Justin Olshavsky

many of the most valuable assets in the world are illegible. intelligent systems can now discover value that would otherwise remain latent, directing resources to promising ideas & creating abundance. proud to support @apoorva_mehta, @olshav, & @LakshAithani to find them

it's been exhilarating being a day 0 investor & partner with @apoorva_mehta @LakshAithani and @olshav as they build ABUNDANCE. Agentic harnesses, next gen reasoning models, and an unabashed hunt for rapid iteration and dispassionate truth seeking will upend global markets -- starting with the deeply technical and often scientifically opaque (think: rvmd, sk hynix, and sndk over the last 24 months). work we've seen pioneered at ABUNDANCE has changed our thinking internally at @_DimensionCap and our view on how to invest and what to build for the coming decade the team is hiring for an extremely small number of three-sigma+ builers and polymaths. if that is you, you'll know how to get in touch

Excited to share what we've been building

Apoorva is one of the best founders I’ve ever met in my life. This is a big big idea.

@Dhruv_Sumathi and I made something :) we’ve been filming the beauty of organ preservation research at @untillabs for a while now. it’s not an explainer or company video, it’s a window into how it feels to work on this problem from the inside.

We just updated this chart for our case study. I have a feeling it's outdated again.

@alexkesin Incredible @alexkesin excited to listen!

Starting something new: Approved, a biotech podcast I'm co-hosting with Matthew Pech. Our first episode covers Amylin Pharmaceuticals: the pioneers of the GLP-1 drug class.

@richardfuisz Congrats on the launch @richardfuisz! Very cool to see all the hard work converge to this

Some exciting news to share — we've made the world's first magnetically controlled antibody! What is a magnetically controlled antibody? It's an antibody drug that you can turn on and off, wherever you want in the body. (1/9) x.com/ashleevance/st…

@neurajohn @madiueland So cool - congrats @neurajohn and @madiueland!

The Beginning of Infinity @madiueland

@calcsam Enjoyed the first!

@calcsam BOOK

last month we wrote a new agents book: patterns for building ai agents it has everything you need to take your agents from prototype to production, like agent design patterns, the basics of security, etc reply to this tweet with BOOK and we'll dm you so you can get a copy

@diodeinc @AnthropicAI @cojennin This is sick - congrats @davideasnaghi

We worked with @AnthropicAI to teach Claude how to be a better electrical engineer. Claude 4.5 is the first frontier model trained with our data, and we saw a major improvement in both accuracy and speed for electrical reference design generation. Huge thanks to @cojennin and the Anthropic team for making this possible. claude.com/blog/making-cl…

we're open sourcing a large fraction of @_DimensionCap's 2025 Research, led by @SimonDBarnett & @bauer_lesavage. get an inside look at our discussions and debates. happy holidays dimensioncap.com/research-mag-v…

@nwilliams030 Very hard to plan for the volume of labor a priory - at every stage have found this, 0-> 1 and 1 -> 2. Nothing I found could really adequately prepare you (and I did a lot of reading beforehand!)

with multiple kids/yrs under the belt a lot of these parenting tasks seem to be solidified & known. I feel like a lot of division of labor debates I’ve seen online recently translate to “we thought the division of labor was communicated clearly to each other but it wasn’t”

i think it’s interesting how when people have a lot of children, spousal division of labor (on average!!) becomes a lot more clear cut i feel like in pregnancy/baby/1/2 kids stage it’s hard not to see so much of the conflict as “management transition” struggle in the abstract

@pitdesi Where are the Pittsburgh ones?!

This is such a fun one! Some additions: -Ron Wayne selling his 10% stake in Apple for $800 -Excite turning down a Google acquisition for $750k because “Google’s algorithm is too good and would reduce page views as people leave” -Kodak inventing the digital camera then not selling it because they were worried about suppressing film sales -SoftBank selling 4.9% of Nvidia in 209 to plow money into WeWork -Quibi -AOL/Time Warner merger -Ballmer fighting Gates and Nadella to acquire Nokia for $7.2B (they wrote off the entire thing) -Ron Johnson killing sales and coupons at JC Penney -Borders and Toys R Us both outsourcing tech to Amazon then getting eaten alive by it and dying -Cisco buying the flip camera company for $590M after the iPhone was already out -eBay’s management of PayPal - should have been a trillion dollar company I’m on a flight to Cleveland so a special section here (my wife is from CLE and I’m from Pittsburgh, we’ve got a good rivalry): -Balloonfest ‘86: a depressed Cleveland wanted an event to “put them back on the map” and decided that they would set a world record in balloons launched with a huge celebration. The balloons didn’t float away and they had to stop flights at the airport and 2 people died -the Cleveland Indians did a 10 cent beer night and drunk fans went wild- fans stormed the field, ripped off pieces of stadium seating and used them as a weapon, etc. -Cleveland-based Hoover had a special where you could get 2 round trip flights if you bought a vacuum. They assumed only a small percent would redeem, but word spread and >200k redeeemed. It cost the company so much that they had to sell their Europe division to pay the debt. What else?

@nickdamian0 Hey now you helped some of us

I tried to help a bunch of medtech founders get into YC. The results were not as good shockingly.

@jacobkimmel @newlimit @S32_VC @AbstractVC @kleinerperkins @_DimensionCap @humancapital @BoostVC Congrats @jacobkimmel and team!

.@newlimit has raised an additional $45M from new investors including Lilly Ventures, Duke University, @S32_VC, @AbstractVC & others. Insiders including @kleinerperkins, @_DimensionCap, @humancapital, @BoostVC also participated. This round was catalyzed by technical breakthroughs since our Series B just 5 months ago. Advances in our lead program to restore youthful liver function now give us the confidence to start planning clinical studies in the next few years. We're grateful to all the new & returning capital partners for supporting our mission.

Brain shuttle technology could change how we treat neuro diseases - with the potential to make therapies like the $QURE disease modifying therapy for Huntington’s available to many more patients without the need for neurosurgery proud to be a day one backer of @Jack_O_Meara and team Aerska

@A_Mazzocchi @playhealthco SF! See you there

Headed west to spend the rest of the year in SF building @playhealthco, if you’re around let’s connect and talk women’s health and data! Ada is also requesting the best dog hiking spots 👀