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]
Personal
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]
^Tim Parker; Mark Sportack (2002).
TCP/IP : Unleashed (in Romanian).
Bucharest:
Teora. Archived from
the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013. trad. de Dan Dăscălescu
^Pecheanu, Emilia; Diana Stefanescu; Adrian Istrate; Dan Dascalescu (2004). "CONCEPTUALLY MODELING THE DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE FOR ASSISTED LEARNING IN AN IT DISCIPLINE". Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Aided Learning in Engineering Education–CALIE. 4. Department of Computer Science, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati: 215–221.
CiteSeerX10.1.1.87.3350.
^Claudiu Chiculiță; Dan Dăscălescu; Laurențiu Frangu (2002).
"SIMULATOR FOR COOPERATION AND COMPETITION OF MOBILE ROBOTS"(PDF). University of Galați, Dept. of Automatic Control, Industrial Informatics and Electronics. Archived from
the original(PDF) on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 28 September 2013.