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Jacob Flanders is President of Flybridge VI & VP Product @ USRetina. Previously Superconductive Health, Vicinitas Cancer Care, Kinsail, US Naval Research Lab & DARPA Grand Challenge. hello at jacob.vi

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Books I Read, 2025

This year, I completed 25 books and started but abandoned three. Bolded books were my favorites of the year. The Power of Geography, Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World, Tim Marshall , 02 JAN 25 The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas , 02 FEB 25 - Read this at

Books I Read 2024

This year, I completed 25 books and started but abandoned two. Bolded books were my favorites of the year. The Patriarch, The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P Kennedy, David Nasaw , 15 JAN 24 - Some incredible gems in here. The Lion Trackers Guide to Life, Boyd Varty , 23

Books I Read: 2023

This year, I completed 23 books, started but abandoned seven, and re-read two. Bolded books were my favorites of the year. Heart of the Sea, the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Phillbrick , 08 JAN 23 - one of my favorites this year. [An evolutionary economics book I abandoned whose name I don&

HN Who is Hiring Jan 2024 - Health Care and Life Science

From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News Who is Hiring thread to see what healthcare and life-sciences start ups are out there and what they are working on. Here are the companies from January 2024

Outsourcing Empire & the Cyber Realm

The book Outsourcing Empire makes the claim that the conditions for company-states such as the East India Company no longer exist, but how should we think about cyber-company-states?

Books I Read: 2022

This year, I completed 22 books, started but abandoned two, and re-read portions of one. Bolded books were my favorites of the year. The Traveller’s Tree, A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands, Patrick Leigh Fermor , 11 JAN 2022 - an old travel account of the Carribbean with some

HN Who is Hiring Jun 2022 - Health Care and Life Science

Hi, I'm Jacob Flanders, President of Flybridge VI , a strategy consultancy focusing on data at the intersection of health care and life sciences. I currently serve as the Vice President of Product for USRetina. From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News Who

HN Who is Hiring Jan 2022 - Health Care and Life Science

From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News Who is Hiring thread to see what healthcare and life-sciences start ups are out there and what they are working on. Here are the companies from January 2022

Books I Read: 2021

This year, I completed 21 books, started but abandoned two, and re-read portions of one. Bolded books were my favorites of the year. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance , W Timothy Gallwey, 03 JAN 2021 - transcend beyond the thing by

HN Who is Hiring Dec 2021 - Health Care and Life Sciences

Hi, I'm Jacob Flanders , President of Flybridge VI , a strategy consultancy focusing on data at the intersection of health care and life sciences.  I currently serve as the Vice President of Product for USRetina . From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News

How Much Technology Does Your Startup Need Now?

I often see parallels between building tech for a startup and shipping ports. Do you need a beach landing craft or a container port?

HN Who is Hiring Jul 2021 - Health Care and Life Sciences

Hi, I'm Jacob Flanders , President of Flybridge VI , a strategy consultancy focusing on data at the intersection of health care and life sciences.  I currently serve as the Vice President of Product for USRetina and a General Partner at The League Ventures. From time to time I

HN Who is Hiring Apr 2021 - Health Care and Life Sciences

From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News Who is Hiring thread to see what healthcare and life-sciences start ups are out there and what they are working on. Here are the companies from April 2021

HN Who is Hiring Feb 2021 - Health Care and Life Sciences

From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News Who is Hiring thread to see what healthcare and life-sciences start ups are out there and what they are working on. Here are the companies from Feb 2021.

HN Who is Hiring Jan 2021 - Health Care and Life Sciences

Hi, I'm Jacob, President of Flybridge VI , a strategy consultancy focusing on data at the intersection of health care and life sciences.  I currently serve as the Vice President of Product for USRetina. From time to time I take a look at the monthly Hacker News Who