Zhi Ling

@GuiBibeau the goat 🙏

Still the best part of my job is discovering hidden gem in student startups and introducing them to capital allocators or opening doors.

@SarahChieng Waterloo? 🇨🇦 🥺👉👈

cafe compute is scaling up and we need your help deciding where to go next Cafe Compute is the first, regular late-night coffeeshop for engineers, founders, writers...(anyone) to co-work or hangout late at night. if you want to cohost or bring cafe compute to your city, comment below 👇

@shayaan @cory @fahmi___omer @zfellows @UWaterloo Thanks for hosting @fahmi___omer and @shayaan in spite of Canadian weather, dessert was 🔥

hosted a 10 pm builder meetup in waterloo with @cory @fahmi___omer shoutout to everyone who pulled up!

@HackTheNorth changed my life!! we accomplished so many ambitious things as a small, completely student run team. truly a place where you can skyrocket your growth and be surrounded by the best people. hackthenorth.com/join

SF be like: "hey man, you need to work 9/9/6" Waterloo:

@NorthsideVC_ @wlootechweek Thanks again for hosting, it was super awesome❤️‍🔥

2026 is about showing up more in person and spending time with founders. We’re planning more dinners, Socratica Symposium, Toronto Tech Week, and other small, high-signal gatherings across Toronto, Waterloo, and beyond. This @wlootechweek workshop recap was just the beginning.

@992rodney I been trying to tell you to pull up since we met

There’s going to be a point in your life where your friends try to gaslight you to visit Waterloo but it’s very important you say no

Today, we're announcing @episteme, a new type of R&D company that recruits exceptional scientists to pursue high-impact ideas. Science isn’t bottlenecked by the availability of talent, but by places where they can do their best work. Scientific progress has driven human flourishing: extending lifespans, lifting billions from poverty, and expanding our understanding of the universe. But history is littered with transformational ideas that were overlooked in their time. That problem is still acute today: too much promising talent remains uncultivated, and remarkable ideas die in the lab or are filtered out by misaligned incentives. Today, scientists face suboptimal paths for translating their research into impact: academia is famously risk-averse and incentivizes publications and winning grants vs. translational research. Industry is too often focused on short‑term incentives. And startups lack the substantial capital, expertise, and complex infrastructure needed to deliver long-term scientific progress. On top of that, recent funding cuts in the US mean the overall supply of ideas is decreasing. Put together, the global scientific production system is operating at a fraction of its capacity. How Episteme operates is different: we identify great scientists who can meaningfully benefit humanity, but who aren’t supported efficiently within traditional institutions today. Researcher by researcher, we work with them to determine the bespoke resources, operational support, and environmental conditions to execute on their research. We bring them together in-house, and provide those resources to ensure that their breakthroughs are deployed for real-world impact. We’ve already assembled an amazing team of operators, ranging from the Gates Foundation, DeepMind, ARPAs, DoE – just to name a few – and researchers who are pursuing important problems across physics, biology, computing, and energy. Our team has spoken to hundreds of researchers across disciplines and geographies to understand the limitations they’re facing and what can be done better, and designed Episteme for them. We’re backed by individuals like @sama, Masayoshi Son, and other long-term partners who share our mission of enabling ambitious science for tangible human impact. About me: I started working as a researcher 9 years ago, on problems ranging from AI-driven drug discovery to developing brain-machine interfaces. It was that experience that led me to realize that so many scientists with great potential to change the world don’t have access to opportunities equal to their capacities. @sama and I believe that much better science should happen for humanity, and that a new engine is needed to support that. We decided to cofound Episteme together, and I am incredibly grateful for Sam’s unwavering support as a thought partner and founding investor. Our conviction is that by supporting the right people with the right incentives, we're set to generate breakthrough discoveries to benefit humanity. We cannot rely on the course of history to shape scientific progress; we need to proactively shape the system by supporting the most talented people with the right resources and incentives.

4/n THANK YOU @solanafdn @superteamCAN @solana @supersimon @GuiBibeau for making it possible for me to experience this. S/O @SolanaConf I know how much work goes into bringing this to life. It was a privilege to see how much is possible from the power of a strong global community

3/n Skipped the merch grind and focused on building connections. Thank you to EVERYONE I got a chance to meet + who humoured me by answering my 999 questions with openness & kindness! This is how communities grow📈❤️‍🔥@chrischang43 @shizudio @dylangbane @eggyplay @Coleta_Cripto ++

Solana BP 2025 was unreal. I’ve never experienced community quite like this at any other conference before. Curating this level of collective passion is rare but with @solana, it was always there. I'm so lucky to have gotten to see & be a part of it. Thank you for welcoming me.🙏

Will always be all in on Waterloo and Canada 🇨🇦📷 Thank you @solana @SolanaFndn @SuperteamCAN @GuiBibeau

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." -Carl Sagan, Contact

@dantemagg we call that the waterloo tech week effect

@jrodgers @wlootechweek Thanks for your support Jesse. 🔥🙏

What I am loving about @wlootechweek is that there is no home but the Waterloo Region. The community owns it. Not a person or org. Thank you to the students who took the initiative to make this happen. Next week is going to be a lot of fun!

⁉️ Are you ready for Hack the North? 👕 This year we got more swag, more activities, and even a GUINESS WORLD RECORDS™ 📅 Make sure to mark your calendars because you don’t want to miss it this year. #hackthenorth #soon #FOMO

@hthieblot Come to Waterloo 👀

Canada, I am inside you

@DStrachman What's the biggest barrier for aspiring scientists at an undergrad level to break into deeptech (from an academic lab to the venture world?)

Talking to the queen of bio tonight! If you have a burning question that you want me to ask Josie, throw it in the comments!

hackers, it’s time to dream big and dig deep. 💎 hacker apps for hack the north 2025 are NOW OPEN! 🚨 🗓️ Apply by July 28 @ 11:59 PM EDT 🔗 apply.hackthenorth.com (link in bio) #hackthenorth #hackathon #student #stem #application #tech