Weekly Recap, February 14th-20th 2022

Evening! Create anything this week? The seventh instalment of my LinkedIn newsletter is now live. Here's the format: it's all my LinkedIn posts for the week...plus a few extras for shits and giggles.

Ready? Because here it comes!

I would say this is true, or close to true, for most of the best early-stage investors I know. ??

“IVF remains not only expensive (a full treatment typically costs up to ￡50k) but also dismally ineffective, with a success rate of merely 25%”. ??

So this isn’t venture capital, deep tech, or startup related. It just made me smile. ?? ?? ?? ?? ??

Great thread from?Ed Conway?on the battery industry, synthetic graphite, cathodes being sexier than anodes, and how a lot of "green" tech is made with fossil fuels. Definitely give it a read . ??

Employees "now have a real loan outstanding and 100% personal recourse" . ?? ?? Suuuuuch a bad idea.

"Accelerated markups mean the venture J-curve no longer exists." ?? ??

"Our ambition to make the EIC Europe's unicorn factory." ?? ?? ????♂?

“An increasing number of companies in the techbio space are starting without any inherent defensibility…this new breed of bio companies applies engineering principles to bio-based product development.” ?? ?? ?? ?? ?? ??????

This is brilliant. So much of academia is designed to be exploitative, but perhaps no part more so than academic publishing . ??

“Receiving almost $4 billion in investment, LBS alumni eclipsed the total amount raised by Switzerland ($3bn) and Portugal ($600m)” . ????

This is as good of an explanation as to what entrepreneurs get from a VC in the early-stages as you'll find. Ideally a startup should get improved odds of success from a VC . ??

Seriously odd take for a historian. Early aviation was pushed by the private sector and included many rich thrill seekers who helped the industry rapidly evolve . ?? ?? ?? ?? ??

This is so much of tech Twitter lately...and in the end it's the little guys with the knives who lose . ??

“The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry. A single data center can consume the equivalent electricity of 50,000 homes.” ??

Now time for some extras!

The 'live' music from this week's issue has got to be the Super Bowl halftime show. ??

Since school reforms were enacted in France the number of girls studying maths has plummeted ?? ??:

Changes in real wages in OECD countries:

Wordpress and jazz ??:

New home construction in the US (1.543 million single and multi-family units) is the highest since 1973 ??:

94% of Parisians live less than a 5 minutes walk from a bakery ??:

Umberto Eco on what it means to be an intellectual:

Natural snow compared to artificial snow ??:

In the US, like in most of the rest of the world, the empty places got emptier:

If you too want to create very awkward photo opportunities when hosting guests:

And there it was!

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Have an amazing week!

MJ.