# Chang Xu

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Chang Xu -- Basis Set Ventures

Chang Xu is a partner at $140M fund Basis Set Ventures. We discuss everything from why open source is a good business model, how next gen infrastructure might look, what she learned at Upfront, and even practical advice for forming a startup board.

Radical Self-Belief: Chang Xu, Basis Set Partner, On Investing with Conviction (Not Consensus)

The best investors invest because of conviction, not because of consensus. The top investors have radical self-belief and a willingness to bet on themselves, especially when the odds seem stacked against them. Kauffman Fellows CEO Jeff Harbach sat down with Basis Set Partner, Chang Xu, to discuss h…

Season 1 - The Disney 8: The Disney Girls

This week we celebrate the influence of the Disney daughters on both Walt, and the Disney company.  Sharon and Diane provided a stable, family presence that let Walt explore his childish imagination, and build a world of love and laughter.  Outside of their philanthropic efforts, they also were adv…

Episode 107: How to Make Your Board Work For Your Startup

Boards are an inevitable part of the startup journey. Your decisions in the early stages of your startup around your cap table and your board structure will persist and have implications throughout the life of your company. Chang Xu will share her experience from sitting on and observing a number …

Chang Xu on investing in AI and automation developer led products at Basis Set Ventures

Meet Chang Xu, Partner at Basis Set Ventures, where she focuses on developer-led products. What most excites her are opportunities where founders build a thesis around "raising the ceiling, and lowering the floor", to ease complexity or democratize access. She previously was a Principal at Upfron…

GhostNet: More Features From Cheap Operations

Deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on embedded devices is difficult due to the limited memory and computation resources. The redundancy in feature maps is an important characteristic of those successful CNNs, but has rarely been investigated in neural architecture design. This paper pro…

Malaria free China, an academic medicine revolution, and retracted data's impact

China was declared malaria free in 2021 - and we'll hear how persistence was key to their success, and what new technologies are available to help the rest of the world become malaria free, from Regina Rabinovich, director of the Malaria Elimination Initiative at the Barcelona Institute for Global …

#22 smCounter2: somatic variant calling and UMIs with Chang Xu

In this episode I’m joined by Chang Xu. Chang is a senior biostatistician at QIAGEN and an author of smCounter2, a low-frequency somatic variant caller. To distinguish rare somatic mutations from sequencing errors, smCounter2 relies on unique molecular identifiers, or UMIs, which help identify mult…