New #MIT #innovation hub takes on world’s biggest challenges bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/1… via The Boston Globe Edwina Tom 谭敏慧 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

This map shows where the world’s most generous people live weforum.org/agenda/2016/10… via World Economic Forum @ElizabethGore Edwina Tom 谭敏慧 StartHub

"What would you write to our next President? " linkedin.com/pulse/what-wou… LinkedIn Edwina Tom 谭敏慧 @ElizabethGore Sallie Krawcheck plumalleydublin

TPG to acquire Eze Castle Software and RealTick from ConvergEx ezesoft.com/news-events/pr… eze dink Dan Koh Sam Altman @ElizabethGore Sallie Krawcheck

"Failure isn’t a necessary evil...It is a necessary consequence of doing something new." Edwin Catmull #quotes #wisdom

How Airbnb, Huawei, And Microsoft Are Using #AI and #machinelearning bit.ly/2gyA7Ft

Value of Payments Provider Stripe Doubles to $9.2 Billion lnkd.in/dcxhSUm

The Future of High-Powered Commercial Drones - Bloomberg bloomberg.com/news/videos/20…

GoPro cuts 15% of staff money.cnn.com/2016/11/30/tec…

What is #Blockchain? Distributed global ledger and power in its nature for all not just banks. #slush HOT topic ht.ly/h3Os306IzXM

I have an observation: A LOT more venture capital funds should create in-house apprenticeship programs to impart knowledge on future VCs.

App for people of color getting into ubers: lets us remotely change music when drivers preemptively flip to hiphop.

2017 will be the year of the conversational computer. #CES2017 #DuerOS

Here's how American Underground got serious about diversity-->via Technical.ly ow.ly/kwg2307PQLG

Ellen Pao joins Kapor Capital as partner, and chief diversity and inclusion officer tcrn.ch/2jr7kTC by mrd

Thx Jessica Guynn for the nice profile of the work we are doing Precursor Ventures: Small venture firm, big mission: Diversity usatoday.com/story/tech/new…

"How Lever Got to 50-50 Women and Men" medium.com/initialized-ca… Shout-out to Rachael Stedman and @Lever, great #DiversityInTech tips.

Backstage Capital (Arlan 👊🏾) is raising a second fund to invest in women of color: techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/bac… by mrd 💰