Ben Tseng
@BenjaminTseng
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Tweets on tech 🤖 (esp deeptech 🏭🔋🧬🧪🧫) & finance 💵 | Me: 🇹🇼🇺🇲 builder passionate for deeptech; 8+ yrs x-border deeptech VC; All opinions mine alone
Silicon Valley, CA
Joined August 2008
My 30s were a wild decade of learning things about being a parent & about how the world works. As I head into the next decade, I've been reflecting on the lessons that have reshaped how I see the world. Here are 7 of them. 🧵
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The European Union and certain EU Member States have persisted in a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives against U.S. service providers. U.S. services companies provide substantial free services to EU citizens and reliable
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Good job Sen Warren, you blocked Amazon from rescuing iRobot and in the process killed an American company while transferring its core assets to China.
🇨🇳 You probably already heard this but interesting story in the context of what I was talking about American iRobot filed for bankruptcy and is now owned by the Chinese company that actually produced their products, called Shenzhen PICEA Shenzhen PICEA did something very smart,
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This map shows the smallest and the largest possible circle to contain 10 per cent of the global population. Source: https://t.co/imWRCjFwsd
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It’s going to be a sad winter to watch. With modern rapid technology, flu vaccine could’ve been updated when earliest signals of vaccine mismatch were apparent months ago, w/outbreaks in Australia, Japan, China, etc. Instead, as usual, we blame the virus & count the bodies. We
⚠️Mutant H3N2 influenza update US 🇺🇸: Week 49: 8.1% tests positivity, 6884 admissions (6.6/100000), first paediatric death. 2,900,000 illnesses, 30,000 hospitalizations, and 1,200 deaths from flu so far this season. These numbers have all doubled from week before.
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It’s called fintech if the business model is more complicated than the product
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November 20 Russian top general to Putin: “Kupiansk has been taken under control” December 2 Putin: “We invite foreign media to Kupiansk” December 12 Zelenskyy: “Hello from Kupiansk”
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Zelensky in Kupyansk today, recording a message as explosions are heard behind him. This is where a leader’s personal bravery becomes a factor in global geopolitics.
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I finally gave in to the old man in me 👴🏻 My IDEs are no longer in dark mode. I have seen the light (mode)
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日本の青森県東方沖で昨夜11時15分ごろ、マグニチュード7.5の地震が発生しました。私たちの友人である日本の皆さまが無事であるよう心から祈っています。今後の余震による影響にも、くれぐれもご注意ください。 🇹🇼 ❤️ 🇯🇵 #AlwaysHere
昨日２３時１５分頃、青森県沖を震源とする地震が発生し、青森県八戸市において最大震度６強の強い揺れを観測しました。 津波警報が発令されている北海道太平洋沿岸中部、青森県太平洋沿岸、岩手県の皆様におかれましては、直ちに高台や避難ビルなどの安全な場所に避難してください。
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Still a lot of research to be done but the promise is to turn (some) autoimmune disorders from lifelong worsening chronic illness to something curable More from @nature news: https://t.co/aAmglPzyZv Some of my writing on cell therapies:
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Recent studies have shown by directing CAR-T Cells at B-cells (which make the autoantibodies that cause much of the autoimmune damage), you not only eliminate the autoantibodies, but potentially "reset" the immune system to a healthier state Literally a potential cure!
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While the process is expensive (and can require a very debilitating chemotherapy regimen), its been able to make amazing progress on previously death-sentence blood cancers (leukemia's, lymphoma's)
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CAR-T 101 🤓📚: We take immune cells (T-cells) and modify them to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs, hence CAR-T cells) so that we can "program" them to go after any target we want That could be cancer cells or, for autoimmune disorders, overactive immune cells
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Immune cell therapies like CAR-T have made a huge impact on formerly untreatable liquid tumors and are now making headway into autoimmune disorders (lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, etc) It's rare to hear researchers say "cure" but amazingly, we're starting to! ❤️🩹
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Tomatoes, raspberries, automobiles, televisions, cancer drugs, women’s shoes, insulin monitoring, home security monitoring, clothing for tall women (which functionally didn’t exist until about 2008), telephone service (remember when you had to PAY EXTRA to call another area
People are chimping out at Matt over this but nobody has been able to name one thing that has significantly grown in quality in the past 10-20 years. Every commodity, even as they have become cheaper and more accessible has decreased in quality. I am begging somebody to name
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And just like that, Grandpa taught him a trick he’d never, ever forget https://t.co/xV6StwPh09
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REPEAT WITH ME: Every hyperscaler meets with every design firm, back-end firm, foundry and packaging firm. Stop this nonsense, please.
Microsoft $MSFT is reportedly talking with Broadcom $AVGO about co-designing chips for its data centers, potentially shifting that business away from Marvell $MRVL (per The Information, citing one person involved)
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