Simone Syed

Pax Americana Ad Astra.
Wholesome industrialist working on fixing TFR
Frmr: IIR Mithril Capital, GP Velorum Capital, BoD @RSI.
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[Simone Syed @SimoneSyed]

"what are we doing tonight?"

"Same thing we do every night, Pinky..."

[Simone Syed @SimoneSyed]

@Andercot @deeptechweek 🥰🥰🥰

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Well well @deeptechweek has wrapped for 2026

It was a fun experiment to see how much I could grow it this year - went from 2 to 7 cities, averaging around 3k attendees per city and ~28 events per week. It went from a 'once in a while passion project' to a 'rapidly growing profitable business'

I'll be adding another 5-6 cities next year, each a recurring annual event. 3 in the US and a couple more international. San Diego, Boston, Bangalore, Tokyo, Sydney, Paris, Zurich, Denver, are all candidates.

Overall theres been 65k attendees, 9,400 founders, 5,500 investors and 8,000 engineers and scientists.

I think this makes it credibly the largest deep tech startup community on the planet, and, I think I can double it in 2027.

I will write up some thoughts on how I see the deep tech ecosystem evolving and what comes next!

And I'll start building out some more mcp surface area so attendees and hosts can fully leverage the social graph backend to find customers, investors, cofounders, startups, and so on.

Also theres like a hundred hours of recorded talks going up within the next week.

I think this is a reasonable "first product" for @hyperstition_x, there are two more in the works, more in the realm of sci-fi.

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

Blake has Done the Thing

Be like Blake

Do the Thing

[Simone Syed @SimoneSyed]

Power players - Energy Secretary Chris Wright in the @boomsupersonic greenroom 🤗

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Straight chillin' before the drop @boomsupersonic

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@kimmaicutler Correct. It's completely asinine

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Straight chillin' before the drop @boomsupersonic

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@beffjezos Ya that reads as the correct drift in culture

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Back in my day we would just get to the top of hackernews instead of putting out press releases

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https://t.co/qHAnMiH67r

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@snowandcaffeine Real

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@abemurray I no longer feel bad for my puppy when I accidentally forget her in the garage

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@MeganNyvold Tank girl would like a word

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You will know them by their fruits

[Andrew Côté @Andercot]

All you really need to know about a culture is seeing the society they produce.

Look at the society where that culture is dominant. Do you want your society to be more like that?

Then adopt more of that culture. Cultures produce societies like notes make music.

[Simone Syed @SimoneSyed]

While MAHA was busy touting known alleged rapist Russell Brand on stage in DC, China was busy saving lives with their cancer drugs

That super sucks for us

[白岩 @shuimaojin]

@maxdoppelt In China, roughly nine months of sunvozertinib (Zegfrovy) cost about $10,000 for 26 boxes, while the projected US list price under the AstraZeneca license for an equivalent supply is roughly $160,000–$230,000.

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@nivek883 @maxdoppelt These temu style names are incredible

[james hong @jhong]

Lots of VCs kindof sound like this: "Your basketball team doesn't have a moat, any healthy human can throw the ball into the basket thingy. "

People who have not run companies before don't understand how much the team matters more than some imagined structural moat.

[Simone Syed @SimoneSyed]

@sentinelcorp_us @Tri_Stanisaurus We can't stop here

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I did not know this until this morning

[Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl]

Tried to work out at hotel gym this morning.

Hotel: sorry gym is closed
Me: what?
Hotel: a rabid bat got loose in there and we are calling the CDC

Adding this as my new best excuse for missing a workout.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

for the record, this is how the chinese government thought about jack ma, and why it ultimately destroyed him. there is really no philosophical difference between our hard left and their hard left. and the only practical difference is their hard left's in power.