John Forbes

I’ll always be #DRF4Life - incredible evening reconnecting with all the @DormRoomFund alumni ✨

@jesslionness @DormRoomFund @isabelle_zhou @themollette @shubgaur DEEEAAAALLLL TEEAAAAMMMMM!!!!

“We look for founders with a strong sense of mission and a high degree of persuasiveness. Can they sell to customers, hire great people, and fundraise effectively? That persuasiveness often comes from how deeply they’ve thought through the idea maze. We love meeting founders who have considered a problem from multiple angles.” We spoke with @deepchecksvc's @john___forbes about trends in deep tech investing and what makes a great startup founder. Click the link to read the full interview on Infinite Frontiers: infinitefrontiers.io/conversations/…

Second @deepchecksvc event in the wraps! Loved getting to bring together the NYC Deep Checks investors and friends of the fund alongside @abemurray, such a great crew.

@Rick_Zullo @EqualVentures Dream internship!

Why spend your summer in the Hamptons when you can "summer" with @EqualVentures? moats > spritzs

@gregisenberg @SarvasvKulpati is on it

phone addiction might be one of the biggest unsolved problems right now everyone knows it's destroying us. everyone wants it fixed. current solutions fail. whoever figures this out becomes a billionaire and a hero to millions

@suffiyanmalikk @luke_clancy1 Can’t wait!

@luke_clancy1 @john___forbes I think he’s coming

We are going to be in El Segundo tomorrow at 2pm. It’s time to build for the next frontier. One of my goals has been to highlight and support the best entrepreneurs of our time on a mission to solve the hardest problems. We are not from this planet. We have worked very hard to colonize it and in the process, humans have evolved as a species and come a long way. All of modern technology sector and Silicon Valley are only 50 odd years old. Internet, mobiles, computers, chips, social media - everything happened in the last 50 years. We have always underestimated what we can achieve in decades. We end up getting caught up in 5 year plans. I believe, in my lifetime, we are going to colonize another planet. Humans will land on another planet. It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when. We figured out how to colonize earth, we will figure out how to colonize another planet. Millennials and GenZ will be around to see it. I just don’t know if they’ll be 60 or 80 when they do. One of the questions me and all my friends building in space-tech get asked very frequently is, how does this benefit life on earth? My answer: Space colonization is not just about spaceships and rockets, we have to make significant advancements in robotics, food and agricultural tech, biotech, materials science, transportation, energy and future of software - AI, AGI, ASI - bits superpower atoms. All of this, benefits life on earth. Every new discovery, every new experiment, advancement, benefits life on earth. Having to reimagine how you would occupy a planet with all the hindsight and knowledge, it’s not just a generational opportunity to make a small dent in human history but it’s also the greatest economic opportunity of our time. We discovered ice and built usecases for it and we eventually invented refrigeration. We discovered fire and eventually invented heaters, stoves and combustion engines. Airplanes were invented only 120 years ago. Zoom out, think about the possibilities. If this makes you jump out of bed, if you feel shivers down your spine, if you feel adrenaline thinking about all this - you’re my kinda people. We saw a historic SpaceX launch a couple of days ago. We have companies who are working on manufacturing drugs in space. We have companies building micro nuclear reactors. What a time to be alive. More importantly, I am hosting the founders building these companies and future of our industry in the heart of El Segundo - the flag bearer of all progress in the world of atoms. You will hear from @DougBernauer , cofounder and CEO @RadiantNuclear , @WillBruey , cofounder & CEO of @VardaSpace Jason Dunn, cofounder and CEO of @outpostspace and @MadeInSpace and @johncoogan from @foundersfund

Jamming on the future of investing in hardware vs software this afternoon at LA Tech Week. Swing by! Lu.ma/continuum-stage

I’m eight months in to working with @Julian and the Julian Capital + @deepchecksvc team. Our excitement only grows that we get to tell founders “we’ll put you in touch with the world’s best deep tech VCs, for free, just keep on changing the world”. And it only takes one minute!

@thesephist @ThriveCapital Let’s go! keep on Thriving 😎

I've joined @ThriveCapital as EIR & advisor to support founders in understanding and deploying AI thoughtfully while furthering my interpretability and interfaces work. I remain very excited to cheer on Notion's AI team push the frontier of applied LLMs. thesephist.com/posts/thrive/

@isabelle_zhou @thesephist @slim_shreydy @DavidMackanic Daww

YC S24's @LilacLabs is automating drive-thru order-taking with a voice AI. Their multi-lingual AI agent is perfectly trained, understands the menu, and can answer questions about ingredients/allergies. ycombinator.com/launches/LRU-l… Congrats on the launch, @kamikariat + @sheldenshi!

We should have to use a hyper connected dopamine machine for every little task. ✨So I put the most useful features of my phone into a fun little package to prototype a digital sidekick!✨ It’s making me comfortable thinking of reducing my phone time a LOT. Details in thread:

I think the best early stage investors move at founder speed @Julian and the work he’s doing with @deepchecksvc is a perfect example It will rival YC for quality deal flow in hard/deep tech by year-end Arguably already does…

Huge. Go bears!

The #RamenMafia and @lowercarbon are teaming up to host a Climate Tech Happy Hour at @CompoundFoods HQ in SF on 9/29!! Stoked to partner up with @a_laplaza @maricelsaenz to bring together A+ people working on climate. Check out details here! lowercarboncapital.notion.site/Lowercarbon-x-…

@medhakothari @variantfund @ljin18 @jessewldn @spencernoon @jonitzler LETS GOOO!!! So happy for you 😁

SO excited to announce that I’ve joined @VariantFund as a research partner. Longer blog post coming soon, but tl;dr working with @ljin18 @jessewldn @spencernoon and @jonitzler is an absolute dream, and I can't wait to support founders building in the ownership economy

@thesephist If blocks.css doesn’t bode “build it in the garage” energy I don’t know what will

@john___forbes I spy a familiar button 👀

Shoutout @SarvasvKulpati for dragging me out of the (hacking) cave, as uncomfortably as Plato presupposed philosophymachine.john-forbes.repl.co

Excited to be working on this with @AnandLalwani15 & David Dellal. If you’re a current PhD and founder come join us for phenomenal speakers, wonderful vibes, and some entrepreneurial drive 💡