Ramzi Rizk
@ramz
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Entrepreneur and Investor. cofounded @aware_app, @eyeem & @berlinphotoweek (both acq). Founding angel @ExpediteVC.
Berlin
Joined March 2007
In a fractal domain, waves don’t scatter, they focus. The jagged Koch boundary traps and amplifies energy in self-similar pockets, showing how pure geometry can concentrate resonance and create order within chaos.
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The AI and creativity debate is moot - some thoughts on the subjects after my panel at @VDS_event earlier this week https://t.co/bZDB4rajjo
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AI & Content Creation: Are We Enhancing or Replacing Human Creativity? 🌈 💬 @ramz, Managing Director, Work In Progress Capital; Jon Enriquez, CEO, @vidext_io; Javier Matallana, Publishing General Manager, @WebediaES Group 💻 Moderating this session, Jozsef Gyarmati, Startup
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That's my focused face, not my sleepy face. promise.
@jlhortelano @Startup_VLC @nacho_mas @hazhubble @pallyai @SamuelFrey @thejuliazhou @sigma2society @SachaMichaud @Glovo_ES @enriquelinares @letgo @glovo @pfernandezalvar @clicars @sergiofurio @EndeavorSpain @Creditas_Mx @KellyRutherford @SamEshrati @bookingcom @ingridtappin @GoosemanCS @CACiencies @EllaMcCannT @JustEatTakeaway @pilarmateoh @inesfly @santander_es @mjosecatala @AjuntamentVLC @rut_merino @generalitat @natmaxabit @Cathayinnov @FridtjofBerge @AntlerGlobal @KreiosSpace @Spendbaseapp @ZibraAI @latitudo40 @tax_down 🔛 The #VDSStartupCompetition Jury is composed of Sebastien Lefebvre (@Elaia_Partners), @manalbelaouane (HV Capital), Sonia Fernandez (@KiboVentures), @ramz (Work In Progress Capital), Iryna Krepchuk (@trindvc), & @jmegias (@Startup_VLC) Meet the winners tomorrow at the Awards
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On the parallels between biological and digital computation https://t.co/jhiXmNhvUB
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same.
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Did the previous generation get excited when they found letters in the mailbox? I can't remember the last time I got mail that wasn't a bill, a form to fill or spam.
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Hate it or love it — the Western world runs on capitalism. It doesn’t matter whether you agree with it or not. The operating system is set. Over the last 25 years, that system has disproportionately rewarded countries that created the best conditions for high-margin, fast-growth
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not a hot take: most of you feel like life peaked in intensity before 21. but here’s what’s actually happening, your brain compresses repetitive data. Childhood = constant new input. Adulthood = routines, copy-paste days, less novelty. Want time to slow down again? Inject
"time speeding up" & "it's more of the same from here onwards" is a consequence of identity and conditioning/""karma"" pilling up 'i am this/i'm not that', 'i do this/i dont do that' and we box ourselves in ever more rigid brushstrokes reverse the flow, go into the good
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A building block of emotional intelligence is a rich vocabulary of emotion words. Kids and adults are better at managing feelings when they have a broader repertoire of terms to describe them. Language is a mirror and a map: It reflects what we feel and guides how we respond.
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What does this make you feel?
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In Germany, the two main success metrics of a professor and their depts are publications and grants. A third, and arguably more important one needs to be on top of that list: # of spinoffs.
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some people want to go to space. others want to complain about people wanting to go to space.
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Great take on how SAAS is evolving - or rather, how it might end. https://t.co/cilIVU8qZx
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What is the purpose of work in a world where jobs are no longer necessary? My second piece of this series on the end of an era and where we go from here is out on substack. https://t.co/VczQliPglb
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Three thoughts on work: - If you can be a robot at work, then a robot will take your job. - Technology nullifies the value of quantity. Your only moat is quality. - If you do what you love, you never have to work a day in your life.
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Singapore model: Jr ministers’ pay is tied to top earners in SG (40% of median of top 1k earners in 🇸🇬) + a bonus based on income growth, unemployment, growth rate of the lowest 20%, GDP growth. Other ministers get paid a multiple of it. I like it.
POTUS should have a salary of like $20m a year. Senators should make $5m. House members maybe $2m. And in return they should be subject to all insider trading laws, not be allowed to do any lobbying for 10 years after leaving office. You would get better people overall - those
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A crossover between Chekhov's Gun, Schrödinger's Cat, Occam's Razor, and Murphy's law.
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“An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.” This quote lives rent-free in my mind. Finally posting the first of a series I've been working on for years. Excited to share, challenge and learn from your feedback. https://t.co/uF0tZG31NK
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A loanword is a word adopted from one language into another (ex Zeitgeist). A calque involves translating the components of a word (ex Beer Garden from "Biergarten"). My favorite part of this? "Loanword" is a calque (from German) "calque" is a loanword (from French)
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