Entrepreneur · Author · Traveler
Jacques Voorhees
For anyone who loves exploring the world, debating politics, and reading thrilling adventures.
Recent writing
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In the Valley of the Crescent Moon (Or, The Great Jordanian Laptop Swindle)
Just because I’m paranoid about losing stuff while traveling, doesn’t mean the fates aren’t trying to take it from me. And this was the kind of trip where they might succeed. I was going to New York…
- Economics & PolicyThe 7-Step Obamacare Replacement PlanRelatively easy changes to our health-care system will solve everything.
- Economics & PolicyShooting Old Yeller: Why It’s Time to End Health Insurance
- Culture & FaithHow the New York Times Would Have Covered Jesus
- TravelArapahoe Basin, Colorado2017Skiing North Pole Plunge
- PoliticsDoes “Paint Your Wagon” Show Israel How to Beat Hamas?The 1969 film is all about “tunnel warfare.”
Business
Companies & pressIn 1983, a decade before the World Wide Web, I launched Polygon, an electronic trading network for the diamond industry. Jump ahead four decades and four more companies, and today I run Icecap AI.
- 1983Polygon
- 2011VeriChannel
- 2015Museum of Diamonds
- 2020Icecap
- 2024Icecap AI
About me
I’ve built yachts, served as press secretary for a Senate campaign, flown executives around, taught skiing, and spent forty years in the diamond business. These days I also write novels and argue about politics (which, I’ll confess, I love). I live in Keystone, Colorado.
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