thoughts of food

Meat grown from cells moves out of the lab

A very cool development in cultured meat. Still, lots of work to be done: “At least eight startups are building or operating pilot production plants to try to drive the price of production down. Cultured meat still costs $400 to […]

under the microscope

Send in the senolytics

“Despite early failures in the clinic, the idea of anti-aging therapies that purge the body of dying cells is gaining traction with a raft of startups now focused on senescence.” I was surprised to learn there’s a senolytic for skincare currently on […]

retail therapy

How Amazon wins

The WSJ is still salty at Amazon for using their advantages, as evidenced by the second part of the title: “by steamrolling rivals and partners.” Here’s the summary: “CEO Jeff Bezos still runs the e-commerce giant with the drive of […]

better doing

You’re only as good as your worst day

“Across the board, we tend to measure performance by what happens when things are going well. Yet how people, organizations, companies, leaders, and other things do on their best day isn’t all that instructive. To find the truth, we need […]

better doing

Buy don’t build

“Standing up and managing a service or building a custom service is a common desire for engineers. It’s usually a major mistake, that ends up costing a ton of time and money.” | learn more

tech, startups, internet

Liquidity for late stage startups

A post from Henry Ward of Carta on the launch of CartaX. “It is an odd artifact of history that private markets have zero liquidity, public markets have hyper-liquidity, and there is nothing in between.” | learn more