Matthew Ocko
Venture capitalist (@DCVC). Technologist. Husband-ist. Dad-ist. Friend-ist. Real wood fires, evenings w/ good food, wine & friends, & neat sci-fi. ♥ != endorse
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Calculating Trajectories and Breaking Boundaries During Apollo
In the late 1960s, Poppy Northcutt was a return-to-Earth specialist with TRW, working on a contract with NASA on one of the most exciting adventures of the 20th century: humanity’s quest for the Moon. With computer programming skills and a degree in...
As seas rise, your coastal home in Florida could lose value. One report says 15% by 2030
Increasing sea rise is going to water down the value of some of the most coveted and expensive real estate in Florida, and insurance rates will go up too.
Matthew Ocko
The value of climate risk intelligence from 3 days from now to 30 years in the future, from @DCVC co @JupiterIntel :
many 10s of $B of FL mortgages aren't worth the paper they're on, will never deliver to investors who hold securities dependent on them
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Bricks Alive! Scientists Create Living Concrete
‘A Frankenstein material’ teeming with — and ultimately made by — photosynthetic microbes. And it can reproduce.
Matthew Ocko
Another example of great @Darpa driven innovation:
Scientists Create Living Concrete
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Microsoft will be carbon negative by 2030
The scientific consensus is clear. The world confronts an urgent carbon problem. The carbon in our atmosphere has created a blanket of gas that traps heat and is changing the world’s climate. Already, the planet’s temperature has risen by 1 degree...
EQRx's Challenge, And My Challenge to Them
It's time to talk about a new venture called EQRx. This has made quite a splash in the last few days at the JP Morgan investor conference, and it's been launched by Alexis Borisy (involved with founding and/or helping run CombinatoRx, Foundation,...
Atomwise and EQRx: Two Contrasting Strategies for the R&D Inefficiency Problem - TimmermanReport.com
Pharma innovation expert Bernard Munos captures the inherent inefficiency of drug development with two fascinating statistics he recently shared with me. First, for large pharmas, the average cost of developing a new drug (simply based on the total...
Obvious Ventures closes an irrationally sized third fund
Obvious Ventures, the firm co-founded by Medium CEO and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, announced today that it has closed its third fund, “OV3,” at $271,828,182, a number that the graphing calculator-owning among us may recognize as e or Euler’s...
Matthew Ocko
Congrats to our friends at @obviousvc on loading up to...
...*Euler* 😉 the wheels of innovation...
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Cc @jamesjoaquin @nanli
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2019 Let's Do Video Readers’ Choice Awards: Zoom Named Best Cloud Software Videoconferencing Service for 5th Straight Year
Zoom earned LDV's Readers’ Choice Awards for best cloud software videoconferencing service, video room service & new business communication product.
No, Japanese children are not healthier because vaccines are not mandatory in their country
An article shared thousands of times on Facebook claims that Japan “has the healthiest children on the planet” because vaccination is not mandatory in their country. This is false. Children in Japan are particularly healthy by international...
Russians Hacked Ukrainian Gas Company at Center of Impeachment
The timing and scale of the attacks suggest the Russians may be looking for the same kind of damaging information on Joe Biden that President Trump wanted from Ukraine, security experts say.
Matthew Ocko
Detecting - and stopping - the cyber-attacks of rogue states like Russia on democracies is critical
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@DCVC co @Area1Security plays a critical role here, which is why three dozen candidates for Federal office use it, including all Presidential candidates
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Your browser does not support the video tag. Unparalleled Innovation. Real collaboration. When was the last time you got excited about your job? At Omniome, you'll feel the energy the moment you walk in the door. We're a team of scientists and...
Matthew Ocko
Delighted to see breakthrough single-cell diagnostics co bit.ly/2NneR7f raise $60m from our friends at ARCH and other leading biotech investors.
@DCVC co-led the seed and has supported the company for a long time
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Ramanujan’s First Letter to G.H. Hardy
On or about the 31st of January, 1913 mathematician G.H. Hardy of Trinity College at Cambridge University received a parcel of papers from…
There Are Too Many Lidar Companies. They Can't All Survive
A few years ago, scores of startups promised to build the hardware that grants self-driving cars the gift of sight. Now comes the shakeout.
Neil Peart, Rush Drummer Who Set a New Standard for Rock Virtuosity, Dead at 67
Hall of Fame drummer succumbs to brain cancer
Matthew Ocko
RIP Neil Peart, one of the greatest drummers who ever lived, the intensely humane autodidact at the heart of one of the greatest rock and roll bands ever (Rush, of course...)
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Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right
A new evaluation of global climate models used to project Earth's future global average surface temperature finds that most have been quite accurate.
'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession
Bees are essential to the functioning of America’s titanic almond industry – and billions are dying in the process
Matthew Ocko
Like many "artisanal", purportedly "clean" food/health fetishes, almond milk in reality has its roots in a heavily chemical dependent, large-scale industrial ag milieu -- that happens to decimate America's bee populations in the process.
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Adapting to warmer and wetter conditions
Midwestern farmers could see warmer and wetter conditions in the coming years. Beth Hall, director of the Indiana State Climate Office, says growers should think ahead and make decisions to prepare for these extremes. “So what happens the next time...
Commentary: Pharma Needs to Stop Chasing Shiny Objects and Start Embracing Practical Technology
Commentary: Pharmaceutical companies have lagged in adopting new technology and digitizing, writes Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson.
Matt Ocko on LinkedIn: #WeAreLilly #robotics #science
Today we’re unveiling a new robotic laboratory in San Diego, designed to accelerate the drug discovery process. The Lilly Life Sciences Studio lab expands...
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Matthew Ocko
Our @lillypad friends created an ingenious *building-scale robot fabric* to accelerate bio research+drug discovery — powered by @dcvc co @StrateosLab, it can enable end 2 end lights-out automation from intuition to chemistry & validation for early clinical
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Those big wildfires in Australia look familiar - they're much like California's
The disastrous bush fires in Australia are being driven by high temperatures, low humidity, strong winds and a lingering drought, just like the catastrophic wildfires that plagued California, and climate scientists are saying it could be a taste of...