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The Best Books I Read During Quarantine: From the Wandering Mind of a Woman in Venture Capital

With the end of the coronavirus pandemic in sight, I sat down to reflect on my favorite books I read during quarantine…

14 min readJun 1, 2021

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The Best Books I Read During Quarantine: From the Wandering Mind of a Woman in Venture Capital

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Sustainability Investing Is Back Again. Here’s How to Do It Right This Time.

Talk to any cleantech investor who was active in the mid to late 2000’s, and you’ll hear tales of financial carnage and woe. From 2006 to…

11 min readSep 17, 2020

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Sustainability Investing Is Back Again. Here’s How to Do It Right This Time.

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The Smart City Startup Ecosystem Is on Life Support

For decades, governmental technocrats had envisioned a future where the smart city would usher in a new era of efficiency of city…

6 min readAug 19, 2020

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The Smart City Startup Ecosystem Is on Life Support

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The Apocalypse Coming to the Mobile Industry This September. And No, It’s Not the Coronavirus…

It was both the proverbial thorn in the flesh to privacy advocates and the boon to the growth of the mobile marketing industry. In 2012…

5 min readAug 4, 2020

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The Apocalypse Coming to the Mobile Industry This September. And No, It’s Not the Coronavirus…

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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Transformed Mobility and Transportation

For many of us, the state of our workplace has made that abrupt transition from the office to the home. Our daily commutes accordingly…

7 min readJul 20, 2020

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How the Coronavirus Pandemic Has Transformed Mobility and Transportation

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The Racist(?) Autonomous Driving Car and the Dangers of Bias in Artificial Intelligence

I was riding in the back of an autonomous driving car of a well-known startup. As the car navigated its way through its suburban testing…

7 min readOct 16, 2018

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The Racist(?) Autonomous Driving Car and the Dangers of Bias in Artificial Intelligence

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How the Autonomous Car Works: A Technology Overview

How does an autonomous vehicle work? How does it understand what it sees? How does it know where to go? Oh, that majestic metallic…

7 min readApr 25, 2018

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The Companies You’ve Never Heard of Training Your Autonomous Driving Car

In this modern euphoria around autonomous vehicles, a number of new players have come into the fray from outside the traditional automotive…

9 min readJan 23, 2018

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The Companies You’ve Never Heard of Training Your Autonomous Driving Car

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AI Today Podcast with Cognilytica: Interview with Sam Huang of BMW i Ventures

A couple weeks ago, Kathleen Walch and Ron Schemlzer of the AI market research and intelligence firm, Cognilytica, invited me as a guest…

1 min readNov 15, 2017

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The Three Rules of AI Investing

A funny thing I’ve heard on more than one occasion was that accelerators were telling their startups to use AI buzz words like deep…

6 min readNov 8, 2017

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The Three Rules of AI Investing

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The Word of Sam Huang

The Word of Sam Huang

Principal at BMW i Ventures. VC trends. AI themes. Social commentaries. A personal blog bridging tech, business, and human issues by a curious mind.

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