Make something civilization needs.

"You can't build nuclear quickly" Built our first 10 MW-scale reactor and facility from bare dirt in 5 months. "You can't build nuclear affordably" Only spent $70M in our company history. Includes our real reactor & facility, fuel, prototypes, factory & equipment, payroll, regulatory costs, etc. "You can't build small nuclear at scale" 🔜 About to build out our 1,000,000 sqft factory space. More to come.

Another day another slickly produced video announcing another massive round, often for things that shouldn't exist. "Prediction markets" that are really just online casinos. AI fake-influencer startups built to deceive people. Can't we do better?

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i think i solved it. Physics PhD, sci-fi writer, AI founder, now a biotech CEO trying to save the world? @hannu must be superhero from a Marvel universe coming to help us out. listen to @ashleevance's pod with Hannu and ponder: 1. How can we be better "parents" to the world we're creating? (inclusing AIs) 2. How ready is your country for the biothreats to come? (you can guess the answer) 3. How is so much intelligence and wisdom concentrated in one person?

You should work on problems where being right actually matters

can’t we do better? @fiftyyears for storytelling that moves.

Can’t we do better? A compelling short video from @fiftyyears that gave me goosebumps about what it means to create value in the world.

This is very cool! Good stuff, @fiftyyears.

Why did we make a short film? Storytelling is everywhere in tech. Slickly produced videos with A24 quality aesthetics announcing yet another massive round. Carefully crafted narratives designed to make companies feel inevitable. Increasingly, these videos are being used to sell things that just don't matter. Or worse, shouldn't exist. "Prediction markets" that are really just online casinos. AI fake-influencer startups built to deceive people. What civilization really needs are cures for disease, abundant clean energy, new scientific tools, and technologies that genuinely expand human capability. To achieve that, we need a different type of ambition. This film is our response. The opening satirical sequence leans heavily on generative AI and VFX in the polished style of the startup videos it parodies. The rest of the film moves in the opposite direction: single-camera, shot on location with vintage lenses, real actors in natural light. We hope you enjoy it.

barring the fact that i do really need a better calendar app, love what @fiftyyears is doing

Every technological breakthrough begins with someone sitting quietly in a room, ignoring the noise, wrapping their mind around a future state. And then getting out to make that future a reality. We need to frame more stories around the problems worth solving.

*breathes fresh air*

THIS IS SO DOPE. SO FIRED UP.

I’m inspired by this piece, and I feel seen. When I look around SF, I see too few smart people working on truly world changing projects. We need more.

50 Years is one of the best, most principled VCs out there. It's cool to see they have distilled their philosophy of actually doing worthwhile work into a beautiful short film.

Silicon Valley needs better stories Not the glossy packaging of Yet Another Fundraise, but stories that build mythology around a better future. What we choose to tell shapes what we believe, what we build, and what gets rewarded.

I love this. Build things that matter. Invest in things that matter.

Watch a little something we shot in a 4-week sprint to kick off our storytelling efforts at @fiftyyears. Sexy founder cameos by @Gedmark of @Astranis @Caleb_C_Boyd & @kevinabush of @Molten_Ind and @ladanuzhna

This is very cool, well done @fiftyyears squad

Can't we do better? First short film from @fiftyyears.