Edge City
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Edge City
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Edge City convenes people working at the frontiers of tech, science, and social innovation in popup villages across the globe. Part of the Zuzalu ecosystem 🌞

Mentor Residency in Bhutan 🇧🇹 We are inviting experienced founders and operators to spend one to two weeks working alongside Bhutanese builders. If you can offer practical help in building startups, operations, fundraising or tech, this opportunity is for you. The details ↓





Dr. Mike Israetel on the economic fallacy he says explains why AI won't cause mass unemployment: "Once we have 4 billion robots doing labor in the world, which we're like orders of magnitude off of that currently, then we've just only doubled the human workforce." "From 1700 to today, we've 10 or 20x'd the human labor force. And, seemingly, the economy's not like, ah, we don't need any more people, that's enough. We could just consistently have better jobs and pay people even more money." "This idea that robots are gonna show up and all of a sudden we're all completely unemployed makes a technical fallacy in economics called lump of labor fallacy. It's the idea that all the jobs currently are the only jobs that could be." "Imagine in 1750, you're like, well, 98% of us work in farming, and then you come back from the future and you're like, you guys, 2% of people in the 1990s work in farming. It'd be like, so everyone's starving to death? Like, no, no, we're super fat, actually." @misraetel







Today, we're announcing our next flagship popup village: Edge City India 🇮🇳 📍Mandrem, Goa | Oct 11 – Nov 1, 2026 A popup village for frontier tech, science, and culture on the coast of Goa, leading up to @EFDevcon Mumbai. Applications are open ↓

The founder of the world's most valuable company donated his iconic leather jacket to fund our support of early-stage builders. Jensen Huang's signed Tom Ford piece is up at Sotheby's this week, in partnership with @LongJourneyVC. Details 👇

NEW: Cyan Banister's Legendary Track Record Her first investment ever? SpaceX. In 2007, she invested every dollar she had into SpaceX & never sold. Combined, @cyantist & Scott Banister are easily the #1 angel investors in the world. SpaceX. Anduril. Uber. PayPal. Affirm. Flexport. Postmates. Niantic. Opendoor. Carta. Together AI. Diamond Foundry. Crusoe. Flock Safety. Substrate. Brave. Depop. Calm. TrueMed. Turing. Crusoe Cyan spent 4 years at Founders Fund, now Co-Founder & General Partner, @LongJourneyVC Plus Founders Fund's Mafia, beating Phil Hellmuth in poker live, & free speech as her number one cause. We cover › The space between your values & your actions › Human beings as why machines › Why Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection › Peter Thiel University › Nanotech & biotech 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Cyan Banister, Long Journey Ventures (01:13) Inside Long Journey HQ (02:17) The wild story behind the office mural (05:32) What Cyan's actual house looks like (07:18) The candle ritual (08:08) What the Long Journey logo actually means (10:41) Mafia's breakout stars (14:45) Cyan's strategy (16:30) What really happens off-camera at Mafia (18:58) The blooper reel nobody's seen yet (23:54) Brian Singerman x $40 /mo board game club (29:10) Confessions of an accidental poker legend (33:37) What relentless optimism reveals about people (35:42) Why so many people are scared to be weird (37:32) The daily ritual she prescribes to everyone (43:56) The "why" behind her biggest investments (50:49) Why sci-fi movies keep predicting the future (53:37) Should you even go to college right now? (59:58) Unconventional investing philosophy (1:01:57) Full list of Cyan's investments (1:04:28) All-in on SpaceX (1:08:57) Why she never sold a single SpaceX share (1:12:53) Top Bets: Becoming Bio + Substrate (1:15:52) America's reindustrialization moment is now (1:19:16) Cyan's mentors (1:22:54) Manifesting Rick Rubin (1:24:00) Real take on the Peter Thiel events





