Leo Lin
@linyao01

Entrepreneur in the embedded space with passion for Blockchain and AI Things. @arkreen_network energy+compute & @tlay_io embedded trust layer for physical AI

Joined August 2010
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The AI-Native Company Will Have Fewer Layers, Not Fewer Humans

Most discussions about AI and companies begin with headcount. How many jobs will disappear? How much output can one employee produce? Which departments can be automated? These questions matter, but
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The Last Ten Meters Are Where Startups Are Built

Technology looks cleanest before it reaches the customer. The prototype sits on a workbench. The dashboard displays perfect data. The demo follows a known sequence. The network is stable, the device
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Open Standards Are the Small Company’s Distribution Strategy

Large companies can distribute products through existing customer relationships, sales teams, cloud platforms and installed hardware. Startups usually have none of these advantages. A small company
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The Best AI Teams Have No Border Between Research and Engineering

The AI industry has inherited a hierarchy from academia. Research creates the breakthrough. Engineering implements it. Infrastructure supports both. This division sounds logical, but it becomes less

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When Agents Become a Society, Ideas Become Infrastructure

Mind viruses, machine belief, and who gets to write the constitution of the agent economy A friend recently sent a paper into our group chat with the title Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in
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From Owning Machines to Owning What Machines Can Do: How autonomous machines turn products into productive capital
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From Owning Machines to Owning What Machines Can Do

How autonomous machines turn products into productive capital A friend recently showed me his “dream home setup”: a rack of compute, networking equipment, storage, and GPUs powerful enough to run
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Machines Need a Balance Sheet, Not Just a Wallet

The machine economy is beginning with payments. AI agents can pay for APIs. Robots can purchase charging. Devices can receive stablecoins. Protocols such as x402 and L402 are making it possible for
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The AI Infrastructure Race Will Be Won in Megawatts, Not Benchmarks

For the past several years, the AI industry has been organized around leaderboards. A new model is released. Everyone compares reasoning scores, context windows, coding benchmarks and inference
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Your Proprietary Data Is Not a Prompt. It Is Your Company.

Why the Next AI Architecture Will Move Models to Data—Not Data to Models When a company uses an AI model, the visible transaction appears simple. The company sends a prompt. The model returns an
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AI Is Getting Its Own Accounting System

Why the two meanings of tokenomics may converge into a programmable digital economy When I saw that the Linux Foundation had launched the Tokenomics Foundation to develop vendor-neutral standards,
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Infrastructure Is Not Unprofitable. It Is Misowned.

From railroads and fiber to AI and DePIN, the real question is not whether infrastructure creates value, but who gets to own it. The spectacular unwinding of Leopold Aschenbrenner's AI trade has
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The Best AI Teams Are Not Organized Around Titles

Why the Boundary Between Research and Engineering Is Disappearing For decades, technology companies have treated research and engineering as different professions. Researchers explored what might be
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