He was rejected by 90% of the investors
How well do you deal with rejection and failure? You may have heard the story of Starbucks. It is hard to imagine it, but back in the 1970s and 1980s, it was unthinkable to...
How well do you deal with rejection and failure? You may have heard the story of Starbucks. It is hard to imagine it, but back in the 1970s and 1980s, it was unthinkable to...
I have been doing research in the area of providing affordable and clean energy to Africa for years. During these years, I have always, in the back of mind, suspected that we...
I have been long perplexed by this question of whether automation and robots will replace human workers. My intuition is that while they will no doubt replace many jobs, they...
I came across the data of EV stock at the country level from the IEA website. While it is informative, it does not have any map visualization, which is quite easy to do with...
Photo: Business Formation in Numbers 2006-2023 Recently I have been reading some papers that claim that COVID-19 kick-started entrepreneurship, as more and more people changed...
Photo: Boston, January 2024 One of the longest debate that was going on in my mind is this question: Can you have economic prosperity without democracy? Can democracy lead to...
Recently I gave a short lecture over Zoom to a group of students at NYU on my thoughts of decarbonizing the last-mile in supply chains. The one-sentence summary? The...
Photo: Milan, Città metropolitana di Milano, Italy, June 2023. I used to think that EVs do not really need a long range of, say, 300 miles, for the simple reason that we...
Photo: Ritz-Carlton, Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2023. It is winter here in New England, and we have been talking about where to go for the upcoming spring break. I am...