Dan Dascalescu

Dăscălescu was born in Romania and immigrated into Silicon Valley in fall 2004,[9] after facing visa issues. He applied for a green card in 2007[1] and received it in April 2013.[10] Dăscălescu cited his visa difficulties as an inspiration for Blueseed, a startup accelerator that would avoid immigration restrictions by being located on a ship in international waters.[8]

Before Blueseed, Dăscălescu worked at Yahoo! as a software globalization developer and open-source contributor,[11] and became an ambassador for the Seasteading Institute[12] and founded the Quantified Self Forum, an online community for users passionate about self-tracking.[13]

While in Romania, he translated books on TCP/IP networking[14] and on building web applications.[15] Dascalescu has a degree in Computer Science, with published papers on knowledge modeling[16] and robotics.[17]

Most recently, Dăscălescu worked as a Developer Advocate for AI startup Weaviate[3] and Google.[7]

Blueseed was a startup community project that Dăscălescu co-founded with Seasteading Institute colleagues Max Marty and Dario Mutabdzija, and served as CIO for. The project prepared to launch a ship near Silicon Valley to serve as a startup community and entrepreneurial incubator without United States work visa requirements. The platform was set to offer living and office space, high-speed Internet connectivity, and regular ferry service to the mainland.[18][19] The existence of the project is due to the lack of U.S. visas for entrepreneurs. Instead, customers will use the much easier to obtain B-1/B-2 visas to travel to the mainland, while work will be done exclusively on the ship.[18][19]

On July 31, 2013, Dăscălescu became COO of Blueseed, after CEO Max Marty announced he was stepping back from day-to-day operations.[20]

Dăscălescu's interests include transhumanism,[21] life extension,[22] physical fitness and self-quantification. He completed the P90X program and presented his findings at the 2011 Quantified Self conference, contrasting it with the Occam Protocol described by Tim Ferriss in Four Hour Body.[23] He is an open-source contributor,[24] advocates for English to be used as a global language[25] and challenges religion.[26]