Chris Streeter

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Some data we recently assembled on entrepreneurship/compute in Europe: https://t.co/x8pbpHLun7.

We hope that one of the useful roles that Stripe can play is in collecting and publishing empirical data pertaining to entrepreneurship and industry in Europe. There's growing appetite to get Europe on a better footing, and cross-sectional comparisons can often shine light on where opportunities lie. If you're interested in this kind of thing, we publish more at https://t.co/YoZDuYbaBi.

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@ben_mathes Spend enough going to their conference, they do the integration for you

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@hazelcough You should asked for more cats on the t shirts

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@rodhowarth Time to spin up API review as a service

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@ben_mathes I see you took photo and pluralized it.

(great photos)

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@ben_mathes Sorry not sorry

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@ben_mathes What!! Massive vulnerability right there! Shut then all down asap and redo the alignment.

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@ben_mathes We're now in the East Bay! Not SF, but nearby ❤���

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@ben_mathes @WeirdMedieval sassy, but true

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

Proud to work for a company that champions stuff like this

[Nan Ransohoff @nanransohoff]

Today we're launching Intercept: a $500M philanthropic initiative to make respiratory infections, like the common cold and flu, a thing of the past.

We treat respiratory infections as a minor nuisance, but that’s really not the case. Most of us will spend 5% of our lives (!) sick from these viruses, they kill 1M people a year, cost $600B annually in productivity, and periodically threaten civilization through pandemics.

So, if they’re such a big problem, why haven’t we dealt with them yet? Last year we convened ~40 leading scientists, pharma R&D leaders, biotech investors, and regulatory experts to better understand that.

We heard two main reasons:
(1) First, it’s just technically very challenging: respiratory viruses represent hundreds of distinct, mutating strains across several families. Fortunately, recent breakthroughs make this newly possible.
(2) Second is a lack of funding: broad-spectrum solutions have historically been underfunded, in part because they’re not a great fit for most philanthropic or commercial funding (and while COVID generated a burst of activity around preventing and understanding respiratory infections through an influx of new funding, that hasn't been sustained).

We think that with enough focus and funding, this might be solvable. Intercept is a $500 million philanthropic initiative that will take advantage of new tools to catalyze the development and deployment of two types of products: broad-spectrum preventatives and air cleaning technologies.

This problem is undoubtedly difficult. But it’s more tractable now than it’s ever been. We think we should give it our best shot.

We’re enormously grateful to our anchor funders: @stripe, @AnthropicAI, @TheFluLab, @FoundationOAI and individuals from Jane Street.

And, I’m very excited to be building this with @incredutility and the rest of the team.

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@katelyn_lesse ABD, lfg

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@jeff_weinstein @jrfarr @rexsalisbury Can I join for the post dinner drinks

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@rodhowarth Can it solve non cbsp

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@ben_mathes @sporadica Beach, wine, and Parc national du Mercantour. Done ;)

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@ben_mathes @sporadica There's a hint of skiing in E. Just barely

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@katelyn_lesse @rodhowarth The ones that'll surf the exponential

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@ben_mathes @gerstenzang +1! I mean, for me, that was the best part and created great memories :) Though, some do insist on gifts, and gifts you use everyday are memory reinforcements

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@kwuchu We like you on our team, but also, Stripe first, team second.

[Chris Streeter @chrisstreeter]

@kwuchu Maybe, yet?