Dan Dascalescu Explained

Dan Dăscălescu
Birth Date:[1]
Occupation:Entrepreneur
Known For:Blueseed
Website:https://web.archive.org/web/20080629072012/http://dandascalescu.com/

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 and Yahoo! and ambassador for The Seasteading Institute, a think tank researching ocean communities.[8]

Biography

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 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.

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 and Google.[7]

Blueseed

See 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.

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 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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wiersema. Alisa. Startup Aims to Skirt Visa Limits With Cruise Ship for Foreign High-Tech Workers. ABC News.
  2. Web site: GET RICH QUICK: LAUNCH A STARTUP AT SEA. July 16, 2013. Wired.
  3. Web site: Third Annual Romanian Business & Investment Roundtable . Economist Impact events . . 15 March 2023.
  4. video. Dan Dăscălescu - Social innovation through seasteading and Blueseed, 2012-Mar.
  5. video. BBC Radio 5: Blueseed CTO Dan Dăscălescu on Outriders with Jamilla Knowles, 2012-Jan.
  6. video. TV Tokyo - Blueseed co-founder Dan Dăscălescu, 2013-May.
  7. Web site: Dăscălescu . Dan . Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development (Chrome Dev Summit 2018) . . . 13 November 2018.
  8. Web site: Rogers. Mate. Visa-Free Startup Community Off California Coast. FOX Business. May 21, 2012.
  9. Web site: Today I celebrate 9 years since I got my visa to come to the San Francisco Bay Area . . September 24, 2013.
  10. Web site: Got my U.S. permanent resident (green) card! . . April 7, 2013.
  11. Web site: Dan Dascalescu. https://web.archive.org/web/20140214021057/http://www.seasteading.org/ambassadors/. dead. 14 February 2014. Ambassadors. The Seasteading Institute. 14 February 2014.
  12. Web site: StartUPTalk Radio Premiers With Dan Dascalescu, CIO Of Blueseed, Floating High Tech Incubator . Mar 9, 2012.
  13. Book: TCP/IP : Unleashed. 2002. Tim Parker. Mark Sportack. 28 September 2013. Romanian. Teora. Bucharest. trad. de Dan Dăscălescu. 28 September 2013. https://archive.today/20130928113444/http://alephnew.bibnat.ro:8991/F/?func=full-set-set&set_number=039969&set_entry=000001&format=999. dead.
  14. Book: Esposito, Dino. Soluţii WEB cu ASP.NET şi ADO.NET. 2003. Teora. Bucharest. 28 September 2013. Romanian. trad. de Dan Dăscălescu. 28 September 2013. https://archive.today/20130928113403/http://alephnew.bibnat.ro:8991/F/?func=full-set-set&set_number=039968&set_entry=000001&format=999. dead.
  15. Pecheanu. Emilia. Diana Stefanescu. Adrian Istrate. Dan Dascalescu. 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. 2004. 4. 215–221. Department of Computer Science, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati. 10.1.1.87.3350.
  16. Web site: SIMULATOR FOR COOPERATION AND COMPETITION OF MOBILE ROBOTS . University of Galați, Dept. of Automatic Control, Industrial Informatics and Electronics . 28 September 2013 . Claudiu Chiculiță . Dan Dăscălescu . Laurențiu Frangu . https://web.archive.org/web/20131002225416/http://www.etc.ugal.ro/research/y506b/papers/ChiculitaFrangu-simulator.pdf . 2 October 2013 . 2002 . dead .
  17. News: Lee. Timothy. Startup hopes to hack the immigration system with a floating incubator. 30 November 2011. Ars Technica. 2011-11-29.
  18. News: Donald. Brooke. Blueseed Startup Sees Entrepreneur-Ship as Visa Solution for Silicon Valley. 12 March 2011. Huffington Post. 16 December 2011.
  19. Web site: Two years of Blueseed. Marty. Max. 2013-07-31. 2013-07-31. Blueseed. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130821073922/http://blueseed.co/blog/two-years-of-blueseed/. 2013-08-21.
  20. Web site: Advancing Humanity Symposium . Stanford Transhumanist Association . 3 March 2012 . 28 September 2013 . 10 May 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120510065428/http://events.stanford.edu/events/311/31173/ . dead .
  21. Web site: Life Extension Conference. 2012. 2012 Conference Summary by Dan Dăscălescu. 2013-09-28. 2013-09-28. https://archive.today/20130928100820/http://lifeextensionconference.com/. dead.
  22. Web site: Tony Horton's P90X vs. Timothy Ferriss' Occam's Protocol . July 1, 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130316064625/http://www.fourhourfit.com/2011/07/01/tony-hortons-p90x-vs-timothy-ferriss-occams-protocol/ . 16 March 2013 .
  23. Web site: Dan Dăscălescu. GitHub. 19 August 2020.
  24. Web site: English as a global language . English . December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200317221752/https://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/english-universal-language . 17 March 2020.
  25. Web site: Challenging religion . 3 October 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200317221753/https://wiki.dandascalescu.com/essays/anti-religion . 17 March 2020.

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