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Tommy Leep
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Tommy Leep
@leepnet
Helping startups grow
San Francisco, CA Katılım Mart 2007
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me and @mattjdalley are hiring a head of content!
we are a venture-backed startup working on something new in the health and wellness space
this is a full-time role (no agencies plz!). you will own our short form video strategy end-to-end.
(by this we mean you can do whatever u want as long as you take an active role in evaluating/fixing what's working and what's not lol)
this is a great role for someone early in their career who is interested in marketing, health, startups, and AI.
requirements:
- willing to work IRL in our SF office (i swear we are fun)
- knows who Ballerina Farm and Dr. Jessica Knurick are
- brain rot
- slightly delusional
- unrelenting passion for the role of structured data in agentic commerce + the reduction of LLM-specific context rot 😅
To apply, please DM me any tik tok and/or IG accounts you're involved with!
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The current top 5% of seed deals are the worst asset class in venture.
They carry the loss ratio of a seed deal with the upside profile of a Series B.
Seed risk at Series B prices.
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Oratomic is one of the strongest technical teams in the world, full stop. With $300M from Khosla, Spark, ARCH, Bezos, and others, they have even more fuel to build a fault-tolerant quantum computer
Proud to have coled the seed - one of the joys of my life to work with this crew
Oratomic, Inc.@TeamOratomic
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We’re just rooting for Norway 🇳🇴 now
(saying the quiet part out loud)
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15 years ago I arrived to the Bay Area to pursue my dream of building software at the largest scale with some of the best technologist in the world.
What a beautiful journey it has been!
I would always be grateful to Yahoo! who gave me the first opportunity (and Visa), and taught me the beauty of building UI at scale.
Then 10 years at Saleforce where I learn the importance of customer’s success, the complexities of maintaining a platform and how to run an efficient marketing and sales organization.
Nowhere else in the world would I be able to start a company with another crazy Spaniard on a market that I had no idea about, with low chances of success and yet have the financial support an ecosystem to thrive.
I’m incredibly proud and grateful to be both an American and a Spaniard and have been able to take the best of both.
Happy 4th! 🇺🇸🇪🇸
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Did a long chat with @yayitsrob on Shift Key about the Gigascale thesis, hard tech, and why the "US can't build anything" take is wrong.
A few things I believe: 🧵
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We have two exciting announcements today as Cantos turns 10…
First, we closed our new fund earlier this year. Canto IV is a $70M fund purpose-built to lead pre-seed and seed rounds. We oversubscribed, wanting to keep it right-sized for being a founder's most aligned first partner.
Second, we launched our new look with help from our friends at @asimov_co! Cantos is so-named as an ode to epic poems, where grand stories are written in "cantos" rather than chapters. We view founders as the protagonists of today's epics and seek to back those whose deeds become the stuff of legend. Our new website is a testament to the scale of their ambitions, with visions from a future they will have shaped.
Resonat in Æternum 🖋️
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This will be a major win for humans. I’m grateful for @nanransohoff’s leadership to make it happen.
Nan Ransohoff@nanransohoff
Today we're launching Intercept: a $500M philanthropic initiative to make respiratory infections, like the common cold and flu, a thing of the past. We treat respiratory infections as a minor nuisance, but that’s really not the case. Most of us will spend 5% of our lives (!) sick from these viruses, they kill 1M people a year, cost $600B annually in productivity, and periodically threaten civilization through pandemics. So, if they’re such a big problem, why haven’t we dealt with them yet? Last year we convened ~40 leading scientists, pharma R&D leaders, biotech investors, and regulatory experts to better understand that. We heard two main reasons: (1) First, it’s just technically very challenging: respiratory viruses represent hundreds of distinct, mutating strains across several families. Fortunately, recent breakthroughs make this newly possible. (2) Second is a lack of funding: broad-spectrum solutions have historically been underfunded, in part because they’re not a great fit for most philanthropic or commercial funding (and while COVID generated a burst of activity around preventing and understanding respiratory infections through an influx of new funding, that hasn't been sustained). We think that with enough focus and funding, this might be solvable. Intercept is a $500 million philanthropic initiative that will take advantage of new tools to catalyze the development and deployment of two types of products: broad-spectrum preventatives and air cleaning technologies. This problem is undoubtedly difficult. But it’s more tractable now than it’s ever been. We think we should give it our best shot. We’re enormously grateful to our anchor funders: @stripe, @AnthropicAI, @TheFluLab, @FoundationOAI and individuals from Jane Street. And, I’m very excited to be building this with @incredutility and the rest of the team.
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About time! 15 mins & $150 simple scan is best ROI in healthcare. Spot plaque. Avoid #1 killer. Yes more expensive angiogram even more accurate, but widespread Calcium CT as mammogram for heart would save 50k lives per yr. Heart attacks are a dumb way to die. ❤️❤️
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
CORONARY CALCIUM SCANS GAIN POPULARITY AS HEART RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL MORE PATIENTS TURN TO CALCIUM SCANS TO DETECT HIDDEN HEART DISEASE
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“Always go to the funeral”
Jackson Dahl@jacksondahl
One of the best bits of advice I've ever gotten, that has consistently held true for the decade since I first heard it from @Mazzeo: When you have bad or difficult news: call the person. Don't text, don't email. Call. Or better yet, meet them in person.
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