Gilman Louie: The Art of the Deal – with China
Gilman Louie and Joseph DeTrani address how the new administration can navigate the U.S. - China relationship. This article was originally published on The Cipher Brief. President Trump said he wants to improve relations with China, but he has expressed concern with China’s theft of intellectual property, unfair taxes for…
Gilman Louie: An Open Letter to the Secretary of Defense Nominee
This article was originally published on The Cipher Brief: President-elect Donald Trump recently announced he will nominate retired United States Marine Corps General James “Mad Dog” Mattis for Secretary of Defense. Gilman Louie, founder and former CEO of In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital firm, has written an open letter to…
Stewart Alsop: 305th 1M/1M Roundtable
Stewart spoke to Sramana Mitra at 1M/1M for their 305th online mentoring session. https://youtu.be/M88KjEprJA4
Gilman Louie: The DoD is About to Undergo its Biggest Transition Since WWII
This article was published at Business Insider. The Department of Defense is about to undergo its biggest transition since 1946. After winning World War II, the United States military had to transform itself in order to meet the demands of a new world order. The weapons systems that we invested…
Gilman Louie: Blackstorm’s EverWing on Instant Games
Gilman Louie spoke to ABC7 Bay Area News about one of our newest investments, Blackstorm Labs, which just launched globally with Facebook Messenger yesterday. https://youtu.be/EU6UBhUNGBs
Ernestine Fu: Silicon Valley’s Youngest VC Now Teaching Class at Stanford
Jonathan Bloom at ABC 7 news interviewed Ernestine Fu about teaching a startup class at Stanford. Ernestine also talked about Black Storm Labs, a new Alsop Louie portfolio company she helped to co-found.
Gilman Louie: Human Factors and Social Design of Disruptive Technologies
In January, Gilman Louie was the keynote speaker at the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). HICSS is an annual conference for Information Systems and Information Technology academics and professionals. It is widely considered to be one of the most prestigious international IS/IT conferences. You can view his talk below: https://youtu.be/fS-g6sD_yBo
Ernestine Fu: All You Need to Know About Venture Capital
Ernestine Fu discussed All You Need to Know About Venture Capital at Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Through the Lens of Venture Capital course. https://youtu.be/bSJ-oXv9-SI
Stewart Alsop: The Encryption Debate
Stewart Alsop authored this post for The Cipher Brief. Our government should not want a backdoor to encrypted messages. The government says it wants to have a special set of keys to decrypt any encrypted data transmitted across the Internet. The computer industry says it isn’t possible. The government says it…
Stewart Alsop: Here’s What’s Wrong With Apple
Stewart Alsop authored this post on Medium, and it was republished by Business Insider. The word is embedded in their name, but Apple doesn’t have any DNA for making apps. Why do they insist on making us use theirs? The one thing that REALLY pisses me off about IOS? I can’t…