Alsop Louie Partners is a team of seasoned investors who are entrepreneurs and executives with distinctive reputations. Each partner has experience building technology or media businesses that have grown into successful operating companies, public and private. Among our partners, we have experience in new media, gaming, SaaS, cloud infrastructure, security, and mobile. Half of the partners have had careers at intelligence agencies.
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Check out only ONE of my favorite portfolio companies, but the MOST fun! Meow Wolf
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I’m so happy to have gotten the chance to be a part of this amazing, wild, almost psychedelic journey. Thanks to you Vince Kadlubek and the now-thousands of people who are on the same path.
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For an old guy like me,who's been in the computer business for more than 40 years, it's amazing that Apple sold more smartphones than Samsung last year. https://lnkd.in/gVsY6S3v
More people die by gunfire than car accidents. Just barely. But we do make an attempt to make cars safer & it has worked, since the peak year saw 60,000 car deaths. Listen to how Mark Bryant thinks about the continuous rise in the number of people who are killed by a gun.
Venture Investor, scratching an old itch by writing a substack newsletter, "What Matters (To Me)"
I listen to The Daily every day, but when I listened to this interview with Mark Bryant, the creator of the National Gun Violence Archive, I almost ended up in tears. As of Monday, October 19, the archive recorded 40,995 gun deaths this year, with 12 days to go to the New Year. Listen to how Bryant talks about this epidemic, and you might agree that he should be sainted or at least nominated for a Nobel Prize. https://lnkd.in/gtVpgVxk
We're getting increasingly excited about Ion Storage Systems, our next generation solid state battery company.
In an exciting next step towards commercializing our groundbreaking technology, ION is announcing a multi-year supply agreement with Saint-Gobain Ceramics, a global leader in ceramic material products, following a successful manufacturing pilot program. Going forward, Saint-Gobain Ceramics will provide ION with high-quality ceramic powder used to make our Solid-State Electrolyte. We are proud to forge relationships with other like-minded innovators, furthering our shared mission of a cleaner future. Our Solid-State #batteries are uniquely designed with a patented 3-D ceramic structure inside, creating a safer and more stable battery. By being a non-flammable, faster-charging, energy-dense battery with no volume compression or expansion requirement our #technology breaks down the barriers that traditional lithium-ion batteries face today. We are creating superior batteries with manufacturability in mind, and this agreement drives us closer to our goals. #nocompromises https://lnkd.in/e7yJrEFG
One sample: "Variety wrote a piece about me a long time ago that detailed my brief career as a script writer. More recently, Donald Trump has called me a failed scriptwriter, which couldn't be better for the guy who represents Hollywood, where half the voters are failed scriptwriters." 😂
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I had the unexpected pleasure yesterday of listening to Adam Schiff, currently representing California's 30th District in Congress (aka Hollywood) and running for Dianne Feinstein's seat in the Senate in the upcoming election cycle. Despite spending 40 years in California, I hadn't realized what a personality Congressman Schiff is. He does stand-up comedy on the side, which puts him in a great place to deal with hijinks of the Republican Party. Count me as a supporter, even if I can't vote in California anymore.
Holiday reading… Happy Thanksgiving!
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Here’s a Thanksgiving thought that made my day: “Twenty-first-century China, devoid of the sharpness of criticism, is in danger of becoming not a well-seasoned stew, but a soporific can of bland tomato soup.” It’s worth reading the book, a history of food in China that puts today’s PRC in a useful perspective .
Our truly amazing apartment on Nob Hill is for sale!
Venture Investor, scratching an old itch by writing a substack newsletter, "What Matters (To Me)"
Almost exactly 40 years later, we are selling our apartment in San Francisco and going all in on New Mexico. I first arrived in the Bay Area from Boston to become editor in chief of InfoWorld in September, 1983. Now, after living and working through the personal computer and internet revolutions, I am living full time in Santa Fe, NM. If anyone wants to look at our amazing apartment on Nob Hill, check this out and get in touch with Ted Bartlett at Compass. https://lnkd.in/gqaydgM8
Have you noticed that the NY Times is verifying intelligence?
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The CIA vs The NYT: Is reporting the same as spying? https://lnkd.in/d326KwyC