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Inside the lab engineering a future without cancer deaths.
Tomorrow: @numenbio with @luca_springer.
TQ Ventures retweeted
Building @numenbio with @_tom_dot_com to engineer a future without cancer deaths. Find out more below in an interview with our partners at @TQVentures!
A cancer test that runs inside a cup. Taken at home, with results sent to your doctor in 30 minutes. Built in a San Francisco lab by a team that started in a shipping container.
What it actually takes to build it:
“If we spend ten, 20, 30, 40 years working on this, that’s okay. The outcome will be worth it.”
@luca_springer, co-founder and CEO of @numenbio
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome to Numen
00:56 Why catch cancer early
01:24 The first lab was a shipping container
02:28 What the data unlocks next
03:23 National team MVP to founder
04:13 Why bladder cancer first
05:33 The candle prototype
06:25 Meet Atlas, a lab in a cup
06:55 NASA engineers under one roof
07:32 The Viennese café
08:08 Pipette pong
08:46 From the dungeon to Golden Gate Park
09:28 The only milestone that matters
09:59 40 years on one problem
A cancer test that runs inside a cup. Taken at home, with results sent to your doctor in 30 minutes. Built in a San Francisco lab by a team that started in a shipping container.
What it actually takes to build it:
“If we spend ten, 20, 30, 40 years working on this, that’s okay. The outcome will be worth it.”
@luca_springer, co-founder and CEO of @numenbio
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome to Numen
00:56 Why catch cancer early
01:24 The first lab was a shipping container
02:28 What the data unlocks next
03:23 National team MVP to founder
04:13 Why bladder cancer first
05:33 The candle prototype
06:25 Meet Atlas, a lab in a cup
06:55 NASA engineers under one roof
07:32 The Viennese café
08:08 Pipette pong
08:46 From the dungeon to Golden Gate Park
09:28 The only milestone that matters
09:59 40 years on one problem
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(Schuster asked @DavidZagaynov if building the world’s largest cargo drone ever gets lonely. His answer starts with Jensen Huang and ends with eating glass.)
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“Perhaps my own version of teenage rebellion was, ‘Hey, I don’t do anything with farming whatsoever.’ And then was like, ‘Hey, robotics is cool.’”
Augmodo founder @rossfinman grew up on a 1,200-acre llama farm in Idaho, building robots out of coat hangers and tuna cans. Now he’s building the engine for capturing egocentric data at @Augmodo.
“Save you time, save you money” is table stakes, says @nomadicai co-founder @mstf1bl. The pitch that wins is helping customers do something they couldn’t do before.
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Physical AI can’t just download the internet.
@Augmodo founder @rossfinman explains why the data inside stores, warehouses, and factories has to be collected by the people working there, and why customers need a reason to agree to it:
“You’re providing an ROI today, which then gets more usage, which then gets more data, which then gets a bigger ROI.”
Nomadic’s @mstf1bl reveals how a 15-board chess simul from cofounder @varunthekrish, an international master, and a table of baklava turned CVPR into business conversations:
“It makes quite the unique impression on people and they remember you, they talk about you and they start business conversations with you.”
@nomadicai
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To film @elliott__potter's House Calls episode, we needed a rooftop overlooking @Shipt. The parking attendant said no. Elliott talked her into letting us up.
That’s the founder of @thelinqapp in one scene. The rest of Birmingham is coming soon: his elementary school, the coffee shop where Linq started, the park where he ran during the pandemic, and the first home he shared with his wife.
Editing now. Subscribe so you know when it’s live.
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Poseidon’s @DavidZagaynov takes our co-founder Schuster Tanger inside Egret, the world’s largest cargo drone, where removing the pilot frees up the entire aircraft for cargo:
“This entire internal volume is usable for payload. So we’ll put walls and a proper roller floor on. But for initial test flights, it’ll look something like this.”
“This is where the cockpit would have been.”
Schuster: “It’s incredible how much space you save.”
David: “Space and weight.”
@poseidonaero
TQ Ventures retweeted
Our team has been tank testing a scale model of Heron, studying how its hull moves through the water and gathering data to inform the full-scale aircraft.
Each run is an opportunity to challenge assumptions, refine the design, and turn what we learn into better hardware.
Building the next generation of air logistics, one test at a time.
He raised a round, then called his dad to say he was leaving Stanford to build @architectlabs. His dad’s first question:
“What is this? Why would anyone ever give you money?”
The thread we see across great founders is an unshakable belief that they cannot be stopped. @axi_master skipped high school. Got a one-way ticket to Palo Alto at a young age. Forged his way into the chip world with no PhD.
Bravado alone doesn’t make a good business. There’s more to it. But the best founders come out swinging.
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“He makes you feel like, wow, there are very amazing smart people in this world and I’m not one of them.”
@nomadicai cofounder @mstf1bl on his cofounder @varunthekrish, an international master in chess ranked around 80th in the US:
“Varun himself is one who is able to think 40, 50 steps ahead of time.”
“He's not just thinking of what’s going to happen if we build this feature with these customers, but what sort of worlds can we make possible?”
“Varun and I really bonded over not just the various CS and ML classes we took, but very much the Bhangra and Raas dances we did at Harvard. In fact, in our company, we use cut versions of us dancing together to express emotions and surprise.”
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