Esther Dyson, an entrepreneur and angel investor concentrating on emerging markets and technologies, is principal of EDventure Holdings. She is a board member of numerous companies, including 23andMe, Eventful, Meetup, NewspaperDirect, Voxiva, WPP Group, XCOR Aerospace, and Yandex, and was an early investor in such notable start-ups as Evernote, Flickr, Mashery, Medstory, Omada Health, and Square.
The challenge of ensuring adequate, nutrient-rich food for an expanding global population is a daunting one, especially given tightening constraints on key resources like water and land. Could vertical farm… read more
A pyschological experiment conducted by Facebook on nearly 700,000 unwitting users has sparked widespread outrage, with users accusing the company of manipulating them to advance its own interests. Bu… read more
Summer is conference season – a critical time for building brands, making connections, and shaping industries. The best conferences help a community to define and understand itself, while illuminating… read more
Many privacy concerns are based on concrete interests, such as preserving financial security or obscuring information that could compromise one’s employment or ability to get affordable health insuran… read more
Traveling to new places – near or far – can help cultivate the ability to form meaningful connections with people of different backgrounds. The most interesting lessons often lie in the mundane – the … read more
A new online charity called Watsi allows users to read personal tales of medical woe in emerging markets and contribute up to the total amount needed to pay for a particular patient’s treatment. But W… read more
Like most large-scale social change, the shift to mass consumption of healthier food requires both awareness and capacity. There is no better way to build both than by focusing on school lunches.
If health is defined merely as the absence of disease, there would be no compelling reason for people to invest in it. Unlike health care, health itself is the actively produced capacity to undergo st… read more
The problem with charities is that they have no motivation to become more efficient. The question is not how to create a chain of soup kitchens, but how to develop leadership that creates intrinsic in… read more
