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Matt Krisiloff

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10 months

As an original member of @OpenAI Nonprofit's founding team, I think the rest of the board should resign. Regardless of the details, the way today has been handled is such a disgrace.

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Matt Krisiloff

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3 years

'Science Startups - Who's Hiring?' A lot of scientists have a hard time finding cool startup opportunities. Trying an experiment to help. Science startups -- reply with 1 tweet on your mission, roles looking for, and how to learn more. Everyone -- RT so more scientists see!

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Matt Krisiloff

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4 years

Starting a fellowship program for early career scientists that want to start companies -- funding up to $400,000 along with mentorship from founders building science companies. Please RT so scientists can see!

SciFounders - Helping science companies get started

scifounders.com

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

I learned yesterday there are four different teams making serious attempts to form artificial womb startups. Very cool times!

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

9 months

The charter for @OpenAI says "their primary fiduciary responsibility is to humanity." It's time for the board to listen to humanity and resign. As a founding member of OpenAI, I'm calling to please sign and share/RT this petition asking for resignation.

Sign the Petition

Call for the Resignation of the Board of OpenAI

www.change.org

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Opening a second round of applications for SciFounder Fellowship, a program to help scientists start companies. Teams receive $400,000 along with mentorship from founders building science companies. Please RT so scientists see!

SciFounders - Helping science companies get started

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Matt Krisiloff

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3 years

Ginkgo Bioworks was started by graduate students, and 12 years later is still led by those same graduate students. Scientists, know you can start and lead transformational companies too.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

10 months

If the last 24 hours is how @OpenAI 's board communicates, I have no confidence they would act appropriately in a situation of emergency AI safety. Unless evidence is shared that negligence was about to result in immediate societal harm, OpenAI's board needs to resign now.

Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

10 months

As an original member of @OpenAI Nonprofit's founding team, I think the rest of the board should resign. Regardless of the details, the way today has been handled is such a disgrace.

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Matt Krisiloff

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10 months

I always tell people Sam and Greg were the two people in my career I learned the most from. They are incredible operators, and I can’t imagine OpenAI will be nearly as effective without them. I don’t know what actually happened, but this all feels very unfair.

Greg Brockman

@gdb

10 months

After learning today’s news, this is the message I sent to the OpenAI team:

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Announcing SciFounder Capital -- a new funding source to keep scientist founders in control of their companies. We're giving the voting rights from our investments to the founders -- this will help keep startups mission-focused on science. Please share!

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

4 years

We received 371 applications for Sci-Founder Fellowship. Reading through the apps feels inspiring -- almost every scientist wants to start a company that could save people's lives.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

'Science Startups, Who's Hiring?' (June) Last month I made a thread to help scientists / others find cool roles at startups. Seemed helpful, so doing again! Science startups -- reply with 1 tweet on your mission + open roles. Everyone -- please RT so more people see! (🧵 1/2)

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

1 year

These five 🐭 pups, two dads each. Born just from cells from male mice. I hope one day soon it works for everyone. 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

I find that lot of the best scientists do not have PhDs. They often instead went into industry after college and learned excellent bench skills / critical thinking in a team-oriented setting. Companies should look out for these people and promote them -- they are strong assets.

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Matt Krisiloff

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3 years

I wrote a post on why more scientists should consider starting companies. Companies have two big advantages that make it easier to pursue many kinds of research.

Scientists Should Start Companies

It seems amongst many scientists that the idea of starting a company is still looked down upon. Many seem to imagine companies as entities for which one must give up their principles and the possib…

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Matt Krisiloff

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1 year

The New Yorker spent a couple days with Conception and wrote about our company in depth:

The Future of Fertility

A new crop of biotech startups want to revolutionize human reproduction.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

We're hiring for many roles at Conception, where we're working on turning stem cells into human eggs. If developed safely, this technology could be a very big deal:

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Interested in working at a cool science startup? We've put together a list of science startups that are currently hiring with great opportunities.

Science Startups, Who's Hiring? (Spring 2022) | Notion

This is a list of science startups that are hiring to help people find jobs at very cool companies. Please share with your networks!

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Talked with @tszzl about making eggs from stem cells, the starting days of OpenAI, and helping scientists start companies

Matt Krisiloff & Roon on Turning Stem Cells into Human Eggs, Longevity, OpenAI, AI's Role in...

Episode · Tomorrow Talk · In this episode, special guest host Roon sits down with Matt Krisiloff, the founder of Conception and SciFounders. The pair discuss Conception's work with in vitro gametog...

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Also, started a program called Sci-Founder Fellowship to help early career scientists start companies. We give $400,000 + mentorship to scientists to help them get started. If have an idea for a company, check out .

SciFounders - Helping science companies get started

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

At Ovid Research we're working on turning pluripotent stem cells into human eggs for fertility purposes. This could allow women to have children into their 40's and 50's, and potentially allow gay couples to have biological children of their own.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Postdocs-- I don't think enough of you realize you can 2x or more your salary by taking a job in industry. You don't have to give up on meaningful work -- there are many companies pursuing inspiring research. You deserve a respectful wage now -- not just in the future.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

We're taking applications again for SciFounder Fellowship and now making applications always open and rolling! Scientists can apply any time at for $400,000 + mentorship from science founders to help start a startup. Please share so scientists see!

SciFounders - Helping science companies get started

scifounders.com

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

4 years

The hope is to inspire more scientists to start companies-- the right scientist can become a great founder, and companies are often the most effective way to develop research that can improve or save people's lives.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

It's a good time for industry scientists to start startups. Most startups seem to be started by academic scientists, but industry scientists should take the idea of starting a company more seriously. 🧵

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Human embryos will be made from blood samples by the thousands in our lifetimes. These will be screened for genetic disease risk, some even edited. Odds for future generations to have cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease and more may be dramatically reduced.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

11 months

Sending a cold email has been the start for almost every important career event in my life. (And for meeting my boyfriend too!)

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Why are the vaccines not being reformulated and approved for new variants much faster? Is moving quickly with short trials really that big of a risk given the base versions are so safe?

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Opening a new round of SciFounder Fellowship! If you're a scientist looking to start a company, we'll give you $400,000 + mentorship on how to get started. Deadline to apply is December 15th.

SciFounder Fellowship - SciFounders

scifounders.com

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

4 months

I feel like people in biotech can sometimes be more casually judgmental of each other's companies for trivial reasons. Worth staying positive! - everyone's working on hard/important things, and it can be unclear from the outside how things are progressing given long timelines.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

This will be true for scientist-led companies too!

 Q-Cap 

@qcapital2020

3 years

Founder-led Stocks > Non Founder-led Source: Bain & Company

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

7 years

Want to fund scientists trying to engineer embryos/gametes from stem cells. Please email if know people! matt @ycombinator .com

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

1 year

Celebrated @Conception 's office warming last week with our remote team flying in too. I'm so excited for this year 🙂🥚🥚🥚

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Matt Krisiloff

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1 year

We've gotten very close to generating human eggs from stem cells! Rob Stein from NPR came to @Conception to learn about our process.

Biomedical startups are racing to revolutionize the way humans reproduce

Companies are racing to accelerate and commercialize in-vitro gametogenesis, or IVG, which would make human eggs and sperm in the lab from any cell in the body containing anyone's DNA.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

4 years

The deadline to apply for Sci-Founder Fellowship is next Friday! If you're a scientist, get $250,000 or $400,000 along with mentorship from founders building science companies to start your own company.

SciFounders - Helping science companies get started

scifounders.com

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

The custom where startups pay the VC's legal bills for a round closing is so stupid!

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

We should make a world where hiring high skilled immigrants takes 2 weeks from hire offer to 🇺🇸 immigration approval. Disgusting on so many fronts that we have to turn away super qualified scientists and engineers just because getting a visa is hard.

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Matt Krisiloff

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4 years

Five Reasons Scientists Should Consider Starting Companies

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

Scientists at startups should care more about equity. Most scientists don't fully see the value of owning shares. That sucks for them, and it sucks for the startups they're at too. I wrote a post on this, and I hope we can change this.

Scientists Should Care More About Equity

One of the biggest differences between the software startup world (where I used to spend most of my time) and the science startup world is how little most scientists seem to value company equity. I…

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Matt Krisiloff

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9 months

I'm grateful humanity is in an era where many of the most ambitious fight over things like how to build AI, not feudal war or territorial conquest.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

It feels like those who have come into crypto wealth are more interested than most in using their wealth to fund scientific progress. Would love to find a way to know who are the many crypto millionaires and billionaires that fit this mold.

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Matt Krisiloff

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3 years

Figuring out how to divide up equity for scientists starting a company is often complex - I wrote some thoughts.

Equity for Scientists Starting Companies

Earlier this year, my teammates and I interviewed over 100 teams for the first cohort of SciFounder Fellowship, and by far the most frequent issues we noticed were problematic equity splits amongst…

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

4 years

Today at end of day is the deadline for applying for Sci-Founder Fellowship ($250-400k + mentorship for scientists that want to start companies). If you want to apply and need more time, please email hello @sci -founder.com

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

We just hired our 27th scientist at @Conception , and we want to bring on a few more! Especially looking for people with stem cell differentiation backgrounds -- come work with us to generate new viable human eggs.

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Matt Krisiloff

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10 months

@deanbphillips Thanks for giving this a shot - feels important to have an open conversation.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

It is so crazy how hard we make it for high skilled international people to get work visas in the US. Who is working seriously to reform this?

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

New @Conception lab building coming together nicely! It will meaningfully expand our research capabilities - ready in September.

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Matt Krisiloff

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3 years

Startups are excellent career opportunities for scientists -- glad @Nature is covering in greater depth.

Start-ups create career opportunities for scientists

Nature - As companies compete for talent, a candidate’s attitude can matter more than their credentials.

www.nature.com

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Matt Krisiloff

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1 year

Pursuing AI that exceeds human intelligence prompts a sobering thought: Will there be pressure to use genetic engineering and selection to help humans keep pace with AI? The moral challenges would be so tough to navigate.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

9 years

Almost done reviewing YCF apps! Excited to send out interview invites tomorrow 😀

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Most investors seem to look at medical devices as more boring than therapeutics. I predict medical devices that combine software will become highly profitable, and after this economic cycle, become a new cool thing.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Yesterday my neighbor's bike was stolen out of our garage. Today my friend's car was broken into while we were at lunch. San Francisco is getting ridiculous :(

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

What are areas of life science research that will have a big impact one day but few people currently realize it?

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

The deadline for SciFounder Fellowship applications is August 15! For fledgling science companies, get $400k + mentorship from experienced science founders to help you get started.

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Matt Krisiloff

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1 year

Shout out to @LauraDeming , @sama , and Metaplanet for being great investors to Conception during the SVB crisis. All proactively offered financial support to help get us through it if we had needed it. They are investors you want on your cap table.

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

Science startups should think of recruiting as an operational expense just like anything else. It's worth spending money to find really excellent people.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Medical devices are still vastly underestimated in their startup potential. That is still a 'secret' where investors can make a massive return.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

1 year

Many ambitious people I know work a lot less now, which also is inspiring their friends to want to do the same. Worried our culture may be losing some drive to pursue difficult things.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

We're looking to hire a Scientist with iPSC differentiation experience at @Conception This role will work on making viable eggs from XY cell lines, demonstrating same-sex couples could have biological children together. Get in-touch if any interest!

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

The average SciFounder Fellowship application this cycle feels stronger than in previous cycles. It's clear a lot of strong scientists are increasingly planning to start their own companies.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Young scientists should start companies if they want funding.

Patrick Collison

@patrickc

2 years

Movies left, NIH right. 🤔 (From .)

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Matt Krisiloff

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11 months

Since getting a puppy, it's become easy for me to imagine how a pig, cow, or sheep could become a loving member of my family. So I'm trying to stop eating mammals! Hope I keep it up. 🐶🐮🐷🐑

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

So many of the good events in my life have come from reaching out to people cold - job at Y Combinator, finding a co-founder, even meeting my boyfriend @CRISPR_LuCas . Do have a specific reason for it, but don't be afraid to reach out to people you don't know!

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

9 years

Please don't get down if you don't get an interview. It's not the metric of success. Start your startup, keep going.

Sam Altman

@sama

9 years

We will continue to scale up YC, but for now, we're going to have to turn down a huge number of promising cos due to our own constraints :(

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Definitely agree with @sethbannon Contrary to common belief, a lot of the times research intensive companies don't need business people for quite some time.

Seth Bannon 🥥

@sethbannon

2 years

Too many "accelerators" push PhD founders to team up with MBAs they just met as co-founders. Much better to co-found a company with someone you've known for a long time or worked with before. And all-PhD founding teams work perfectly well! No MBAs needed!

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Matt Krisiloff

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1 year

Incredible work from @KHAYASHILAB1 making viable eggs from male mice - gay couples could have kids this way. Dr. Hayashi predicts scientists will have proof of concept for this in human 'in the next 10 years.' I think it'll be a lot faster than that!

Scientists create mice with two fathers after making eggs from male cells

Creation of mammal with two biological fathers could pave way for new fertility treatments in humans

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

This is a good primer to what we're doing at @Conception

IVG: 10 years until the end of infertility | Just Might Work

“In a 50 year timeframe this could become the default way that people choose to have children.”Subscribe to Freethink on YouTube ► https://freeth.ink/youtube...

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

1 year

After spending a week in Japan I think there's potential for many more strong 🇯🇵startups - people there work extremely hard.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

9 years

Less than an hour left to apply to YC Fellowship. Get your application in.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Hard tech fundraising is definitely getting harder in the current environment. @SciFounders is still actively funding companies -- if you are working on a science company and need funding, please reach out. We would love to try and help.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

4 years

The deadline to apply for Sci-Founder Fellowship is coming up this Friday! If you're a scientist, get $250,000 or $400,000 along with mentorship from life science founders to help you start a company --

SciFounders - Helping science companies get started

scifounders.com

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

The deadline to apply for SciFounder Fellowship is this Sunday! The program is to help scientists start companies. Teams receive $400,000 along with mentorship from founders building science companies. You can apply with nothing more than an idea.

SciFounders - Helping science companies get started

scifounders.com

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

We're starting a Fellows program at Ovid -- we will teach experienced biologists from other fields on how to work with pluripotent stem cells. Come work for 1-2 years on our research to turn iPSCs into egg cells. Learn highly valuable, in-demand skills.

Stem Cell Fellow at Ovid Research

Position: Stem Cell Fellow Location: Berkeley, CA, United States Ovid Research is offering a 1 year Fellowship position, with option of 1 year extension, to train experienced biologists on working...

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Matt Krisiloff

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3 years

The deadline to apply for SciFounder Fellowship is two weeks away! If you’re a scientist, consider applying for $400k + mentorship from founders that have started science companies.

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

Founders doing fundraising should be extremely paranoid until money is wired. You should constantly plot on how to keep the ball moving. Many early founders treat bits of positive momentum too passively, and that can be the difference between a successful or failed raise.

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Matt Krisiloff

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1 year

I keep hearing about major tech layoffs continuing left and right. Dealmaking is in sharp decline - high interest rates hurt startups more. Silicon Valley is in a recession.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

We're hiring a Stem Cell Differentiation Scientist and a Senior Research Associate at Ovid Research. Our mission is to turn stem cells into viable human eggs for fertility purposes. It's a fascinating research problem, and we're making rapid progress.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Over 80 startups participating in this thread -- a lot of non-scientist roles needed at these companies too. If you want to explore working at a super impactful science company, take a look at this thread.

Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

'Science Startups - Who's Hiring?' A lot of scientists have a hard time finding cool startup opportunities. Trying an experiment to help. Science startups -- reply with 1 tweet on your mission, roles looking for, and how to learn more. Everyone -- RT so more scientists see!

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Matt Krisiloff

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9 years

YCF interview decisions will be released today by 1159 pacific daylight time. It will likely be sooner.

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Matt Krisiloff

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9 months

Never work with mercenaries - only work with people that are there for the mission.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

A lot of fun at our @Conception retreat in Napa this weekend! We have a lot of role openings still which can be checked out at -- come join one of the best scientific startup teams that exist.

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Matt Krisiloff

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3 years

Really awesome thing YC did that will help more research intensive companies get started! So great to see this.

Ethan Perlstein bio/acc

@eperlste

3 years

The new YC $500,000 Standard Deal will be a boon for biotech company formation. Can’t wait for future of 100+ bio newcos per batch! I’d have done unspeakable things to get uncapped MFN terms back in the day (2016). These are the new rules for seed stage

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Matt Krisiloff

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Scientists -- do you find it hard to find interesting job opportunities? If so, why?

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

No more journal paywalls for federally funded research!!

OSTP Issues Guidance to Make Federally Funded Research Freely Available Without Delay | OSTP | The...

Today, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) updated U.S. policy guidance to make the results of taxpayer-supported research immediately available to the American public at...

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

*New* Scientists / others looking for roles -- fill out this form, and I will share responses with startups that reply on the thread. (Startups, DM me an email address so I can send a spreadsheet) Please do RT the top thread so more ppl can see! (🧵2/2)

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

@srikosuri You don't think there's a version where this could be done well? I could imagine it being a really great learning experience under the right circumstance (definitely wrong ones too...)

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Cool that ex-OpenAI folks tend to start companies creating important technologies, not just maximizing for making money!

OpenAI Is Making Headlines. It’s Also Seeding Talent Across Silicon Valley

OpenAI has just 375 full-time employees, but its buzzy chatbot, ChatGPT, is shaking up Silicon Valley. The company’s influence extends even further, through former employees who are now in top...

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Interested in working at a science startup? Fill out the form in this tweet! Answers will be shared tomorrow with close to 30 very cool science companies.

Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

*New* Scientists / others looking for roles -- fill out this form, and I will share responses with startups that reply on the thread. (Startups, DM me an email address so I can send a spreadsheet) Please do RT the top thread so more ppl can see! (🧵2/2)

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Matt Krisiloff

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1 year

Perhaps the recession will make it easier for the best startups to rise to the top. When things revert, those that survive might have less competition for team building and capital. The generational startups, not the incremental ones, would be the clear companies that matter.

Matt Krisiloff

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I keep hearing about major tech layoffs continuing left and right. Dealmaking is in sharp decline - high interest rates hurt startups more. Silicon Valley is in a recession.

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Matt Krisiloff

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2 years

Stem cell eggs and sperm will happen a lot lot faster than this

Jordan Chase-Young

@jachaseyoung

2 years

2028: >100 people with stem-cell-regenerated teeth, tooth enamel, or root canals 2029: >125 gene-edited babies 2030: Commercial supersonic flights return 2031: First eggs and sperm made from stem cells 2032: U.S. student-loan bubble pops 2035: First "strong" AGI

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3 years

20 groups have reached out since Friday -- seeing some great scientist-led teams! Keep reaching out if we can be of help.

Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Announcing SciFounder Capital -- a new funding source to keep scientist founders in control of their companies. We're giving the voting rights from our investments to the founders -- this will help keep startups mission-focused on science. Please share!

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

9 years

Reminder: the application deadline for running YC Research's basic income study is next Monday.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

4 years

Are you a scientist with a question about starting a company? Please ask, I’m happy to help.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

8 years

We're hiring a Research Manager for the YC basic income study -- see here:

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

6 years

More 'non-technical' people should start companies with scientists -- a lot of scientific work is people coordination and logistics; there's a lot to do there to make research go faster.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

One of the most valuable things I learned working at Y Combinator is how to do a 10 minute candidate interview. I still interview most job applicants this way-- it lets me meet way more people, it's still very information rich, and if upfront about the length, people don't mind.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

Many recent college grads pursuing life science careers have been very hurt by Covid -- a lot missed out their chance to learn how to operate in a laboratory. Any ideas to help them catch up?

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Valuable single product medical device companies: Intuitive Surgical: $93 billion market cap Dexcom: $44 billion Insulet: $20 billion

Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

2 years

Medical devices are still vastly underestimated in their startup potential. That is still a 'secret' where investors can make a massive return.

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Matt Krisiloff

@mattkrisiloff

3 years

The hope is to inspire more scientists to start and lead their own companies -- companies can be great vectors for pursuing important research, and more scientists can make for great leaders than currently try. We have so far funded 5 teams, and would love to fund many more.

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