Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) 's Twitter Profile
Leo Polovets

@lpolovets

GP @HumbaVC ($250k-$1m checks in deep tech + critical sectors). Co-founder @SusaVentures. 🦍

Prev: Caltech; 2nd engineer at LinkedIn; Google

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signüll (@signulll) 's Twitter Profile Photo

this is a high tier psyop from sam. he’s talking directly to the market. by floating a number like $100m: - he sets an anchor so absurd that anything meta offers now feels cheap. - he forces meta to either deny or match, both of which hurt them. - he gives his own employees a

this is a high tier psyop from sam. he’s talking directly to the market. by floating a number like $100m:

- he sets an anchor so absurd that anything meta offers now feels cheap.

- he forces meta to either deny or match, both of which hurt them.

- he gives his own employees a
Steve Jurvetson (@futurejurvetson) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today is the 30-year anniversary of my venture capital career. My younger self would have found that hard to fathom. Reflecting back, there was a simple algorithm embedded in my investment strategy that has made it all the more exciting and engaging over time — I look for

Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Deep tech is filled with fun examples of promising crazy ideas! Some recent memorable ones: sonicfiretech.com put out fire w/sound waves materialx.co 3d printed batteries building.life custom creatures cryopets.com pet cryopreservation

Zack Kanter (@zackkanter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I was talking to a SpaceX engineer ~8 years ago, asking about his day to day work, which just wasn’t making sense what I knew from my days in physical product development (Solidworks, etc). I finally asked what tool he used most when he sat down to do work – “Python” was his

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we're launching a fellowship at Humba Ventures! if you're a scientist, researcher, tinkerer, engineer or passionate domain expert — come join Leo Polovets and me to meet and invest in founders building at the vanguard of technology!

Leo Polovets (@lpolovets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Meta paying up for OpenAI engs is fascinating. Founders get questions like "what if Google copies you?" or "what if they offer your key eng $5m?" These used to be hypothetical. Now Meta might be starting a trend where big co's recognize that some hires are literally priceless.

Casey Handmer, PhD (@cjhandmer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

No part of California is more than 350 miles from the ocean, a limitless supply of water. Every time an official wastes their life advising water conservation, or you drive past 100 miles of broke, fallow farms near the I5, or a city burns to the ground, remember. Water

signüll (@signulll) 's Twitter Profile Photo

zuck’s playbook for poaching ai talent is absolutely savage. openai is obviously not acquirable, at least not in any real world scenario. so what’s the next best move? you don’t buy the company. you bleed it out. you go straight for the people who are the company. openai is

signüll (@signulll) 's Twitter Profile Photo

i sent this screenshot from a steve jobs email to a friend & we ended up talking about how so many people plan so aggressively now that they leave no space for natural chaos. you ask someone when they’re free & they hit you with “september 15th.” months out. especially in nyc,

i sent this screenshot from a steve jobs email to a friend & we ended up talking about how so many people plan so aggressively now that they leave no space for natural chaos.

you ask someone when they’re free & they hit you with “september 15th.” months out. especially in nyc,
Bridgit Mendler (@bridgitmendler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This new generation of space requires capacity at scale for dynamic missions. That's why we: - built the most powerful commercial multi-orbit phased array in 9 months (LEO, MEO, GEO) - assembled in 5 days - will be deploying and operational for customers on multiple continents