Matthew C Le Merle

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About Matthew C Le Merle
Matthew Le Merle is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era and of Keiretsu Capital—the most active early stage venture investors in the world.
Matthew grew up in England before living most of his life in Silicon Valley where he raised his five children with his wife, Alison Davis. Today he splits his time between the United States and the UK. By day he is an investor in technology companies, manages Blockchain Coinvestors, and is a bestselling author and speaker on innovation, investing and the future. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing and photography. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Stanford University and is an adjunct professor at Singularity U. For more information, go to www.matthewlemerle.com.
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Contributions from more than 50 of Silicon Valley’s leading backers of early stage companies:
- What they have learned about early stage investing
- The secrets they wish they had known before they got started
- The wisdom and advice they want to share with you.
• Establish a vision of the future and the big issues that need to be solved
• Describe the enabling innovations and technologies that may be leveraged
• Show you how to develop your strategy—making sure you have a “way to play,” that you understand the key success factors, and that you quickly secure a “right to win.”
In blockchain a few of the leaders have begun to do just this, and they are preparing now for a much more competitive game—which is coming fast.
For more than a decade we have wondered ‘who is Satoshi Nakamoto?’ – the mystery shrouded inventor of Bitcoin. Despite the world’s greatest and most powerful minds trying their utmost to find out, we are none the wiser. Who is he, she, or they? Why was Bitcoin created? What was its purpose?In parallel, beginning at the time of the attack on the World Trade Center, the last twenty years have seen an unprecedented period of innovation, creativity and disruption on a global scale. New inventions have multiplied, every country, industry, and business has been fundamentally altered, and we all live very different lives today. Global crises have come and gone and come again, terrorist threats have multiplied and new distributed organizations have been established to preserve privacy, freedom and independence. Tensions have arisen as deeply felt values and perspectives have increasingly clashed head on head with each other.
The Ministry of Bitcoin answers some important questions. Who are they? Why are they doing this? What does it mean for each one of us?
For thousands of years Earth has suffered under the strain of supporting an ever more needy and destructive humanity who increasingly rely upon their artificial intelligences in almost every way. At last with Earth’s carrying capacity rapidly falling, these Intelligences have taken people off earth to distant destinations in huge space fleets. However, as the last wave prepares to leave and their final countdown is completed two ships fail to takeoff. Now eighteen years later a handful of the People, abandoned by their Intelligences, and suffering terribly from limited resources and frightful mutations, live difficult lives around the Field where still stand the two ships that failed to save them. Born into this world Belle and her boyfriend Adam must come up with a way to escape before they are brought to trial in front of their Sage and her Lawenforcers for their law breaking. Not to do so will bring them to a horrible ending.They, as much as anyone, need to find their second chance.
Over the last 30 years a host of new technologies have begun to change every industry driving us into a new era of human existence. The companies who have been most able to tap into these new innovations have become the most highly valued companies in the world. To do so, they have created a new approach to corporate innovation. In “Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era,” Silicon Valley insiders Matthew C. Le Merle and Alison Davis share the lessons they have learned from two decades of interaction with Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft as well as other leading companies. The authors describe this new approach so that every company can be ready as we enter the Fifth Era.
The Internet didn’t even exist 30 years ago, and now billions of people are connected to the web every day, and remarkable new technologies have been invented that will dramatically change the way humans exist on our planet. This emerging playing field is not well understood and not everyone who was successful in the past will be able to benefit from this momentous shift. In Build Your Fortune in the Fifth Era, Silicon Valley insiders Matthew C. Le Merle and Alison Davis provide insights, based on 30 years of leading, investing in and advising new technology companies, on the rules of this game, and outline options for how readers can participate and prosper in the coming Fifth Era.
In these pages, through plain language and inspiring stories, you’ll:
• Understand this Age of Unprecedented Change. A time of transition to a new age unlike anything we have experienced before
• Discover the Greatest Wealth Creation Opportunity Ever. Every industry is being transformed and wealth is shifting to new disruptive players and those who back them
• Explore 9 Options to Build Your Fortune. The nine options to build your fortune and prosper in an age of unprecedented innovation