Peter Rojas

Now that it’s 2017, I thought I’d look back and see if there are answers for the eight questions I asked a year ago about virtual reality in 2016. Here goes: “How big will the market for VR be a year from now?” This isn’t an easy to question to answer right now. My guesstimate…

I love podcasts, having been both an avid consumer and on-again-off-again producer of them for over ten years now. But what might surprise you, at least if you’re familiar with my work, is that the podcasts I love most are about history and that I almost never listen to shows about tech. Good history podcasts…

With things slowing down ahead of the holidays I thought it’d be a good time to hold open office hours again. Sign up via the link below if you’d like to pitch me your startup, get feedback on a product idea, ask for advice on fundraising or finding a job, chat about VR, etc. I’m doing…

It kind of bums me out when investors say they won’t chat with a founder without an introduction from someone they trust. I understand why a VC would do this; if you’ve been around long enough — and are halfway good at what you do — you’re bound to have so many entrepreneurs pitching you that you…

There’s a question I’ve been asking founders when they pitch me their bots: “Why is this a bot and not an app or a website?” I’ve been fascinated by the explosion of developer interest and startup activity around chatbots and am pretty bullish on their potential as both a user and an investor, but it’s…

I was hiking around Point Lobos this past weekend (see photo above) when I realized I had forgotten to bring along my new favorite gadget, the Ricoh Theta S, which is a new camera for taking 360 degree photos and videos. It’s one of the more affordable options out there for creating 360 degree content.…

I haven’t been an investor for very long, but even in that short time there’s one mistake I’ve seen more than a few founders make, and that’s to fall in love with the product they’re building. I know what you’re thinking: how can that possibly be a bad thing? Don’t investors want people who love…

Anyone who has spent time with me lately has probably noticed that I can’t stop talking about VR. It’s the one area of technology that I’m most enthusiastic about these days — I own a Gear VR and just pre-ordered the Oculus Rift (and will probably pick up the HTC Vive as well). What’s especially…

There has been a lot of (justifiable) complaining lately about just how awful browsing the web on a mobile device has become. The main culprit? Page sizes, which have grown rapidly in recent years. HTTP Access reports that the average site today is now double the size of the average site from just three years. Bigger page…

I promised a few weeks ago in my post about leaving AOL that I’d have another one up soon detailing my new role at betaworks. I’m not sure where the past few weeks have gone, but jumping into a new job at the same time as moving from New York to San Francisco pretty much destroyed…