Byron Thom
@bmthom
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Tech leader and investor. Founder @optigonetworks. Tweets are my own.
Vancouver
Joined March 2009
Celebrating another year of amazing @UBC community members at the UBC Alumni Achievement Awards with MC @LienYeung. Congrats to all the recipients!
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At a loss seeing footage from Kelowna and impacted directly by the proximity to our UBCO family. My thoughts go out to everyone affected and hope that everyone is able to evacuate safely.
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Up bright and early to judge at the @yellcanada #pitchfest, part of Vancouver Startup Week. Thanks for the invite @vchan cc: @vanstartupweek #tech #bctech
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Congrats to all the graduating classes of 2023! Was privileged to join the Chancellor’s Procession at this morning’s convocation for @UBCSauderSchool MBA and Graduate students. Excited to see the impact you all will make!
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The last 45 days have been the biggest ever in AI. All of this happened: GPT-4 Auto-GPT Midjourney v5 Runway #Gen2 Viral Drake Songs ChatGPT in Robots Here are the key takeaways from a crazy month and a half in AI 🧵
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I worked in bank liquidity and treasury for the better part of the last decade, and there is one very interesting risk factor from the SVB collapse that I do not think we have ever witnessed before in modern finance, a 🧵:
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It’s funny how journey’s come to an end it is also funny how they start. In ’08 at age 65 when most of his peers were retiring my dad John and his colleague Girvan founded GaN Systems My dad’s goal was to build the worlds best Speaker not a semiconductor company. 1/
GaN Systems, ‘shining star’ of Canada’s chip sector, bought by Germany’s Infineon for US$830-million /via @globeandmail
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PREDICTION: There's a mass extinction event coming for early & mid-stage companies. Late '23 & '24 will make the '08 financial crisis look quaint for startups. Below I explain when, why & how it will start & offer *detailed advice to founders* on surviving the looming die-off. /1
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So great to have the #2022TIAs back in its rightful home. Congrats to @jilliantipping and the entire team at @wearebctech #bctech #startups
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Today I’m announcing that I have decided to retire as the CEO of BC Housing. On Saturday morning, May 7th, something shifted. I watched out my window as police descended on Crab Park. I had just returned, minutes earlier, from taking Fred for our regular morning walk. 1/10
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"The cosmos is also within us, we're made of star stuff..." -CS #goosebumps #JWST
HUGE congrats @NASA / @northropgrumman and the entire #JWST team!!! They absolutely knocked it out of the park and JWST is already delivering unbelievable images!!! I can't wait to see what all it discovers in our universe. Today is a great day in history!!!
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