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A show about leaders who move fast. Hosted by Peregrine Badger at Fifty Years. Fifty Years is a venture capital firm backing founders using technology to solve the world’s biggest problems. We back founders working on climate change, health, free speech, affordable housing, and other global problems. When you’re working on problems like this, there’s a particular sense of urgency. Shipping faster means saving lives, preventing extinctions, and creating a future worth living for. We interview ...
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Keenan, Keller Rinaudo, and Ryan Oksenhorn cofounded Zipline in 2014 and in 2021 became a $2.75B company that has saved tens of thousands of lives and raised $490M. Zipline now delivers medical supplies in >5 countries to communities of tens of millions of people. In Rwanda, 75% of blood deliveries outside the capital use Zipline.They've overcome f…
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Will, Delian Asparouhov, and Dan Marshall cofounded Varda in 2020. In their first year, they raised >$50M and hired a stellar team. Varda is leading in-space manufacturing starting with discovery and production of therapeutics and materials, and eventually chip fab.It’s ambitious and less crazy than it sounds, given they've brought folks from @Spac…
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George is known as the Founding Father of Genomics and the Father of Synthetic Biology. He’s a biology wizard, with interests ranging from sequencing DNA to organ transplantation, in applications as wide-ranging as resurrecting wooly mammoths and dating apps.George became a Harvard medical school professor in 1986, and was one of the architects of …
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Matthias Meiner, Daniel Wiegand, Sebastian Born, and Patrick Nathen co-founded Lilium Aerospace in 2015 to transform transportation with EVTOL planes. Since then, they've grown to 800 people, raised almost a billion dollars, and shipped over 10 flying prototypes, iterating far faster than a traditional aerospace program. On the show, Matthias share…
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Calvin, Peter, Ilya, and Ian built the prototype that became Segment in Dec 2012, after 24 months of trying different ideas and spending $500k. Eight years later, @Twilio acquired Segment for $3.2B. Segment now helps 25,000 companies get customer data into >800 different tools to analyze it. They process roughly a trillion API calls per month. Hear…
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John and Ryan McLinko started Astranis in 2015. Both had spent time in traditional aerospace, and they were excited to build a company that would deliver internet to billions of people, at a pace that would make traditional companies blush. Astranis is now a company worth more than $1B and is gearing up for deployments that will deliver internet to…
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Chris and Hamish McKenzie started Substack in 2017, after Chris wrote a manifesto on everything wrong with the internet. They’ve connected thousands of writers to more than a million paid subscribers. Substack is now a global brand, and so popular that we’ve heard folks say “I saw it on a Substack” when referring to a non-substack email newsletter.…
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Fifty Years is launching SPEED, a show about leaders who move fast! We started this show to bring the fastest strategies and tactics to bear on the world's biggest problems! Episode #2 is with Erik Schluntz of Cobalt Robotics. Erik and his cofounder Travis started in 2016, on a quest to bring useful robots into human spaces, fast. They went from no…
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Fifty Years is launching SPEED, a show about leaders who move fast! We started this show to bring the fastest strategies and tactics to bear on the world's biggest problems! Episode #1 is with Deepika Bodapati of Athelas. Deepika and her cofounder Tanay started in 2016, college dropouts wanting to bring cheap blood tests to everyone. They’ve helped…
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