Juan Orbea

FLAG, a fiber-optic cable now being built from England to Japan, is a skinny little cuss (about an inch in diameter), but it is 28,000 kilometers long, which is long even compared to really big things like the planet Earth. When it is finished in September 1997, it arguably will be the longest engineering project in history. Writing about it... See more

The Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Brain and Cognitive Sciences (BCS) at MIT offer a joint curriculum leading to a Bachelor of Science in Computation and Cognition that focuses on computational and engineering approaches to brain science, cognition, and machine intelligence. Students in the program are full... See more

Second, because VCs are investing earlier, they are taking far more risk on the ability to scale up these technologies, even if they can be proven to work.

Often, companies are underestimated because people believe the market isn't large enough, and the execution will have risks (e.g. Crowdstrike). So how does that translate into the valuation I can pay today? If you have a fundamentally different belief about the size of the market then you believe that the company will be able to address more... See more