Ricky Cassini

Argentine 🇦🇷 in the Bay Area 🇺🇸. Co-Founder and CEO of @michroma_co. Laissez faire, laissez passer.

[Michał Podlewski @trajektoriePL]

Now we know why Peter Thiel packed his bags for Argentina.

Milei just submitted his AI legislative framework to Congress, where he proposes:
- zero regulation on AI development,
- a brand-new "non-human corporation" category for AI/robot-operated entities with limited liability
-a low-tax regime with flexible governance rules.

The Dutch East India Company gave the world the limited liability company in 1602. Milei wants Argentina to do the same for autonomous AI agents in 2026.

[Rami 🇦🇷 @ramirocanadas]

Mi primer medida como presidente sería cobrar:

🟣 0%: Ciencias exactas, ingenierías, medicina, agronomía.

🟣 50%: Económicas, derecho, psicología.

🟣 75%: Ciencias sociales.

🟣 100%: Filosofía, letras, artes.

Si te excedes 1 año, se cobra 100%. Te arreglo el país en 2 días.

[Vlad Tarko 🌐 🏗️ @vladtarko]

More capitalist countries have lower income inequality, not higher. High income inequality is caused by cronyism which goes hand in hand with highly regulated markets. Welfare states also lower inequality, but you need free markets wealth to have generous welfare states.

[Mati Smith🇦🇷 @Trumperizar]

‼️Llegan los futuros ingenieros electrónicos a la Marcha Universitaria.

[Ricky Cassini @CassiniRicky]

It’s an honor to be a part of this edition of @SynBioBeta, representing @michroma_co

[John Cumbers @johncumbers]

The FDA is phasing out synthetic dyes. Food companies have committed to pulling Red 40, Red 3, and others from shelves. The $3 billion natural color market is about to absorb a billion more in conversions. Synbio has a window.

#SynBioBeta2026 is May 4-7th in San Jose, California, you can learn more about the conference and get your tickets here: https://t.co/fkdZ0rSi7E

At @SynBioBeta 2026, a Planetary Health track session examines how to capture this moment: Birgit Cameron (CEO & Co-founder, Prism Bio), Ricky Cassini (CEO, Michroma), Gregory Hocking (VP Global R&D New Innovation Territories, Mars Snacking), and Erum Azeez Khan (Partner, Messaginglab).

Birgit Cameron co-founded Prism Bio to produce a full spectrum of natural colorants from photosynthetic bacteria via fermentation, with photo- and thermo-stability across a broad pH range and a proprietary ColorSwitch technology that can change color using laser light.

Ricky Cassini co-founded Michroma in 2019 to build fungal biofactories for natural food colors using CRISPR-enhanced filamentous fungi. His flagship Red+ is pH and heat stable enough to survive pasteurization, cooking, and extrusion, and earlier this year Michroma won the Global Food Tech Award Americas at Future Food-Tech and the Kraft Heinz Innovation award. He's a Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Innovator Under 35.

Gregory Hocking brings the view from inside one of the world's largest food companies: what Mars Snacking actually needs from a bio-based color supplier before it can go on a label that reaches billions of consumers.

The session runs May 7 from 3:30-4:15 PM in the Planetary Health track.

[John Cumbers @johncumbers]

The FDA is phasing out synthetic dyes. Food companies have committed to pulling Red 40, Red 3, and others from shelves. The $3 billion natural color market is about to absorb a billion more in conversions. Synbio has a window.

#SynBioBeta2026 is May 4-7th in San Jose, California, you can learn more about the conference and get your tickets here: https://t.co/fkdZ0rSi7E

At @SynBioBeta 2026, a Planetary Health track session examines how to capture this moment: Birgit Cameron (CEO & Co-founder, Prism Bio), Ricky Cassini (CEO, Michroma), Gregory Hocking (VP Global R&D New Innovation Territories, Mars Snacking), and Erum Azeez Khan (Partner, Messaginglab).

Birgit Cameron co-founded Prism Bio to produce a full spectrum of natural colorants from photosynthetic bacteria via fermentation, with photo- and thermo-stability across a broad pH range and a proprietary ColorSwitch technology that can change color using laser light.

Ricky Cassini co-founded Michroma in 2019 to build fungal biofactories for natural food colors using CRISPR-enhanced filamentous fungi. His flagship Red+ is pH and heat stable enough to survive pasteurization, cooking, and extrusion, and earlier this year Michroma won the Global Food Tech Award Americas at Future Food-Tech and the Kraft Heinz Innovation award. He's a Forbes 30 Under 30 and MIT Innovator Under 35.

Gregory Hocking brings the view from inside one of the world's largest food companies: what Mars Snacking actually needs from a bio-based color supplier before it can go on a label that reaches billions of consumers.

The session runs May 7 from 3:30-4:15 PM in the Planetary Health track.

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

Gatorade makes a major change to its original recipe, switching to plant-based dyes from fruits and vegetables to please RFK Jr.

[Traductor 🥹💕💐 @TraductorTeAma]

¿Por qué los kukas hablan de cuidar el agua si donde gobiernan ellos viven así?

[Ian Vasquez @VasquezIan]

Deregulation in Argentina: When @JMilei ended the ban on satellite internet, @starlink connected millions of Argentines.
https://t.co/4f0J3zo1Zw

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

This image of the regime washing blood off the streets after they massacred protestors in January in Iran is intensely symbolic

The "international community" is whitewashing the regime all over again

[DAMIÁN ARABIA @DamianArabia]

Argentina pasó del puesto 145 en libertad económica mundial (@Heritage) en 2024 al 124 en 2025 y hoy ya está en el 106.
En solo dos años de gobierno de Milei dejamos de estar entre los países en rojo y nos acercamos a la mitad de la tabla.
Y LO QUE SE VIENE!

[Andrés Villacís @FloresVillacis]

Así recibió Milei el Banco Central. Locura

[Ariel Sbdar @arielsbdar]

Y SI SALE BIEN?

- los pibardos yanquis desesperados por comprar activos argentinos como cobertura al dólar que no para de perder valor!

[lorem ipsum @altashanta]

Caracas amanece entre aplausos y gritos de felicidad por la detención Maduro. En el segundo 26 se escucha a alguien gritando "LIBERTAD".

Piel de gallina.

[Mauro Stendel @MauroStendel]

JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJ

[ʜᴇʀQʟᴇs @herqles_es]

🇻🇪🇺🇸 #Urgente | «¡Somos libres!», así festejan unos civiles venezolanos la llegada de la aviación estadounidense a Venezuela.

[Ricky Cassini @CassiniRicky]

VENEZUELA LIBRE 🇻🇪

[America @america]

A statement from President Trump:

[David Mermelstein @dmermel]

ARG: THE GREAT MACRO ESCAPE 🚀

Argentina’s end-year outlook signals a break from a 15-year stagnation cycle. This structural pivot from Chronic Fragility toward the Expansion Zone is being forged through the heavy macro-adjustment and collective effort of 2024 & 2025.

🔹 After years of paralysis, current conditions are converging into a solvency-growth alignment, rarely seen before.
🔹 Dot color matters. Historically unstable economies (redder dots) lack the luxury of running deficits.
🔹 The less "green" your history, the more fiscal discipline is required to earn market trust.

Argentina enters 2026 with the foundations for a sustained breakout, positioned as the region's potential standout performer. 🇦🇷

#Macro #Argentina #Economy #EmergingMarkets

[Javier Milei @JMilei]

FENÓMENO BARRIAL
Fin.

[atulit @atulit_gaur]

I still think about this a lot