Weekly Recap, May 16th - May 22nd 2022

Hiya! Any dreams come true last week?

You know the drill peeps: all my LinkedIn posts for the week, plus a few extras.

Ready? Because here it comes!

The impression the competitive advantage slide gives in most pitch decks. ??

Despite what many Europeans seem to think (and use as an excuse as to why European universities do so badly at tech transfer), the majority of US university R&D funding comes from government. ??

“Wealthy families, especially those whose fortunes are not from tech, have a mixed history investing in start-ups. For every Uber there is at least one Theranos”. ??

Top 25 US universities for tech transfer as ranked by?Heartland Forward. ??

Immigrants are essential to deep tech success. Countries should be focused on winning the brain gain game. ??

The S&P ESG Index including Exxon Mobil but not Tesla tells you pretty much all you need to know about ESG. ??

"High-growth companies grow quadratically, not exponentially." ??

"Please reassess your beliefs on a monthly basis to make sure you don’t drive your company off a cliff". ??

One of the nice things about European deep tech is it's pretty much always cheap. ???? ??

Dylan Thomas said it better than any VC ever could. ??

"I accept this insanely great offer !!!" ???? This offer from Steve Jobs to a product manager candidate at NeXT way back in 1989 is better than many current PM offers from venture-backed companies in Europe. ??

Douglas Leone's message to Sequoia portfolio companies in the early days of the dot-com crash (Nasdaq peaked on March 10th 2000, this email is from April 17th 2000). ??

Europe is sitting on a goldmine of deep tech potential...but it still doesn't know how to access it. ???????

Now, some extras:

A New Orleans tradition for the live music this week, with musicians leading a second line to honor the late Ellis Marsalis:

A high school paper on Niels Bohr gets Rickrolled:

Rise of available calories in the food supply by continent:

Price of lithium increased 7x+ in a bit over a year:

Birth rates of Indian states:

And there it was!

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Have an amazing week!

MJ.