Decacorn founder @splunk · Founder & CEO @founderorg · I find exceptional young builders before they're known · New founder weekly on BORN TO●BUILD
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Every dinner, someone asks me what I'm investing in. Honest answer: whatever a 22-year-old told me last week.
So I'm bringing them to you. BORN TO●BUILD, a new founder every week.
Who's the youngest builder you know who should be on it?
“One day unbelievably productive. The next, unable to focus.” Pari Patel has ADHD. Every wearable and app missed what was happening in her brain, so she put an EEG in earbuds to show focus in real time.
A new founder every week. Follow so you don’t miss the next one. @founderorg @nyit
Construction robots have been “five years away” for 40 years. Lena-Marie Pätzmann says two things changed: labour got expensive, and sensors got 99% cheaper. For the first time, the economics work.
A new founder every week. Follow so you don’t miss the next one. @utumx @founderorg
Madrid, my flight was late and I was already 20 minutes late for a stage. Five minutes of Peter's breathing in the back of a taxi and I was ready to say: I'll get there when I get there.
A new founder every week. Follow so you don't miss the next one. @PetervanWoerkum @founderorg
Europe’s bridges and tunnels are rotting from the inside. Today a human blasts the rot out with a 3,000-bar water lance, and nobody can last more than 30 minutes. Lena-Marie Pätzmann built a robot that does it on its own.
A new founder every week. Follow so you don’t miss the next one. @utumx @founderorg
He taught the man who surfed a 93-foot wave how to breathe. Now he teaches founders the same thing, because building a company is an endurance sport too.
A new founder every week. Follow so you don't miss the next one.
OBGYNs have no explanation for many women who can't conceive. Vicki Powell thinks it's because we measure hormones in snapshots. "The answers are in the rhythms."
A new founder every week. Follow so you don't miss the next one.
Every VC says consumer hardware is a graveyard. @H_a_r_r_i_s_o_n picked it anyway. His hot take: most hardware startups invent a problem nobody has. @betterwrhythm
A new founder every week. Follow so you don't miss the next one.
She helped build the Apple Watch sensors. Then she left to measure what it wouldn't, with tiny single strands of DNA. I asked her what changed.
A new founder every week. Follow so you don't miss the next one. @vickipowell @lumehealth @UniofOxford @OxEntrepreneurs @OxfordECentre @Apple
I sat in @H_a_r_r_i_s_o_n's office in San Francisco. He turned on his light machine. Ten minutes later I just felt better.
His problem with @betterwrhythm: nobody can feel that through a screen.
A new founder every week. Follow so you don't miss the next one.
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