Banks Benitez

Uncharted Insider - April 2019

Hi everyone, Welcome to the April edition of the Uncharted Insider. Uncharted Update: * Sara’s Baby: Sara Rodriguez, our COO, had a healthy baby girl, Alba, on April 13th (see photo attached). It’s just the best news. * Funders + Mobile Tech Ventures: We hosted a funder convening in Denver for

Right Solution, Wrong User Experience

The right solution with the wrong user experience is no solution at all. The best intervention without sensitivity to the human interaction will fail.

Therapy vs. Strategy

Courageous strategy comes from courageous humans, and often that strategy sits on the other side of doing this deep, messy, psychological work.

Copernican Revolution

I go about my days mostly ignoring the reality of outer space. But then something will happen that will create a little Copernican Revolution [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_Revolution] in my worldview, and I’ll spend 15 minutes losing my mind contemplating the expansiveness of outer space, the

Uncharted Insider - March 2019

Hi everyone, Welcome to the March edition of the Uncharted Insider. Uncharted Update: * Chipotle Aluminaries Project: Uncharted is partnering with Chipotle [https://chipotle.com/] and their Cultivate Foundation to run an accelerator for ventures working on the future of food with integrity. Our team spent last week with the eight

Protecting Culture While Growing

How do we preserve the culture of a company while it goes through a period of massive growth?