Byron Thom

Celebrating another year of amazing @UBC community members at the UBC Alumni Achievement Awards with MC @LienYeung. Congrats to all the recipients!

❤️ this. #climate #risingoceans cnn.com/interactive/20…

At a loss seeing footage from Kelowna and impacted directly by the proximity to our UBCO family. My thoughts go out to everyone affected and hope that everyone is able to evacuate safely.

Up bright and early to judge at the @yellcanada #pitchfest, part of Vancouver Startup Week. Thanks for the invite @vchan cc: @vanstartupweek #tech #bctech

Congrats to all the graduating classes of 2023! Was privileged to join the Chancellor’s Procession at this morning’s convocation for @UBCSauderSchool MBA and Graduate students. Excited to see the impact you all will make!

The last 45 days have been the biggest ever in AI. All of this happened: GPT-4 Auto-GPT Midjourney v5 Runway #Gen2 Viral Drake Songs ChatGPT in Robots Here are the key takeaways from a crazy month and a half in AI 🧵

@kc_dot_io @ckneumann Sorry to hear, but 😂

@ckneumann I spent all weekend in the fetal position with food poisoning. I’m told I missed some sort of drama about a VC sponsored race to a bank in Silicon Valley? The winners got $250k? It sounded like a bad remake of fear factor. Glad I missed it.

I worked in bank liquidity and treasury for the better part of the last decade, and there is one very interesting risk factor from the SVB collapse that I do not think we have ever witnessed before in modern finance, a 🧵:

It’s funny how journey’s come to an end it is also funny how they start. In ’08 at age 65 when most of his peers were retiring my dad John and his colleague Girvan founded GaN Systems My dad’s goal was to build the worlds best Speaker not a semiconductor company. 1/

Celebrating Top #FortyUnder40 with @mattpcarlson and @BIVnews #startups #tech

Puck Drop #WinterClassic #GoThunderbirdsGo @UBCThunderbirds

Getting ready to cheer on the @UBCThunderbirds #WinterClassic

PREDICTION: There's a mass extinction event coming for early & mid-stage companies. Late '23 & '24 will make the '08 financial crisis look quaint for startups. Below I explain when, why & how it will start & offer *detailed advice to founders* on surviving the looming die-off. /1

So great to have the #2022TIAs back in its rightful home. Congrats to @jilliantipping and the entire team at @wearebctech #bctech #startups

Congrats to all the finalists of the New Ventures BC Awards. Good to see so many ecosystem friends supporting these amazing startups. And congrats to @nvbc on another amazing year

@lindsaymchan @UBC Thanks sis!

Congrats to my bro @bmthom for his appointment to @UBC's Board of Governors. I'm a proud UBC Alum and now you will deeply understand why! #proudsis linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Today I’m announcing that I have decided to retire as the CEO of BC Housing. On Saturday morning, May 7th, something shifted. I watched out my window as police descended on Crab Park. I had just returned, minutes earlier, from taking Fred for our regular morning walk. 1/10