Ray Kurzweil

No. 222: Minerals, Electric Vehicles, and AI

Jul 25, 2019

Energy & Resources, Technology

andreessen horowitz, artificial intelligence, cobalt, Elon Musk, kai fu lee, Marc Andreessen, Ray Kurzweil

Andreessen Horowitz posted this interesting conversation on cobalt – the mineral helping power our phones, electric vehicles, and more. The conversation got me thinking about a piece I wrote back in 2015 (time flies!) on Jean-Yves Ollivier, Marc Andreessen, and the common interests they share in minerals that power the global economy. There has been…
No. 108: 3 Thursday AM Reads – VW Scandal | New African Development Bank Chief of Staff | Zero to One

Sep 24, 2015

Africa, Economics, Notes

African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Apology, books, Dealbook, Ferdinand Piech, harvard business school, Martin Winterkorn, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, news, Ray Kurzweil, Sipho Moyo, Volkswagen

You’ve probably seen the news of Martin Winterkorn’s resignation from his CEO post at the Volkswagen Group. Rough year for this guy. Earlier in the year, VW Group supervisory board chair Ferdinand Piech publicly stated that there was distance between him and Winterkorn. I wonder if anything related to this discovery of VW vehicles emitting…