Rafael Hostettler

@StephNass Color change, turns pink when squeezed!

@rhostettler Lol that's actually a good one. But in pink!

6 startups raised via OpenVC recently. I want to ship a cool gift to their office. Not another bottle of champagne, though. Sthg fun and on brand. I'm bad at creativity... Any ideas?

@StephNass It’s faster though. It’s all just a big con game ;)

Sharing non-simplistic ideas online is difficult. A lot of people just try to see if your message matches/challenges their pre-existing beliefs, then react programmatically. Zero reading, only pattern-matching. 🙄

@RichDecibels By the time people get to the “paint washes off part” of the headline, the brains are already off and reptilian brains scream SCANDAL!

if your whole species is going to die from a light dusting of cornflour I'm sorry bro but you're ngmi

I get the “your protest strategy is dumb & counterproductive” but the “spraying cornflour on stonehenge is outrageous vandalism” really is a headscratcher

@andreasklinger Humanoids? With meaningful funding? In the EU? Where?

Building the AGI? Hell yea Humanoid robots? Absolutely! Drug labs in space?! Go for it!! Astrroid mining operations? YES! Improve the European bureaucracy for startups even slightly?? LOL. Pick something less ambitious maybe?! 💀 😬

@rod_mallo It’s called an „assistant“.

Post a picture YOU took. Just a pic. No description.

@rod_mallo humanoid robots in homes

@StephNass But it’s a fit … to everything!!!111!!

"The company provides a versatile, multi-functional tool for diverse applications." Aaaaand... no.

@madelinelawren Neither

🪩 daily poll #4 / Would you rather know How you die or When you die? You can only choose one. Why?

@StephNass Build in your parents‘s cellar: $0/mo and great food :)

Best lever for pre-PMF founders: geo-arbitrage. - Build in San Francisco: $6,000/mo - Build in Salt Lake City: $3,000/mo - Build in Buenos Aires: $1,500/mo Same quality of life. Less stress. More runway. ✨

@inthecompanyof Hard problem, because so many things are compound materials (like coating inside fresh packs) that are not easy to separate and sort. So you can only downcycle those materials. We need a gut like thing that can split stuff into base materials. Human body is magical...

🧠🧠🧐♻️I keep thinking about tech enabled recycling. It feels like recycling needs a reboot and litter in many places is disgusting. 📚Who should be reading and listening to? Any recommendations?

@madelinelawren Gut feel is integrated experience through high bandwidth and fast pattern matching. It's like an LLM - confidently wrong outside experience, that's where data can help. But if there's only one, gut allows to move a lot faster.

🪩 daily #2 / Data or Gut feel? You can only choose 1. If you care to share, why? #vc #startups #algorithm #data

@tomorrowbio Aktschualy it is the only non-zero chance to not die …

#Cryonics is the only NON ZERO chance to die

@tomorrowbio Until we’ve advanced enough that there’s something better to do.

How Long Would You Live if You Could Choose ANY Number of Years? and Why? #Longevity #LifeExtension

@madelinelawren Water expands as it freezes, liter is a volume (1 dm^3), density (weight per volume) is highest at 4C, so a liter of water warmer or colder than 4C is lighter than one at 4C. It’s an anomaly, most liquids just get denser as they cool - we would not exist without it though.

In an argument with my brother that might fracture our family:

@sophiaamoruso Make it easy for startups to self select and then know where they might find a warm intro to you, so: Thesis, criteria (market, stage), team (with X/LinkedIn link), investments. Also say what you’re not investing in. Make that info parseable.

One more question before I go into mediation with this grifter of a roofing contractor for the rest of the day: what venture firms have the best websites and what information do you think needs to be articulated on one?

@rod_mallo @Graeham Which doesn’t apply to Wendy, soo their marketing team could have gone with „cheaper in off hours“

@StephNass It’s easy to feel that way, but that’s a feeling - Google is extremely profitable and has a range of products that won‘t go away. I would not bet against them. Most recent episode of @lexfridman podcast has some interesting insights into that :)

I feel like Google is now officially a Tier 2 company. It's not just the Gemini debacle. It's Google Domains going away. It's Google Cloud's irrelevance. It's losing the YT adblock battle. It's the LLMs coming for Search. Google is the next Yahoo? Ironic.

#TBT to when our @rhostettler "teleported" to the Digital Health Summit. Who said you cannot be in two places at once? Click play to see our Robody in action 👇🤖 #Innovation