
Thomas Baker
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Thomas Baker
@TheSpaceBread
Founder/Investor/Ai Researcher
Cambridge, MA Присоединился Haziran 2022
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@MightyNetworks I wanted to check out your platform to see if it could help us organize our accelerator… WHY TF DID YOU MAKE ME AND MY TEAM SPECIFICALLY SCHEDULE A DEMO ON OUR CALENDARS JUST TO WATCH A RECORDING!!! WHAT A GENUINE WASTE OF OUR TIME!
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Beetlejuice thinking he can upstage @zenanaut and @lunarloral.
He can't, obviously, but I appreciate the self-confidence.

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10 years ago today Made In Space manufactured the first thing ever made off earth. But quickly after we made it NASA took the news down and we never were able to talk about it.
We spent a long time deciding what the first part to print would be. It honestly felt like a lot of pressure to be in charge of this decision. We worked closely with our NASA team on what it would be.
We collectively decided on the first print being a part of the printer itself.
This showed that the machine could repair and ultimately replace itself. It was the self replicating machine. Dyson’s Astrochicken.
Here’s where it got messy.
We put the Made In Space logo and the NASA worm on the part. As soon as the print was removed by Butch Willmore though, NASA public affairs saw the part and cut the feed.
The reason is that at the time (and likely still today) the worm logo required approval by the NASA administrator to be used. Our NASA team was just as surprised as us.
After so much work to choose a meaningful first print the story was hidden and the story of a different print was used.
To this day I still think about how absolutely silly this whole thing was and how sad that the story didn’t get to be shared. So after waiting a decade, it’s time to share.

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The SaaS startup playbook doesn’t work in deep tech. “Move fast and break things” doesn’t apply when building nuclear reactors or bioengineering cell therapies.
That’s why we built 5050, “a cheat code for starting a deep tech startup.” (quote from an alumni)
Applications open!
fiftyyears.com/5050
5050 is a program to help scientists and engineers start indispensable companies. We’ve distilled everything we know about deep tech startups into a two phase program.
Phase I: Explore
We’ll help you answer: How do I turn my breakthrough science into a business? What do I need to make a startup idea work? How do I recruit a world-class team Am I ready to be a founder?
We'll help you diagnose and mitigate risks and pivot quickly if necessary.
At the end of Explore, those ready to build a startup will be invited to the next phase, Build
Phase II: Build
You’ll join a select cohort of the most high-speed founders solving massive world problems. Build will help you de-risk their technology, hit milestones, raise a first round, and reach takeoff speed faster than you think is possible. You’ll learn everything you need to know about starting a deep tech company and what it takes to become a world class entrepreneur.
At @fiftyyears, we’ve backed over 100 deep tech startups, helped them raise over 5.5 billion dollars, and supported our founders in achieving many firsts:
➜ the first carbon-negative molecule factory
➜ the first cultivated meat approved in the U.S.
➜ the first microgeo satellite for internet connectivity
➜ the first in-orbit space pharma drug factory
➜ the first de novo synthesis of a 1000+ base DNA molecule
➜ and many more
Whether you’re validating an idea or ready to build — 5050 is for you.
Apply! ➜ fiftyyears.com/5050
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@blinkist can we get this book 👍
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Book by Clayton Christensen and Michael E. Raynor
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@remarkablepaper is there an update coming that will let you select and move text that you have typed up? Otherwise is makes the Type Folio kind of useless, especially as it only lets you type in the center of the page.
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@TheSpaceBread If you have additional questions, let us know! We're happy to help.
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@meshhq Fantastic! I have been evangelizing Clay to most of the aerospace industry already so this makes it even easier
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@TheSpaceBread Hi Thomas! So glad to hear you're enjoying Clay :). Good news! You can scan text on business cards using our iOS app to create a contact or add a note to an existing contact. You can learn more here: library.clay.earth/hc/en-us/artic…
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We will look back and see the impact of Starlink and how it changed everything.
Starlink@Starlink
Starlink connecting remote indigenous communities across the Philippines 🛰️🇵🇭❤️
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At the Kennedy Space Center for the @Astranis launch! Arcturus is Astranis's first commercial satellite, destined to help bring broadband to all of Alaska. Seeing the history of the space industry makes me even more excited about how Astranis is ringing in its future.

Cape Canaveral, FL 🇺🇸 English

@sethbannon Finally! The crossover episode we all secretly wanted 🔥
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Fiction meets reality! Super excited for this. In addition to playing the CEO of Pied Piper, Thomas is climate angel investor and a friend. You won't want to miss this!
John Cumbers@johncumbers
I am excited to share that Thomas Middleditch, star of the critically acclaimed HBO series “Silicon Valley”, turned climate investor, will be speaking at SynBioBeta with @sethbannon, Founder of VC firm @fiftyyears, on his passion for climate tech investing synbiobeta.com/read/premiere-…
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BREAKING NEWS: This is an announcement that has been decades in the making.
On December 5, 2022 a team from DOE's @Livermore_Lab made history by achieving fusion ignition.
This breakthrough will change the future of clean power and America’s national defense forever.
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She is quite literally one of the most hardworking people I have met @sarakemppainen genuinely couldnt be prouder!! You're killing it!
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