Peter Rojas

Last week we opened up applications for Livecamp, our next themed pre-seed program. For each of these Camp programs we pick a specific emerging area that we’re really excited about and want to go deep on, and the focus for Livecamp, which kicks off in September in New York City, will be on startups building…

I had a random idea earlier today: What if I held open office hours via text on Telegram? I’m thinking it could be a low-pressure way for founders to get feedback on their product or idea. Would anyone be interested in trying it out sometime? If so, let me know via the contact form —…

I’m working with a small group planning a half-day summit for May 15th in San Francisco and we’re looking for a freelance event manager/producer to help us out. Our ideal candidate is someone organized and detail-oriented who can assist with the following tasks (among others): Interfacing with the event venue Scheduling speakers Coordinating technical and…

The day nearly every digital media company has been fearing has finally come: Facebook is going to change the way News Feed works. In a post last week Mark Zuckerberg announced that over the coming months Facebook will begin showing users less “public content from businesses, brands, and media,” and instead prioritize updates and content…

It’s been almost exactly a year since I shared the list of my favorite history podcasts. It was an extensive list, but if you thought having so much to listen to meant that I’d stopped my search for new shows, well, you were sorely mistaken, because I found a bunch more this past year that…

Cameras in phones were treated mainly as an afterthought or weird novelty when they first started showing up in handsets in the early 2000’s. One response to a BBC article back in 2001 about cameras being added to phones in Japan was, “Infinite uses for the teenager, not entirely sure what the rest of us…

The first time I ever met John Borthwick was at an event where we about to speak together on stage. About an hour later we were nearly booed off that stage.  It was November of 2003 and back then he was working at Time Warner, which had recently stopped calling itself “AOL Time Warner.” I…

Have we been thinking about what makes for great VR in the wrong way? There’s a lot of anxiety in the industry lately about sluggish consumer adoption rates, which have been slower than hoped after last year’s launch of the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Sony’s Playstation VR. This anxiety is only compounded when comparing…

Voice interfaces were all over CES this year. Gadget makers added support for voice-based computing to just about everything they could, ranging from stuff you’d expect like, TVs, speakers, and smartphones, to ones which are little more out there, such as refrigerators, wireless routers, and even air purifiers. The point is that voice is shaping…

2016 was a pivotal year for VR. The launch of four major new platforms — the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift CV1, Sony’s PSVR, and Google Daydream VR — meant that VR was finally coming into its own (even if headset sales weren’t as robust as hoped). It was also a big year for VR for…