alexchekan

tech entrepreneur🦄 posting occasionally about people in/and tech

[alexchekan @alexchekan]

Signed up for https://t.co/BeEXqbJaWu - can’t wait to play with the product ;))

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Ever since I printed my CEO business card in 2012, I’ve read it as “Chief Emotional Officer”, because sooner or later every conflict lands on your desk

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😅😅😅
This is so true about (all of?) us and our teens

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

SpaceX alums find traction on Earth with their Mars-inspired CO2-to-fuel tech https://t.co/YBGuzOtkHq

[Ben Lang @benln]

Y Combinator's 2024 request for startups:

[alexchekan @alexchekan]

@BillGates highlights progress on global health, climate, malnutrition, yet one problem looms: misinformation. Amplified online, worsened by AI, it spreads harm before rebuttal. Tech minds, web3 gurus, philosophers—any solutions? Worldcoin? Superintelligence? Your bet?

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@KianSadeghi5 @nucleusgenomics @23andMe Please do. People need that

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@peterrhague I did see the landing coverage on the front page in the main section earlier today. In fact, I went there today only to check a summarised update on the launch, as I missed it live. But in general I agree with you: their app continues to send me ‘very important’ homicide news etc

[alexchekan @alexchekan]

Came across the Mensarius Oath while exploring FI educational programs.
https://t.co/Sn2at1bG8t

It is sort of like Hippocrates' Oath, but for investment professionals. I fully support that and think we need more ethical investments in the future.

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What feature do you wish your Apple Health app had?

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"You might say I'm comparing apples with bananas. Well, maybe, but at least it gives us food for thought" - from a McKinsey presentation

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The product retention is quite high though

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I've been drinking so much @TwiningsUK "Immune Support" I must be immortal by now.

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I just learned that you can get a master's degree in Astrobiology 👽
https://t.co/AdQaGn6nIj

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And it's just the beginning of a greater story.

[Ed Suh @edsuh]

A monster startup most VCs probably don’t know of or overlooked: Flo. It’s a mobile app focused on women’s fertility & period tracking. Founded in Belarus.

As of Dec: $192M ARR, 60 million active users, profitable. Largest health app by MAUs and downloads for the past 4 years straight.

And consumer is supposed to be dead?

[alexchekan @alexchekan]

A weird bright side of being sick: I got to know some AI in 'real' healthcare (@NHS) after years of working on the preventative side of health tech and AI. There is hope there, I confess, but I hope that #MedPaLM or similar will augment all doctors very soon.

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I think this is the first time I have seen a push notification from an app suggesting deleting itself. S - sustainability!

[alexchekan @alexchekan]

Sometimes, you read X, and the world seems doomed. But at other times, I reminisce @lexfridman's "I love you all", and as much as it sounds naïve, it is also very powerful. These words inspire me big time.

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@Google is worried about that when you google 'AI', you find a bunch of glowing brains. So they collaborated with human artists to visualise AI in a better way. Enjoy https://t.co/OecKROixDW

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I still like @VaclavSmil books, and I love this curve. To me, his idea is about the inherent challenges rather than suggesting an imminent doomsday. His POV underlines the need to understand energy transitions w/o succumbing to overly simplistic or overly pessimistic viewpoints.

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

For all the folks who read Vaclav Smil and claim that we're doomed because energy transitions take hundreds of years.

Here's the share of coal of UK electricity generation. It went from 39% in 2012 to 1% in 2023.