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    In 2006, I was in my mid-20s, had wound down my company and was doing a postdoctoral scholarship to pay my bills. I had been told that I should raise venture capital for my next startup. I googled “nanotechnology” and “venture capital,” and the first Google search result was
    We started Lux in 2000 with a simple conviction: the biggest opportunities lie at the frontier of science and technology that others find too hard, too early, or too confusing. Twenty-five years later, that conviction hasn't changed. What has changed is that the world has caught
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    The next generation will not understand our alcohol habit the way we don’t understand the prior generation’s smoking habit
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    1/8 For many years, LA was lost in the shadow of the Bay Area’s startup machine, particularly in deep tech. Now, “Silicon Beach” has become a major player and a force for the Valley to reckon with, and here’s why 🧵
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    Are you a “pre-seeded” startup raising a few million to launch product? Traditional VCs are cutting bigger checks, later. So, find a hands-on lead investor that will partner w/you to nail down 1) product/market, 2) key metrics, and 3) the levers that will move those metrics.
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    1/ Two amazing companies: @databricks and @MosaicML plan to join forces to empower everyone to train their own AI models, imbued with their own data. Here is a story of the journey thus far, and what's ahead of this great partnership🧵:
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    Today @amazon announced it was acquiring @Zoox, to deliver the radical step change that will permanently alter how people & things move: blog.aboutamazon.com/company-news/w… As their seed investor, here’s my advice for founders -> Don’t Retrofit, Reinvent. More thoughts below👇 1/5
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    We are on the cusp of a new compute era: CHIPLETS... ...which will be the basis of many exciting new startups, as an evolution of the ubiquitious System on a Chip.  1/9
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    Privileged to have been coached by talent, founders, execs, scientists, peers, and colleagues who the best at what they do, and wonderful humans:
    Replying to @Lux_Capital
    12/ @Farshchi promoted to GP. Shahin joined Lux after getting a PhD and starting a company. He seeks out the most technically ambitious entrepreneurs, notably leading our founding investment in @aevainc & more recent investments in @GoToImpulse & @MosiacML
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    Should there be a tax similar to the cigarette tax on low-nutritional-value, high-calorie foods to fund treating obesity-related chronic disease? h/t @wolfejosh
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    Replying to @thesheetztweetz @RocketLab and @Peter_J_Beck
    As part of his pitch, Peter Beck opened a crate on our conference room table with a prototype engine and launched a video of it firing on a test stand, all after having raised tiny equity $$ He went on to recruit an amazing team/partners. Behold the power of an amazing story.
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    Technology doesn’t disrupt massive markets and incumbents - it’s unhappy customers, or as my partner @wolfejosh likes to say: what sucks. hbr.org/2019/06/disrup…
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    I asked a CEO how he took his startup from millions to billions - from a piece of tech to a great solution. His reply: hiring an amazing product/marketing team, and focusing on the right/compartmentalized problems for the right (not necessarily the biggest) customers.
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    My purpose is to empower amazing founders, and my job is to generate outsized returns for my investors
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    Round name not about $$, but what we’re underwriting: SEED: Team and vision SERIES A: A hypothesis on a business, the associated metrics + some early data backing it. SERIES B: An early understanding of how $$ impacts the metrics (levers) -> how to scale. Raise what you need