Author: nimaschei

  • Where do you want to see yourself in 5 years?

    A few weeks ago I announced our collaboration with Florida International University– Computer Science to bridge the gap between academia and industry for young talents. Today I met 7 young talented computer science graduates from FIU, talking about the secret authentication project we will be working on together, and one of the questions I asked…

  • Shahs of Angels

    For the last few weeks I’m thinking about starting an angel network for Iranian immigrant founders in the US, supported by Iranian angels. Why? There’s no question about systemic bias in the world, everywhere, including “the land of free”. I immigrated to the US when I was close to 30, and started my first startup…

  • Queen of Guacamole!

    Queen of Guacamole!

    Day 3- Behind every successful man there stands a STRONG woman (and behind every successful woman, there stands a man). The success is just the tip of the iceberg. I never imagined that I’d be this fortunate, to have unquestionable support along the way in my 15+ years of career as an entrepreneur and the…

  • FIU

    FIU

    On Friday I went to the Florida International University thanks to my good friend, Masoud Sadjadi, Director of Agile Software & Autonomic Computing (ASAC) Lab., to judge the computer science graduates on their final projects. It was my first time busing FIU after Pandemic and there was great energy in the room, AKA the Wellness…

  • Entrepreneurs Moving Beyond VCs

    Entrepreneurs Moving Beyond VCs

    Carta and Brex! Thanks for your hospitality and for having us at today’s Yacht Party. It was great learning from other entrepreneurs’ journeys on a nice sunny breezy day while partying on a Biscayne sandbar with a dozen other yachts! Some lessons I learned: 1- underrepresented entrepreneurs’ journey is for sure harder than white Bay…

  • The 1st Trillionaire

    I was looking into my old posts on LinkedIn and I found this one from 5 years ago, and that resonates now more than ever. We’re on the verge of singularity in the near future, probably something we can see in our lifetime, and the explosion of our intelligence would transform our lives forever. It’s…

  • Professor Lotfi Zadeh

    The first pic belongs to a man who transformed our lives by creating fuzzy logic, a method of reasoning that resembles human reasoning: If A happens to do this, if B happens to do that, etc. He has created trillions of Dollars of added value for humanity, and hundreds of billionaires on the planet are…

  • Caro Lucas

    10 years ago the world lost one of the greatest AI scientists of our time, Prof. Caro Lucas. I’m super-proud and lucky to had him as my mentor and advisor and together we created BELBIC and the BEL (Brain Emotional Learning) algorithm, one of the most robust and lightweight algorithms based on emotional AI. That…

  • Karma; Ethical?

    #Question: We haven’t had ETHICS in our relationship with other “creatures” with supposedly less intelligence than ours.Now, is it “ethical” to ask for ethics in creating super intelligent #ai with supposedly more intelligence than ours?#artificialintelligence #machinelearning #ethics #ethicalai #emotionalintelligence #emotionalai #brainemotionallearning #BELresearch #intelligence

  • The Real Victims of Mastercard’s Campaign

    The Real Victims of Mastercard’s Campaign

    November 30, 2019 It was just an advertisement in one of the busy corridors of the Narita International Airport (NRT/Tokyo Airport), one of the world’s busiest airports. This banner ad, sponsored by Mastercard, depicted a bunch of happy tourists riding elephants in front of the beautiful background of the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia. People passing…