Daniel Alvarez

Very excited to share that I’ve joined @Infravision_UAS as Director of Brand Marketing, leading the company’s global brand, marketing, and strategic communications efforts across a rapidly growing footprint spanning three continents. Infravision is an aerial robotics company tackling one of the most complex and consequential challenges of our time: building power infrastructure faster, safer, and more affordably. We've just announced a $91 million Series B led by GIC, Energy Impact Partners, Hitachi Ventures, and Activate Capital — funding that will fuel the next phase of growth, from advanced engineering and system innovation to manufacturing scale-up and global market expansion. (And yes, we’re hiring!) I couldn’t be happier to join such a world-class, mission-driven team led by Cameron Van Der Berg, a founder who’s spent his career developing hard tech to accelerate electrification and the energy transition. Grateful for the opportunity, Cam. To learn more about Infravision and today's news, visit infravisioninc.com or read the press release linked below. As for PROTOSTAR, I’ll continue keeping the brand alive through occasional content and industry commentary, though I’m pausing all new client initiatives to fully focus on Infravision’s next chapter. Appreciate everyone who’s supported the journey so far, and excited for what’s ahead. Onwards and upwards! DA

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Godspeed, Artemis II 🚀

Happy 50th, Apple 🍎 #Apple50

@SenSanders surveillance capitalism

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

What was I thinking? 30 years ago this week I started a “1-year experiment” to build a startup factory based loosely on Thomas Edison’s laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was early 1996 and the Internet was growing like crazy after the Netscape IPO, with a whopping 30 million global users (which seems hysterically tiny now). But I felt that this was a disruptive event that with the potential for many new businesses. I wanted to make a lab where I could take my favorite 12 ideas, try one a month for a year, and see if we could make a go of dreaming up, starting, and growing companies. After a year, 5 of those 12 had failed, 7 were able to get additional funding beyond the seed capital we provided, and eventually 5 of our earliest companies went public. We learned so many lessons living through the dot com boom and crash, the 2007 boom and 2008 crash, more recently the Cleantech boom and crash, and now the Ai boom. With a great deal of good timing, good luck and an amazing team of people I worked with over the years, we were able to start more than 150 companies in the last 30 years. I believe that entrepreneurship unlocks human potential and provides so much personal growth. I love helping other entrepreneurs be successful, and hope to give back as much as I can from the joys and challenges of the last 30 years of Idealab (here is a link to my top lessons learned: 25-lessons.idealab.com/introduction/). I am so grateful for the tens of thousands of people who came into our orbit to help make the dreams of each of our companies come true. Thank you so much, and Happy Birthday, Idealab! Sincerely, Bill

“When we expect certain behaviors of others, we are likely to act in ways that make the expected behavior more likely to occur.” Loved piece by @SahilBloom on the 'Pygmalion Effect,' referring to the impact of belief & expectations in shaping outcomes. sahilbloom.com/newsletter/the…

repeat founders make different mistakes than first time founders. It is easier to make first sales and get a false signal on product market fit when you have good connections and know how to sell

Our CEO, Cameron Van Der Berg, sat down with Katie Fehrenbacher (@katiefehren) at @Axios to talk about our $91M Series B raise and how our aerial robotics system is helping build the grid faster, safer, and more affordably. The story digs into what makes our approach different, why we’re scaling globally, and how drones are changing the future of power line construction. Huge thanks to our investors — GIC, Activate Capital, Hitachi Ventures, and Energy Impact Partners — and to our team around the world making it happen every day. Read the full story on Axios: axios.com/pro/climate-de…

Kiké!!! ⚾️

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The only Christopher we acknowledge is Wallace.

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Turns out the most valuable people on a team aren’t always the loudest ones. Loved this piece on the “glue players” who quietly hold everything together. via @HeidiSMitchell, @WSJ wsj.com/lifestyle/work…

@bryan_johnson "Our self-worth is our usefulness." 💯

Will you thrive or die with AGI? Take this test. AI is advancing fast. Faster than any technology shift in history. Electricity took 46 years to reach mass adoption. The smartphone, 16. ChatGPT reached 100 million in two months.  Studies show that humans handle incremental change well but struggle with exponential change because our brains have evolved for linear prediction. We’re probing at this situation when we ask: will AI take my job? No one knows the answer to this question. What we do know: change is happening and it could be more radical than we can imagine. The question is: will you be able to adapt? Here is a thought experiment that will score you on adaptability. Score low and you will struggle, score high and you may thrive. Here we go. Imagine your future existence rests on three principles: + Nowhere to go + Nothing to do + No one to become That’s it. That’s your life. Most people feel psychological vertigo when hearing this because it violates the evolutionary code of our species. Humans are a striving species. We go places. We build things.  We become someone. Our entire civilization and self identity is built on the premise that meaning comes from becoming. Our self-worth is our usefulness. If your response to this possible future is “No thanks, I’d rather die.” You score low on adaptability and will struggle with change. If you feel discomfort but are also curious and are open to experimenting, you score high on adaptability and are more likely to thrive. History shows that adaptability, not intelligence, determines survival.

This is BEYOND insane: AI compute demand is now growing at over 2 TIMES the rate of Moore’s Law, creating a massive shortage. Just to meet current demand, $500 billion must be invested in data centers PER YEAR until 2030. What does this mean? Let us explain. (a thread)

🍊 #iPhone17ProMax

Imagine search that rewards creators every time their content is used. Stop imagining. Do it.. brand-studio.fortune.com/prorata/how-pr…

Got ourselves a barn burner! 🏈 #NYGvsDAL