The Future is Being Built in the City of San Francisco SF Deep Tech Week is officially live - June 23-29th 8VC, Lowercarbon Capital, Fifty Years, Giant Step Capital, Quantonation, Draper University, and Rayyan I. Patwari with 8090 Industries. Here's the main event lineup 🧵 Event submission and

Monday June 24th join Fifty Years for Bio Night, featuring star-studded speaking panel with Bryan Johnson on longevity and a bioinformatics hackathon Planting the seeds to garden desert worlds and conquer human mortality within our lifetimes

Aurora borealis on Mount Tam outside San Francisco.

“Government doesn’t get much more intrusive than having politicians tell you what you can and can’t eat.” - Paul Krugman on state bans on cultivated meat despite FDA & USDA approval We can't meet our climate goals with the way we farm animals now. chng.it/fTqytLQZdp

Can't argue with Steve.

We recently worked w/UPSIDE Foods on various cultivated chicken appetizers for our event. This stuff is so tasty! We live in the future, it's just not evenly distributed... and despite FDA/USDA approval, some states want to keep living in the past: chng.it/ZFyPZBcJX9

Ela Madej (e/la), Founding Partner at Fifty Years, which has invested in startups doing nuclear power, solar power, batteries, telecom satellites, driverless vehicles, hydrofoils, housing construction, mineral exploration, and laboratory robots—among others!

The world needs 10x more scientist-founders. 5050 helps scientists and engineers become great founders and start indispensable companies. Applications open! Startups are the best way to make a real impact with research, but where do you get started? How do you know if

Building yourself up is the most important ingredient for success in life. 5050 doesn't just give the knowledge and network you need to start an indispensable startup, it also helps scientists and engineers level up personally. Cohort 5 applications open now! Link below.

London! I'll be in town for 2 months starting next week with e/la and Ale Borda. Why? Big announcement soon 🤫 Who should we meet? Scientists, founders, angel investors, connectors -- let us know! Have a place for Oct but where should we stay in November? Tips welcome!

A Star Trek future for humanity is possible. One where the marginal cost of production of every need is near zero. Diagnostics, free. Treatment, free. Food, free. Energy, free. Transportation, free. Technology can get us there.

Happy birthday to my favorite person, Seth Bannon! It's such a joy to hang with you ☺️ Make Seth happy by sharing the 5050 UK news <3

We're hiring a team in London to build this! 1/ Head of UK 2/ Program lead 3/ Data engineer 4/ Product hacker 5/ Head of content 6/ Recruiter hello AT fiftyyears DOT com with your CV/LinkedIn and a note about why this excites you. @ someone you think could be great!

We're hiring a Head of UK. The UK is a global powerhouse of invention. 3 of the top 10 research universities are here. At Fifty Years we're out to inspire and equip scientists and engineers in the UK to become great founders and build civilisation-defining companies.

Calling scientists & engineers in the U.S. -- become one the 50 and build the future you're excited about!

who did this

1. Do you have a large bonsai tree? 2. Do you love said bonsai tree enough to give it the ride of a lifetime—controlling a robot playing a cello via EEG electrodes? 3. Do you live in the Bay Area? (yes, this is real. DM me or share thx!)

You're navigating this beautifully said AI to me after a multi-week research back and forth damn, I know these models are sycophantic but it does feel validating also, what an amazing thing to say, I am going to borrow that phrase