea for your company come from? Adriana Keefe: My Life Strategy & Empowerment Coaching company is named after myself, Adriana Keefe! I’ve…
Sidney Collin is the inventor of the NexStride, and is the co-founder and CEO of De Oro Devices. De Oro Devices is a VC-backed biomedical device start-up whose mission is to develop products to improve mobility, independence, and quality of life for those who suffer from mobility disorders and the aging population. NexStride is a small, portable device that uses research-backed sensory cues to help people with Parkinson’s overcome freezing of gait and be able to walk smoothly. Sidney started the company while studying Biomedical Engineering at Cal Poly. She has an academic research background in computational neuroscience, with a recent…
There have never been so many parcels sent in France: this is the observation made by La Poste (the French postal service) and private delivery companies in recent weeks. Because of the recent lockdown, this trend is going to increase as Christmas approaches. La Poste expects to process 4 million parcels per day in mid-December, a record. And this is just one country in Europe. Technology-driven efforts to increase the efficiency and sustainability of logistics have attracted increased attention and investment throughout COVID-19, and even more so as seasonal shopping peaks approach in what is expected to be a digital…
But the executive’s work with the Chinese government, as alleged by FBI agents in a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in a Brooklyn federal court, highlights the often-hidden threats of censorship on a forum promoted as a platform for free speech. It also raises questions about how Zoom is protecting users’ data from governments that seek to surveil and suppress people inside their borders and abroad.Prosecutors said the China-based executive, Xinjiang Jin, worked as Zoom’s primary liaison with Chinese law enforcement and intelligence services, sharing user information and terminating video calls at the Chinese government’s request.Jin monitored Zoom’s video system for…