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Joseph Flaherty
Director, Content & Community at Founder Collective
Joseph Flaherty is the Director of Content & Community at Founder Collective, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has held this position since November 2014. In his role, Flaherty focuses on sharing insights and lessons from successful founders and funders, contributing to the firm's mission of supporting startups at the seed stage.14
Before joining Founder Collective, Flaherty was a Staff Writer at Wired, where he was part of the founding team for Wired Design, the magazine's design vertical. During his tenure, he wrote over 300 articles that garnered significant traffic and visibility, and he appeared on major media platforms such as CNN and NPR to discuss topics like 3-D printing.23
Flaherty holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design, which he completed in 2004. His background combines expertise in design and communications, which he has leveraged throughout his career in various roles, including strategic marketing and product design in the medical device industry.12
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A "Messy History of Commercial Aviation," would make for a fascinating coffee table book.
It's a space where the technology, architecture, social norms, and commercial relationships rapidly co-evolved and led to wild designs, many of which only existed briefly.
My daughter developed sepsis while on treatment for leukemia and spent a week hovering near death in the ICU.
We were lucky; we had a standing appointment at Boston Children's Hospital, where they recognized the signs.
I often think, what if we didn't have an appointment that day?
AI could save so many lives. Accelerate!
