URGENT
EVACUATION ZONE POSTED
All #PacificPalisades residents are advised to evacuate towards the Pacific Coast Highway due to the #PalisadesFire
Check the @CAL_FIRE map here:
https://t.co/rFL4oBEjPw
Follow @calwireupdates for more
On Shein:
- Their clothes are 65% polyester (double Zara & H&M!) - - Laundering polyester is responsible for ~35% of the microplastics in the ocean
- They ship between 2-3 billion items a year
- Their emission grew by 52% last year
- They've 10x'ed their lobbying spend in the past year
- 13,000 influencers (!) posting hauls
- 1.3 million products a year (Zara releases 35k)
- $0 in tariffs on ~$30b in revenue
- Also these two sentences
I don't think I realized it as it was happening, but 2023 was great for me personally. Thank YOU for allowing me to do what I do for a living. Also, @wbznewsradio
At what point will America's elected officials put away their petty politics, and recognize the only House Speaker nominee who can get enough votes is Taylor Swift?
Deep Tech VC: Puts on pot of coffee to read 5th nature paper for the evening while trying to discern 5yr trajectory of an entire scientific field
B2B Enterprise VC: YOLOs into 3 month old genAI company at $100m pre that doesn’t even have product yet
We are not the same
Pinch hitting today for @jeggers as the moderator of an #AI focused panel at #ACK2023. Here's a concise "history of AI" slide that @rudina11 and @GlasswingVC developed. What do you think?
This conference is very engaging, such a pleasant surprise. Most interesting topics so far: hype around AI, what LPs think about funding VC in this environment, what your posture over Zoom says about you, and DEI in startup environment.
#ack2023
2/best quote from my panel with Sec Yvonne Hao, MIT Prof John Hart, and @Miles_Arnone_MA (note that none of these folks frequent X bc #building) was from Miles who said “there is too much tech going after marginal improvements to restore the competitiveness of our industries. We need more fundamental core tech on which to (re)build”
Go see @lilylyman and @hodges in our Million Dollar Pitch competition led by @bmarshallg and the HubSpot Ventures team. So excited to have such an awesome competition @INBOUND this year 💪🤩
That’s a wrap on another incredible summer! Thank you to our 250 interns for their hard work, enthusiasm, and dedication over the last few months. Their energy and drive help us push the limits of science, technology and research that contribute to Lincoln Laboratory’s mission.