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Rob is a Founding Partner at AgFunder (https://agfunder.com), we invest in early-stage…

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  • Why technology may make animals obsolete
    2019年9月25日

    Why technology may make animals obsolete

    Cars replaced horses, petroleum replaced whales, tractors replaced oxen, telecommunications replaced carrier pigeons…

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  • AgTech Is The New Queen Of Green

    TechCrunch

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  • One Year Into Title II Of The JOBS Act

    TechCrunch

    With Title II putting an end to the financial exclusions of yesteryear, investment marketplaces have an opportunity to offer a more collaborative and transparent fundraising process. And as they evolve and mature, they may become the precursor to new types of eInvestment Banks leading the globalization of private capital markets.

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  • Op-Ed Response to "How Managers Become Leaders"

    Harvard Business Review

    Why do we continue to force square pegs into round holes? When individuals are exceptionally talented in one area, they are often woefully deficient in another. Hence the intrinsic talents that make a great manager (or corporate survivor) are often diametrically opposed to those of a great leader or visionary. Corporate America wants visionary leaders leading the ranks, but it institutionally selects against visionaries whose skill set less suited to climbing the corporate ladder and hence are…

    Why do we continue to force square pegs into round holes? When individuals are exceptionally talented in one area, they are often woefully deficient in another. Hence the intrinsic talents that make a great manager (or corporate survivor) are often diametrically opposed to those of a great leader or visionary. Corporate America wants visionary leaders leading the ranks, but it institutionally selects against visionaries whose skill set less suited to climbing the corporate ladder and hence are outcompeted by corporate survivors and more myopic workers who are better at towing the line or focused tasks.

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  • Transposon-mediated rewiring of gene regulatory networks contributed to the evolution of pregnancy in mammals

    Nature Genetics

    A fundamental challenge in biology is explaining the origin of novelty, such as new cell types. The results from our study show that "junk-DNA" has contributed to the origin of important and novel cell types in mammalian evolution by generating new gene regulatory and interactions. The paper has been cited over 115 times. Nature Genetics has an SJR journal rank of 6 out of 18,854 journals

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  • Agriculture: A World in Crisis

    SeedRock Research

    This research report provides an overview of the key drivers and challenges facing agriculture and the fragile balance that currently exists between supply and demand.

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  • Survival of the sparsest: robust gene networks are parsimonious

    Nature's Molecular Systems Biology

    This paper overturned 12 years of high profile research that had been published in journals such as Nature, PNAS, Evolution and has broad implications science, economics, engineering, and medicine. It was the second most downloaded publication on Nature's MSB from October 2008 - February 2009, and has been cited over 130 times. The journal has an SJR ranking of 70 out of 18,854 journals.

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    Gene regulation is a highly deterministic process implemented by gene regulatory…

    This paper overturned 12 years of high profile research that had been published in journals such as Nature, PNAS, Evolution and has broad implications science, economics, engineering, and medicine. It was the second most downloaded publication on Nature's MSB from October 2008 - February 2009, and has been cited over 130 times. The journal has an SJR ranking of 70 out of 18,854 journals.

    Summary:
    Gene regulation is a highly deterministic process implemented by gene regulatory circuits. These circuits operate according to principles of logical computation, and are the fundamental computational elements actuating the directed processes of growth and development in complex biological life. A robust computational theory of gene regulation, and its evolution, has the potential to revolutionize both medicine and engineering.

    In this paper, I use computational and mathematical models to show that robust functional gene circuits are parsimonious, minimally complex, and that such designs are favored by evolution. Further, I show that these results are consistent with real biological networks, regardless of species or network size. The results from this research identify a fundamental principle governing the evolution of biological complexity and suggest a null expectation for the properties and topology of a functional gene network. The results of this finding suggest a method to reverse engineer gene networks from expression data.

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荣誉奖项

  • Moderator: Mitigating climate risk through agtech and other solutions

    Agri Investor Forum 2015

  • Speaker: Emerging Investing Platforms

    US Angel Summit

  • Speaker: Innovation in Agtech

    Rabobank's North American Agribusiness Advisory Board

    I was invited to present and speak about new innovation to the North American Agribusiness Advisory Board consisting of C-level executives for some of North America's top food and agriculture companies.

  • Chairman & Speaker; AgTech: Sand Hill Bets on Precision Agriculture

    VLAB Enterprise Forum (Stanford / MIT)

    I spoke and chair the panel at Stanford/MIT's VLAB Enterprise Forum. The panel discussed the mergence and

  • Finalist Judge: Verizon's $6M Powerful Answers Award

    Verizon

    I was selected as one of five judges for Verizon's Powerful Answers Award, covering the categories IoT in smart farms, connected cities, and health care.

  • Speaker: Forbes AgTech Summit

    Forbes

    Gave the after-lunch talk on agtech funding in 2014 & 2015

  • Keynote

    Agri Investment Forum (Canada)

    Gave a keynote presentation on the emergence of new agriculture technology.

  • Moderator: Raising Capital for AgTech (Now & Then)

    GAI AgTech Week

  • Speaker: Deep Dive: AgTech

    Pioneers Festival (Austria)

    Adam Anders (Anterra Capital) and I were interviewed by Katie Collins of Wired Magazine to discuss agtech at Pioneers.io, the Davos for tech in Europe.

  • Moderator: Making the Case for AgTech in the Portfolio

    Global AgTech Investing 2015

  • Moderator - Ask Me Anything

    3rd Indoor Ag-Con

    Moderated the AMA with Michael DeGiglio, the President and CEO of Village Farms, the world's largest greenhouse operator.

  • Speaker: AgTech growth trends for investors, technologists and startups focused on agriculture and food

    BootUp Ventures

  • Invited Keynote (Unable to attend)

    Agri Innovation Forum - Canada

  • Moderator: Role of VC in agtech

    Agri Investor Forum 2014

  • Invited Speaker: AgTech Panel (Unable to attend)

    Pioneers Festival - Vienna

  • Moderator: Discussing the role of venture capital in agriculture technology as production slows

    Agri Investor Forum - Chicago

  • Speaker: Fundraising Platforms

    GloSho | LA Cleantech Incubator

  • Speaker: Meeting on innovations shaping the future of food and agriculture.

    Council on Foreign Relations - Washington DC

  • Speaker: Agriculture & Agtech

    ICV Outreach Summit - Montauk

  • Judge

    Silicon Valley AgTech Conference

  • Moderator: Raising Capital and Performing Due Diligence in the AgTech Space

    Global Ag Investing Conference - New York

  • Speaker: Funding Indoor Agriculture's Future

    2nd Annual Indoor Ag-Con

  • Judge

    National Agriculture Innovation Prize

  • Up-and-Comer

    Forbes Magazine

    Named one of Forbes 'Up-and-Comers' in 2014.

  • Invited Speaker: Financing Sustainable Supply Chains (Unable to attend)

    Katoomba XIX - Brazil

  • Speaker: Innovation in Agriculture and Food Distribution

    Cleantech Group

  • Speaker: Startups Disrupting the Food Chain

    MIT-Stanford VLAB

  • Speaker: Exploring the Key Fundamentals Driving Growth in Agriculture Investment

    Agrivest Conference - Israel

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