Are you in a full-time job, but thinking about starting your own company?

Maybe you would love to do it but there are some obstacles in your way: getting a great idea, a co-founder, and paying your bills in the meantime.

Don’t get stuck here! I have something for you! (1/5)

Huge news from the Ochre Bio team today.

From meeting at Entrepreneur First to this in just over four years is pretty astounding even by their very high standards.

Congratulations Jack O'Meara and Quin Wills 👏

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Interesting notes

Alan Turing's 'Treatise on the Enigma' re-printed! An A4 size publication of about 150 pages, with a screw-bound vintage design, remastered and based on the original typewritten document by Turing. Take a look! Price: €45
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Well that was cool Reid Hoffman, Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford. You can check out who pitched at Entrepreneur First’s Demo Day this week here bit.ly/4bkhj7d

Alice Bentinck Matt Clifford Entrepreneur First Was a great event.

Wrote some observations from the demo day, including broader positive implications of the best global technical talent continuing to move to the Bay Area.

Do check it out when you get a chance operator.blog/2024/04/18/imm…

Which future do you prefer? Assume 'AI' = powerful superhuman ASI.

1. AI centralized, controlled by either (a) a few big companies or (b) the government; all AI access goes through them
2. AI decentralized & unrestricted, society evolves
3. AI/powerful ML models banned

EF's latest Demo Day was in San Francisco - thanks to Amy Lewin for covering it in Sifted!

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The single best interview with Zuck I've read. Might be the best interview with any business leader. From the inimitable Dwarkesh Patel
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EF's first SF Demo Day details were so on point, from founder pitches to even the swag bag and international treats 🌎🌍🌏

Btw, I thought Reid Hoffman said 'If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late'... ;)

Thanks for having us

This is so good. Reminds me of about a million conversations I've had with early career people in Europe about why they aren't starting a company right now

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Yesterday we ran our first Demo Day in San Francisco where our latest batch pitched to >100 of Silicon Valley’s top Partner-level investors.

Today, you can learn more about these companies on our W’23 online Demo Day Portal. Check it out here: bit.ly/49bZVQl

Inspiring afternoon with Entrepreneur First. The world is full of amazing people and helping them start companies is the most virtuous thing I could imagine.

I'm at the Entrepreneur First pitch day in Dogpatch and it's great to see more deep tech companies building cool stuff.

Photonic computing, non-invasive BCI, agricultural robotics, and then things like AI for advanced materials or drug design.

Hard to not be optimistic these days

silicon valley is a mindset. strong work out of @join_EF

What a show from @alicebentinck & Matt Clifford on their first demo day here: welcome to SF!

Delighted to have more day 1 investors in all their ecosystems.

Congrats to @alicebentinck Matt Clifford on their first demo day here: welcome to SF! early stage investing has always been a talent game
cc: Reid Hoffman

.Matt Clifford and I are heading to Entrepreneur First's first demo day in San Francisco. Looking forward to seeing so many of EF friends and supporters today!