Dan Dascalescu

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Dan Dăscălescu
Dan Dăscălescu speaking at Chrome Dev Summit 2018
Born1980 or 1981 (age 42–43)[1]
OccupationEntrepreneur
Known forBlueseed
Website[1]

Dan Dăscălescu is a Romanian-American entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, who co-founded[2] the ship-based seed accelerator project Blueseed in an attempt to allow entrepreneurs to start companies near Silicon Valley without US visa restrictions. He is also a public speaker[3][4][5][6][7] and former software engineer at Google[7] and Yahoo! and ambassador for The Seasteading Institute, a think tank researching ocean communities.[8]

Biography[edit]

Dăscălescu was born in Romania and immigrated into Silicon Valley in fall 2004,[9] after facing visa issues. He applied for a 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[11] and founded the 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[edit]

Main article: Blueseed

Blueseed was a startup community project that Dăscălescu co-founded with Seasteading Institute colleagues Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija, and served as CIO for. The project prepared to launch a ship near Silicon Valley to serve as a startup community and entrepreneurial incubator without 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[edit]

Dăscălescu's interests include transhumanism,[20] life extension,[21] physical fitness and self-quantification. He completed the P90X program and presented his findings at the 2011 Quantified Self conference, contrasting it with the Occam Protocol described by Tim Ferriss in 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[edit]

  1. ^ a b Wiersema, Alisa. "Startup Aims to Skirt Visa Limits With Cruise Ship for Foreign High-Tech Workers". ABC News.
  2. ^ "GET RICH QUICK: LAUNCH A STARTUP AT SEA". 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. ^ a b Rogers, Mate (May 21, 2012). "Visa-Free Startup Community Off California Coast". 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. ^ "Dan Dascalescu". Ambassadors. The 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. ^ Pecheanu, Emilia; Diana Stefanescu; Adrian Istrate; Dan Dascalescu (2004). "CONCEPTUALLY MODELING THE DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE FOR ASSISTED LEARNING IN AN IT DISCIPLINE". Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Aided Learning in Engineering Education–CALIE. 4. Department of Computer Science, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati: 215–221. 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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