Ekaterina Damer, PhD

Behavioural Scientist, Founder & Angel Investor. Prev @Prolific, @YCombinator, @Sheffielduni @Cambridge_Uni. Find me in a sunny place

[Des Traynor @destraynor]

Great piece by @lulumeservey - quadruply worth reading if you're marketing an AI product (or being sold one).

Verifiable customer outcomes is the thing to market, or to look for, ignore the hype, focus on the real impact.

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

Merry Christmas everyone ❤️ Hope yours is as magical as mine 😌

[Martin Tobias (Pre-Seed VC) @MartinGTobias]

1000 true fans > 100,000 casual followers

Build deep, not wide.

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

This means we’re not getting anywhere near the level of progress that we could be having in society, science, tech and beyond. Time to change this.

Congrats @Besample_app on raising a $1.1m preseed! Let’s go 🚀

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

It’s an honour and a privilege to start working with @lenajbrandt, Tamila Feldman and Gutter Capital on helping to make research truly global 🌍

https://t.co/kT77XWSJaH

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

There’s so much unrealized potential, and opportunity cost, in both how scientific and commercial research are done today, blows my mind. 🤯

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

also with beautiful @triketora 💕

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

San Francisco is back

Also, hanging out with some of my favourite people is ultimately wholesome

[C.C. Gong @CCgong]

6 VCs approached him in 15min. Love the SF Blue Bottle hustle

company is Icosic - AI site reliability engineer

[Compounding Quality @QCompounding]

7. The Lesson:

Hype, greed, and FOMO are timeless.

Any asset, no matter how beautiful, can become a bubble if people stop asking, "What is this really worth?"

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

unreal times we’re living in

[Baptiste @BaptisteVicini]

The success of recent AI breakthroughs has attracted more talent, resources, and attention.

The result? A pace of innovation that even Hassabis is shocked by.

Here are his insights about what's to come:

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Hans Zimmer composing INTERSTELLAR score. Just fascinating.

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

Let's go 🚀

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

• Capital markets fragmentation
• Administrative complexity

Let's break down the 3 pillars of this revolution:

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

🤞

[Sam Altman @sama]

i think this is gonna be more like the renaissance than the industrial revolution

[Brian Feroldi @BrianFeroldi]

What should investors do?

Learn when the P/E ratio is USEFUL and when it’s USELESS (see chart).

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

interesting

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Researchers scoured tens of thousands of online posts to identify how consumers are using AI.

The #1 use case in 2025? Therapy & companionship.

Other personal support use cases - organizing your life & finding purpose - round out the top 3.

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

@patrickc (Hamburg goes without saying and is not underrated 🤭)

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

@patrickc Lovely that you’re exploring Germany. What brought you to Lübeck? It’s one of those underrated Northern German gems, just like Bremen and Schwerin

[Ekaterina Damer, PhD @ekadamer]

@RolLindner @patrickc Ahh, I wish there was no paywall.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

The most overlooked tech revolution is happening in Europe right now.

While everyone obsesses over AI, Europe is quietly dominating ROBOTICS.

10 European robotics startups reshaping our physical world 🧵: