Alice Lloyd George

Alice Lloyd George Contributor Share on X Alice Lloyd George is an early stage investor based in New York and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. More posts by this contributor The portrait of an avatar as a young artist Matt Cauble on changing consumption with Soylent and Kin

Alice Lloyd George is an early stage investor based in New York and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology.

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The portrait of an avatar as a young artist

In this episode of Flux I talk with LaTurbo Avedon, an online avatar who has been active as an artist and curator since 2008.

Matt Cauble on changing consumption with Soylent and Kin

In the latest episode of Flux podcast I sit down with Matthew Cauble, the co-founder of Kin Euphorics, a functional beverage company that aims to reduce stress and boost bliss.

Elysium and the quest to bottle the fountain of youth

A discussion with Eric Marcotulli, the co-founder of Elysium, a life sciences company developing consumer-facing health products based on aging research.

One billion 3D views and counting

Last week Sketchfab, the 3D content hub, shared an exciting milestone -- the company has just crossed 1 billion cumulative page views. Taken with the community's growth -- they just surpassed 2 millio

Thomas Reardon and CTRL-Labs are building an API for the brain

From Elon's Neuralink to Bryan Johnson's Kernel, a new wave of businesses are specifically focusing on ways to access, read and write from the brain.

Solving the mystery of sleep

Alice Lloyd George Contributor Share on X Alice Lloyd George is an early stage investor based in New York and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. M

A conversation with Dean Kamen on the myth of “Eureka!”

"I think invention is maybe like love," says Dean Kamen. "Everybody wants to have it. Nobody knows what it is."

Using drones to build the ambulance fleet of the future

Alice Lloyd George Contributor Share on X Alice Lloyd George is an early stage investor based in New York and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. M

Behind the scenes with Tezos, a new blockchain upstart

With a whopping $200m raised (at current btc and eth prices) Tezos breaks all Initial Coin Offering records to date. That’s saying something given over $1 billion dollars has gone into ICOs (Kicksta

Flux: Robot Queen Helen Greiner on robots, drones and the self-aware Roomba

In an interview for Flux, I sat down with Helen Greiner, the co-founder of iRobot. We got into how founders should think about timing a market, navigating user adoption cycles and iterating on produ

Launching an aerospace startup at Mach 2 with your hair on fire

You won’t be happy unless you’re going Mach 2 with your hair on fire.

Accelerating the future of space technology

At this moment there are more than 500,000 pieces of space debris hurtling around the Earth. Traveling at speeds of up to 40,000 kilometers per hour, a satellite collision with these fragments is enou

Discussing the limits of artificial intelligence

It's hard to visit a tech site these days without seeing a headline about deep learning for X, and that AI is on the verge of solving all our problems. Gary Marcus remains skeptical. In an interview f

SVRF may have the answer to VR’s search problem

For websites we had Google. For videos, YouTube. For products, Amazon. For general reference, Wikipedia. For gifs, Giphy. How will we find what we're looking for in a brave, new, 3D world? In an inter

How Synthego’s founders went from a mission to Mars to a mission to cure disease

When an entrepreneur quits their job to found a company, you're bound to hear the words "I want to build something meaningful. I want to have a bigger impact." Well, if your job is building rockets fo