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Recovering CEO (Wattpad), 3x entrepreneur (one homerun, one single, one strikeout), deep tech VC (TSF), engineer, helping founders build world-class companies.
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Software Is Not Dead. It Is About to Be Everywhere.

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By Allen Lau
| Substack
Earlier this year, GitHub COO Kyle Daigle said GitHub is now seeing 275 million commits per week, versus about 1 billion commits in all of 2025. For non-developers, a commit is basically one saved change to code. It is not a perfect measure, but at GitHub’s scale it is a very good proxy for the amount of software being created, updated, and shipped into the world. Annualized, that implies a pace of roughly 14.3 billion commits this year. That is about 14x last year’s total.
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How Canada can win in the next wave of technological innovation

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By Allen Lau
| Canadian Family Offices
Canada arguably invented modern AI. Geoffrey Hinton won the 2024 Nobel Prize in physics for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks. Canada has also been home to other pioneers who helped shape the field, including Richard Sutton, frequently credited as the father of reinforcement learning, and Yoshua Bengio, one of AI’s godfathers. And yet the most important AI companies are almost all based in the United States.
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A Recovering CEO’s Thoughts by Allen Lau

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By Allen Lau
| Substack
Discover more from A Recovering CEO’s Thoughts by Allen Lau Recovering CEO (Wattpad), 3x entrepreneur, early-stage deep tech VC (Two Small Fish), electrical engineer by training, founders’ sounding board. Already have an account? Sign in I am back from Upper Bound again! Upper Bound has become one of my favourite annual trips.
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