Some special guests joining the Fifty Years OKR meeting even though it's past their bedtimes!

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Higher throughput, lower costs. This is how we'll bring reliable broadband to the 4B who don't currently have it. Omega will be the highest performance satellite on orbit pound-for-pound. Huge from Astranis Space Technologies.

The behind-the-scenes hero of this video was Drew Moxon at Fifty Years who helped us find a video team and put together a script, shot list, and more in 1 week. And showed up to the shoot with red bull, dance moves, and amazing tips for making a great video.

investor value-add is a…

At Fifty Years we lead 80%+ of the time at pre-seed and seed and never, ever ask 'who else is investing?' nor will we ever say 'come back when you have a lead'.

Unapologetically optimistic

Really excited to host an intimate event with Fifty Years, ArcadiaScience + Maria Jose Duran in May about predicting genetic 'engineer-ability' + ideal growth conditions of organisms. Which Bay Area scientists are at the frontier of synbio and need to be there? 👇 DMs open too!

$90M more to make space drugs. What a time we live in! Varda Space Industries is laying the groundwork for the in space economy.

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Too many of our best minds are working on niche CRMs, ad optimization, AI scheduling assistants, and other nice-to-haves when they could be working on fundamentally important things.

Remember when we were told children were being killed in Gaza because Hamas was using them as human shields? Now we know the real reason. When Israel wanted to kill someone, they waited till he went home, then dropped a bomb on the building, killing the whole family.

Unless you live in San Francisco, in which case you see hundreds of fully driverless cars on the streets every day.

Make something people need.

I strongly believe that the U.S. is at its best when it brings in talented scientists and engineers from all over the world to study, to be hired into companies to push forward our most advanced science and engineering efforts, and to start new U.S.-based companies. We should…

With our Progress Map we explore markets that are large, impactful, and have significant tech tailwinds (eg sequencing costs dropping 1,000,000,000x).

One example: microbial ensembles to treat more than 20+ diseases in a market that could be worth half a trillion per year 👇

Pretty sure we have the fastest and most innovative lab automation team in history at plasmidsaurus 🦖🦕🧬🤖

There is nothing more fun than working with a team of high-agency top performers to unlock new capabilities that others claim are impossible.

This team rocks! 🦾

Helen Keller was asked what would be worse than being born blind. She said 'To have sight and no vision.'

Perfect description of modern venture capital.

If your vision of the future does not seem fantastical you're almost certainly not dreaming big enough.

This may be the single stupidest Republican policy idea simply because it is so pointless

This is one where I can't even comprehend the mindset of a person who would oppose the existence of lab grown meat. 'I will not let anyone else eat meat unless something has to die for it!'

Interested in Generative AI for BIO? Please Join George Church, David Baker and Sarah Carter for an interactive SynBioBeta Town Hall on 'Generative AI for Protein Design: Balancing Risks with Opportunities'. Tuesday Apr 16th at 12 noon pacific. You can register here:…

Our immune system is amazing, but faces pandemics, cancer and aging. It's also wired to reject what we need to extend our healthspans & minds: organs, implants, new genes. It's time to radically augment it. We need to build an immune-computer interface (ICI). A manifesto🧵!