Hellen Omwando

@hellenomwando

Mom, ex Philips, ex Forrester, data-driven, startups/sme, climate tech, int’l biz femme. Ad-interim COVID-19 supplies. York Uni, Wharton, HBS, Erasmus.

Amstelveen, NL
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Joined September 2010
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  1. Retweeted
    Mar 15

    Excited to announce Gumroad has raised $1M at a $100M valuation from , , and others. I'm even more excited to announce: you can also invest, at the same terms. As little as $100, no matter where you live or what your net worth is:

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    Feb 15

    Nope. Musk is really missing the point of Sagan’s words here. Also there is such profound denial of Martian inhabitability. You can’t compare Earth to Mars. Please go to Mars and tell me what a nice long deep breath feels like. You can’t because you’d fucking die.

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    Elon channels Dr. Carl famous saying about the Pale Blue Dot
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    Feb 7

    If Bitcoin were a country, its annualized estimated carbon footprint would be comparable to New Zealand at about 37 million tons of carbon dioxide (via )

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    Jan 11

    If you want to see what happens when B.1.1.7 becomes the dominant strain, you can look at Ireland, now the highest new cases per capita globally

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    Jan 4

    For years, scientists have been hot-wiring viruses to be stronger, deadlier, and more transmissible. The bet was that their work would help prevent a global pandemic. But what if it caused one? reports

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    27 Dec 2020

    And it is especially appalling that Jaap Van Dissel is now blaming nursing home staff for the high number of COVID-19 cases, while nurses worked so hard, with limited access to PPE and with bad guidelines (based on frugality instead of science). He should resign.

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    17 Dec 2020

    I love every photo of Mt Fuji, congrats on being a photogenic mountain

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    7 Dec 2020

    “The reasons for this new era of pandemics are complex, but as Fauci and Morens point out, one of the main drivers is the climate crisis, which is shaking up the natural world and rewriting disease algorithms on the planet.”

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    1 Dec 2020

    New: "In 2021, BlackRock will be incorporating climate risk across our platform as a critical investment risk like liquidity risk." Today, it unveiled a new risk tool for investors. Brian Deese, Biden's pick for top economic adviser, played a key role.

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  10. 24 Nov 2020

    True resilience and adaptation. Success in controlling Ebola means there should be no excuse in delaying distribution of COVID19 vaccine in Africa due to poor infrastructure.

    A successful Ebola vaccine delivery shows how a Covid-19 vaccine would work in Africa. Just see what folks in Africa have to deal with for bridges, etc., to make life saving deliveries. Such heroes💪🏿🥰🥰🥰
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    31 Oct 2020

    Who let all these people into my basement?

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  13. 29 Oct 2020

    Even after a record breaking quarter ($92B — has any company ever made this much in 3 months?), , 3rd largest employer in the US won’t give it’s employees just one day off to . here’s an opportunity for you to finally “give back”.

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    12 Oct 2020

    WHO’s says 10 countries are responsible for 70% of the Covid cases

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    14 Oct 2020

    For context. Video shot this evening (by me) between 2135 & 2210. I’m equidistance between bar & entrance to Dutch parliament. NL has one of the most rapidly rising infection rates in the world. At least 6,663 Dutch people killed by report running

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    9 Oct 2020

    “The Dutch have had, in the last fourteen days, roughly as many new infections as Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden combined” -a new thing I wrote about believing this country was well-run, and deciding I was wrong

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    2 Oct 2020

    The devastating accumulative effects of ocean heat waves--"bringing new droughts and storms, shifting rainfall patterns, melting ice, eroding coral reefs, spawning toxic algae blooms, and moving the ocean a little closer to a world dominated by jellyfish and slime." For real.

    An extraordinary read on the ocean and climate change, by (via ).
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  18. 25 Sep 2020

    Strong move! announces 1€ billion for ground-breaking European startups on the Node by Slush stage

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    22 Sep 2020

    🚨 We're live! is the most extensive guide for European founders expanding to the US 📕 Insight and analysis from 353 European startups 💬 Founder interviews and 18 case studies 👩‍💻 ExpansionPlan app to identify best expansion strategy

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    21 Sep 2020

    📍DEAR EVERYONE—To be clear — the coronavirus is DEFINITELY aerosol and airborne. What the Trump HHS’s CDC is doing is batshit. Long thread 🧵 detailing the LONG line of evidence & reasons how we know it’s airborne. Please use this 🧵 below to debunk aerosol doubters👇

    Huge—CDC now finally says coronavirus can commonly spread "through respiratory droplets or small particles, such as in aerosols," when a person breathes. "Airborne viruses, including , are among the most contagious” ➡️Airborne aerosols. 🧵
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