Unicorns, Hype, and Bubbles

Jeffrey Funk is a retired professor, now a consultant and Fellow at the Discovery Institute, and a winner of the NTT DoCoMo Mobile Science Award. He has 45 years of experience as a professor, consultant, and engineer in the U.S., Japan, and Singapore, the type of experience needed to see through the current hype about new technologies and startups. His PhD was from Carnegie-Mellon on the economics of robots, which was during the second wave of hype about AI in the early 1980s. He was most recently an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore. He has written five books and more than 50 academic papers, earning himself an excellent reputation for guidance on startups and new technologies such as AI on LinkedIn, where he has more than 54,000 followers.