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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. Did anybody hold patents that would prevent us from using this technology? We hired OSHA regulatory lawyers.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. We hired outside experts. We checked patents. We checked charge times. Marc Berte, the CTO, and a masters from MIT, is exceptionally gifted. What about battery charge times? What about competing patents.