Kia Fathi
@KiaFathi
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Engineering @fiftyyears More active: https://t.co/CoLZH9rqL9
San Francisco, CA
Joined October 2009
Just onboarded new @fiftyyears portfolio founders and showed them the AI tools we’ve built to support our founders. The reaction: "Who built these? This is the most impressive set of tools like this we've seen by far!"
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This team of mentors is unparalleled!
My friends at @fiftyyears are launching a program to help more researchers build startups in AI safety and alignment. I'm joining as a mentor alongside @eshear, @bryan_johnson, @inkynumbers, @dileeplearning, @RonnieChatterji. https://t.co/01s3UfnjLM
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What happens when you take a group of aspiring scientist-founders out of the city and into the wild? Welcome to the 5050 retreat. For three days, mid-program, the cohort trades research for reflection. They learn, journal, debate, build, and connect.
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AI alignment is the most important thing anyone in software could be working on. This is a huge opportunity to learn from the best and make a difference.
The world needs more founders building a safe and aligned AI future. We’ve added a 5050 AI track to help researchers start companies civilization needs. You’ll learn from mentors including Wojciech Zaremba (OpenAI co-founder), Ross Girshick (Vercept co-founder), Emmett Shear
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At 50Y, we don't just back founders, we build for them. Behind this mission is a product team operating like a skunkworks for venture capital. We’ve gone from first principles to ship products that: 🌌 Turn our portfolio network into a collective intelligence (Universe) 👽
We raised $126m for @fiftyyears Fund IV. We prefer to tell our story through our portfolio founders so we never got around to announcing it. But a few folks said "you should probably tell people about that" so here we are. We partner with founders building things civilization
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Every two weeks at @fiftyyears we have Sprint Days: no meetings, just deep work. We try to surprise ourselves with how much we can get done. VC can be so reactive, this time is golden. 9pm and the SF team is still cranking. Focus is so fun!
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Introducing Happy Warriors -- stories of founders building what civilization needs. Episode 1 is here, featuring @Plasmidsaurus, the startup quietly speeding up biology worldwide.
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Want to get even more fired up for the future? 👇
Founders building what matters most. That’s where hope begins. We’re relaunching the 50Y YouTube to tell their stories.
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In a world of noise, the builders need their stories told. Happy Warriors. Tomorrow.
Founders building what matters most. That’s where hope begins. We’re relaunching the 50Y YouTube to tell their stories.
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FYI Meta ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence) comp rumors are true! 😏 Matt Deitke has left Vercept to join the ASI team at Meta. Matt was one of the important team members in outlining our initial roadmap and he will be missed.😍 Ross, Luca and I and the rest of the Vercept
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Society conspires to reduce your ambition. It pulls at you in a thousand ways: committee approvals, incremental research, playing it safe on someone else's roadmap. Don't let it make you average. The world pulls you back. 5050 helps you break through.
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From Zach's recent investor update: "We're seeking to scale our approach by 10-million-fold in 4 months". This team is wildly ambitious and talented.
Most diseases are untreatable not because we lack potential targets - but because our chemistry can't keep up. We're building a new generation of chemistry. If you move fast and believe the current pace of drug discovery is unacceptable, join us.
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All the minds in the world. Now one question away. We’ve raised $16M from @sequoia to build @withdelphi - create your digital mind & turn your expertise into living, interactive conversations that scale globally. See how our customers use it below 👇🏼
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We just took our first fund to ~3x DPI. The fund sits at 12x TVPI. Top 5% across every metric. When we started @fiftyyears 10 years ago we were told early stage deep tech made no sense. We were told backing mission-first founders was a mistake. Glad we didn't listen.
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Most VCs are guided by only one north star: returns. Imagine Steve Jobs optimizing for stock price? Or Sam Walton. Or Elon. Or Jensen. The best founders serve a mission bigger than profit. The best investors do too.
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Now is the time for a bold and audacious UK! The UK invents the future. It's time for scientists to lead and build it here too. 100x more UK scientists are capable of starting civilisation-defining companies. 5050 UK helps them start. Applications are open! The path from
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Awesome free Deep Tech firesides in the UK this week and next!
Startups are the best way to make a real impact with research. But how do you get started? We’re hosting events at Edinburgh, Cambridge, Oxford, Manchester, Newcastle, and Warwick to dive into the scientist-to-founder journey and how deep tech companies get started. 👇
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Techniques like these are changing how we engineer molecules. Super cool:
Many new machine learning tools for protein engineering have popped up in the last year. In these early days, it might be unclear how to actually use them for real molecular design tasks in industry. We demonstrate how to engineer a cholesterol drug and plastic degrading
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Proud to be the 652nd 😎 on @BackerKit for The Outdoor Line by Peak Design.
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