Silviu Apostu

Investing in deep tech @ Matterwave Ventures | Progress acceleration believer

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

venture capital went from weirdos at the fringes of society investing in turning sand into conscious matter

to harvard educated spreadsheet jockeys making tiktoks and doing occult excel macros to spend all day attacking each other on twitter while collecting 2% of a trillion

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The departure of most academics and most young people from this platform killed some of its functionality. There's almost no humor or interesting new knowledge anymore. It's just Millennials and Gen Xers hyperventilating about politics.

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

It's great to be a dad (now 2x)

[delian @zebulgar]

it’s unbelievably good to be a dad

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

I think most founders care more about red tape, market fragmentation, overall slowness than taxes. All relevant areas for EU to up its game. We need to get real and get building. Eu/acc

[@levelsio @levelsio]

You need people to be able to "get rich" if you want innovation

It's a carrot that dangles in front of them so they take the personal sacrifices and risks of entrepreneurship, which is high

That golden treasure chest at the end of the road is a very useful incentive to make people do stuff

In Europe that golden treasure chest is hard to get because taxes will destroy your returns on building a company that would benefit the European economy long-term

Let people become rich and you'll see innovation start to sprout

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Good comparison. I’d much prefer LLM hallucinations over quotes from Bild. Weird move by @OpenAI

[Albert Wenger 🌎🔥⌛ @albertwenger]

This speaks volumes about the lack of an ethical north star for @openai - Springer is essentially Waystar Royco

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Committed this week to using @Replit and @perplexity_ai more. Both thoughtfully designed and fast improving products. Feels like a solid productivity levelling up so far

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

This 💯 Sounds like a lot of common sense that many ignore because it doesn't make them feel special or give them something to fight for ... sigh

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

Everyone should be treated EQUALLY

ENOUGH discrimination + weaponization of competitive victimhood + asserting status by marginalization

ENOUGH identity daggers
ENOUGH 'cultural appropriation'
SHARE your history, let others positively learn + celebrate traditions
HELP EACH OTHER

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Spare a thought for everyone providing hot takes on the @OpenAI fiasco only to see them turn irrelevant after ~3 hours🍿

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

@Beezer232 @SapphirePrtnrs @CalSTRS @natewcl @LauraLPThompson @isabel_bloch @EvanTarzian Great news! US EMs only for now? If yes, any plans to expand the program to other geos?

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Congratulations @mattocko and @DCVC

[Matt Ocko @mattocko]

Onwards and (literally, in the case of a few of our great teams) upwards…

Take a few minutes to read the @DCVC Deep Tech report. Other than coining the term 20+ years ago 😉, we’ve done a lot of work here you’ll find useful…

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Great 🧵

[goodalexander @goodalexander]

People don't understand Bryan Johnson. So I'm going to engage in the terrible Twitter thread format to explain his work.

1/ He sold Venmo/Braintree to PayPal and made FU money. "what's the point of making FU money if you don't say FU?" He's also ex-Mormon. Explains tweet below

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Great GPT primer video from @karpathy with solid practical advice https://t.co/H4Cpapbznp

[Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie]

Share of electricity from coal (Germany vs. its W. European neighbours)

🇩🇪 Germany: 31%
🇳🇱 Netherlands: 13%
🇩🇰 Denmark: 11%
🇬🇷 Greece: 10%
🇮🇹 Italy: 8%
🇮🇪 Ireland: 7%
🇪🇸 Spain: 3%
🇬🇧 UK: 1.9%
🇫🇷 France: 1%
🇦🇹 Austria: 0.2%
🇵🇹 Portugal: 0.1%
🇧🇪🇳🇴🇸🇪 Belgium, Norway, Sweden: <0.1%

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

Convicting a person to 25 years jail just for being a decent man who stands for freedom… It’s not a verdict on #KaraMurza but a verdict on putin’s russia.

#StopPutinNOW #StandWithUkraine

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Excited to be in Paris with @MatterwaveVC colleagues attending #HelloTomorrow Global Summit @hellotmrc and meeting bright minds in deep tech

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Big news today: we are launching our next @MatterwaveVC fund. We'll continue backing exceptional teams that transform industrial value chains through deep tech. Many exciting opportunities beyond the VC hype. https://t.co/FwjI07iFuZ

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Attending @DLDConference today and tomorrow, great line-up #DLD23

[ΛBЯΛᄃΛDΛBЯΛ0X 🦊 @abracadabra0x]

@FTX_Official

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

Amazing. Fast forward some years and CS programs will offer a course in AI prompts

[Amjad Masad @amasad]

Introducing voice & natural language command bar.

Talk to your IDE to generate entire projects, manipulate files, change the layout, refactor code... anything you like!

Coming soon to @Replit AI Mode.

[Silviu Apostu @silviup]

many good points about companies built around deep/hard tech, thanks @packyM for putting the framework around it and rounding up great examples. It's what we live and breathe at @MatterwaveVC
https://t.co/atAYXsMlAW