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Elad holds a Ph.D. from MIT & has degrees in mathematics & biology from UCSD. 

Previously, Elad was the VP of corporate strategy at Twitter, as well as ran various product teams (Geo, Search). He also spent many years at Google, where he started the mobile team & was involved in all aspects of getting the team up & running. He was involved with 3 acquisitions (including the Android team) & was the original product manager for Google Mobile Maps & other key mobile products. Prior to Google, Elad had product management & market seeding roles at a number of Silicon Valley companies.

Elad Gil is an angel investor who generally invests in young, emerging companies, with a tendency to do seed & Series A types of deals. Gil aims to assist portfolio companies focused on consumer web, mobile, geo, search, & advertising/monetization through his work as an entrepreneur at Mixer Labs, which was acquired by Twitter. His prior work also includes positions at Google, Twitter, & other startups. Gil seeks to help portfolio companies on product & business development deals.

Elad Gil co-founded Color Genomics among others like Taylor Sittler, Nish Bhat, & Othman Laraki, a native of Casablanca, Morocco, who serves as company’s CEO, in Burlingame, California.  In 2015, Color Genomics accepted an initial $15 million in funding. It raised an additional $45 million in September 2016. Katie Jacobs Stanton became the CMO of Color Genomics in 2016, & Jill Hagenkord became the Chief Medical Officer.

Color Genomic’s purpose is to surge availability for genetic testing. Part of this is to develop access to tests for minorities, in order to better understanding non-Caucasian gene variants.  The original cost for the test was approximately 10% of the cost of testing through traditional companies. Later on, the company offered a discounted price for the family members of those who test positive for inherited mutations.  In 2017, Color Genomics began taking health insurance for the Color Test.

The technological startup companies have also begun adding Color Genomics testing to their medical packages.  The University of Washington & Color Genomics released a widely obtainable database of variants in 27 breast cancer genes based on the given samples from over 70 years old women who have never had breast cancer. The samples were gathered from samples given to the Women’s Health Initiative between 1993 & 2005.  In 2018, Color added a new health area, medication response, to evaluate genes related with commonly prescribed prescriptions, & report on how those genes can affect how individuals process & react to those treatments. Color grew its offering to include a $249 test for genetic heart health. The test examines 30 genes to observe for risk of a wide range of genetic heart conditions, including cardiomyopathies, cardiac arrhythmias, & arteriopathies.

The NIH recognized Color funding on September 25, 2018, for their All of Us Research program. 

At least 30 startups in Gil’s portfolio have become 'unicorn' companies. Some of the early checks he wrote to startups that are now raising serious venture dollars, including Character.AI, backed this year by Andreessen Horowitz, Perplexity.AI, backed by NEA & Harvey, backed by Sequoia Capital.

Elad Gil is a serial entrepreneur, investor, operating executive, & advisor to private companies including Wish, Stripe, Square, Pinterest, OpenDoor, Instacart, Gusto, Checkr, Coinbase, & Airbnb

Together with Larry Page, Sergey Brin co-founded Google. Brin was the president of Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019. He & Page are living large now but remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders, board members, & employees. As of April 2021, Brin is the 8th-richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of ̶$̶1̶0̶0̶.̶2̶ ̶b̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶ 82.1 billion.

Brin immigrated to the United States with his family from the Soviet Union at the age of six. He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland, College Park, following in his father's & grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science. After graduation, he enrolled in Stanford University to acquire a PhD in computer science. There he met Page, with whom he built a web search engine. The program became popular at Stanford, & they suspended their PhD studies to start up Google in Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park.

During an orientation for new students at Stanford, he met Larry Page. The two men seemed to disagree on most subjects, but after spending time together they "became intellectual soul-mates & close friends." Brin's focus was on developing data mining systems while Page's was in extending "the concept of inferring the importance of a research paper from its citations in other papers". Together, they authored a paper titled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine".

To convert the backlink data gathered by BackRub's web crawler into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin & Page developed the PageRank algorithm, & realized that it could be used to build a search engine far superior to those existing at the time. The new algorithm relied on a new kind of technology that analyzed the relevance of the backlinks that connected one Web page to another, & allowed the number of links & their rank, to determine the rank of the page.

Combining their ideas, they began utilizing Page's dormitory room as a machine laboratory, & extracted spare parts from inexpensive computers to create a device that they used to connect the nascent search engine with Stanford's broadband campus network.

After filling Page's room with equipment, they then converted Brin's dorm room into an office & programming center, where they tested their new search engine designs on the web. The rapid growth of their project caused Stanford's computing infrastructure to experience problems.

Page & Brin used the former's basic HTML programming skills to set up a simple search page for users, as they did not have a web page developer to create anything visually elaborate. They also began using any computer part they could find to assemble the necessary computing power to handle searches by multiple users. As their search engine grew in popularity among Stanford users, it required additional servers to process the queries. In August 1996, the initial version of Google was made available on the Stanford Web site.

By early 1997 the BackRub page described the state as follows:

Some Rough Statistics (from August 29, 1996)

Total indexable HTML urls: 75.2306 Million

Total content downloaded: 207.022 gigabytes (now there is google amount of gigs downloaded)

BackRub is written in Java & Python & runs on several Sun Ultras & Intel Pentiums running Linux. The primary database is kept on a Sun Ultra series II with 28GB of disk. Scott Hassan & Alan Steremberg have provided a great deal of very talented implementation help. Sergey Brin has also been very involved & deserves many thanks.

BackRub already exhibited the rudimentary functions & characteristics of a search engine: a query input was entered & it provided a list of backlinks ranked by importance. Page recalled: "We realized that we had a querying tool. It gave you a good overall ranking of pages & ordering of follow-up pages." Page said that in mid-1998 they finally realized the further potential of their project: "Pretty soon, we had 10,000 searches a day, & we figured, maybe this is really real."

Some compared Page & Brin's vision to the impact of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of modern printing:

In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg introduced Europe to the mechanical printing press, printing Bibles for mass consumption. The technology allowed for books & manuscripts‍—‌originally replicated by hand‍—‌to be printed at a much faster rate, thus spreading knowledge & helping to usher in the European Renaissance ... Google has done a similar job.

The comparison was also noted by the authors of The Google Story: "Not since Gutenberg ... has any new invention empowered individuals, & transformed access to information, as profoundly as Google." Also, not long after the two "cooked up their new engine for web searches, they began thinking about information that was at the time beyond the web," such as digitizing books & expanding health information.

Brin is working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google. For example, he & Page are trying to help solve the world's energy & climate problems at Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy. The company acknowledges that its founders want "to solve really big problems using technology".

In October 2010, for example, they invested in a major offshore wind power development to assist the East coast power grid, which will eventually become one of about a dozen offshore wind farms that are proposed for the region. A week earlier they introduced a car that, with "artificial intelligence", can drive itself using video cameras & radar sensors. In the future, drivers of cars with similar sensors would have fewer accidents. These safer vehicles could, therefore, be built lighter & require less fuel consumption. They are trying to get companies to create innovative solutions to increasing the world's energy supply. Brin was also an early investor in Tesla.

In 2004, he & Page were named "Persons of the Week" by ABC World News Tonight. In January 2005 he was nominated to be one of the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leaders". In June 2008, Brin invested $4.5 million in Space Adventures, the Virginia-based space tourism company. His investment will serve as a deposit for a reservation on one of Space Adventures' proposed flights in 2011. Space Adventures, the only company that sends tourists to space, has sent five of them so far.

Brin & Page jointly own a customized Boeing 767-200 & a Dornier Alpha Jet, & pay $1.3 million a year to house them & two Gulfstream V jets owned by Google executives at Moffett Federal Airfield. The aircraft have had scientific equipment installed by NASA to allow experimental data to be collected in flight.

In 2012 Brin was involved with the Project Glass program & demoed eyeglass prototypes. Project Glass is a research & development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD). The intended purpose of Project Glass products would be the hands-free displaying of information currently available to most smartphone users, & allowing for interaction with the Internet via natural language voice commands.

Brin was also involved in the Google driverless car project. In September 2017, at the signing of the California Driverless Vehicle Bill, Brin predicted that within five years, robotic cars will be available to the general public.

Where is Sergey Brin today? According to Forbes, Brin is reportedly funding a high-tech airship project. While he is no longer president of Alphabet, he remains a controlling shareholder and board member. He has two children with his first wife & one child with Shanahan.

Brin is working closely with a group of researchers & has convened weekly discussions of new AI research with Google employees building Google's long-awaited AI model Gemini.

Sergey Brin is an American businessman & internet entrepreneur known as the co-founder of Google, a company that specializes in internet-related services & products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, & hardware

Sergey Brin | American Computer Scientist & Internet Entrepreneur

Elon Musk & his company Neuralink will inform the world on its progress. The company was founded in 2016 with the goal of creating a computer-brain interface to help people keep up with the ongoing artificial intelligence revolution. Now Elon wants to find a way to stream music directly into one's mind without headphone stoppage through wiring thinner than human hair, which would be connected directly to the brain through implants. 

The Tesla CEO announced back in July 2019 that positive experiments have been carried out on mice & apes & he intends to start studying human subjects. He explained Neuralink's mission statement in a series of tweets revisited by Complex: "When you can't. Beat em, join em" obviously referring to humanity trying to keep up with modern machine learning innovations. Elon also referred to a variety of questions, suggesting Neuralink would help avoid the rapid firing in neural networks for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) diagnoses. Users also have been brainstorming about adding serotonin & other chemicals for those in need. 

Elon Musk appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience in 2020 where he explained his computer-brain interface in greater detail.

Neuralink recruited several high-profile neuro-scientists from various universities since its establishment. By July 2019, it had raised $158 million in investment, $100 million of which was from Musk & hired 90 employees. Neuralink announced at that time it was working on a "sewing machine-like" tool capable of implanting very thin (4 to 6 μm in width) threads into the brain, demonstrating a system that reads information from a lab rat through 1,500 electrodes & anticipated starting human experiments by 2020.

Elon brings new meaning to having a song stuck in your head 

Elon Musk Will Start Streaming Music Directly To Your Brain

Brian Armstrong (born January 25, 1983) is a billionaire American business executive & investor who is CEO of cryptocurrency trading company Coinbase. He received media coverage for his policy of keeping the workplace free of political activism.

Armstrong was born on January 25, 1983, near San Jose, California, to engineer parents. He attended Rice University in Texas, & earned a dual Bachelor's degree in economics & computer science in 2005, followed by a Masters in Computer Science in 2006. While at Rice, he started a business matching tutors to students, & after graduating, spent a year in Buenos Aires while working on the education company. While in Buenos Aires, he saw the effects of hyperinflation that were affecting Argentina at the time.

Armstrong's early career included working as a developer for IBM & consultant at Deloitte. In 2010, he came across the bitcoin white paper published under the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. In 2011, he joined Airbnb as a software engineer, & was exposed to payment systems in the 190 countries Airbnb operated in at the time. While at Airbnb, he saw the difficulties of sending money to South America. He began working weekends & nights to write code in Ruby & JavaScript to buy & store cryptocoins. In 2012, he entered the Y Combinator startup accelerator & received a $150,000 investment, which he used to found Coinbase.

In 2012, Armstrong & Fred Ehrsam co-founded Coinbase, as a way for cryptocurrency enthusiasts to trade bitcoins & other digital currencies. Armstrong was its first CEO. A 2018 funding round valued the company at $8.1 billion, & in December 2020, the company filed with the SEC to go public through a direct listing. Following a direct listing in April 2021, Coinbase’s market cap rose to $85B, & Armstrong's total net worth passed $10B.

Armstrong self-funded & founded the scientific research site ResearchHub, modeled on the GitHub code repository, as a way of making research papers available to the public.

Armstrong wrote a blog post in September 2020 calling Coinbase a “Mission Focused Company”, discouraging employee activism & discussion of political & social issues at work. He offered severance packages for anyone at Coinbase who wasn't comfortable with this policy. 60 employees left Coinbase. Prior to this, Armstrong supported the Black Lives Matter movement & tweeted when George Floyd was killed: "I’ve decided to speak up. It’s a shame that this even needs to be said in this day & age, but racism, police brutality, & unequal justice are unequivocally wrong, & we need to all work to eliminate them from society.”

In 2018, Armstrong was the first cryptocurrency executive to sign The Giving Pledge, when he pledged to give away the bulk of his wealth to philanthropic causes. He also set up a philanthropic effort called GiveCrypto.org, to allow people to make public or anonymous donations to help others living in poverty.

Brian Armstrong is the chief executive of Coinbase Global, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States. A former Airbnb software engineer, Armstrong cofounded Coinbase in San Francisco in 2012 with former currency trader Fred Ehrsam.

Brian Armstrong | Co-Founder of Coinbase, Digital Currency Exchange

Jonah H. Peretti (1974) is an Internet entrepreneur, a co-founder and the CEO of BuzzFeed, co-founder of The Huffington Post, and developer of reblogging under the project "Reblog".

Peretti was born in California and raised in Oakland, California. His father, a criminal defense lawyer and painter, is of Italian and English descent and his mother (née Cherkin), a schoolteacher, is Jewish. His stepmother was African-American. He attended The College Preparatory School in Oakland, followed by the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he graduated with a degree in environmental studies in 1996. He taught computer science classes at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, in the mid-1990s. He completed a postgrad at the MIT Media Lab.

While at MIT, his email exchange with Nike over a request to print "sweatshop" on custom order shoes went viral.

Peretti co-founded The Huffington Post along with Kenneth Lerer, Andrew Breitbart and Arianna Huffington in 2005. He left The Huffington Post in 2011 after it was bought by AOL for $315 million.

In 2005, Peretti hosted the Contagious Media Showdown at Eyebeam in New York City, where he worked as director of the R&D Lab from 2001 to 2006. During the process Peretti developed the concept of the "Bored-at-Work Network", which he supposes to be larger than some major television network audiences.

Peretti founded the "Internet popularity contest" site BuzzFeed in November 2006. After leaving The Huffington Post, Peretti began working at BuzzFeed full-time. While originally known for its mix of internet memes and lists, the site was the first to break the news that John McCain would endorse Mitt Romney in the 2012 Republican Primary. The site continued to grow afterward, raising over $35 million in funding from investors the next year. In August 2014, the site raised another $50 million from the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, more than doubling its previous rounds of funding. The site was valued at $850 million by Andreessen Horowitz.

In 2019, Peretti announced that BuzzFeed would be cutting its overall workforce by 15 percent. Peretti said he wanted to reduce costs without resorting to additional fundraising. Its remaining workforce then officially unionized, their first successful fight being over laid-off staffers getting their earned paid time off.

In 2021 at a virtual company meeting, Peretti, as BuzzFeed’s chief executive, fired 47 employees at Huffington Post in a controversial manner. Employees were given a password to enter the meeting — “spr!ngisH3r3,” a variation on the phrase “spring is here.” The staff members were then informed that if they did not receive an email by 1 p.m., their jobs were safe. The website Defector first reported on the password and other details of the meeting, which were confirmed by two people who attended the meeting and spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal discussions. A BuzzFeed spokesman told The New York Times that the company regretted the password’s tone.

The HuffPost Union, which is affiliated with the Writers Guild of America East, said in a statement that the layoffs had affected 33 of its members, nearly a third of the local union. “We are devastated and infuriated, particularly after an exhausting year of covering a pandemic and working from home,” the union said in a statement.

Jonah Peretti is an American entrepreneur known as the co-founder and CEO of Buzzfeed, an American Internet media, news and entertainment company.

BuzzFeed & Huffington Post Founder Jonah Peretti

There are energy fields which can be contacted & there are special persons who are born with a more acute development of certain faculties, often accompanied by an inferior development of some other faculties. There are some that are able to become more conscious or more aware than the average individual, but that this doesn't mean either magic, sorcery, or the presence of some extraordinary mystical element exists as a permanent or characteristic trait.

The average human being, dedicating his resources to the perpetuation of a ‘static’ self is in a state of psychic tension, has little (if any) opportunity to unfold resources of exceptional ability & special distinctions, of which are naturally his. 

When we think of the extra sensory perception such as telepathy we use general terms which perhaps are not sufficiently precise to indicate the large variety of phenomena.

Astral configurations in astrology represent for Jung an example of synchronicity, of a parallel, non-causal relationships between the development of celestial phenomena & those marked by terrestrial time.

We live in a world of dimensions, powers, faculties, propensities, most of which are unknown to persons of the statistical norm

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