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My Super Short Twitter Wishlist
Albert Wenger – Oct 28, 2022
Elon Musk has successfully acquired Twitter . Many people seem convinced he will ruin it in short order. And while that’s of course conceivable, it is also possible that he will fix some long running problems. It’ s not like [...] Read more
My Super Short Twitter Wishlist
Albert Wenger – Oct 28, 2022
Elon Musk has successfully acquired Twitter . Many people seem convinced he will ruin it in short order. And while that’s of course conceivable, it is also possible that he will fix some long running problems. It’ s not like [...] Read more
Direct Air Carbon Capture
Fred Wilson – Oct 24, 2022
There are many efforts underway to reduce carbon emissions in order to get to “net zero”. But most climate scientists believe that reducing emissions won’t be enough and we will also need to engage in removing carbon from the atmosphere. [...] Read more
Lithos Carbon
Mona Alsubaei – Oct 20, 2022
Agriculture is both contributing to the climate crisis and being negatively impacted by it. According to the USDA, agriculture is responsible for more than 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. At the same time, changes in temperature and rainfall as [...] Read more
Anthro Energy
Mona Alsubaei – Oct 19, 2022
From the electrification of end-uses such as vehicles and heating to storage supporting intermittent renewables, many emission-reduction efforts rely heavily on lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. But today’s batteries are not up to the task. They are not designed to be as [...] Read more
NFT Screens
Fred Wilson – Oct 17, 2022
I have enjoyed collecting NFT art over the last few years and I have very much wanted to display it in a physical space vs just having it online on a profile, like this one . So when we started [...] Read more
Vaccines
Fred Wilson – Oct 11, 2022
I’ve always been a fan of preventive medicine. I like the idea of medicine that stops us from getting sick. As a child, I was vaccinated for all of the normal things, polio, whooping cough, etc in order to be [...] Read more
Blackbird Labs
Fred Wilson – Oct 6, 2022
At USV, we are looking for applications that can bring hundreds of millions of users onto web3. As great as the decentralized finance and digital art applications of web3 are, they aren’t likely to get my mom or your mom [...] Read more
Molten Industries
Mona Alsubaei – Oct 4, 2022
The first time I met Kevin Bush and Caleb Boyd was at their garage, conveniently located in Kevin’s backyard. In that small garage, their curiosity was massive. The two experimented with everything from producing green cement to building a direct [...] Read more