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Fifty Years
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Fifty Years
@fiftyyears
Make something civilization needs. Helping great scientists and engineers become great entrepreneurs is our jam.
San Francisco, CA
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    Fifty Years
    @fiftyyears
    Oct 13, 2024
    Make something civilization needs.
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    Seth Bannon
    Fifty Years
    @sethbannon
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    Congratulations to my old boss. Empathy, intelligence, coolness under pressure, and goodness to the core. We need more of this. Was great jamming with him on what we're building at @fiftyyears, and how we can ensure AI creates a better future for humanity.
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    Matt Loszak
    Aalo Atomics
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    Jun 1
    "You can't build nuclear quickly" Built our first 10 MW-scale reactor and facility from bare dirt in 5 months. "You can't build nuclear affordably" Only spent $70M in our company history. Includes our real reactor & facility, fuel, prototypes, factory & equipment, payroll,
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    Fifty Years
    @fiftyyears
    May 29
    Another day another slickly produced video announcing another massive round, often for things that shouldn't exist. "Prediction markets" that are really just online casinos. AI fake-influencer startups built to deceive people. Can't we do better?
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    Elicit
    @elicitorg
    May 28
    Elicit now has an MCP server. Use it inside Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, and any MCP-compatible tool. Agents hallucinate when they don't have access to the right evidence. With Elicit's MCP, they search 138M+ papers and cite instead of guess. Ask your agent to run a full
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    Elicit API Reference
    Complete API reference for the Elicit research automation platform. Explore endpoints, parameters, and schemas for programmatic access to Elicit's research tools.
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    ✶ ela ✶
    @elamadej
    May 28
    i think i solved it. Physics PhD, sci-fi writer, AI founder, now a biotech CEO trying to save the world? @hannu must be superhero from a Marvel universe coming to help us out. listen to @ashleevance's pod with Hannu and ponder: 1. How can we be better "parents" to the world
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    Ashlee Vance
    @ashleevance
    May 27
    Good lord he's fun to listen to
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    Justin Olshavsky
    @olshav
    May 28
    You should work on problems where being right actually matters
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    Seth Bannon
    Fifty Years
    @sethbannon
    May 26
    Can't we do better? First short film from @fiftyyears.
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    vesper is in SF 🌁
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    May 27
    can’t we do better? @fiftyyears for storytelling that moves.
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    Seth Bannon
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    Wojciech Zaremba
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    May 27
    Can’t we do better? A compelling short video from @fiftyyears that gave me goosebumps about what it means to create value in the world.
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    Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures
    @bznotes
    May 27
    This is very cool! Good stuff, @fiftyyears.
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    Seth Bannon
    Fifty Years
    @sethbannon
    May 26
    Can't we do better? First short film from @fiftyyears.
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    Seth Bannon
    Fifty Years
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    May 27
    Why did we make a short film? Storytelling is everywhere in tech. Slickly produced videos with A24 quality aesthetics announcing yet another massive round. Carefully crafted narratives designed to make companies feel inevitable. Increasingly, these videos are being used to sell
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    Melissa Du
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    May 26
    barring the fact that i do really need a better calendar app, love what @fiftyyears is doing
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    Seth Bannon
    Fifty Years
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    Can't we do better? First short film from @fiftyyears.
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    Kyle Harrison
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    May 26
    Every technological breakthrough begins with someone sitting quietly in a room, ignoring the noise, wrapping their mind around a future state. And then getting out to make that future a reality. We need to frame more stories around the problems worth solving.
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    Seth Bannon
    Fifty Years
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    May 26
    Can't we do better? First short film from @fiftyyears.
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