Phil Morle 🖖🏻

I write about venture building & investing in deep tech startups. Partner at @mseqvc. Thinking out loud.

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

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[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

We’re hiring! Join the team architecting Australia’s next generation of deep tech. 🚀🇦���

At Main Sequence, we don’t just wait for the future to happen — we journey into the lab to help build it. We are looking for two Investment Managers to join our team at the intersection of planetary-scale challenges and frontier science.

We are looking for dual-language thinkers: those who can navigate a research lab one hour and a boardroom the next. You’ll be tasked with hunting for breakthroughs across our core challenge areas, from decarbonising the planet to bridging the gap to space.

We are hiring for two distinct focuses:

🔭 Space & sovereign capability: Deepening our work in orbital infrastructure and dual-use technologies that strengthen national resilience.

🌱 Planetary challenges: Sourcing and scaling the next leaps in healthcare, food, and industrial productivity.

If you’ve spent your nights obsessing over the future of humanity and your days thinking about how to bridge the gap between the lab and the launchpad, we want to hear from you.

Link in comments.

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

@klein_activist @SynBioBeta @cauldronferm @MSeqVC @MicheleStansfi4 What are you trying to do @klein_activist? Maybe we should compare notes on getting this done?

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

Not sure what to think about this.

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨WHAT META JUST DROPPED IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN ANYTHING OPENAI HAS EVER BUILT!!!!!

while everyone was losing their mind over Claude Mythos.. Meta dropped something that nobody noticed..

they built an AI called TRIBE v2.. it's basically a digital copy of your brain..

you show it a video, a sound, a sentence.. and it already knows how your brain is going to react.. 70,000 different parts of your brain.. blood flow, oxygen, everything..

they trained it on 1,000 hours of brain scans from 700 real people lying inside MRI machines..

it doesn't read your thoughts.. it does something worse..

it knows what's going to make you feel something before you even feel it..

think about that for a second..

if an AI already knows which image, which sound, which word is going to hit your dopamine.. you don't need to read someone's mind.. you just build the perfect trap..

and meta didn't even keep it locked up.. they open-sourced it.. gave the code, the weights, everything to the entire world..

this is the same company that got caught making instagram destroy teenage girls.. the same company whose own research said their algorithm pushes rage because rage keeps you scrolling..

that company now has a working copy of how your brain responds to everything you see and hear..

they don't have to guess what keeps you glued to the screen anymore.. they can rehearse it on a copy of your brain before you ever see it..

the product was never the app..

the product was always you..

now they have the blueprint.

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

@Alfred_Lin @DanielleMorrill Love this.

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

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[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

Disagree with this. It is much easier, and not necessarily true, to comment on enemies than it is to comment on friends.

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

"I never trust what people say about their friends. I trust what they say about their enemies."
@nntaleb

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

@GilmourSpace Well done @GilmourSpace We’re on our way!

[Nicolas Cole 🚢👻 @Nicolascole77]

Another one of life's hardest lessons:

The goal isn't to grow fast.

The goal is to grow forever.

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

@Samirkaji Tragic that this needs to be said. It should be fundamental to our practice. Why isn’t it?

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

Venture Capital is not 9-5. https://t.co/9W1MROY4Xo

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

I’ve tried to provide some tips beyond the cliches for pitch decks. What have you discovered as a cut through approach?

[Main Sequence @MSeqVC]

In our latest edition to the Spin-Out Series, @philmorle shares tactical advice on crafting a pitch deck that evolves with your startup and opens doors with investors.

A must-read for any deep tech founder thinking about raising capital.

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[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

Who is doing the best research into large language models and emotion/intuition?

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

@trevoryoung @Superhuman all the way. Not free but worth every cent.

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

@srigsri23 Thanks! Super interesting.

[Main Sequence @MSeqVC]

Several of our portcos have been selected as finalists for @StartupDailyANZ’s Best in Tech Awards 2024! ⭐

As investors in groundbreaking deep tech, we’ve seen how these companies are solving global pressing challenges with their innovative ideas & achievements.

Congrats to @NourishFats, @samsara_eco, @cauldronferm & other finalists! 👏 Check out more below.

[Main Sequence @MSeqVC]

Australia’s synbio community left a lasting impression at this year’s @SynBioBeta, leading to their overview of the blossoming #synbio slipstream in AU. There is a groundswell of people working hard locally to make Australia a destination for the new global #bioeconomy.

Read on for more. ⬇️

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

@GeniusNet @samsara_eco @GeniusReFi Thank you @GeniusNet

[Phil Morle 🖖🏻 @philmorle]

Building Out Loud #10: The Venture Professor Trackand more -
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