Lux is “light” in Latin

🌑What happens when darkness descends across the Earth?

This week on our 'Securities' podcast Samuel Arbesman and Danny Crichton talk about

🌓the eclipse
🔬the mesmerizing impact of science
🫶and the unique community that comes together in cities lying in…

I've learned so much from Brian Morrissey's The Rebooting. CRM is the future of media, not the CMS. The future of news media is about deep reader relationships, not broadcast. It's $$$$ from a few, not ¢¢ from the many. Take a read: therebooting.com/cms-to-crm/

One quarter of all kidneys from organ donors get thrown in the trash.

At Statecraft, we uncovered why a corrupt monopolist has managed organ procurement for 40 years, and how it’s getting fixed.
statecraft.pub/p/how-to-stop-…

.Lux Capital's Danny Crichton on the Media Empires Podcast shares insights on how to build the next great media company:

-Be CRM first; Know your customer
-Build reader relationships beyond paywalls
-Cut through the noise with a focused editorial thesis
-Become indispensable within…

Jonathan Levin, a distinguished economist and Stanford alumnus who has led the Stanford Graduate School of Business as dean for the last eight years, has been appointed the next president of Stanford University, the Board of Trustees announced today. stanford.io/3TIqneN

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If you already know David you know he is razor sharp, deeply thoughtful, highly technical and super kind.

If you don't yet know him: Say 👋 David K. Yang in NYC or Menlo Park!

Thrilled to share that I’ve joined the Lux Capital team! Looking forward to continue backing and building transformational life sciences companies

According to the Government’s own analysis, their plan to force all new buildings 18m and taller to have two staircases would have massive costs and barely save any lives.

Here’s my post from last year on why second staircase rules are so harmful.

samdumitriu.com/p/against-bann…

Amb. Rahm Emanuel talks Chinese revisionism and 'The Philippine Treatment' in the latest from ChinaTalk.

Full podcast dropping tomorrow.

'China has a basic premise that they are the rising power... and either you get in line or you're going to get the Philippine treatment.

Our…

Join Lux Capital NYC for a special runthrough of our riskgaming scenario 'Hampton at the Cross-Roads' on climate change and national security next week on Monday and Tuesday. Sign up here: forms.gle/55b6iLru6wxQvu…

Here's the WSJ's front page today

Evan Gershkovich has been a Russian captive for a year. He's a caring friend, a brilliant colleague and an innocent man.

It's beyond time to let him go.

Free Evan.

It was a pleasure meeting with Mike Bloomberg this week to discuss the opportunities and risks of AI and national security.

Today we’ve lost a giant and a visionary: Prof. Daniel Kahneman has passed at the age of 90. The Princeton SPIA community shares our condolences with his family and all who knew him, learned from him, and loved him. bit.ly/4cy0arM

Holy f'in s#!+

1. Trump needs 💰for lawsuits
2. Jeff Yass (Susquehanna) needs his 7% stake in TikTok ($30B!) to not be hit by law that will thwart China Communist Party from intentionally using TikTok to corrupt 🇺🇸 democracy
3. Yass 🎁💰 Trump SPAC
4. Trump 👎 on TikTok bill

We continue to recognize outstanding leaders in biotechnology for #WomensHistoryMonth . Tess van Stekelenburg is a scientist and investor building companies at the convergence of biology and computational sciences

Fascinating discussion about DNA foundation models and Evo on the podcast.

I love hearing public discourse on these topics and the bigger picture, well said Tess van Stekelenburg :)

Can we use AI to run millions of years of biological evolution with the click of a button?

While this future is still several iterations away - had a lot of fun on Securities discussing:
- NVIDIA recent entry in bio
- rise of DNA foundation models
- AI as biological 'search'

On the intersection of biology and genAI, highly recommend y'all check out Danny Crichton 's latest podcast episode, discussing Evo (a new DNA foundation model) and other related topics
open.spotify.com/episode/2ipUZc…

Lux runs what we call

RISKGAMING

some very private—others w/diverse group of tech, govt, macro players

Here is a peak at one Lux constructed (by our genius Danny Crichton) with Miles Taylor + Mike Novogratz's + Sam E's Galaxy

On AI 🤖x ELECTIONS🗳
nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

🧬Is this the century of biology?

🤖Could AI revolutionize the science of life into a form of engineering?

This week on the 'Securities' pod Danny Crichton is joined by Lux's Tess van Stekelenburg to discuss what could be a golden era of biological progress.

🔊 bit.ly/4a9EVLD