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Batman; Investor X Computer Scientist. Founder @_DimensionCap

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UPDATE: Today @nanli @AGoulburn & I are launching @_DimensionCap ! A $350M venture fund, built to spec, to meet founders at the cutting most edges of technology & the life sciences 🚀🤖🧬 The world didn't need 'another venture firm'. An open letter to our future entrepreneurs:

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Zavain Dar

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SOME NEWS: after a decade investing in the most brilliant interdisciplinary entrepreneurs on the planet, my best friends & partners @nanli @AGoulburn & I are joining forces on … *something new* ;) “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” - Anatole France

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Zavain Dar

4 years

For someone with mass cult-like following, this is an incredibly asshole thing to tweet

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The coronavirus panic is dumb

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Founders: ask yourself why a VC is giving u a 24 hour shot clock to sign a term sheet. They wouldn’t want you to hire a key exec or future board member on a similarly accelerated & shallow process. Nor should you choose a board member & lead investor. Take time and do your work.

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“we prefer not to look for shit receptors”

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4 years

CEO of Outback Steakhouse, w $304M cash on hand, just did what the Boards of Trustees of Stanford & most Ivies w $20B+ endowments failed to do: protect their own. Their hourly, lowest paid & most vulnerable staff. Fuck it, I know where I’m eating out after the shutdown: @Outback

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Extraordinary leadership from CEO of Outback Steakhouse (Bloomin' Brands): Sales down ~60% No furloughs or layoffs (90,000 employees) CEO & board pay cut to 0 Free meals for staff "Our priorities have centered on taking care of our people and serving food in a safe environment"

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@cyantist I hope you one day come to see how totally gross this tweet is.

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SOME NEWS: after a decade investing in the most brilliant interdisciplinary entrepreneurs on the planet, my best friends & partners @nanli @AGoulburn & I are joining forces on … *something new* ;) “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” - Anatole France

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Late 90s @vkhosla was an absolute monster

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100 biotechs trading BELOW net cash world wide. The biggest risk of advancing promising therapies & novel modalities for patients isn’t the science/tech not working, but rather myopically short term investors and a lack of patient long term capital to fund platforms to fruition

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All-in pod nailed a largely unspoken anxiety in vc right now. As we move from *momentum chasing* to *investing*, firms & individuals are realizing the fitness function they optimized for the last decade is massively different than the fitness function they’ll need for the next

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“Why is everyone in biology so angry??” - Jensen Huang, @nvidia X @RecursionPharma 2024 JPM

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5 years

Nice analysis of the evolution of the venture asset class from @SVB_Financial . It's a great time to be a founder!

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"Most people think of Harvard University as an educational institution. But from a distance it looks worryingly like a large hedge fund, operating a small university on the side in order to secure non-profit status."

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4 years

I’ve lost more followers on Twitter this week than ever before. But honestly? Fuck it.

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Zavain Dar

6 years

In Dec 2014 I made my second investment at Lux: a $300k seed investment in an entrepreneur with nothing more than a shared 3 page GoogleDoc and brilliant foresight + operational hunger. This past Friday we led a massively oversubscribed $40M Series B for same founder and company.

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2 years

Pls talk less about NFTs and more about the accelerating pace of innovation in ML (broadly) and the life sciences (broadly). Sweet Jesus.

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Zavain Dar

4 years

Bezos, 1997: “The web is still an infant technology. If you CAN do things with a more traditional method you probably SHOULD do things with the more traditional method.” founders in AI, Crypto, Robotics: ask yourselves exactly this

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This 1997 interview with Jeff Bezos on why Amazon started as an online book seller after considering 20 other product categories (CDs being 2nd choice) is a master class in understanding of competitive advantage.

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fuck. this is amazing. if you're an entrepreneur working in this space, DM or email me asap.

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This is mind blowing. With GPT-3, I built a layout generator where you just describe any layout you want, and it generates the JSX code for you. W H A T

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I can't open source still proprietary memos, but often new investors lean on thinking from existing “insiders”. Here's what I shared last month w a large incoming investor for @RecursionPharma ’s Series D My highlevel corp & investor strategy for crossing the techno-biotech chasm

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Zavain Dar

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Every top biology lab in the world right now has increasing emphasis on nontrivial compute and data infrastructure Every top computational lab {DeepMind, MetaAI, DESRES, MSFT research} in the world right now is building or already now has an internal wet lab

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5 years

ZERO overlap between recent top performing funds and firms that have raised the most LP capital. Also, god bless, The Column Group's 397% IRR on a 300M+ fund. Respect.

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In 2014 our investment thesis at @Lux_Capital in Deep Learning was largely premised on neural nets' abilities to remove the *complexity* and *bias* of feature engineering from "expert" humans. Insanely satisfying to see proof in that pudding, even at @Google . h/t @jackclarkSF

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Zavain Dar

5 years

Had it again. Last night. That dream where I’m 9 weeks into the semester and suddenly realize I haven’t attended any classes, done any homework, and missed all my exams. PTSD’s sure got some long term effects huh?!

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4 years

Tomorrow we announce an investment in a company which, *if it works*, will play a role in saving 100s of thousands of lives a year in the US alone, 10+ million a year globally.

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Deep tech is going to be absolutely 🔥 in 2021. Watch. Out.

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Literally, one of my favorite feelings.

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Being seen as crazy or laughable for a thesis, venture, or investment you hold with conviction based on insider data and rational deduction.

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Zavain Dar

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Still waiting for technology to disrupt social injustice. 14 y/o Emmett Till's mom at his funeral in 1955. #Ferguson http://t.co/Pi9k2NekYW

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this is one of the most important trends in our century. it will arc the planet towards post scarcity economics (that question isn't if, but will) but also - in the interim - be responsible for massive civil unrest we'll have to overcome

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Zavain Dar

4 years

Oh y’all came for the fodder on AI and biotech but got uncomfortable confronting white supremacy and black lives matter? Bummer dude.

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My GF's reading Harry Potter for the first time & I'm rewatching the movies w/ her in parallel. Something @jk_rowling nailed: How easy it was for Death Eaters to hide in plain sight. I remember it striking me as a didactic narrative tool at the time. I get it now.

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2021 will be a HUGE year for @Stacks : 1) PoX to leverage security of Bitcoin 2) Decentralized apps on top of Bitcoin 3) In a decidable (eg no unexpected bugs) smart language, Clarity 4) Fully decentralized and listed on US exchanges Credit @muneeb for doing this the right way

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1/ There's a MASSIVE change coming in how we build, steward, and ultimately value pioneers in "biotech". We were fortunate to catch this wave early at @Lux_Capital . 👇

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To be honest, this is just the bottom half of the 1st for @Stacks . DeFi and smart contracts for Bitcoin is a big big deal.

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Blockstack’s STX Token Doubles in a Day, as South Korean Retail Traders Look at Altcoins

Blockstack's STX token is benefiting from altcoin season – and a listing on a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange.

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1 year

Today we're announcing that @_DimensionCap has led the $40M Series A of @NewLimit alongside @foundersfund and @kleinerperkins !!

NewLimit, co-founded by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, raises $40M to extend life | TechCrunch

NewLimit aims to increase the number of healthy years each person lives by epigenetically reprogramming cells.

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White guys can't pronounce "Rajiv" but then turn around and name their babies "X Æ A-12". Cool story dude.

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Zavain Dar

5 years

Just had an AI+Bio portco tell me they’re batting 88% against gold standard end points on in-vivo (animal) models Industry standard is sub 20% Big Pharma old guard hasn’t yet realized, but AI is going to turn biotech on its head

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this is a big deal

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Text-reading AI will do your research for you

Primer rolls out NLP Engines, AI models that can read and analyze text of all kinds.

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The future of biotech is leveraging LLMs and ML to do autonomously and at scale what teams of 40+ scientists were doing just 1 year ago. Incredible via today's @RecursionPharma 10-Q:

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Testament to the founders we've backed, the teams they've assembled, and the products+tech+sciences they've built. Today we unveil $1.5B of new capital to partner across the continuum of the company lifecycle. The stakes and urgency never higher, LFG.

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I’ll be honest. Another 4 years of being around people who normalize a xenophobic anti-science anti-empathy demagogue is devastating.

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I'm long crypto, but it's saying something about our gini coefficient when NFTs are selling for $10k+ while 10s of millions of families can't afford next month's rent.

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Congrats @RecursionChris and the entire @RecursionPharma team. Let’s get back to it!!

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3, 2, 1... 🎉 Live from Salt Lake City, UT, @RecursionPharma rings the @Nasdaq Opening Bell in celebration of today's #RecursionIPO !

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4 years

Board meeting earlier today, CEO: we switched from AWS to GCP for extended credits

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Over the last 6 months, the number of enterprise software startups I've met building on: Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud: 70% AWS: 30% While this is anecdotal, it may be a result of Microsoft and Google's partnership vs AWS's competitive approach to enterprise software startups.

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Next week @Stacks launches STX 2.0 on US exchanges: cryptographically secured to the Bitcoin blockchain + coupled with "Clarity" a language for dApps & DeFi Lux, Harvard Management Company, & USV are amongst the largest investors. Below a (redacted) snippet from a 2017 memo:

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Today we announced $121M in Series C proceeds for @Lux_Capital anchored @RecursionPharma . If we’re successful this is a $100B company curing dozens of currently deadly diseases. We’ll be the first Bio, Chem, AND Tech pharma. Welcome @BaillieGifford !

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This is a personal highlight: sharing Times Square w close friends and brilliant Lux backed entrepreneurs: @RecursionChris and @sgourley

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AI+Bio 2013: @nanli & I were first capital in @Zymergen 🧬 2016: we were first institutional VCs to find & lead investments in @RecursionPharma 🦠 2019: next week we announce part 3, taking lessons from Zymergen & Recursion to find, back, & build our newest collaboration 🚀

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Zavain Dar

3 years

Congrats to Lux backed @ThriveDetect on closing their $2.15B sale to Exact Sciences! This will be an incredible platform to accelerate early detection of multi cancer via liquid biopsies. Onward!!

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We are excited to announce that we've closed our acquisition of @ThriveDetect , creating a leader in blood-based multi-cancer screening. Learn more here:

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I first partnered with @rohit_x_ when we were amongst the earliest seed investors at Zymergen I first partnered with @ViswaColluru when leading the Series A at Recursion where he was a FORCE Excited to bring the band back together as we lead a $51M Series A to build @envedabio !

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Chart of the day. h/t @wolfejosh

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Two stealth biotech investments to be announced in the coming weeks This is the most exciting time to be building or investing in frontier tech and biotech I’ve ever seen

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4 years

1/ The VAST majority of cancers have 0 screening options. They’re diagnosed symptomatically. Feeling sick? Worried about that bump? Yet our ability to treat cancer is orders of magnitude more effective if caught early A doctor should never call you asking you to “sit down”

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Tomorrow we announce an investment in a company which, *if it works*, will play a role in saving 100s of thousands of lives a year in the US alone, 10+ million a year globally.

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1/ our journey into Bio+Tech at Lux 2/ opportunities, sciences, & technologies I’m most excited 3/ the evolution of capital markets - relating to venture financing for biotech entrepreneurs 4/ the future of technology enabled drug discovery & development

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15. Bio + Tech: Zavain Dar - Partner @ Lux Capital

Listen to this episode from BIOS on Spotify. Zavain Dar invests at the intersection and union of cutting-edge biotech and software. He has led Lux’s investments in Primer, a machine intelligence...

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There are precious moments from my teens & 20s eternally etched in my memory where individuals said brief words of encouragement -- perhaps unwittingly or in passing thinking nothing of it -- but that gave me bottomless conviction & courage to push forward. This is beautiful.

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Zavain Dar

4 years

Fellow VCs, a plea: don’t let “misses” become the norm A secret superpower at @Lux_Capital : internally track every company’s performance against projected numbers. Helps partners keep CEOs accountable; helps partners keep partners accountable Pre-empt bad news, embolden winners

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6) Most primarily public equity investors who are newer to late stage venture now understand that almost all private co’s will miss numbers and the annual dilution will be 2-3x that seen in a public company. Strange but true that many deals were priced without these adjustments.

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In 2014 I taught a course on cryptocurrencies at Stanford. In 2021, @michael_nielsen 's essay on "Infocoin" is still canon for anyone looking to understand .. bottoms up .. what Bitcoin and related digital currencies are:

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Course slides from @Stanford and @stanfordsymsys cryptocurrency seminar are up! Week 1: @michael_nielsen 's Infocoins. http://t.co/ANquiOpMSw

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office warming in t minus 10 minutes @_DimensionCap

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6 years

As a 4 y/o I was kidnapped and separated from my mom for 11 months. Reading these descriptions at once gives me chills and boils my blood. This is a democracy, if you're not actively fighting these barbaric and backwards practices you're implicit in this.

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AP describes what it’s like inside one of the cages detaining migrant children at the Texas border

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RIP good times

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6 years

Single mom, international student, and two kids. There are rap songs about this. Never going to understand how you did it. Happy mother’s day to the greatest: @baalegibreel . <3

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Fascinating work from MIT's Jeremy England showing how carbon under certain conditions (eg early earth) self organizes with non random structure, in a vacuum, breaking the 2nd law of thermodynamics & potentially explaining the initial substrate for life.

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Zavain Dar

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I’m convinced one of the largest opportunities in markets right now is deploying a technologically progressive and patient capital strategy across the private/public continuum in biotech. Whoever does this right will be absolutely dominant over the next decade.

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Zavain Dar

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Spinning out a stealth NewCo from @Lux_Capital , looking for: 1) Lab space (3-5 desks, wetlab, etc) in SF or East Bay 👨‍🔬 2) Ambitious ML/infra computer scientists bored optimizing Uber routes with desire to build generative ML for the next generation of therapeutics 👩‍💻 DMs open!

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Zavain Dar

5 years

This is nauseating. Society and our current strain of techno-laissez-faire capitalism are structurally broken.

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my partner @AGoulburn (& friends at TCG) spun out the underlying (chemotype evolution) platform from Carmot ($3.1B m&a to roche this month) & are super charging it with automation, ML, & tech newco: Kimia financing: $55M status: they are hiring. LFG

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Exclusive: Kimia Therapeutics secures $55M to supercharge co-founder’s platform, create ‘next-gen...

Stig Hansen and his team are looking to replicate the success they had with Carmot Therapeutics, but under a different name with the same meaning in another language and a “supercharged” approach to...

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I can’t think of any way that one can be pro trump and not be a racist, misogynist, treasonous xenophobe. There. I said it.

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Zavain Dar

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Slowly unveiling my latest investment: partnering with @adambain & @dickc to back the founding team of Twitter Cortex and serial entrepreneurs from Stanford and Apple, bringing AI + edge compute to real-time diagnostics in health care!

Visla Raises Funding to Accelerate AI In Diagnostics

/PRNewswire/ -- Visla Labs, an AI medical diagnostics platform for radiology announced today that it has raised a $3M seed round. The round was led by venture...

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4 years

TWO very exciting updates this morning. 1) Lux’s newest investment vehicle: “In plain speak: we believe the time is now to take public and build generational technology companies that will have a profound positive impact on healthcare” — @Lux_Capital

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Announcing Lux Health Tech Acquisition Corp.—

By Peter Hébert & Josh Wolfe

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If you’re not playing with GPT-3 right now are you even living?

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occam's razor: never attribute to "they must have invented AGI" that which can be adequately explained by human stupidity & insecurity

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Zavain Dar

2 years

the 2 most interesting companies in the world right now may well be OpenAI and DeepMind. Entrenched and unfair access to talent and capital in inflecting realms (AI and biotech) where talent and capital are monotonic and non diminishing wrt superiority.

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Millions of predominantly young women suffer from anorexia and eating disorders globally. This is dangerous tech fortune cookie gibberish.

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Zavain Dar

4 years

A debt provider walked, post termsheet, from a $30M+ revenue portco that - even in the face of COVID19 - will meaningfully grow this year Entrepreneurs: expect the worst case as the system digests the current crisis Banks and VCs: Trust takes years to build & seconds to destroy

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You should go to jail for this. But unfortunately it's going to be your 10k+ east bay blue collar workers & contractors, their partners & children, siblings & parents, neighbors & friends, who ultimately pay the health toll for your bullshit How does ANYONE respect this?!

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Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.

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Big congrats to @trustmachinesco for raising $150M to build atop the @Stacks ecosystem and rapidly bring web3 to Bitcoin! This has been a tough secret to keep ;)

Hello, Trust Machines: Company Introduction

Read about the inception of Trust Machines, why we chose to build on top of Bitcoin, and future plans for Bitcoin development

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i had dinner last night with a former partner and was reminded of a letter i wrote to my old team as the gravitational pull of what would become @_DimensionCap became simultaneously unambiguous and inescapable reading it again today, exactly 2 years later, the urgency rings…

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How the internet sees you VS How your entrepreneurs see you

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you know what's hot (hot hot)? NLP. Pioneering companies here are going to be absolutely MASSIVE. @huggingface & @primer_ai 👀

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brief snippets from texts with a friend on current state of ML, venture, and tech

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Recently sat down w @GoldmanSachs & @heathterry to debate: - the last mile of ML - trends in NLP, transformer models, & multiple dimensions of network effects in open source - TECH in BIOtech - business disruption in pharma - investing globally - monopolies and decentralization

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Thank you @mmammen , J&J, and the beautiful people of NYC!!

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Apparently 30s is sitting in the basement going back and forth between tears and laughter with your mom debating the future of our democracy. Shoutout to the greatest, @baalegibreel .

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London Calling!! We’re leading @labgeni_us ’s $10M Series A, backing @jejfield to bring generative AI to Biology 🧪 🧬 🤖

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LabGenius raises $10M to use AI for protein drug discovery | TechCrunch

LabGenius, a London-based startup applying AI and "robotic automation" to protein drug discovery, has raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round is

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Zavain Dar

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AI+Bio 2013: @nanli & I were first capital in @Zymergen 🧬 2016: we were first institutional VCs to find & lead investments in @RecursionPharma 🦠 2019: next week we announce part 3, taking lessons from Zymergen & Recursion to find, back, & build our newest collaboration 🚀

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Zavain Dar

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Elon Musk

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@thesheetztweetz @SquawkStreet In general, I believe government should rarely impose its will upon the people, and, when doing so, should aspire to maximize their cumulative happiness. That said, I would prefer to stay out of politics.

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The Moderna vaccine was designed in **2 days**. An incredible testament to our rapidly expanding playbooks in molecular biology, and the role interdisciplinary methods and computational approaches will have on the future of drug discovery. You simply can't get better than this.

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Caleb Watney

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One of the most insane details of our current ordeal is that the Moderna vaccine was actually designed in two days. In January.

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Zavain Dar

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2 years ago we secretly backed one of the most exciting projects I’ve ever been a part of. Custom oligonucleotide based medicines, on demand, for diseases ranging ultra rare to common. After leading a $40M Series A - today we exit stealth: @creyonbio

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An AI biotech emerges from stealth promising drugs 'on demand.' What will that look like, and is it...

The newest AI and machine learning biotech launched Tuesday morning, and it’s promising some big things. But can the company deliver? Creyon Bio emerged from stealth with $40 million in seed and...

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Zavain Dar

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Being seen as crazy or laughable for a thesis, venture, or investment you hold with conviction based on insider data and rational deduction.

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Zavain Dar

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Steve Berman

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Robbing a home run and pretending you didn’t is more disrespectful than any bat flip, great addition to the game

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Nikhil Basu Trivedi

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I asked 50 of the top thinkers in tech to finish the sentence: "The next big thing in 2022 is..." Though web3 and crypto are popular themes, there is a long tail of interesting and nuanced ideas for what the year ahead has in store.

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Zavain Dar

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In many ways @OpenAI operates more like a biotech than traditional tech co .. Heads down for many years, 10s of millions in R&D, many many millions on training and testing single assets and models, and “holy fuck!” potential when things work

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Zavain Dar

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2018 Prediction: Google's control of the entire ML stack, from chip (TPU) to cloud (Google Cloud) to library (TensorFlow) has competitive advantages (auto parallelism!) others can't offer. TensorFlow will win.

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Zavain Dar

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onsite as we wrap up the finishing touches of a stealth @_DimensionCap newco at intersection of bio, AI, and advanced semis🔬🧪💻

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Zavain Dar

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Spent most of yesterday making playful jest of this, but SO thankful for our incredible entrepreneurs and investors for believing in the Lux team to make this possible. DMs for moonshots are open! 🌝 🚀

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Lux Capital Adds More Than $1 Billion for Startups Based on Science

The firm said it closed two new funds: a $500 million vehicle to target early-stage startups, and $550 million for more developed, or growth-stage, companies. Lux backs companies building technology...

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Zavain Dar

3 years

One of my absolute besties @RajivSurendra (Kevin G from Mean Girls for the millennials) just raised the “series A” equivalent for TV shows (pilots and “sizzles”). Keep your eyes peeled here, this will be BIG

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Zavain Dar

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2013: "do one Series A a year. get to know the founders and management. understand the technology and industry. be a founder on call." 2021: "oh you haven't written a new check since August? giddy-up grandpa!!"

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Zavain Dar

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NYC public schools: 1.1M kids of which 700k live in poverty of which 100k are homeless The 100k homeless kids will go from crowded class to crowded shelter w homeless adults whose immune systems are already the most compromised Our poorest are so painfully our most vulnerable

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Bilal Zuberi

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As always, disaster hits the poor in the worst way. It’s easier for people in jobs like mine to work from home. The situation is a nightmare for those on hourly wages: restaurant workers, hospital staff, manufacturing, retail, gig workers, single moms, etc. How can we help?

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Zavain Dar

4 years

Morning coffee with my partner @AGoulburn . Some brief predictions on biotech and health care IT in 2020.

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Zavain Dar

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We covered: - Lux’s thesis in crypto - Lux’s investment(s) behind @blockstack - @blockstack ’s SEC offering - various token economic models and incentive structures - what to look forward to over the next 24 months Fireside Chat w/ Zavain Dar & @muneeb

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Blockstack Fireside Chat w/ Zavain Dar and Muneeb Ali

Blockstack's SEC-qualified token offering is now open. Learn more about Blockstack's technology roadmap, token offering, and get your questions answered in t...

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Zavain Dar

4 years

Perhaps uncouth to say aloud in 2020, but I have never been more excited about our portfolio at @Lux_Capital . H-O-L-Y smokes. These entrepreneurs are going to massively better the world.

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Zavain Dar

3 years

cc super secret stealth @DCVC X @Lux_Capital newco to be announced shortly ...

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Nature Biotechnology

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Ultra-precision medicine. New initiatives in N-of-1 drug development and clinical trial design offer the possibility of therapies for ultra-rare disease patients who have been long neglected by the drug industry

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