Dan Dascalescu

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Dan Dăscălescu
Entrepreneur
Known forBlueseed
Website[1]

Dan Dăscălescu is a

Seasteading Institute, a think tank researching ocean communities.[8]

Biography

Dăscălescu was born in

green card in 2007[1] and received it in April 2013.[10] Dăscălescu cited his visa difficulties as an inspiration for Blueseed, a startup accelerator that would avoid immigration restrictions by being located on a ship in international waters.[8]

Before Blueseed, Dăscălescu worked at Yahoo! as a software globalization developer and open-source contributor, and became an ambassador for the Seasteading Institute

Quantified Self Forum, an online community for users passionate about self-tracking.[12]

While in Romania, he translated books on TCP/IP networking[13] and on building web applications.[14] Dascalescu has a degree in Computer Science, with published papers on knowledge modeling[15] and robotics.[16]

Most recently, Dăscălescu worked as a Developer Advocate for AI startup Weaviate[3] and Google.[7]

Blueseed

Main article: Blueseed

Blueseed was a

United States work visa requirements. The platform was set to offer living and office space, high-speed Internet connectivity, and regular ferry service to the mainland.[17][18] The existence of the project is due to the lack of U.S. visas for entrepreneurs. Instead, customers will use the much easier to obtain B-1/B-2 visas to travel to the mainland, while work will be done exclusively on the ship.[17][18]

On July 31, 2013, Dăscălescu became COO of Blueseed, after CEO Max Marty announced he was stepping back from day-to-day operations.[19]

Personal

Dăscălescu's interests include

Four Hour Body.[22] He is an open-source contributor,[23] advocates for English to be used as a global language[24] and challenges religion.[25]

References

  1. ^ a b Wiersema, Alisa. "Startup Aims to Skirt Visa Limits With Cruise Ship for Foreign High-Tech Workers". ABC News.
  2. Wired
    . July 16, 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Third Annual Romanian Business & Investment Roundtable". Economist Impact events. The Economist. 15 March 2023.
  4. ^ Dan Dăscălescu - Social innovation through seasteading and Blueseed, 2012-Mar (video).
  5. ^ BBC Radio 5: Blueseed CTO Dan Dăscălescu on Outriders with Jamilla Knowles, 2012-Jan (video).
  6. ^ TV Tokyo - Blueseed co-founder Dan Dăscălescu, 2013-May (video).
  7. ^ a b c Dăscălescu, Dan (13 November 2018). "Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development (Chrome Dev Summit 2018)". YouTube. San Francisco.
  8. ^
    FOX Business
    .
  9. ^ "Today I celebrate 9 years since I got my visa to come to the San Francisco Bay Area". Facebook. September 24, 2013.
  10. ^ "Got my U.S. permanent resident (green) card!". Facebook. April 7, 2013.
  11. Seasteading Institute. 14 February 2014. Archived from the original
    on 14 February 2014.
  12. ^ "StartUPTalk Radio Premiers With Dan Dascalescu, CIO Of Blueseed, Floating High Tech Incubator". Mar 9, 2012.
  13. ^ Tim Parker; Mark Sportack (2002). TCP/IP : Unleashed (in Romanian). Bucharest: Teora. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013. trad. de Dan Dăscălescu
  14. ^ Esposito, Dino (2003). Soluţii WEB cu ASP.NET şi ADO.NET (in Romanian). Bucharest: Teora. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013. trad. de Dan Dăscălescu
  15. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.87.3350
    .
  16. ^ Claudiu Chiculiță; Dan Dăscălescu; Laurențiu Frangu (2002). "SIMULATOR FOR COOPERATION AND COMPETITION OF MOBILE ROBOTS" (PDF). University of Galați, Dept. of Automatic Control, Industrial Informatics and Electronics. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  17. ^ a b Lee, Timothy (2011-11-29). "Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator". Ars Technica. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
  18. ^ a b Donald, Brooke (16 December 2011). "Blueseed Startup Sees Entrepreneur-Ship as Visa Solution for Silicon Valley". Huffington Post. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
  19. ^ Marty, Max (2013-07-31). "Two years of Blueseed". Blueseed. Archived from the original on 2013-08-21. Retrieved 2013-07-31.
  20. ^ "Advancing Humanity Symposium". Stanford Transhumanist Association. 3 March 2012. Archived from the original on 10 May 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2013.
  21. ^ "Life Extension Conference". 2012. Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2013-09-28. 2012 Conference Summary by Dan Dăscălescu
  22. ^ "Tony Horton's P90X vs. Timothy Ferriss' Occam's Protocol". July 1, 2011. Archived from the original on 16 March 2013.
  23. ^ "Dan Dăscălescu". GitHub. Retrieved 19 August 2020.
  24. ^ "English as a global language". December 2019. Archived from the original on 17 March 2020.
  25. ^ "Challenging religion". 3 October 2016. Archived from the original on 17 March 2020.
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