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James Joaquin

James invests early in breakthrough technologies that move humanity forward. He’s passionate about the responsible use of AI to solve the unsolvable across trillion-dollar industries.

  • Why We Invested In Baton

    Over 70% of America's 33 million small businesses will change hands as their owners retire in the next decade. Baton connects small business owners to...

  • If You Want Something, Try To Make It Happen

    James Joaquin recently sat down with Vinod Khosa for a fireside chat on how AI is changing…well, just about everything. Vinod offered insights only he...

  • A Future Shaped by AI Innovation

    James Joaquin has five ways AI-fueled innovation is going to reimagine the economic landscape in 2025.

  • Why We Invested in Mozi

    Connection. It’s a fundamental human need and something we all could use more of. This realization came to Ev Williams two years ago as he...

  • Ushering in the AI Era of Scientific Breakthroughs 

    At Obvious Ventures, we see generative science as the next big wave in AI innovation. Last week, I sat down with three brilliant minds to...

  • Generative Science: Our Contrarian View of AI 

    Generative media has been a revolution. But the next wave of generative AI—generative science—will be far more transformative to the human race and usher in...

  • The Tripping Point

    In recent decades, humanity has made great progress in curing diseases of the body, but little progress has been made in treating diseases of the...

  • The ESG Term Sheet

    In 2014, we founded Obvious Ventures on a simple belief that the most valuable companies of our time will be the ones solving humanity’s biggest...

  • 10 Predictions: Knowledge Work in 2022

    By James Joaquin and Arek Zarowski One major takeaway from 2021: the only certainty about the future is uncertainty, especially for knowledge work. We felt it...

  • How to Build a Time Machine

    At Obvious Ventures, we build time machines. Not the science fiction kind that teleport into the far future or the deep past. I’m talking about building...

  • Delightful Board Meetings

    The folklore of bad board meetings at venture-backed startups is too strong to ignore. Desultory meetings run by sleep-deprived CEOs pulling all-nighters to get the...

  • The Five Forces of Food

    The two trillion dollar global food industry is experiencing a massive disruption driven by changing consumer desires and choices. Big Food is at a tipping...

  • Introducing the World Positive Term Sheet

    Much has already been written about the proverbial term sheet. From Intel and Apple to Google and Facebook, tech giants have fueled their engines with venture...

  • Seven Habits of a Highly Effective Board

    Today, the consumer products company Seventh Generation (SVG) announced it is being acquired by Unilever. For over four years I’ve had the pleasure of serving on the...