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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine.

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Oksana?s Story: Geoffrey Frost

Austin Startup

THE IMPORTANCE OF GENDER PARTNERSHIP ‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.’ Geoffrey used to quote William Gibson: “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed”. The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed,’ he used to quote a lot and embodied it in many ways.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. You know, a lot of times, what we hear is: “Hey, what does the company do is $5 billion of equity value is $10 billion.” So inflation is always one where it’s not fun. There can be all kinds of different knock-on effects from it.

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