I am cooking something up. Previously, I was a crypto analyst and vc at Delphi Digital. Before that, I covered fintech/crypto at CB Insights. (I also did stints covering frontier tech like IoT, AR/VR, and industrial robotics.) And for my first job, I worked at MakerBot in 3D printing.
I love to write. I love data. And I’m always curious to learn more. DM me on Twitter, or try npappageorge at gmail [d0t] com.
Select projects & writings:
- Market Maps: I’ve mapped out startup landscapes in SMB Fintech, HR Tech, synthetic biology, AR/VR, Industrial IoT, advanced manufacturing, 3D printing, and more
- Public Speaking: What’s Next in Blockchain? (2018), Audio & AirPods The First Taste of Transhumanism (2019)
- 2020 research: Future Unicorns 2020, Digital Wallets In Asia, Big Tech In Payments, Startups Helping You Work From Home, Covid-19 Startup Layoff analysis
Oldies but goodies:
- Amazon Strategy Teardown – a 10,000 word tome on Amazon’s many business arms, and where it’s going in AI, drones, and retail (via CB Insights)
- The Future of Factories – a tour de force analyzing the impact of industrial IoT (an area I’ve covered for years), and where technology is being applied to every stage of manufacturing
- Apple Strategy Teardown – an deep-dive on where Apple is moving in Augmented Reality, Wearables, AI, Cars, and more
- The Ownerless Company & Facecoin – two related thought experiments I wrote about DAOs and what Facebook could pull off using blockchain
- Blockchain in Enterprise – an analysis of web 3.0 projects and dapps outside of financial use cases
- The Robot & Cobot Future– an analysis of robotics startups will proliferate in factories, restaurants, agriculture, and warehouses
- This Is Your Brain on Alexa – how Amazon’s Echo will change vocal computing and our minds
- Snapchat patents – an analysis using patent data from Snap and assessing their product roadmap (featured in Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report)
- President Kirchner and the Dólar Blue: The Effect of Presidential Approval on Argentina’s Black Market for Foreign Exchange – my senior thesis on currency black markets
Interests
- Technology and innovation
- Music, stereo systems, and guitar (still take weekly lessons)
- Short stories (one of my majors was Creative Writing)
- Latin America (lived in Spain & Argentina)
- Currency & capital controls
- Distance running (2X marathoner)
- Soccer and hockey
- Chicago (my hometown)
NpappaG 