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Gaurab Chakrabarti

@GaurabC

2 years

'21 was a great year for biotech advances. Of course, mRNA was the year's star thanks to COVID. However, there were 5 other biotech advances that were ridiculously exciting, too. A thread:

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What does humanity look like in 1 million years?

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I asked chatGPT to create 8-bit/pixelated versions of climate tech startups in DALL·E 3. I'm digging this future. 1. @CFS_energy fusion reactor

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@sama That ideas and technologies take off based on how will they are distributed and communicated (60-70%) and not just on how good the idea or tech is (30-40%).

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2.) @DeepMind 's AI solving protein structure AlphaFold was able to help solve protein structures that have remain un-resolved for years. Many predicted structures were comparable in quality to experimental structures.

‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures

Nature - Google’s deep-learning program for determining the 3D shapes of proteins stands to transform biology, say scientists.

www.nature.com

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1.) Ultrasound as an on/off switch for cell therapies Off-target toxicity of CAR T therapy is an issue due to premature activation. This @UCSanDiego team solved this by engineering a gene circuit in CAR T cells activated by ultrasound at the tumor site

Control of the activity of CAR-T cells within tumours via focused ultrasound

Nature Biomedical Engineering - The activity of engineered T cells within tumours can be controlled via the heat generated by pulses of focused ultrasound by modifying the cells to express a...

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3.) Artificial nose Using the olfactory receptor from mosquitos, this group made a sensor to detect octanol to part per billion levels in human breath. This could be a cool breath-based diagnostic or a way to record and present scents in the metaverse.

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5.) Deeply implanted sensors that don't need battery power Using ultrasound, this group was able to create implantable sensors that could measure oxygen levels CENTIMETERS deep within a tissue.

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@BornAKang To demonstrate the level of their wealth

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@elonmusk @SpaceX and @solugen collab?

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4.) Atomic resolution for electron microscopy imaging Solving two major issues in electron microscopy, this group relied on ptychography, a technique that uses coherent scattering and multiple overlapping illumination to increase EM resolution

Electron ptychography achieves atomic-resolution limits set by lattice vibrations

Electron ptychography can reach atomic resolution that is only limited by lattice vibrations.

www.science.org

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

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3 years

From our $7000 PVC reactor in 2017 to our pilot plant optimizations in 2018 and 2019, to introducing our 10,000 tpy Bioforge that sequesters and offsets over 30,000 tpy of CO2 equivalents...we are just getting started!

Seth Bannon 🌻

@sethbannon

3 years

This is what scaling up synthetic biology looks like. Let’s end the climate crisis. Let’s improve safety by ending plant explosions. Let’s make products that are carbon negative. Let's build our sustainable future with synthetic biology. @solugen 's Bioforge is this future.

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1 year

Wild to the think that the last ice age (20k yrs ago) was “only” an avg of ~4C colder than it is today. Makes you realize that an avg increase of 4C will be quite dramatic.

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2 years

What makes a geological formation ideal for CO2 storage? The 4 most important criteria: 1. Formation porosity and permeability 2. A depth >800 meters 3. An impermeable caprock 4. Thick and continuous over a large area Why?👇

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2 years

Of course, this list isn't exhaustive and there were many, many cool advances that I'm sure will shape much of the research landscape in 2022!

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6 months

This is a really big deal for @solugen . I suspect we’re now just starting our Golden years of productivity

Solugen

@solugen

6 months

🚨Expansion Alert! We're excited to announce our second Bioforge, part of a strategic partnership with ADM. This new facility will allow us to meet growing demand for our sustainable products & drive innovation in new markets. Full announcement here:

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6 months

Everyone wants to be in climate tech, but no one wants to calculate the mass balance.

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

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2 years

Loving the @lowercarbon holiday gift! mother-in-law: What does Unf Double Star K mean? me: It's a cult thing MIL: Oh that's sweet. love working with this team. thanks, @sacca & @claydumas !

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1 year

2023 prediction: distributed biomanufacturing will be the 'it' thing. (obviously a little biased, <3 @solugen

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3 years

expecto patronum, but for carbon dioxide instead of Dementors

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

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2 years

This piece on @solugen is doubly exciting for me because it was @ashleevance ’s biography on @elonmusk that gave me the courage to marry deep tech and business to start Solugen. Also, the intro is hilarious…but don’t huff gasoline kids

How Texas Could Solve Our Toxic Chemical Problem

Solugen Bio has built a chemical plant that produces all manner of chemical-based products using bio-based feedstock instead of fossil fuels. It also doesn't...

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

@GaurabC

2 years

Shout out to the best solo-capitalist I’ve ever worked with, @zalzally from @refactor ! Most humble vc with killer instincts. Has helped us logic through some hard decisions @solugen & knows exactly the right q’s to ask even when he’s not the expert in a topic

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@typesfast Yea but water doesn’t inhibit adenosine receptors, which leads to less water reabsorption () p.s. thank you for giving me an opportunity to use my medical degree. Now back to slinging chemicals

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@engineers_feed Kirkland

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The fractal brilliance of cabbage

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An important update to the scientific method…

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3 years

Can we just stop investing in garbage and just focus all of our money and efforts on fixing this shit? We need a WWII like effort with the smartest people focused on global warming and nothing else #ClimateCrisis

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1 year

@proetrie Andrew Wakefield publishing vaccine link to autism.

Lancet retracts 12-year-old article linking autism to MMR vaccines

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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1 year

What’s not going to change in 10 years?

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1 year

Texas friends: don’t forget to disconnect and drain your hoses!

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3 years

@swetac That carbon sequestration isn’t going to get us out of this. We need to stop burning fossil fuels

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2 years

Thank you @sethbannon ! I’m quite convinced that financial success always follows impact

Seth Bannon 🌻

@sethbannon

2 years

🔥 Co-founder / CEO @GaurabC at the Solugen board meeting today: "It's important to remember why we're here. Our mission at Solugen is to reverse climate change. That's it."

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3 years

@sacca @solugen Thanks @sacca . We’re looking into Bay Area for next r&d facility

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

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1 year

The quality of my Twitter feed seems to be declining. Anyone else noticing this?

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

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6 months

@Rainmaker1973 Same chin energy

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

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5 months

Man, I wish people would get this riled up about climate tech leadership

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@GaurabC

2 years

Calling this language is a stretch...but it is amusing to think that fungi are just chatting it up on the forest floor, telling eachother hilarious jokes. Such fun guys.

Do mushrooms really use language to talk to each other? A fungi expert investigates

New research has found what may be language in electrical impulses transmitted between mushrooms.

theconversation.com

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2 years

Climate change is not the problem. It is a consequence of the problem.

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1 year

Industrial retrofits are just getting started! When we started @solugen , our first Bioforge facility was built on an old polyethylene wax distillery that exploded and blew out all of the windows in a 5-mile radius.

Bloomberg Law: Environment

@environment

1 year

New Jersey is shifting towards maximizing cheap, renewable energy. Watch the implosion of the Logan Generating Station.

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

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3 years

Would totally binge a @netflix series just on the stories of different Gringotts vaults. Probably the only show on a bank I’d watch tbh

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

@GaurabC

6 months

Happy Diwali! May the Light keep us all energized

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

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2 years

One of the best @solugen deep-dives I've seen

Jeff Burke ⠕

@Jeff_Burke14

2 years

1/ @solugen : The first carbon negative molecule factory Just two months ago, @solugen raised +$350M to scale their solution to building carbon negative chemicals Their breakthrough may be one of the most pivotal unlocks to fighting climate change Let me explain what they do:

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Ideas and technologies take off based on how will they are distributed and communicated (60-70%) and not just on how good the idea or tech is (30-40%).

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1 year

Hybrid biological and ai beings?

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1 year

Imagine plants ultrasonically telling you about AQI or some other environmental molecule

Sounds emitted by plants under stress are airborne and informative

Plants emit species- and stress-specific airborne sounds that can be detected in acoustic chambers and greenhouses.

www.cell.com

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1 year

Sometimes I worry deep tech companies over index on being a “platform tech” as an excuse to be unfocused. Difficult to build a predictable revenue business if nothing gets to the finish line.

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6 months

10. and of course, @solugen decarbonizing chemical manufacturing using the bioforge

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@GaurabC

3 years

@sacca spot on as usual. So lucky to have him and @claydumas as investors in @solugen . Now, if you’ll excuse me, going back to work to unfuck our planet.

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3 years

@MaxCRoser @paulg While this is correct, if folks *think* they are doing something to be sustainable, they are more likely to conduct activities that might actually be far more sustainable

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1 year

The fact that world's adult diaper sales might soon outpace baby diaper sales should be a concern for population collapse.

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1 year

The single greatest biological waste product in the history of the earth? Oxygen. Re: photosynthesis

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2. @Climeworks direct air capture plant

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2 years

Taking a breather with our friend Herbert

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3 years

As usual, @sacca taking things to the next level! Thanks for all you do to unfuck the planet at @Lowercarbon and for the @solugen shoutout

Harry Stebbings

@HarryStebbings

3 years

This is one of the most proud I have ever been releasing an episode. This with @sacca covers everything from parenting to relationships with money to investing in Uber & Twitter and more. To Chris, for making this 7 year wait so fricking worth it. 🚀

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5 months

A Texas chemical plant 1h north of Houston exploded. This doesn’t have to keep happening. @solugen 's bioforge is explosion-free

Texas chemical plant explosion sparks large fire; evacuation and shelter-in-place orders issued

A giant plume of black smoke from the fire prompted officials in San Jacinto County to urge people near the plant to shelter indoors and turn off HVAC systems.

www.nbcnews.com

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@GaurabC

6 months

9. @living_carbon plants enhanced to store more co2

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12 years

Very cool: @CellCellPress : #ABCsHumanDisease : As a guide to our review issue, we're going from A-Z, highlighting Tx for common diseases

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2 years

This is the single greatest Chief Scientist in climate. @CarbonWrangler is a boss!!

Carbon Direct

@Carbon_Direct

2 years

It's official: Dr. Julio Friedmann (a.k.a. the @CarbonWrangler ) has joined Carbon Direct as full-time Chief Scientist to catalyze the #carboneconomy

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The harsh truth about the chemicals industry is that sustainability isn’t as critical to customers…yet. The hierarchy of what gets chemical customers over the finish line: 1. Price point 2. Product performance 3. Consistent delivery and availability 4. Sustainability

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2 years

The first lesson of understanding China is to ignore what they say to the West and pay attention to what they say to others.

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6 months

3. @fervoenergy geothermal energy

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1 year

Feels like all the crypto bois are now ChatGPT/AI experts ("How ChatGPT will change [X] forever"). I hope this doesn't ruin the value of a legit technology.

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1 year

I think this is why if you’re thinking big, you HAVE to think about infrastructure, real estate, and localized economies. It is the key to the problem.

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3 years

@HarryStebbings You should check out how @solugen does this with its BioForges in the chemicals industry --> Sell bioreactors and then sell our catalysts on a recurring basis:

Seth Bannon 🌻

@sethbannon

3 years

This is what scaling up synthetic biology looks like. Let’s end the climate crisis. Let’s improve safety by ending plant explosions. Let’s make products that are carbon negative. Let's build our sustainable future with synthetic biology. @solugen 's Bioforge is this future.

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@paulg Growing chemicals and materials @solugen

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@TrungTPhan You should checkout how @solugen used cancer cells as an insight to make the world's most efficient chemical plants!

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The finest deeptech founders and scientists discuss their failed experiments with as much enthusiasm as their breakthroughs. Mistakes will be made, but that's good because it means decisions are being made.

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2 years

But if it takes you 20+ years to turn off the tap bc of lobbying, you might need to soak up some of that overflowing water...

Dr Charlie Gardner

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4 years

Carbon capture sounds nice and all, but if your bath is overflowing you don’t invest in magical technologies to soak up the water from your floor. You turn off the tap

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@paulg Just wait till you meet the company with Rick and Morty as co-founders

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2 years

Tardigrades can take a 30 year break from being alive and just get right back to it like nothing ever happened.

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Would make great value investors

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4. @BoweryFarming vertical farming

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@paulg High-integrity carbon offsets.

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1 year

Carbon sequestered

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@andrewchen While measles virus certainly has much higher R0, the symptoms are much more apparent and more quickly recognizable vs those with COVID. Thus, the ability to detect measles quickly helps contain its spread despite the virus having an R0>10. COVID spread is much more insidious

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@shaylekann @IanRountree sell stuff. make money. that's my deeptech playbook

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Today, we're so excited to announce that Dr. David Weiner has joined Solugen as our VP of Technology. His experience and accomplishments in biomanufacturing are unparalleled, having brought multiple products/companies to scale as well as IPO and acquisit…

Gaurab Chakrabarti, MD, PhD on LinkedIn: Today, we're so excited to announce that Dr. David Weiner...

Today, we're so excited to announce that Dr. David Weiner has joined Solugen as our VP of Technology. His experience and accomplishments in biomanufacturing… | 11 comments on LinkedIn

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Fuel's dilemma: competing against fossil fuels demands colossal scale. Yet, many cleantech startups leap before they look, aiming to dethrone giants like Shell overnight. It's like trying to become Amazon without first mastering the art of selling books. Strategy isn't just…

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2 years

@elamadej probably a more efficient way to teach compassion to large groups of people

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1 year

Finish that book in your bag. A well read book is better than an unread, well-travelled one.

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People falling for scammers. The scams will likely change, but people won’t

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Learned that @DannyDeVito produced GATTACA…this man’s talent knows no bounds @alwayssunny

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This is why I’ve bet my career on building physical things.

John Burn-Murdoch

@jburnmurdoch

6 months

NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs An ingenious study by @xianghui90 @oren_reshef @Zhou_Yu_AI looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year. The answer? Freelancers got fewer jobs, and earned much less

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How many induction stove companies about to get started?

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3 years

With longer term space travel becoming real, I wonder what drugs will become ‘hot’? Radioproctectants and “bone health” medicines come to mind

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SPACtacular Ventures: A PE fund that buys out SPAC'ed companies with terrible valuations, but real revenue.

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2021 was a great inflection point for climate, we can’t forget this positive momentum despite the scary data. I’m hoping 2022 will continue with this momentum!

The climate victories of 2021 that put fossil fuels in check

From local activism to shareholder rebellions, here’s what climate advocates accomplished over the last year.

www.theguardian.com

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8. @FormEnergyInc grid scale energy storage using batteries

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@morganhousel , this one’s an instant classic tbh

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@paulg Started this practice while going through ycw17. Got the cheapest notebooks we could find, yet they contain the most important learnings for @solugen

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5. @H2GreenSteel Green steel manufacturing

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6. @PureCycleTech plastic recycling

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3 years

This is the flex we need

Demis Hassabis

@demishassabis

3 years

Last year we presented #AlphaFold v2 which predicts 3D structures of proteins down to atomic accuracy. Today we’re proud to share the methods in @Nature w/open source code. Excited to see the research this enables. More very soon!

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@wolfejosh Or chemicals

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OH folks using ammonia and pneumonia interchangeably. Both can kill you one from a chest infection the other from a tragic cleaning accident…

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I’ve made this mistake twice in hiring, thinking the second case was different bc of the person. False. It’s always the same

Gokul Rajaram

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1 year

Founders: If a Title is the only reason someone won’t accept a role, it’s a huge red flag. With a Titleless company, you can weed out such candidates quickly.

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Gaurab Chakrabarti

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Perhaps another example of when one should not “move fast & break things”

Akshat Rathi

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I know this is not the main point, but this startup pumping sulfur into the atmosphere is selling carbon offsets tied to something they know they cannot measure or verify. AND THERE ARE PEOPLE BUYING IT.

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@ElliotHershberg You should take a look @solugen Bioforges!

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@KennethHayworth What is preventing individuals discussing this?

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