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The Knowledge Trap: Why Tomorrow's Most Valuable Manufacturing Secrets Will Be Impossible to Steal—Or Own
Why the next wave of autonomous manufacturing could create trade secrets that companies own but cannot access—and what deep tech innovators need to know
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Matt Rappaport
Don't Build a Better Wheat Farm: Why Defensibility Stakes Are Higher in Deep Tech
Eric Ver Ploeg from Tunitas Ventures' take on startup strategy and defensibility is one of the more thoughtful pieces on early-stage VC investing I've…
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Matt Rappaport
What Ants Can't Predict: The Beautiful Mystery of Superintelligence
We stand at the threshold of creating minds that will dwarf our own intelligence as dramatically as we surpass ants.
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Matt Rappaport

July 2025

When Does Protecting Your Innovation Become the Thing That Kills Your Startup?
As someone who's spent decades helping companies navigate IP strategy, I see promising founders make this costly mistake regularly.
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Matt Rappaport
Part 3: Resistance is Futile: Why I'm Embracing Our Robot Future
After watching Tesla's Optimus robot dance with fluid grace that would make many human dancers envious, I had the strangest feeling: I was watching my…
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Matt Rappaport
The Manufacturing Challenge That Will Define Robotics
After watching recent humanoid robot videos, particularly those released by Tesla in May, I decided to dig into the technology.
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June 2025

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