“They went around to guys who were in their second and third startup and had been eating ramen noodles for eight years. They said, ‘Look, how would you just like to have a normal lifestyle, live an hour outside the Bay Area, make a quarter of a million bucks a year, and give your kids a really good education?'” This is a story about a start-up that is in the middle of a major pivot. What makes the story unique is that the start-up is 124 years old. Bloomberg on GE’s determination to become a top software company. I can’t wait to see how Thomas Edison looks in his hoodie.

+ Google is putting Boston Dynamics up for sale in robotics retreat. (Uh oh. Even Google is afraid of the robots…)