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As we consider the future of transportation and the role that ridesharing will play, we want to better understand how consumers of these services use and think about them. To that end, we recently surveyed 450 US consumers about their…

Virtual reality’s mainstream adoption and tremendous impact on humanity is coming. How long it will take and who the winners and losers will be widely disputed, but it’s hard to deny the potential of a tool that has the power…

This piece marks the first in a quarterly series to track the progress of frontier tech, as measured by the Loup Frontier Tech Index. The index tracks the performance of publicly-traded companies that influence the future of technology including AI,…

Tesla recently published “An Update to Our Vehicle Lineup” on the company blog, making several tweaks to the Model 3 product line. Tesla is embracing the characteristics of blitzscaling — a net positive for the company. Autopilot will now come…

AT&T recently rolled out a limited 5G Evolution (5GE) network in Minneapolis in combination with its sponsorship of the Final Four. We tested the network and found only modest improvements in network speeds. Given AT&T’s 5GE marketing hype, we’re disappointed…

Bloomberg recently reported that Amazon is planning an Alexa-based rival to Apple’s AirPods in an attempt to get Alexa out of the home and into the world. Thus far, Amazon’s device efforts have been muted because they don’t own an…

We’re excited to invest in Catch, a company helping define the future of work. Freelancing is an important and growing part of the future of work both near term and long. According to Morgan Stanley, freelancers make up 35% of…

We think about the future of retail in three buckets: online retail, automated retail, and empathic retail. Telehealth, the process of visiting a doctor virtually to get medical treatment, including prescription medicine, combines all three. It also includes a fourth…

Cory Inman is a Post Doctoral Fellow at Emory University’s Department of Neurosurgery, where he studies human memory and emotion. Cory holds a B.A. in Experimental Psychology from Georgia State University, and a Ph.D. in Psychology and M.A. in Psychology…

Mary Beth Henderson is the VP of Regulatory Affairs and Quality Systems at Regulatory and Clinical Research Institute, Inc. She holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Gustavus Adolphus College, an M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Northwestern University, and an MBA…

On Friday, Lyft became the first ridesharing company to go public. By beating Uber to go public, Lyft will, to some extent, control the narrative around the US ridesharing market. That narrative will be centered around big ideas like ending…

Google unveiled Google Stadia, its cloud gaming platform, during the company’s Tuesday GDC keynote. Google Stadia enables gamers to play on any of their devices with a chrome browser and even cast them to a TV. For gamers, this means…