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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Understanding Moonshot Thinking</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Alayón</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David Alayón in Future Today</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Follow</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dec 31, 2018 · 6 min read</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This year I had the opportunity to go to the <b>Singularity University </b>together with Mónica to participate in the ESADE course “Journey to Business Transformation”, where one of the fundamental points was Moonshot Thinking. In this article I will try to explain exactly what this “thinking” is, what frameworks there are to implement it out and I will give you an extra recommendation by Peter Diamandis on how to use it on a personal level and coinciding with the end of the year. Let’s start!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What is Moonshot Thinking?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 1962, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University where he delivered these words: “We choose to go to the moon in this decade”, that planted the seeds to align an entire country to go to the moon. We could say that JFK did not set that goal by knowing how we could achieve it or by promising it would be easy, he simply said that we were going to accomplish something incredible, setting the timeframe and inspiring toward action.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">50 years later, Astro Teller has taken this discourse and transformed it into a philosophy, a certain mindset. Teller is the Director of X (formerly Google X), Google’s disruptive innovation division where they ideate, test and launch projects that use cutting-edge technologies to build solutions that can radically improve the world</span>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Literally a Moonshots factory.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We could say that Moonshot Thinking is when you choose a huge problem, such as climate change, and propose to create a radical solution to the problem using a disruptive technology. For this to happen you have to abandon the idea of creating a 10% incremental improvement and focus on a solution that will bring ten times (x10) improvements, or solve it completely.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At this point you are thinking in names like Ray Kurzweil or Peter Diamandis, books like Exponential Organizations, and terms like exponential thinking; subjects that we have dealt in depth in this publication. What Teller achieves is to bring all this together in one place, with a very concrete philosophy and an open framework.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here you have some videos of Astro teller where he delves into the concept and where he also combines it with other elements such as<b> SDG (sustainable development goals).</b> Very interesting. You can also watch the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">documentary series “Moon Shot”, 9 episodes produced by J.J. Abrams about teams in different parts of the world that currently compete to complete their missions.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Astro Teller</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Astro Teller: Technology with a Purpose</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10 Things You Can Count On Being True In the Future </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Astro Teller</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Astro Teller — The Secret Sauce for Taking Moonshots</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moonshot Thinking Today</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nowadays there are many projects that have radically changed the way we consume, behave, communicate… <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Companies like Airbnb, Netflix or Uber are great exponents in their category and they are frequently mentioned when it comes to Exponential or Moonshot Thinking</span>. I think they are real moonshots but that doesn’t mean they work with Moonshot Thinking. I’m sure that they have many of the necessary skills to think that way, but there are a lot of companies aware of this way of thinking that are working with it. Some examples are:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SpaceX: “Make humans a multiplanetary species”. SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will be the world’s most powerful functioning rocket when it lifts off later this year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Google’s self-driving car: “Make an autonomously-driven vehicle”. Google’s self-driving car prototype is electronically powered and equipped with the sensors and software to navigate and operate the car. Google self-driving cars have already driven 2 million miles on public roads.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Made In Space: “Make everything in space be made in space”. Made In Space put the first 3D printer on the International Space Station in 2014. <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Now, they’re building Archinaut, an autonomous manufacturing platform that can build and assemble large-scale structures in orbit (picture antennas in space that are larger than a football stadium, providing internet to everyone on earth).</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are countless examples: Blue Origin by Jeff Bezos or Virgin Galactic in the space world;<b> JUST or Impossible Foods in the gastronomy universe (trying to eliminate animal suffering)</b>; and of course all projects related to the Singularity University. In Europe we also have a Moonshot factory that is also Spanish: Telefonica Alpha. Here is the video of its CEO, Pablo Rodriguez.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moonshot Thinking Frameworks</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And then comes the big question: what is the methodology of Moonshot Thinking? If you have listened to Astro Teller and Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica Alpha) you will intuit that there is no blueprint or methodology to carry it out, but there are many tools and frameworks that could help us develop moonshots. Here you can find some of them:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Infinite Learning Framework — Singularity University + ESADE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This was the framework we learned in the course and focuses on 5 big steps:</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moonshot Thinking. Although it is the first step, it is the basis of everything. We must “reset” our Operating System and start thinking exponentially.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moonshot Launch. A journey of “unlearning” about the impact of exponential technologies where <b>tools such as pre-morten </b>or hacker mindset.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Moonshot landing. There is no methodology for this… You just have to read and experiment a lot, see what works and what does not.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Transform yourself.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Transform your company.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The last two points are more related to a change of skills and personal mindset, which can then be taken to a company for a cultural shift. I recommend the reading of “Techno-Creative, the professionals of the future” where digital skills are a basis for Moonshot Thinking. I also recommend this study by Accenture: “It’s Learning. Just Not As We Know It”.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How to disrupt your industry and beat the competition — BlueLobsterCO</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I really liked this presentation which introduces Moonshot Thinking and then summarizes it 5 steps we can carry out, inspired by Peter Diamandis.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hire some 20-something to do some digging.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Question everything and everyone.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Generate Ideas, no limitations.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Catalog, prioritize and select</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fund the best ideas and best teams</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other interesting resources</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I leave you with some more links with reflections on Moonshot Thinking:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How to Fuel Your Moonshot — Singularity University</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Peek Inside the Moonshot Factory Operating Manual — Astro Teller</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How to Give All Students Moonshot Thinking Skills — Esther Wojcicki</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Is this the future of health? — Telephone Alpha Case Study</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One More Thing: Moonshot Planner exercise</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s an email sent by Peter Diamandis through his Abundance Insider where he talks about a template (the Moonshot Planner) and how to use it for personal goals for the coming years.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doing anything big and bold in the world is hard.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It takes passion, grit, luck and sometimes a decade or more of hard work to see a moonshot materialize, much less succeed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There’s no definite roadmap for a successful moonshot; the path is littered with obstacles and failure.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet, as my friend Tony Robbins says, success leaves clues.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s why, every year at Abundance 360, we do two things: First, everyone, including myself, completes a 5-year Moonshot Planner thinking tool. Second, we listen to incredibly inspiring stories and learn lessons.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you’re like me, you probably do some end-of-year planning and envisioning. If so, you may want to try the 5-year Moonshot Planner exercise.</font></div><div>
</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here’s what’s involved:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* 5-Year Goal: Briefly describe your 5-year Moonshot goal in a clear, objective fashion using specific dates and numbers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* 1-Year Goal: What concrete, measurable milestones can you achieve in 12 months that will put you on track? Remember, your progress is exponential. You just need to hit 6.25% of the target.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* 30-Day Goal: What can you do in the next 30 days to test and ‘de-risk’ your 1-year and 5-year objectives?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* PROOF: What evidence can you provide to your team that this Moonshot is possible?</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">* ACTION: What single action can you take right now to make immediate progress? (Do it in the next hour).</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The next step in your transition from “success to significance” is immersion into the experiences of extraordinary leaders and operators, listening to their epic failures, hard-fought lessons, and pivotal moments that reinforced their vision.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here you have the PDF with the template and keep up with the “success to significance”. Let’s go for 2019!</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">#365daysof #transhumanism #moonshotthinking #innovation #futurism #day299</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Future Today</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The future according to Alphabet Moonshots: From Calico to X</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Google</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “other bets” at Google’s parent firm are shaping our future, from healthcare to cities and beyond</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nicole Kobie</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>12 Jan 2018</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Google is building the future – or, should we say, Alphabet is. The company formerly known as Google is using the billions of dollars it earns every quarter to build <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">internet-supplying balloons, driverless cars and smart contact lenses </span>– and is diligently studying thousands of rodents to help all of us live longer. Welcome to the strange world of Alphabet Moonshots.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alphabet Moonshots – or “other bets” as they’re called in Alphabet’s financial reports – aren’t designed to pay off anytime soon. Over the last quarter alone, they cost the company <b>$722 million.</b> However, as Google co-founder Larry Page explains in Alphabet’s launch letter, “you need to be a bit uncomfortable to stay relevant.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Investors needn’t feel uneasy, as Alphabet Moonshots are set against the overall company profit of $7.8 billion for the quarter.</b> But, Alphabet has already started to shed some of its less successful side projects, suggesting the holding company will only tolerate so much discomfort. In the past year, it sold satellite imaging firm Terra Bella and<b> terrifying robotics division Boston Dynamics,</b> while shuttering down solar-powered, internet-by-drone idea Titan and modular smartphone Project Ara.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here are the Alphabet Moonshots that the company has held onto – and what they may mean for our future health, cities, vehicles and more.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Advanced Technologies and Projects</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Part of Alphabet’s hardware development labs, ATAP created Project Ara, the now-defunct modular smartphone. It’s currently working on Project Jacquard, a method of <b>weaving technology into fabrics to create interactive clothing and touch-sensitive textiles</b>. Then there’s Project Soli, a sensor that uses radar to track minuscule motions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Calico</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wealthy geniuses who want to live forever? Sounds like the bad guys in a comic book, but the <b>California Life Company (Calico</b>) isn’t fiction and its goal is to understand ageing to help extend our lifespans. Little is known about its work – which is contrary to how such medical research usually operates, with transparency and collaboration between academics – although reports reveal its research includes experiments extending the lives of worms, a seven-year study of 1,000 mice to watch how <b>a calorie-restricted diet </b>changes how they age, and investigating why naked mole rats live ten times as long as other rodents.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In other words, it’s early days. Real progress will be a long way off, and that’s something Calico itself admits, with chief scientific officer David Botstein telling MIT Technology Review not to expect any breakthroughs for a decade or more. Here’s hoping Calico’s age-defying solutions land before they’re too late for us.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DeepMind</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This British startup was snapped up by Google in 2014 for £400 million, earning the ire of data regulators with its NHS projects</b>. However, it’s received plaudits for its <b>AlphaGo AI, which beat human experts</b> at the ancient board game in an echo of the famous chess match pitting IBM’s Deep Blue against grandmaster Garry Kasparov. <b>DeepMind’s latest artificial intelligence has an imagination, which could make it handy for developing software, the company has said</b>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Waymo</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is what Google calls its <b>driverless cars </b>– and Waymo is suing Uber for allegedly stealing its laser-vision technology. While automated automotives feel like the ultimate tech of the future, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Google’s first prototype hit the road in 2009, with its first full driverless ride in October 2015.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Before the driverless efforts were spun out of Google’s labs into its own Alphabet division, the project was eyeing a fully automated vehicle without user-accessible brake pedals or steering wheel. Those plans have been left by the side of the road in favour of Waymo working with existing automakers on bringing self-driving technology to standard cars. That small pivot has paid off: shortly thereafter, Fiat Chrysler signed a deal with the company to include its LIDAR-based system and maps into Pacifica minivans.</span> Reports suggest that discussions with Toyota, Ford and Honda haven’t yet been fruitful.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sidewalk Labs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Half of the world’s population lives in cities, and that’s set to rise to two-thirds within decades, worsening urban problems from traffic congestion to higher rents. <b>Sidewalk Labs is Alphabet’s urban innovation project, hoping to solve city challenges with sensors, connectivity and data</b>. So far, that’s been largely limited to <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">free Wi-Fi in London and New York, and its “transportation platform” called Flow, which gathers traffic data and analyses it to suggest better bus routes, flag available parking, and tweak lights.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sidewalk’s next plan could be building its own smart-city testbed from scratch </b>– reports suggest it may be working on a new district in Toronto – to bring its vision of an urban future to life. That could<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> include local renewable energy plants, fast-building techniques, and smart traffic lights that analyse pedestrians, cyclists and cars using computer vision to ease traffic.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Verily</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Collect health data and put it to use:</b> that’s Verily’s raison d’etre. Kind of like Google for the human body<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. The health-tech firm’s most famous creation to date is its smart contact lenses, which feature sensors and wireless comms to monitor and transmit glucose levels. </span>Other devices include a connected patch to monitor glucose for people with diabetes, sensor attachments for utensils to make them easier to use for people with tremors, and the Study Watch, a smart wearable with top-end sensors and week-long battery life that aims to better collect medical data.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Verily’s latest project is Debug, which engineered sterile mosquitoes for release in areas affected by bug-spread disease,</b> with a first trial in Fresno, California. The sterile males don’t bite, but they do help cut down on reproduction, reducing the numbers of disease-carrying mosquitoes that are targeting humans. Such work may not pay off anytime soon for investors, but it has the potential to save the lives of millions of people killed by diseases such as malaria and dengue every year.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">X</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This lab may sound like somewhere you’d find Tony Stark, but that’s probably what its leader had in mind: he goes by the moniker Astro Teller, after all. X is the home to Alphabet’s early-stage trials, with graduates including <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Waymo driverless cars, Google Watch and Verily. X is where you’ll also find Project Loon, which delivers internet connectivity to remote areas via massive balloons, and Makani, a kite rigged with wind turbines</span>. There’s also Alphabet’s drone-delivery research scheme, Project Wing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Not all projects are successful, though, and X has no qualms killing off failed ideas<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. Foghorn made carbon-neutral fuel from seawater; it worked, but was deemed too expensive. High costs also sunk Calcifer, a<b> “lighter than air” ship t</b>o reduce shipping times and costs.</span> What else X might be working on remains a mystery – as if the name doesn’t make it intriguing enough.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">…Plus GV, CapitalG and Jigsaw</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alphabet can’t make every aspect of the future within its own labs. For the innovations happening outside the company, it has investment firms and an accelerator. GV is Alphabet’s venture capital arm, while CapitalG focuses on social innovations such as health. Jigsaw is Google’s tech accelerator, backing projects as diverse as the <b>Against Violent Extremism Network </b>and<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> uProxy, a peer-to-peer proxy tool to let users access the open internet from repressive countries.</span></font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2015, the United Nations issued a milestone agenda in human history for global sustainable development until 2030. The SDGs are a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future. At its heart are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are an urgent call for action by all countries – developed and developing – in a global partnership.”</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 31px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Learn more at: www.sustainabledevelopment.un.org</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">JEFF DOLAN</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jeff evolved his vision on the use of nanotech body sensors to help save lives and announced his intention to launch his own startup called bloodstream.io.</font></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; outline: 0px; line-height: 31px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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