Dan Dascalescu

Dan Dăscălescu
Dan Dăscălescu speaking at Chrome Dev Summit 2018
Born	1980 or 1981 (age 43–44)[1]
Occupation	Entrepreneur
Known for	Blueseed
Website	[1]

Dan Dăscălescu is a Romanian-American entrepreneur based in Silicon Valley, who co-founded^[2] the ship-based seed accelerator project Blueseed in an attempt to allow entrepreneurs to start companies near Silicon Valley without US visa restrictions. He is also a public speaker^{[3][4][5][6][7]} and former software engineer at Google^[7] and Yahoo! and ambassador for The Seasteading Institute, a think tank researching ocean communities.^[8]

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, and became an ambassador for the Seasteading Institute^[11] and founded the Quantified Self Forum, an online community for users passionate about self-tracking.^[12]

While in Romania, he translated books on TCP/IP networking^[13] and on building web applications.^[14] Dascalescu has a degree in Computer Science, with published papers on knowledge modeling^[15] and robotics.^[16]

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.^[17][18] 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.^[17][18]

On July 31, 2013, Dăscălescu became COO of Blueseed, after CEO Max Marty announced he was stepping back from day-to-day operations.^[19]

Dăscălescu's interests include transhumanism,^[20] life extension,^[21] 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.^[22] He is an open-source contributor,^[23] advocates for English to be used as a global language^[24] and challenges religion.^[25]