Vijay Pande
@vijaypande
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Founder, GP, & Managing Partner of a16z bio+health. Founder, Folding@home. Investor, Scientist, Engineer, Founder. AI, Bio, everything in between. https://t.co/X4mRNyio9S
Menlo Park, CA
Joined June 2008
"It is ridiculous to think that if people worked just 15 or 20 hours a week, they would use their leisure to cut marble or struggle with a musical score. they would brawl, steal, overeat, drink and sleep late."
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One could conclude that the public is dumb or ungrateful about healthcare. But it’s important to ask if there’s another reason. Maybe there’s a missing piece to the story?. People don’t want cures. They want to not get sick in the first place. Healthspan not sick care.
Lilly: The culmination of decades of research, failed attempts, and countless billions of dollars gave us a cure for some of the most prominent and pernicious diseases. Sales: ~$15 billion.Response: Drugs/Pharma are evil, kill the CEO, you are a bad person for using drugs.
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Huge congratulations @wennmachers ! What an amazing contribution to a16z and venture capital as a whole.
Time for a Margit update!. Here is the news: I’m “graduating” from operating partner to partner emeritus @a16z. First, let me back up. It seems that I do things in decade and a half increments. I got to the US in 1991 (October 19 is like a sort of birthday. Ask any immigrant.
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Big congrats @neilparikh , @danielreidcahn , and the Slingshot team on your launch of Ash, the first AI built for therapy.
They said it couldn't be done. They said it *shouldn't* be done. We tried anyways. Today we're launching Ash, the first AI designed for therapy, and announcing $93M in funding from @radicalventures @ForerunnerVC @a16z @felicis @trailmixvc @joinsequel and many more. We've had
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Super interesting idea -- a conference where AI is both the authors and reviewers. Curious to see where it goes @james_y_zou . But you know, the ultimate would be where the AI is also the organizers :-).
📢New conference where AI is the primary author and reviewer! Current venues don't allow AI-written papers, so it's hard to assess the +/- of such works🤔 #Agents4Science solicits papers where AI is the main author w/ human advisors. 💡Initial reviews by
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This email from Thiel is clearly old but even more poignant today for NYC of course. I suspect this will take on a cyclical nature: NYC may be entering into what SF was a few years ago, with ideas of being more permissive on crime and more socialist leanings. But that will.
Peter Thiel on why 70% of Millennials say they are pro-socialist: . “When one has too much student debt or if housing is too unaffordable, then one will have negative capital for a long time… and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one may well turn against it.”
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What does "good times create weak men" look like quantitatively?.
On the decline: patriotism, religion, family values, community. On the rise: greed
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PS here's the Disrupt Yourself Video.
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A Personal Update.By Vijay Pande. Today, I’m sharing that after more than a decade, it’s both exciting and bittersweet that I’ll be stepping away from my role at Andreessen Horowitz. This has been one of the most meaningful chapters of my life, and I’m filled with gratitude as I.
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👏👏👏.
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1/ “We're ingrained in stupidity… we have to do better.”. @EricTopol, Director of the @scrippsresearch.Translational Inst., doesn’t hold back in this conversation about superagers—those rare individuals who avoid chronic disease & stay healthy well into old age. Video below:.
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“We're ingrained in stupidity… we have to do better.”. @EricTopol, Director of the @scrippsresearch Translational Institute, doesn’t hold back in this conversation with @vijaypande, @a16z general partner, about superagers—those rare individuals who avoid chronic disease and
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🤔 Training humanoid robots in hand to hand combat. What could go wrong?.
“Mecha Combat Arena” will be broadcast live on Chinese national TV channels on May 25th at 8:30 PM China time.
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2/ The whole @Forbes article from @ariannahuff here:.
fortune.com
How the culture is changing on food and health.
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"Big Food’s Big Tobacco moment" - @ariannahuff. "We are entering Big Food’s Big Tobacco moment. The fight to hold tobacco companies . culminated in a 1998 $206 billion settlement . Is that where Big Food is headed?".1/.
Big Food is entering its Big Tobacco moment. Just as the tobacco industry was finally held accountable for the health effects and associated healthcare costs of smoking, a reckoning is happening for the food industry for its role in an epidemic of diet-related diseases. Like
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Interesting to consider AI in this context. Agree @JTLonsdale right now AI is vaguely midwit-y. Getting AI to the next stage (IQ ~140) will yield immediate impact on translating the smartest (IQ ~150+) of people for the rest of the world.
AI is currently very similar to my 115 IQ acquaintances- confidently opining incorrectly on politics, history, and econ with default lefty-conventional mindsets. It will be interesting to watch if we can get it up to 150 IQ and it learns to discern and apply higher-order logic.
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RT @NautilusBio: For an inside look at how AI pioneers and investors.@vijaypande and @mattmcilwain are thinking about the role of AI in bio….
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Parag Mallick discusses the promises and pitfalls of AI in biotech with special guests Vijay Pande and Matt McIlwain.
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