Juan Orbea

Fundraising

General Partner (GP) 

A GP is a manager of a venture fund. They make decisions on how to invest the capital that LPs provide. 

Limited Partner (LP)

An LP is an investor into a venture fund. LPs provide the capital that fund managers invest, and typically have few required obligations outside of providing capital to the fund. 

Most funds

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Listen to Henry tell his story from learning about effective altruism to making the decision to giving away 50% of his income - he also shares a fascinating story about getting infected with malaria for medical research.

So Chris tried his hand at chipping away at this problem — but concluded the nature of the problem wasn’t quite what he originally thought. In this conversation we talk about that, as well as:

Molten Salt Reactors (MSRs): In MSRs, molten salt (e.g., fluoride, chloride) contains the nuclear fuel (i.e., uranium). The molten salt also acts as the coolant, and graphite rods act as the moderator. Replacing water as the coolant removes the possibility of steam explosions and the generation of flammable hydrogen gas. The nuclear reactions in... See more

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On Tubules and Quantum Computing

smrs are designed for easy manufacture and transport broadening their potential geographic reach and they offer five times the fuel efficiency of traditional nuclear reactors. Traditional nuclear reactors only extract about four percent of the energy that you could feasibly get out of uranium fuel leaving 96 percent as waste. That's an incredible... See more

Each of the three words must be there for a reason, with none of them being redundant with the others. We must separately check each of these three boxes in order to determine whether something is a DAO.