The Farm

My older brother Colby runs a fish farm in Washington. He’s been in aquaculture a long time, and he was the first entrepreneur I ever watched up close.

From the end of high school through college, we’d strategize together all the time. I spent a couple of summers up there working with him.

Being around the fish gave me an idea. Young fish die early at a high rate, and you can see trouble coming in how they behave. I called it Finsight: pattern recognition on video, through computer vision, to catch early signs of disease, stress, hunger or low oxygen before it spreads. It’s a project I still keep tabs on.