Drew Volpe (@drewvolpe) 's Twitter Profile
Drew Volpe

@drewvolpe

coder / founder / investor. Hard computing VC at @FirstStarVC Interests: AI/ML, data, climate, bio, Bitcoin, crypto, coffee, and pie. @Harvard @MIT

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I’m starting a new series of conversations w/ scientists who have founded startups. They’ll be in-person, in Kendall sq. We’ll talk to people across various fields from biology, materials science, robotics, AI. Sign-up to get on the list: 👇 tally.so/r/woxLAb

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🚨 CALL FOR HELP! 🚨 We need 20 minutes from 5 gastroenterologists. As Throne gets ready for our upcoming launch, we're starting to ramp up our validation testing. Next on deck is benchmarking our Bristol Stool Scale AI model, so we need to build a database of 💩 images

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We at Turso have just done something unheard of in the startup world: we hired a person in prison. Not an ex-con: he is actually serving time right now. If you follow us you may remember when we announced our full rewrite of SQLite in Rust, Project Limbo. It got a

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Subvocalization technology is the way to make AI voice chat acceptable in public. It's been in development for several years and could become a reality soon. In the meantime, try whispering to Meta glasses. It works surprisingly well.

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Trevor has a very rare disease and so decided to set about curing it himself. Recommend following. He’s a pioneer in something that will be common in the near future.

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Broad's Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Symposium coming soon! Nov 7, 2025. Another great lineup. In person (Cambridge MA) and online options Register by July 4 for a discount broadinstitute.org/machine-learni…

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We're a long way from AGI when AIs think selling people Moxie, a soda only me and 8 people in Maine drink, is a good business idea.

We're a long way from AGI when AIs think selling people Moxie, a soda only me and 8 people in Maine drink, is a good business idea.
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Turso, the next evolution of SQLite (previously codenamed "Limbo") reaches its first alpha milestone and first official release. We are so confident in our foundations, that we are offering you $1,000 if you find any data corruption bugs through our partnership with Algora

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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
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FWIW, this is not my experience and not what I encourage our founders to do. When there's a great exit, at a minimum, employees should get accelerated vesting.