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Anirudh Pai
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Anirudh Pai
@ani_pai
Gates has stronger state capacity than the US government. Government: slow, ineffectual, spreads false info Bill Gates: running his own Manhattan project in his free timeBill Gates is setting up factories to manufacture 7 leading vaccine candidates before we know which is best & safest; we can test the vaccines in parallel, and then throw away all but the factory for the best vaccine. May save many months. Just extraordinary.
- Sulzberger’s law: The number of times the @nytimes writes an ‘opinion’ piece about a company, the more likely it is that the company has positively changed the world.
- We can’t accelerate until internet services become dramatically cheaper and faster. Glad to have @wyattlonergan and the @vaneck_us team working with DAWN, as they finally bring the next generation of users online.Unveiling our investment in @dawninternet
- Some personal news 🫡 After nearly 3 years at @dragonfly_xyz, I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve joined @robotventures as an investment partner. It’s been an incredible privilege learning from the best of the brightest, including @hosseeb, Bo, @tomhschmidt, and @HadickM, ourSeven years ago, Robot Ventures started as one person’s hobby. Today, we’re proud to announce that we’re an upgraded and expanded team of five, and we’re more ready than ever to back the most interesting founders in crypto.
- My growing suspicion is that every celebrity will eventually be a VC. As more businesses look alike, brand equity is the biggest moat there is.
- 1/ Some personal news 🫡 I’m joining @dragonfly cap as an investment partner with @hosseeb & @tomhschmidt. We'll be backing highly technical web3 projects in emerging markets.
- Is there stagnation in cancer research? Cancer survival rates have increased to 67% from 50% in the 1970s. In other words, the 100+ billion dollars in cancer research have bought us .34% of improved survival rates YoY...
- "If you're talking about AGI in 2021, you're probably a CCP apologist" – Peter Thiel
- We were born too late to witness the founding of our current great cities. So, it's time to build the next one. Excited to personally support @praxisnation as they take the network state idea from concept to reality.$525M in financing for @praxisnation to build the next great city. Together with our partners, we designed a novel drawdown mechanism for the development of new cities. This is its first deployment.
- 2021 marks the end of the great stagnation: @SpaceX completes 100 successful rocket landings. @DeepMind open-sources AlphaFold & its database of 350,000 protein structures. @PraxisSociety is catalyzing the next great city, combining crypto & community. The future's bright.
- Replying to @ani_pai and @DouglasKMurrayIf you don't fit in with people's expectations, the modern left will excommunicate you. On stages; in universities; in boardrooms, ideology is pervasive. From the Madness of Crowds:
- We couldn't be more excited to share our investment in @bulktrade! Bulk is turbocharging Solana's trading ecosystem with a high-octane perps DEX, combining unmatched speed and design.We have raised an $8m seed round to accelerate the end state for Perpetuals DEX trading. Led by: @robotventures & @6thManVentures
- Some personal news 👇🥳Thrilled to have the inimitable @ani_pai joining the On Deck team! He'll initially be working with @gonsanchezs on Growth, and eventually will be starting a Fellowship in a new vertical🤫
