Wishing our readers around the world a wonderful prosperous lunar new year.

It was catching up with a former corporate venturing leader this month as she described a healthy portfolio of activities covering public and private board roles and “forming a Spac – isn’t everyone?”

Ideas are copied quickly and general purpose technologies or insights in one field can be applied in others.

Innovation is speeding up. Capital is abundant. Invention is the root of success in driving equity that can then be geared appropriately.

When Jeff Bezos, founder of online retailer Amazon, announced his transition last week to executive chairman he clearly identified his future focus areas: “I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions.”

It would have made for interesting few months for Tina Nova, a director at Nasdaq-listed genomic diagnostics company Veracyte.

Young Sohn's move creates platform for further growth

If you can outsource manufacturing a part from a factory to the customer and reduce logistics and inventory costs it sounds appealing. So it is little surprise a host of industrial groups have explored additive manufacturing – also known as 3D printing.

From idea to employing 1.3 million people and serving hundreds of millions of customers and businesses in a generation is phenomenal.

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