Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕
@DStrachman
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Bringing freedom & autonomy to young people. Built @thielfellowship and @1517fund. Investor in @luminartech @lambdaAPI @loom @Mach_Industries @RainmakerCorp
Bay Area (Oakland!)
Joined April 2008
I love getting a solid cold email or DM from founders! No need for an intro to 1517. Some things will make your message standout and get a response (faster than others)🧵:
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Manufacturing nerds in LA should check out the Immanent Cause art opening this Saturday in Lincoln Heights. (link below) It's a show on industrial precision. It includes this handmade micrometer, made with no precision tools, as an exploration of humanity's achievement.
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This is one of my favorite things Michael Dell said during our conversation. So many great concepts quickly: The infinite game, advancing the impact technology has in the world, inner competitive drive, curiosity, puzzle solving, and understanding
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Do you have positive naiveté?
"Seeing someone do it makes you believe it's possible." This "positive naivete" is a superpower for founders. On @TheHopeAxis, @DStrachman & host @TheAnnaGat discuss why hope is vital for building communities & how belief sparks innovation. Watch the full conversation:
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BIG NEWS I'm partnering with Jesse Tinsley ($2B+ portfolio across Mainstreet, Recruiter, Bench) to build an AI infrastructure company. We're launching Lore to help America and its allies beat China in the AI race. Here's how we're doing it 🧵
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Many have shared with me stories of finding letters written by their grandparents that read like the works of great authors. Orwell says that in the 1940s, kids were reading Dickens, Doyle, Defoe. You don't need Harvard to obtain a world-class education. You just need to read.
Reading any bit of scrap written in English between ~1850-1950 feels like stumbling upon a lost civilization of 140 IQ geniuses compared to what our elites put out today. Random letters by soldiers show more erudition than Harvard PhDs.
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Blessed to have our average day to such an outlier always!
So happy to have spent the day with you and the new teens rising through the @1517fund ranks, plus the older portco ones, turning mercury into gold, producing rare earth metals, and storing energy in solid-state hydrogen batteries. Just your average day with 1517. 😂
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FUTURES TRADERS: Get 40% off all evals, no activation fees, end-of-day drawdown in our live-market PRO+ accounts…and still daily PRO payouts!
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Read: The Two-Minute Mile Problem https://t.co/Pf1KwWPr68
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After 15 years of banging this drum, I am flummoxed that schools haven't iterated on the length of the program. "If a growing cohort of 'fast mile' students arrive at college demanding a high-touch, personalized, accelerated two-year college degree, the economic consequences
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1517 Fund: The Maverick VC Betting on Teens to Outbuild Ivy Leaguers https://t.co/w9Nz0iL7ix
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Something Ventured -- Silicon Valley Podcast · Episode
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About 6 weeks ago I asked for help getting the Thiel Fellowship and 1517 messages out there on podcasts and y'all served up! Here's a real gem where you get the dynamic duo from 1517 having a great conversation with @kentlind about how we're betting on teens to outbuild Ivy
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Gold has done it again… A new inflation-adjusted record after 45 years. Amid global uncertainty and central bank buying, the yellow metal continues to shine bright.
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2E is our favorite 1517 event...get a glimpse in the video!
1517's 2E, Year 3. Video by @William_Blake. Starring, @DStrachman, @zslayback, @naarnett, @hayleeejohnsonn, @zeldapoem and the extended 1517 fam. Thanks for making this weekend special everyone!
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If you haven’t been asked to be a godparent or legal guardian, it’s time to up your game.
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We’re doubling the bee yard. We’re doubling the wildflowers. We are going to flood your feed with green and gold bough-dappled light.
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It’s noteworthy that the most pleasant and safe for families part of San Francisco is the part which state and local government has no hand in managing. A fascinating public policy A/B test. The green absolutely packed with playing children and families.
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People need to be godchildren maxxing
I just moved in with my baby goddaughter. It's literally heaven. This morning I woke up to a gray, cloudy day & struggled to get out of bed. But then I heard her babbling in the living room. My body instantly sprung out of bed to see what she was up to. We played with a ball
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And 1517 grantee and founder!
America can reclaim Rare Earth Metal dependence from China. Solcoa Industries is producing 100% North American made Rare Earth metals, carbon-zero, economically, at scale. Founded by Hooman, a Thiel Fellow, O-1 @extraordinary visa recipient, & materials science prodigy.
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I walk down Market Street late at night probably 5 nights a week. It's a fucking disaster. It's zombie town. It's a morass of human misery, suffering, and crime. San Francisco has been killing the homeless en masse with permissive empathy, making their lives comfortable on the
This is a slap in the face to San Francisco. It’s insulting to our cops, and it’s honestly galling to those of us who’ve been fighting hard over the last few years to fully staff our @SFPD. Marc @Benioff, I pleaded for your support last year for the Prop F Charter Amendment I
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@DoD_AARO Our aim remains transparent, honest, and simple: responsibly collect scientific data on UAP and advance humanity’s understanding through disciplined fieldwork... all while building the hardware and software products for others to do the same. ✅
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Bringing the unc energy
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