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I build things between energy and intelligence. Some become companies.

Whoever invented bronze was not trying to change the world. They wanted a tool that would not bend: copper on its own was too soft. After a good many attempts they added tin, and from there a whole age took the name of their alloy.

It almost always goes like that. Someone solves a problem and changes everyone’s life without knowing it.

That is what I find exciting about technology: it changes everyday life faster than any law does, and it asks nobody for permission.

Right now it is happening on more than one front at once. A solar panel costs 99% less than it did a generation ago, and over the same years machines learned to write and to code.

I work at the point where those two meet.

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What I’m building now

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Volta (external site)Software and control for solar, batteries, energy communities and distributed compute capacity.Status: Working on it
Lateral Space (external site)Helps companies become AI Native: redesigns workflows, builds memory and puts agents to work.Status: Working on it
Urbanova (external site)Innovative real-estate projects, to think about a new way of living in the 21st century.Status: Working on it

If you have a contrarian idea

Everything that has had a significant impact looked like a terrible idea at the start. Renting an air mattress to strangers. A website for looking at photos of your coursemates. Today they are called Airbnb and Facebook.

That is not a coincidence. If you have a contrarian idea you are moving, by design, in the opposite direction to everyone else. It means being publicly wrong for a long time, before being right.

If you are ready for an Odyssey with no guarantee of success, and you can explain with facts why your idea is not wrong, I am interested in investing. Write to me.