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Sarah Cone
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Founder & GP, Social Impact Capital . Seed stage, invests for VC returns + social impact. Fight less and build more.
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How are we as a society comfortable investing two orders of magnitude more resources into Clean energy efficiency instead of clean energy abundance (fusion, fast Nuclear etc.)?
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Agreed! Fortunately, as announced Aug 2022: "publications and research funded by taxpayers [will be] publicly accessible, without an embargo or cost" by December 31, 2025
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Climate adaptation finance needs are projected to reach $340 billion annually by 2030, exponentially more than the $21.8 billion expected to be available by 2025.
As the threats of climate change grow year after year, scaling up support is not just an option; it's an imperative.
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Life expectancy in the U.S. has fallen to the lowest levels seen in 26 years, new federal data shows. abcn.ws/3hRV8iA
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Behind every successful entrepreneur is a bad former manager.
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This can't go on:
We used to spend 4% of global GDP on energy
Now, we spend 14%
Current energy crisis costs us 10% or $10 trillion each year
(caused both by war in Ukraine and bad, climate-focused policies)
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New Perspective! The simple premise of much of synbio/genetic medicine is "If we design new DNA, cells will run the code" but unfortunately in reality synthetic transgenes are often silenced over time in cells.
brought together this big group to discuss ways forward
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According to market estimates shared with the sustainable debt market now exceeds $4TN. Cumulative issuance of #payforsuccess sustainability-linked loans and bonds (SLLs, SLBs) almost equals that of green bonds! #sustainablefinance #impactinvesting #sustainabledebt
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I really didn’t expect Bitcoin to turn into a $16k stablecoin.
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good career advice:
assume no one’s gonna help you, but no one’s gonna stop you either
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We need a national movement so that 50% of our US R&D budget goes to "energy abundance" primary research. If we solve this we can solve almost any other downstream problem.
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the irony of the VC markets is that LPs are now going to miss on a bunch of promising managers and vintages because they went overweight over the past few years and deployed into crappy funds/managers
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I love that Churchill had this mad-scientist side and kept firing off memos like "Hey, could we build caissons of concrete and tow them and then build artificial islands? Pls advise thx"
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"The most significant part of the agreement is a commitment to protect 30% of land and water considered important for biodiversity by 2030, known as 30 by 30. Currently, 17% of terrestrial and 10% of marine areas are protected."
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Curiously, a team of physics PhDs found that when everyone agrees on a complex issue, they're more likely to be wrong. They call it the "paradox of unanimity".
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Online social networks can unravel very quickly when policy changes cause core users to leave. That lowers the cost-benefit ratio for the remaining network members & can create a cascade where departing users prompt their friends to go, too
Competing networks make this go faster
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If you’re looking for a corporate holiday gift, we did ours this year with samaritan.city
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This guy wants a 600-year project ending with a new sentient species when we as a society couldn’t produce five good seasons of Battlestar Galactica
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The ’s bombshell new report on renewables has incredibly good news.
For example, solar is undergoing a mega boom & may surpass coal by 2027
Below is a 🧵 on genuinely good news on green energy from the IEA & beyond (1/22)
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Just stumbled across these Carmelite monks who are building a gothic monastery in Wyoming, with a little help from CNC machines.
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when times are tough, founders with boards seem to outperform founders without boards
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New hobby just dropped.
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It is amazing how regulations got out of the way for Web 1.0 (no sales tax!) and Web 2.0 (section 280) but not for Web 3.0 (bitlicense, KYC, etc).
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This book argues that parent's main influence on their children comes from the peer group they place their child in, and from my brief experience with children I think this is right.
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Social media changed the idea of counterspeech - counter bad speech with better speech -- with harassment, manipulation, misinformation, + a flood of meaninglessly cruel emojis.
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This market is bringing out the best in entrepreneurs.
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This classic post should be required reading for exec teams going into 2023:
"All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess."
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Congrats to the Aruwa team! Looking forward to co-investing with you.
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We are delighted to announce the final close of Aruwa Capital Management first institutional fund. We set out to raise $20 million in October 2019, just before the COVID-19 pandemic and today the fund is oversubscribed and backed by a world class set of global institutional..
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Marc Andreessen on why it is critically important to challenge yourself and expose yourself to risk:
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It is now starting!
Today Iran abolished the Morality Police that enforce the hijab.
Rebellions accelerate when otherwise rigid autocracies give concessions. The Tocqueville effect. twitter.com/nntaleb/status
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You need to release the thousands of internal corporate documents if you want to make the point you’re making here.
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2. What you’re about to read is the first installment in a series, based upon thousands of internal documents obtained by sources at Twitter.
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I think we are still in the early days of social networks. We are only just beginning to figure them out.
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This is the impact of air pollution on your brain and mental health. #AirPollution #MentalHealth weforum.org/agenda/2022/11
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But also it’s why small investors should group together under a single SPV that protects their interests collectively.
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This happens a lot to small investors by the big bully funds. I hope there are more lawsuits about it because it’s ecosystem-destroying behavior.
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Update: board decided to recap, 4x liq pref and made a decision to exclude anyone who had not invested $1M or more. Insiders did the deal but recused themselves on the board vote. They claim it was a timing thing, needed to get cash in quickly. Founder voted for it. Thoughts? twitter.com/jefielding/sta…
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3) “He felt betrayed and taken advantage of. Liew had told him these terms were standard. Evan would warn other students about this betrayal for years to come…”
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