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Co-founder of Future Ventures and DFJ, supporting passionate founders to forge a better future. Early VC investor in Tesla, SpaceX, Planet, Commonwealth Fusion.

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They did it! The Jawas cleaned up Starbase. Compare to the photo I took below…

They did it! The Jawas cleaned up Starbase. Compare to the photo I took below…

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Commonwealth Fusion just closed an oversubscribed $863M B2 round with Google, NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley and electric utilities. From science to engineering to mass manufacturing, CFS is leading the charge to what many call the holy grail of clean energy — abundant, carbon-free, continuous 24/7 power in any geography. Energy drives the wealth of nations, and China has been adding new energy at a pace 20x that of the U.S. We need magnetic fusion to fully power the estimated 10x growth in electricity needs for AI data centers and EVs with emission-free energy. Future Ventures and Khosla Ventures did the Series A. Vinod Khosla: “CFS is one of the most impactful and ambitious projects I have seen in my whole career.” New investor Laurene Powell Jobs: “To meet the challenges of this century, we need energy that is abundant, clean, and accessible everywhere. That’s what fusion offers. For the first time in history, we have a real opportunity to commercialize the long-held promise of fusion power, and CFS has just taken a decisive step toward making that promise a reality." Commonwealth Fusion Systems or for more.

Commonwealth Fusion just closed an oversubscribed $863M B2 round with Google, NVIDIA, Morgan Stanley and electric utilities. From science to engineering to mass manufacturing, CFS is leading the charge to what many call the holy grail of clean energy — abundant, carbon-free, continuous 24/7 power in any geography. Energy drives the wealth of nations, and China has been adding new energy at a pace 20x that of the U.S. We need magnetic fusion to fully power the estimated 10x growth in electricity needs for AI data centers and EVs with emission-free energy. Future Ventures and Khosla Ventures did the Series A. Vinod Khosla: “CFS is one of the most impactful and ambitious projects I have seen in my whole career.” New investor Laurene Powell Jobs: “To meet the challenges of this century, we need energy that is abundant, clean, and accessible everywhere. That’s what fusion offers. For the first time in history, we have a real opportunity to commercialize the long-held promise of fusion power, and CFS has just taken a decisive step toward making that promise a reality." Commonwealth Fusion Systems or for more.

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Beeple's REGULAR ANIMALS debut at Art Basel today with Elon + Zuck finally in the ring, and Bezos too

Beeple's REGULAR ANIMALS debut at Art Basel today with Elon + Zuck finally in the ring, and Bezos too

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Brewing a Better Bite of Meat Here’s why we led the Series A of The Better Meat Co., announced today. I am a meat eater, but I know that eventually, we won't slaughter animals for meat. Although we believe this is inevitable, on Earth and Mars, it takes concerted effort to get us there. And as we saw with electric cars, you have to have a better product to catalyze a change. Saving the world is the byproduct. After investing in some of the pioneers of cellular ag and precision fermentation, we pondered what problem remained unsolved by the mainstream approaches to slaughter-free meat and began a quest for the best cost economics and speed of scaling. For cellular ag and plant-based approaches, cost has been their biggest challenge, and the meat market is highly price elastic. We did a thought experiment: given all of the approaches to alt-protein out there, which will be the lowest cost 50 years from now? We assumed all R&D efforts reach their ultimate end points by then. I think we found the winner: Better Meat goes from seed to harvest in under 17 hours! No plant or animal can compete with that growth rate. The key: growth from cell expansion instead of cell division, part of the magic of the kingdom of fungi. And they have mastered continuous production off simple sugar feedstocks with no waste stream. The only downstream processing is some dehydration. At their current research scale facility, they already beat beef on cost, and soon chicken. Some of the key drivers from their patented process: fastest growth cycle of any organism, continuous production, minimal downstream processing (unlike plant protein isolates, for example, where most of the plant biomass is byproduct), and it’s a nutritious whole food. It’s also shelf stable at room temperature for easy shipping. So, it should scale more rapidly and cost-effectively than other approaches can ever achieve. Oh, and it is delicious and tastes like meat, even better than pure meat in some blended product taste tests (think hamburger or sausage blends). They are a B2B ingredient supplier, and the first to get FDA and USDA approval for blended meat products. The Series A will allow them to scale to tens of millions of pounds of annual production for a number of large food companies. Company: Today’s funding news: • •

Brewing a Better Bite of Meat Here’s why we led the Series A of The Better Meat Co., announced today. I am a meat eater, but I know that eventually, we won't slaughter animals for meat. Although we believe this is inevitable, on Earth and Mars, it takes concerted effort to get us there. And as we saw with electric cars, you have to have a better product to catalyze a change. Saving the world is the byproduct. After investing in some of the pioneers of cellular ag and precision fermentation, we pondered what problem remained unsolved by the mainstream approaches to slaughter-free meat and began a quest for the best cost economics and speed of scaling. For cellular ag and plant-based approaches, cost has been their biggest challenge, and the meat market is highly price elastic. We did a thought experiment: given all of the approaches to alt-protein out there, which will be the lowest cost 50 years from now? We assumed all R&D efforts reach their ultimate end points by then. I think we found the winner: Better Meat goes from seed to harvest in under 17 hours! No plant or animal can compete with that growth rate. The key: growth from cell expansion instead of cell division, part of the magic of the kingdom of fungi. And they have mastered continuous production off simple sugar feedstocks with no waste stream. The only downstream processing is some dehydration. At their current research scale facility, they already beat beef on cost, and soon chicken. Some of the key drivers from their patented process: fastest growth cycle of any organism, continuous production, minimal downstream processing (unlike plant protein isolates, for example, where most of the plant biomass is byproduct), and it’s a nutritious whole food. It’s also shelf stable at room temperature for easy shipping. So, it should scale more rapidly and cost-effectively than other approaches can ever achieve. Oh, and it is delicious and tastes like meat, even better than pure meat in some blended product taste tests (think hamburger or sausage blends). They are a B2B ingredient supplier, and the first to get FDA and USDA approval for blended meat products. The Series A will allow them to scale to tens of millions of pounds of annual production for a number of large food companies. Company: Today’s funding news: • •

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The largest fusion power purchase agreement ever ☀️🔜🤖 Google just procured 200MW of clean power directly from Commonwealth Fusion’s first commercial plant in Virginia, with an option to buy more. From science to engineering to mass manufacturing, Commonwealth is leading the charge to what many call the holy grail of clean energy — abundant, carbon-free, continuous 24/7 power in any geography. “We aim to demonstrate fusion’s ability to provide reliable, abundant, clean energy at the scale needed to unlock economic growth and improve modern living and enable the largest market transition in history.” — CEO Bob Mumgaard News:

The largest fusion power purchase agreement ever ☀️🔜🤖 Google just procured 200MW of clean power directly from Commonwealth Fusion’s first commercial plant in Virginia, with an option to buy more. From science to engineering to mass manufacturing, Commonwealth is leading the charge to what many call the holy grail of clean energy — abundant, carbon-free, continuous 24/7 power in any geography. “We aim to demonstrate fusion’s ability to provide reliable, abundant, clean energy at the scale needed to unlock economic growth and improve modern living and enable the largest market transition in history.” — CEO Bob Mumgaard News:

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And thank you to the Morgan Stanley trading crew in “Mission Control” sculpting the debut of $SPCX today. Here is the moment of first trade. P.S. Elon finally agreed to the IPO greenshoe options… but only if the bankers all wore green shoes. 👟 —> Mementos for all.
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And thank you to the Morgan Stanley trading crew in “Mission Control” sculpting the debut of $SPCX today. Here is the moment of first trade. P.S. Elon finally agreed to the IPO greenshoe options… but only if the bankers all wore green shoes. 👟 —> Mementos for all.

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Elon Musk’s mom wishing him the best from the Morgan Stanley trading floor just before the opening trade. A magic moment today.
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Elon Musk’s mom wishing him the best from the Morgan Stanley trading floor just before the opening trade. A magic moment today.

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OK Boomers In this iPhone video by John Cyrier from our vantage point to the south, you can see the sonic boom in the air at 20 seconds and hear it BOOM at 47 seconds. Incredible body feel. “A sky scraper went into space, returned to earth, and parallel parked” - Sylvia Smith
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OK Boomers In this iPhone video by John Cyrier from our vantage point to the south, you can see the sonic boom in the air at 20 seconds and hear it BOOM at 47 seconds. Incredible body feel. “A sky scraper went into space, returned to earth, and parallel parked” - Sylvia Smith

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G-Shot gave the opening speech for the opening bell… anticipating the largest securities offering in history later today. $SPCX To celebrate this historic moment, I gave her the gift of mars…. Her first Mars rock which came to Earth as a meteorite.
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G-Shot gave the opening speech for the opening bell… anticipating the largest securities offering in history later today. $SPCX To celebrate this historic moment, I gave her the gift of mars…. Her first Mars rock which came to Earth as a meteorite.

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No, it’s not electric sheep after all 🐑 🤖
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No, it’s not electric sheep after all 🐑 🤖

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654,422 views • 1 year ago

Optimus just beat me in rock paper scissors!
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Optimus just beat me in rock paper scissors!

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Went through two Boring tunnels in two towns today. This one is the longest vacuum tunnel in the world, for now. It has huge sliding steel doors on each side.
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Went through two Boring tunnels in two towns today. This one is the longest vacuum tunnel in the world, for now. It has huge sliding steel doors on each side.

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How Russian air bases fell to a novel multimodal drone attack ✈💥✈✈💥✈💥 Video includes Tu-95 strategic bombers and 41 planes near Northern Finland and deep in Russia, North of Mongolia. Operation Spiderweb: four Russian airbases attacked a few hours ago in a new transport method with large trucks delivering drone swarms from their rooftops to target specific target locations on each plane to maximize damage. While operating autonomously, remote tele-operators in Ukraine used Russian telecom networks to connect to the trucks, which received video feeds from each drone over unspooling fiber optic lines (immune to jamming). The trucks self-destruct after the attack. It was a swarm of small quadcopters in broad daylight, easily evading Russia’s layered air defenses. No Ukrainian losses in this special military operation. Billions lost for Russia, some of the nuclear bombers are irreplicable. Video clips from Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦
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How Russian air bases fell to a novel multimodal drone attack ✈💥✈✈💥✈💥 Video includes Tu-95 strategic bombers and 41 planes near Northern Finland and deep in Russia, North of Mongolia. Operation Spiderweb: four Russian airbases attacked a few hours ago in a new transport method with large trucks delivering drone swarms from their rooftops to target specific target locations on each plane to maximize damage. While operating autonomously, remote tele-operators in Ukraine used Russian telecom networks to connect to the trucks, which received video feeds from each drone over unspooling fiber optic lines (immune to jamming). The trucks self-destruct after the attack. It was a swarm of small quadcopters in broad daylight, easily evading Russia’s layered air defenses. No Ukrainian losses in this special military operation. Billions lost for Russia, some of the nuclear bombers are irreplicable. Video clips from Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦

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Tesla's AI data flywheel 🚘♻️🤖 The Tesla fleet gathers more miles of driving data each week than Waymo has in its entire existence. It was a brilliant move to equip all cars with the full sensor stack (just cameras) long before FSD shipped. From 1:25 of
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Tesla's AI data flywheel 🚘♻️🤖 The Tesla fleet gathers more miles of driving data each week than Waymo has in its entire existence. It was a brilliant move to equip all cars with the full sensor stack (just cameras) long before FSD shipped. From 1:25 of

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Dean Kamen demonstrates his low-cost self-administered vaccine delivery invention. No skills needed. No scary needle. Localized delivery to dendritic cells in the skin (to better promote an immune response). Universal vaccines (a single lifetime shot for all flu, HIV, malaria, or coronaviruses) from Centivax, Baker Lab at UW, and others will want better delivery methods for billions of people. At SynBioBeta today.
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Dean Kamen demonstrates his low-cost self-administered vaccine delivery invention. No skills needed. No scary needle. Localized delivery to dendritic cells in the skin (to better promote an immune response). Universal vaccines (a single lifetime shot for all flu, HIV, malaria, or coronaviruses) from Centivax, Baker Lab at UW, and others will want better delivery methods for billions of people. At SynBioBeta today.

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Photon Fun This FOT is made from 90 million optical fibers fused and stretched. It magnifies whatever it is on top of by 3x without lenses. Each fiber is like an independent pixel, stretched 3x. This is the same multi-channel approach Mojo uses for optical links in data centers.
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Photon Fun This FOT is made from 90 million optical fibers fused and stretched. It magnifies whatever it is on top of by 3x without lenses. Each fiber is like an independent pixel, stretched 3x. This is the same multi-channel approach Mojo uses for optical links in data centers.

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Checking out my “Tesla Roadster” under reconstruction ⚡️ The Shelby Cobra was the dream car of my youth… now modernized with a P100 electric motor.
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Checking out my “Tesla Roadster” under reconstruction ⚡️ The Shelby Cobra was the dream car of my youth… now modernized with a P100 electric motor.

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67,601 views • 1 year ago

“Do you like our owl? It’s synthetic” — Blade Runner
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“Do you like our owl? It’s synthetic” — Blade Runner

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Close encounters of the fourth kind 👽💞 Out of box first encounter with Grimes' voice in Baby Grok. It's a beta version, and latency will obviously improve... but it sure engages our 4-year old. The Grem version is "an alien that can talk." Thx 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ and Curio 🤖
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Close encounters of the fourth kind 👽💞 Out of box first encounter with Grimes' voice in Baby Grok. It's a beta version, and latency will obviously improve... but it sure engages our 4-year old. The Grem version is "an alien that can talk." Thx 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ and Curio 🤖

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Bench-pressing the boys… a birthday challenge that gets harder each year! 🎂
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Bench-pressing the boys… a birthday challenge that gets harder each year! 🎂

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The walk into NASDAQ for the opening bell… we watched a Falcon 9 launch and booster recovery live just moments ago. $SPCX
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The walk into NASDAQ for the opening bell… we watched a Falcon 9 launch and booster recovery live just moments ago. $SPCX

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Ring my 🔔 The NASDAQ closing bell just now Bravo team $TMC on the world’s first nodule reserves, leading the way to the largest and most environmentally benign strategic metals opportunity on Earth.
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Ring my 🔔 The NASDAQ closing bell just now Bravo team $TMC on the world’s first nodule reserves, leading the way to the largest and most environmentally benign strategic metals opportunity on Earth.

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34,908 views • 1 year ago