Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings. Her primary activity is investing in and nurturing start-ups, with a recent focus on health care, human capital and
/>aerospace. Overall, she is fascinated by new business models, new technologies and new markets (both economically and politically). From October 2008 to March o
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/>2009, she lived in Star City outside Moscow, Russia, training as a backup cosmonaut. Apart from this brief sabbatical, she is an active board member for a variety of
startups.