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village witch / founder & partner @fiftyyears / lead artist @temple2023 / founder of base, acq. by zendesk / @ycombinator alumna / writing a musical about AGIs
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It’s hard for me to ask for support.
But today:
If you’ve been to Burning Man, you know how special the temple is. ~250 volunteers build her so we can be more human, feel deeper, process grief. RT & consider backing and sharing the Temple of the Heart's Kickstarter. 🙏❤️👇
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In important biotechnology news,
@sethbannon
and I made a little human. Welcome to Starship Earth, Aiko!
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1/n Last year at
@burningman
, I felt a deep calling to create the Temple. One that is protective and motherly, a loving hug for those experiencing grief. I can now share the Temple of the Heart co-created by me & Reed Finlay was selected and we're bringing her to Black Rock City!
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Surreal: 6yrs ago
@sethbannon
& I emptied our bank accounts, moved to SF, lived in a house w/12 ppl for >2 years because we could only afford a room. Co-working spaces were too expensive so we'd meet w/founders (some of whom now backed us!) in cafes. Joy!
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I'm Polish by birth/blood & American by marriage/love. My grandma came from today's Western Ukraine. My hometown Kraków is 2.5hrs from the Ukrainian border.
I'm so proud of my brother and sister Ukrainians for fighting the world's fight for all of us. 🇺🇦 💛💙
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The article didn't mention my pregnancy once (only showing it without comment in a photo). I was treated like a business leader and not an expecting mother. They focused on my work at
@fiftyyears
, my legacy, and my vision for the future. That's progress. Thanks,
@Forbes
. 2/2
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Was recently featured on the cover of
@ForbesPolska
. When asked for a photo shoot, I said "sure but FYI I'm 8 months pregnant so any pictures will show this." The reporter asked exactly zero questions about my pregnancy or upcoming motherhood, focusing instead on my business. 1/2
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To support the world's most impressive builders, you have to exercise your own builder muscle.
💪💪💪
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Thank you
@ForbesPolska
for a great interview and for helping spread our mission at
@fiftyyears
!
Online version (paywall):
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59% of the companies in the W23 batch applied more than once to
@ycombinator
before getting in.
A great reminder to never give up.
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Join me & other impact-driven developers, entrepreneurs, researchers, investors, & economists to explore how to fork capitalism to serve humanity better.
@fiftyyears
,
@protocollabs
,
@gitcoin
are co-hosting Funding the Commons in NYC June 24th.
Register:
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A few months ago I became an American citizen, just in time to vote for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris!
Today I'm waving the little American flag I got at the citizenship oath ceremony with pride, hope, and joy!
🇺🇸 ☮️💖😊🍀🌈
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Aiko attending his first conference in style (actually made it to the venue for a little bit!)
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Top talent is leaving companies not making a difference.
We get a lot of these at
@fiftyyearsvc
:
"While I love [amazing startup] & things are going really well, I've become increasingly anxious about climate change and our rapidly shrinking window to do anything about it."
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After 32 days in the desert building the Temple, it's good to be back.
Bay Area - I love your creativity, your bias towards action, your open mind, your ethos of bettering the world, your acceptance of failures, your humans.
(more on the
@temple2023
experience soon)
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Founders coming from academia: don’t forget to install Startup OS.
Academia is great but spinning out requires a pretty massive behavior shift! Academia is an operating system. Startups are also an OS.
They are not the same OS.
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After a recent progress call w/
@MemphisMeats
, I said something composed like: "We're so proud!"
Then I closed my laptop and starting crying out loud.
Words can't describe how impressed I am w/
@UmaValeti
's audacity & courage to change the status quo.
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If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
-- Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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Who's going to Amsterdam for Devconnect?
@FiftyYears
is hosting a great event on "Technologies for Humanity" with ~45 amazing humans in governance, coordination, ethics, ReFi, DeSci. Magical venue, sessions (incl. in a copper tub!), connection & 3-course vegan dinner included.
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The Temple of the Heart crew arrived home today.
We started by offering flowers to the empty canvas of the desert.
We'll be here for the next month, collectively dreaming a beautiful dream.
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Time is warping. I'm not talking about LLMs.
Temple Kickstarter crossed $107,000 in ~2.5 days.
As the world accelerates, we need spaces to be human - with our slow processing speed, bad hardware, buggy memory, & conflicting records.
And celebrate that we get to feel it all.
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I was walking across playa when I saw the Kinship drone show from a distance. I saw it from this very angle. And then I was no longer walking, I was sprinting towards the temple as fast as I could, tears pouring down my face. This image is the closest to being able to explain…
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We need a pandemic-proof food system that can meet the nutritional needs of our growing human family.
I'm extremely proud to have co-led
@RebellyousFoods
' Series A and to be joining their board of directors.
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Accidentally, "Ela Madej was nuts enough to do X" is exactly how I like to be talked about!
It's a joy to be in a position to help incredible folks like the
@GeltorInc
team <3
Among big firms,
@firstround
,
@Redpoint
and
@khoslaventures
stood out.
Solo investors like
@sama
,
@lachygroom
and
@natfriedman
, and newer firm leaders like
@jasonlk
and
@saranormous
were also busy wiring cash.
But
@elamadej
was "nuts" enough to connect her own bank account 👀
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The world would be a much better place if we all had an easier time saying: "My mistake, I'm so sorry."
What other phrases come to mind?
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Happy birthday to my favorite happy warrior
@sethbannon
. Wishing you a year full of sparkles, smiles, and impact!!
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Here's my "The Future of Capitalism" talk at
@worldsfairnano
in San Francisco. Feedback welcome!
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We just built 1 of 4 gates that lead to the temple's courtyard.
We used 12 sheets of plywood here.
The
@temple2023
will have 600 sheets on the roof.
This is so exciting!
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Since Reed and I submitted the initial project for
@temple2023
, the design changed a bit to make it structurally sound and buildable within ~2.5 weeks and a reasonable budget. These beautiful renders of the final Temple design were sent to us by Xabi Subijana Letamendia (thank…
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I'll take mom power 💪but it's mostly mom flow🌊
Hanging out with lil' Aiko just makes everything more enjoyable (while not always "easy" or "quiet"). Glad to have a job where I can co-work now with two of my favorite humans!
This is what the founder of a multi-$100m deep tech VC fund looks like at work. Mom power 💪
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Email we sent today to
@fiftyyears
portfolio founders about the SVB situation.
Sharing here so it can help others. Comments in the doc encouraged.
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At
@fiftyyears
we - with team's approval - added a requirement of min. 30 mins of cardio exercise to everyone's daily task list.
Social isolation is hard.
Reading the news doesn't help.
Cortisol builds up over time.
Cardio exercise gets it out.
#happywarriors
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Don't skip quality time off.
No matter how important your mission, time to replenish, refocus, and catch up on reading is priceless. Here with
@sethbannon
and little Aiko in Athens. Feeling rejuvenated.
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Startup's most valuable resource is founder energy. Take care of yourself.
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Congratulations team
@Astranis
! Arcturus is in space!
Amazing to spend time at NASA for the launch with the crew
@sethbannon
,
@zalzally
,
@mojombo
, and Aiko who just learned how to 👍 at
@NASAKennedy
.
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Love the creative energy today at
@fiftyyears
! New posters with our values & 50Y flower blankets arrived just in time for our summer party tomorrow <3
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YES! IN PERSON!!
@sethbannon
kicking off The Science of Aging
@fiftyyears
seminar with the one and only
@MartinBJensen
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How to go from $10k in the bank to being a $1.8B climate tech poster child that can actually decarbonize the chemicals industry?
@solugen
's Sean Hunt and
@fiftyyears
'
@sethbannon
rocking the
@slushHQ
stage:
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The current state of collaboration and funding in biopharma research is broken. Because of this, life-saving therapies often don't make it out of academia.
@fiftyyears
is proud to partner with
@Molecule_dao
in their effort to fix this! 🧵
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Prediction: Making these vegan eggs was the closest I'll ever get to actually being a hen.
Notes:
1. Molecular cuisine takes time!
2. Used sodium alginate and calcium chloride in v1. Will use vegan calcium lactate in v2.
3. Egg white flavor needs work.
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I live between SF & Poland. My SF friends are more optimistic, individualistic, agentic. Krakow life is more communal & rooted in tradition. Folks are serious about recycling & consumerism is not as rampant. People commonly repair shoes/clothes/electronics.
I'm grateful for both
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Disagree.
Taxes are the way we take care of each other in a society. We absolutely should have "uneven" treatment of the sick, elderly, disabled -- and many more classes of people who were not dealt a good hand in life. Social cohesion is a public good.
6. The core instinct is: we need a formal system of rights and limits that treats everyone equally and doesn't make unprincipled exceptions. You can't enslave or steal, so the government should not be able to enslave (conscription) or steal (taxation) either.
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No heating at home so I was talking to some W23
@ycombinator
founders in full snow gear today :D
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Deep tech founders: your scientific advisors are usually bad at giving you feedback on fundraising materials. They often offer "improvements" that turn decks into science presentations.
Fundraising is a sales process. Your deck is sales collateral. Only take fundraising advice…
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BREAKING NEWS: Happy birthday to my favorite person! Send the happy warrior
@SethBannon
some love y'all :).
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Fermenting two giant vats of beets for barszcz.
Feeling very much like a witch. 🧙♀️🔮
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I'm in love.
Studio Drift's Shylight is a sculpture that unfolds and retreats to its original state to make a fascinating choreography, mirroring the nyctinasty of real flowers. These are in Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum
[read more: ]
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Me: Aiko just walked for the first time!
My sis: Bravo! That's a small step for man and a small step for mankind.
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When was the last time you heard the phrase "lab-made Cheerios"? -- asks
@sethbannon
of
@fiftyyearsvc
at
#SynBioBeta2018
Most food products today start in innovation labs, but are then mass-produced in large scale production facilities. Cell based meat will follow the same path.
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We don't wear shoes at
@fiftyyearsHQ
.
We take all founder meetings and all LP meetings shoeless. We ask founders and investors to take off their shoes when they enter our space.
It just struck me it's a great metaphor for the culture we're building.
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Since Sept '22 I've had 3 jobs:
@fiftyyears
,
@temple2023
, and being a mom to baby Aiko.
I've never been so productive and so creative in my life.
You'll be surprised by what's possible when you find flow.
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Why This Cardiologist Is Betting That His Lab-Grown Meat Startup Can Solve the Global Food Crisis... Go
@umavaleti
and
@MemphisMeats
(YES, THEY ARE HIRING! -- ) via
@Inc
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So excited to finally see the new, HUMONGOUS R&D and production facility of
@RebellyousFoods
in Seattle. So fun to see prototypes of their custom-made equipment for processing plant based foods and see the new nugget! Proud that
@fiftyyears
backed Christie &co. in the early days!
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Spent 6hrs finding good vaccinated babysitter in Paris so I can attend
@EthCC
w/my 5month boy.
Sunday: "Hurray, conferences! Learning! People! I'm such badass! I got this!"
Today: Googling infant attachment theory, feeling guilty that I keep leaving Aiko.
Motherhood is hard.
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Today is my birthday!
This has been the best year of my life and I feel like I'm on a very special quest.
I would make my day if you could RT this so your burner friends know that we're trying to hit the
@temple2023
stretch fundraising goals and just focus on building!
It’s hard for me to ask for support.
But today:
If you’ve been to Burning Man, you know how special the temple is. ~250 volunteers build her so we can be more human, feel deeper, process grief. RT & consider backing and sharing the Temple of the Heart's Kickstarter. 🙏❤️👇
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Silicon Valley overestimates visionaries and underestimates operators.
Operators keep companies alive.
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Family friend is dealing with glioblastoma (GBM, brain tumor).
His bio PhD daughter is looking to get connected to experts on GBT and anyone working on experimental treatments/clinical trials in the UK/USA.
Who can help?
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Anyone building a Bio Hacker DAO? Seems like a great idea for a large quantified self community that could run experiments and monetize the generated data.
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My work-in-progress overview of important
#food
and
#foodtech
trends we see at
@fiftyyearsvc
:
What else do you see? Please share!
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There are no flawless plans. Failure is always possible.
90% of internet commentary is nay-sayers. Pointing to how something can fail is the *easiest* thing to do. And it's boring.
Imagining inspiring futures and turning them into reality? Now that's hard. And awesome!
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Just one of those days when a
@fiftyyears
founder says in an email: "I'm not exaggerating by saying that this will change biotech forever."
Brain chatter:
"This is a real job.
This is the job I have.
This job.
I have it.
How cool.
Wow."
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We build every Saturday and Sunday until end of June. 10am-5pm in Oakland. You don't need to register. Just show up.
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Female physiology & the female endocrine system have been overlooked by the FDA for too long.
Only since the '90s are women required to participate in drug trials!
@Sarakemppainen
is putting the female reproductive system (here literally) front and center of research w/…
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Among the reasons I'm excited for
@sethbannon
's return from Paris tomorrow:
(1) it's generally better to go through a major bank failure together
(2) daily supplement packs he prepares for me are running low
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There's no better feeling than being the dumbest person in the room (full of people working on making the world a better place).
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I aim to reduce mindless consumption in all forms & remove non-essential stuff from my life - physical or digital. Tonight, I had a goal of donating 100 items I owned. Ended up donating over 120 (w/ help from
@sethbannon
). Will repeat this exercise many more times.
#minimalism
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As a
@YCombinator
alum, I'm a DAO-curious member of the
@OrangeDAOxyz
. It's an extension of a great community I'm already a part of + an easy way to learn by doing. My goal? Understand how to use Web3 mechanisms/DAOs to solve big problems in the world.
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Been reflecting on 🕸️3. My current 🌡️ is strong intellectual excitement towards the tech/potential + massive unease w/social consequences of what the tech is mostly used for.
What % of folks "onboarded to 🕸️3" are just entering a giant casino?
Who in Web3 is thinking abt this?
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Are you a PhD or a postdoc who wants to get into VC?
@fiftyyearsvc
is launching a new
#PhDtoVC
event series featuring PhD investors at some of the world's top early-stage firms. Apply:
#synbiobeta2019
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Love our casual Friday hangs at
@fiftyyears
with portfolio founders and friends bringing friends <3
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Decentralized Science by
@allisondman
who's apparently exploring
@foresightinst
DAO for supporting deep tech projects. Very exciting!
#ETHDenver2022
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“Stress is the feeling that we have when we perceive that we have a need or obligation [but] inadequate resources...
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i'm grateful for you, fellow humans
we're such complex creatures with such beautifully imperfect bodies. our minds are slow and sometimes confused and our fascinating personalities are based on bias. we're soft and squishy and we care about each other. we live so many different…
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