Notes from the Frontier

Exploring new frontiers at the intersection of national security and entrepreneurship.

Thanks for joining us for our latest edition of “Notes from the Frontier.” We hope to keep you in the loop on new ventures we are pursuing, highlight our partnerships, and shine a light on the unique and important impact our clients are having at the intersection of national security and entrepreneurship. Each week, we will be rounding up our top social media content and sharing with you what we are reading. 

We hope to inspire you to explore new frontiers and visualize the future of American innovation and discovery.

Week of Monday, August 23rd:

We were proud to announce that our client, Logically, was able to uncover who was behind the vaccine misinformation website, OpenVAERS. Logically is performing such an important service in the cybersphere to prevent the spread harmful misinformation and keep the public well-informed with the truth. We are proud to be in partnership with them. 

Tanveer Kathawalla @tkathawalla

Congratulations to Matthew Mendelsohn for being named the Yale Investment Office’s next Chief Investment Officer. His experience with venture capital surely has prepared him to do great things in this new role. I look forward to watching his success!

institutionalinvestor.comYale Names David Swensen’s SuccessorMatt Mendelsohn, who led Yale’s venture capital portfolio, will take the helm as CIO on September 1.

Pioneer1890 @1890Pioneer

Did you catch last week’s “Notes from the Frontier”? It’s not too late! ➡️

pioneer.substack.comNotes from the FrontierExploring new frontiers at the intersection of national security and entrepreneurship.

Pioneer1890 @1890Pioneer

News: A @LogicallyAI investigation revealed that Lizabeth Pearl Willner, of Oakland, California, is behind the #vaccinemisinformation website, OpenVAERS.

logically.aiCalifornia Woman Behind Anti-Vax Site Outperforming Government DatabaseIn collaboration with VICE, Logically investigators reveal the California woman operating OpenVAERS, a website that misrepresents federal data to promote an anti-vax agenda.

Pioneer1890 @1890Pioneer

News: The Defense Department has picked ⁦@intel⁩ to diversify designs and increase onshore manufacturing of chips used in DoD electronics and IT systems. Read about it here:

breakingdefense.sites.breakingmedia.comDoD Picks Intel To Make Chips In US - Breaking DefenseThe contract award is the first phase in the DoD’s Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes – Commercial (RAMP-C) program, which is intended to bolster US-based commercial foundries.

In What We Are Reading, we shared a piece by “The Economist” that unpacked the cost-benefit analysis of venture capitalism in the Indian tech world

Read along here:

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News: A ⁦@LogicallyAI⁩ investigation discovered the man behind the biggest #QAnon channel on Telegram (Username: “GhostEzra”), who has been spreading increasingly extreme antisemitic propaganda.

logically.aiEXCLUSIVE: Logically Identifies GhostEzra, Florida Man Behind World’s ‘Largest Antisemitic Internet Forum’GhostEzra runs the largest QAnon channel on Telegram, and has been spreading openly antisemitic propaganda for months. Using OSINT, we found him.

For This Week in History, we noted the completion of the 2020 Olympics with a profile on the record-breaking sprinter, Jesse Owens. Cheers to the American Olympic team for bringing home the most medals this summer!

Pioneer1890 @1890Pioneer

As the Olympics have come to a close, here is one last inspiring story about record-breaking American sprinter, Jesse Owens.

biography.comJesse Owens: Olympic Triumphs and Olympic-Sized StrugglesThe African American Olympic sprinter spent much of his life struggling with issues of race.

Quote of the Week:

“There is a popular fallacy that falling down is the mark of a poor skater. But the truth is that when one stops falling, he has probably stopped improving.” - Dick Button, American figure skater and two-time gold medalist

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