Rob Elkington

PhD in biotribology at the University of Leeds | Investment Analyst @CreatorFund
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@elonmusk

[Rob Elkington @Rob_Elkington]

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[David Park @Davidjpark96]

A founder and his son had an AI startup that helped the family earn a living.

One day, OpenAI released ChatGPT and tech twitter cried out “Your startup is fucked, what terrible luck!”.

The founder replied “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.”

A few months later the startup doubled in MRR because ChatGPT educated the market on AI and it's use cases.

Twitter shouted out “Your hard work has paid off! What an amazing MRR graph!” and the founder replied “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.”

Later that year, a copycat saw all of the founder's success and decided to clone their AI startup.

Twitter cried out “You have a copycat doing better than you now, what terrible luck!”. The founder replied, “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.”

The copycat couldn't keep up with the sudden traffic and abandoned their project, which lead to many of their users coming to the original startup instead.

Twitter exclaimed “You've outlasted the competition and taken their users, what tremendous luck!”, to which the founder replied “Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.”

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I tweaked one of my favorite proverbs and based it on our startup story

I decided to write this because nowadays, I see all this fear-mongering of “holy fuck ChatGPT just killed a million startups because of this plugin or that feature or because of this announcement on dev day”

These posts are balanced by the headstrong founders who post the opposite of “well actually these changes are excellent for our business and now we are going to be a trillion-dollar company instead of a billion-dollar company!!!”

Even if constant anxiety and/or forced optimism about the AI landscape was the optimal way to run a business, it seems like such a draining way to live

Is our philosophy of marching forward and being generally unaffected by the AI landscape a better way to run a startup?

Maybe so, maybe not. We’ll see.

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@IainMcCowie @Aaronspencer98 Thanks Iain!

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@Aaronspencer98 Slayyyy 💅💅

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@QMGSDT Hello Paul and QMGS DT!

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@worksleeve No, it was cast.

[Rob Elkington @Rob_Elkington]

Here's me holding a synthetic brain courtesy of OrganA!

A really cool startup developing high accuracy organ analogues poised to replace animal/human models during surgical training and medical device development!

#MedTech #brain

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@macksmeeton @iMBE_Leeds @ICBiomechanics Massive congratulations doc!!! 🥳🥳🚀

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Oof

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Crypto bro: AI labs should stop publishing useless papers and make products that increase shareholder value.
Me: There would be no new product without the research published in those papers. New products aren't pulled out of thin air, unlike cryptocurrency value.

[NHS North East & Yorkshire @NHSNEY]

...and here they are in action! 📽️

🛩️Yesterday, @NorthumbriaNHS announced that they'll be using drones to carry key medical supplies between sites.

Greener✅, more efficient✅ & a reduction in delivery times. ✅

@GreenerNHS @NHSEngland

[Rob Elkington @Rob_Elkington]

Finally - tech worth getting excited about

https://t.co/u0ye1hmU46

[Rob Elkington @Rob_Elkington]

Interesting work on hemiarthroplasty simulation

[Professor Sophie Williams @sophie__w]

Another @iMBE_Leeds poster to share… this time from Roberto and @davidjc84 talking about our hip hemiarthroplasty experimental simulation #ORS2023

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@macksmeeton @PhDVoice Listen to Kashmir by Led Zeppelin immediately before entering the room

[Rob Elkington @Rob_Elkington]

@boyd_ar Very keen! Catch you there Adrian!

[Orthonika @OrthonikaMedtec]

Looking to be a part of an innovative MedTech start-up in London? Come join our great team as a Design/Biomedical Engineer! Apply here: https://t.co/oBizHCDWM1

#meniscus #biomechanics #orthopaedics #design #researchanddevelopment #medtech #startups #london #hiringnow #jobseekers

[The Bragg Centre and Royce at Leeds @BraggRoyceLeeds]

From aeroplanes to cartilage!

Next up is Bragg PhD student @Rob_Elkington from @LeedsUniEng presenting his work ‘Engineering cartilage defect replacements: a soft solution to a hard problem’.

Catch Rob now! https://t.co/ywvajUKMlQ

[Rob Elkington @Rob_Elkington]

@AMattSavage In Norway you get a sword

[The Bragg Centre and Royce at Leeds @BraggRoyceLeeds]

It’s day 2 of MRE! And look what we spotted - a poster from one of our Bragg PhD students @Rob_Elkington!

[Rob Elkington @Rob_Elkington]

#NewProfilePic

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@_megansharrock @WriteWithBite Good luck Megan!