Rebecca Grant
San Francisco, CA
USA
Professional Experience
Journalist and content writer with experience covering startups and venture capital, art, food, health, and travel.
General
The story of Ashana Davenport, whose Big Brothers Big Sisters mentor gave her a home when she had no place to go. Within 6 months of moving from Philadelphia to San Francisco, Ashana took her SATs, earned her high school diploma, and got accepted (with scholarship) to study computer science at UCSF.
Drama, greed, controversy, conspiracy, crime, risk, theft, speculation, wealth - such was the world of Bitcoin in 2013.
Now Bitcoin is emerging out of its angsty adolescence into a more mature, adult, stable form. Here is a guide to everything you need to know about Bitcoin.
Immunity Project is developing a free HIV/AIDS vaccine through a radical new approach that involves data analysis and machine learning. It is one of seven nonprofits in elite accelerator program Y Combinator's latest batch. YC accepted its first nonprofit, Watsi, last year.