Juan Orbea
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A node in a network
Juan Orbea
Each time one paradigm runs out of steam, another picks up the paceIt is important to note that Moore’s Law of Integrated Circuits was not the first, but the fifth paradigm to provide accelerating price-performance. Or is there something more profound going on?In my view, it is one manifestation (among many) of the exponential growth of the... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
Crowdfunding and
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Biotechnology and
This does not mean require some absolute "na na no one can catch me" ideal of sovereignty that is perhaps only truly accessible to the ~5 countries that have highly self-sufficient national economies and/or nuclear weapons.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Next generation smrs use a new kind of fuel called TRISO fuel that's much more efficient. T he US department of energy has called trisol fuel "the most robust nuclear fuel on earth". picture a sphere, about the size of a hand, inside there are thousands of tiny triso particles that harness the power of fission better than conventional uranium... See more
C Capital • C5 Capital - Next Generation Nuclear Technology
The law of accelerating returns implies that by 2099, the intelligence that will have emerged from human-machine civilization will be trillions of trillions of times more powerful than it is today, dominated of course by its nonbiological form. The point is that if there are ways around this limit (or any other currently understood limit), then the... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
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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If governance ideas are regularly implemented in network states, then we would move from an extrovert-privileging "talker liberalism" to a more balanced "doer liberalism" where ideas rise and fall based on how well they actually do on a small scale.
Vitalik Buterin • What do I think about network states?
Of these companies that become well financed we only need 15–25% of those to pan out to return 2–3x the fund. But this is all driven on the assumption that we didn’t write a $20 million check out of the gate, that we didn’t pay a $100 million pre-money valuation and that we took a meaningful ownership stake by making a very early bet on founders... See more