HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

Ascendency

37 karma · joined July 2, 2013

AI/Big Data serial entrepreneur, investor, and VC advisor.

Co-founder: Sorcero Formerly: CleanChoice Energy ($100M+)

Angel Investor & Founding Advisor: Sparkfund, Faraday AI, Faraday Bikes (exit to Pons), CrowdTangle (exit to FB), CounterAction, etc. Senior Advisor: Village Capital

https://angel.co/richard-graves

submissionscomments
Ascendency··on Are spies more trouble than they're worth?
Actually, that story shows how the CIA did their job well...but politicians and President Reagan didn’t want to hear it and used their oversight role to force their intelligence experts to fit their narrative. For the last 40+ years, political forces in the US are increasingly trying to distort facts to fit narratives instead of accepting facts and then spinning / competing over what to do about it.
Ascendency··on Political Reality: Buy Ads on Facebook or Risk Losing the Election
That isn’t too hard with half-way decent models.
Ascendency··on Zuckerberg Faces Anger Over Facebook Executive’s Kavanaugh Support
Kavanaugh didn’t just deny that he committed the assault, he denied drinking, obvious jokes, and pretended to be a church going, sober, virgin. Well, we have loads of evidence that the latter is false throughout high school, college, and law school. If instead of admitting what he did do as in the past, but choosing to lie, not once but repeatedly, baldly, and swearing to god, makes him far, far less credible in denying the assault claims.
Ascendency··on Researchers have identified a new DNA structure called the i-motif inside cells
This is Hacker News, not the general public. If we don’t know who Richard Stallman or what a hacker is, who should?
Ascendency··on The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’
Oddly enough, the toll house recipe was our secret family recipe. It was traded for a lifetime supply of chocolate (and the publicity of inventing a beloved staple).
Ascendency··on Launch HN: SheerlyGenius (YC W18) – Indestructible Tights from Bulletproof Fiber
Did you ever look at synthetic spider silk?
Ascendency··on Offer YC: Let me rebrand your startup for free
If this is the FairPixels team, they are awesome. I would be interested in perhaps a rebrand for a product line we are developing, if you are up for it.

Are you the folks from http://fairpixels.co/?

Ascendency··on Show HN: I quit my job to help communities fund energy efficiency upgrades
What are the kinds of projects you can invest in? How are you planning on getting competitive returns?
Ascendency··on As Bitcoin nears $700, Coinbase out of coins to sell
There should be a bitcoin recovery service, those coins could be worth serious amounts of money, now.
Ascendency··on Ask: Stigma of the unemployed - a better job title for a lifestyle entrepreneur?
Give yourself a title, like CEO or Director, of the company. Don't call yourself an entrepreneur, just a simple, but nice title.

You don't need to defend something that definitely works for you. Be proud, but not arrogant.