Doug Clinton

Over the weekend, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk co-signed a letter with industry experts calling for regulation of artificial intelligence development and warning of its existential threat. “However, Musk and the other AI debaters underestimate the...

From VHS to DVD to Blu-ray ━ to skin cells? The holding device of motion pictures has evolved to machinery less and less cumbersome, and last week, researchers from Harvard Medical School revealed a new method of video transfer: DNA encoding. The scientists embedded a film clip of a galloping horse...

Artificial intelligence is not just a casual interest of the tech industry. It’s a universal imperative. “In ten years, every company will have to be an artificial intelligence company or they won’t be competitive,” Loup Ventures Managing Partner Doug Clinton wrote in a...

Loup Ventures is siding with the machines, concluding on Friday a series of notes analyzing the growth of robotics in the economy. “We believe a cultural shift is underway and robots are playing an increasingly crucial role in our everyday lives,” said analyst Andrew Murphy. Murphy...

Loup Ventures analyst Doug Clinton has a message for Uber: “Bad culture doesn’t scale.” Clinton published a note Thursday detailing the fatal flaw in Uber, which recently took its latest victim: now-former CEO Travis Kalanick. A Unicorn Time Bomb Clinton noted that a poor work...

Doug Clinton of Loup Ventures says Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Chairman Eric Schmidt is wrong when he says automation won’t wipe out the majority of jobs now performed by inferior humans. “The five-year picture of automation isn’t going to result in mass job loss,...

Recent media reports have suggested that the notoriously secretive Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is working on developing a non-invasive way for diabetics to monitor blood glucose levels. While Apple enthusiasts have speculated that glucose monitoring could be integrated into the Apple Watch, Loop...

Loup Ventures’ Doug Clinton believes AirPods are likely to be a bigger product for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) than the Watch, given its “seamlessness in connecting and disconnecting with our phones and enabling Siri has meaningfully improved the way we work and consume content.”...

Loup Ventures, the venture capital firm co-founded by former Wall Street analyst Gene Munster, Doug Clinton and Andrew Murphy, hasn't shied away from commenting on Snap, Inc. (NYSE: SNAP). Murphy stated in a blog post his firm is a big fan of the direction Snap is heading in as it has...

At $17 per share, Snap Inc’s (NYSE: SNAP) IPO implied a market cap of $23.6 billion. The company may be able to grow revenues by 100 percent to $800 million in 2017, while some buy side investors expect the figure to be closer to $1 billion, Loup Ventures’ Doug Clinton said in a report...

Virtual reality gamers already seem to be spending a substantial amount on software. Average revenue per user of VR gaming could “ultimately exceed” that of traditional gaming, given the former’s “richer games and other content experiences,” Loup Ventures’ Doug...

The popularity of Snapchat — and the seeming preference of smartphone users to communicate with pictures and symbols above all else — shows we’re still writing on cave walls, Loup Ventures argued in a Thursday analysis. The difference? Today’s hieroglyphs and petroglyphs are...

Digital assistants such as Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL)'s Siri, Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google Home and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s Alexa stole the limelight across the CES and could also make waves at the Auto Show. But, these virtual assistants still need a lot of...

There’s been a flurry of job departures among sell-side stock analysts in 2016. Traders likely recognize some of the bigger names that have gotten the job-hopping itch. Piper Jaffray Companies (NYSE: PJC)’s popular Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) analyst Gene Munster has announced he is...

When Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) revealed that its iPhone sales had slowed for the first time, investors were spooked and the company's share price suffered. However, with the iPhone news settling, many are looking to another aspect of the company's earnings that could be important to...