Simon Newstead 🔸
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Tech founder turned impact investor:
BetterBite.vc - Alt protein / climate VC in Asia
GoalsWon.com - accountability coaching app
How others can help me
Help with advice, support on any of the EA projects I'm working on
How I can help others
Any advice on entrepreneurship, seeking investment, building startups. Also free accountability coaching.
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This year's donations:
$7k to Eleos AI Research (digital minds)
$7k to a new initiative launching soon (digital minds)
$7k to Sentient Futures (animals and AI/digital minds)
$7k to Arthropoda Foundation (insect welfare research)
$5k to Compassion in Machine learning (animals and AI)
$1k to others (Good Ancestors, EAGx)
Feeling thankful was able to increase the amount from last year.
Big thanks for all the folks working on all these projects and the community at large for what you all do!
Love this Aaron... thanks for sharing!
Not sure if you've tried, but you might like http://astronaut.io/ for that feeling that feeling of shared humanity.
I think the peak of value could be around the 4-6 months mark.
Some examples of events I was involved in:
Agri-Food Innovation Summit:
June - first public look at speakers / program published
Aug - full agenda and all speakers confirmed
Nov - event
Food Frontier:
May - speakers and program announced
Oct - event
Too far out and it's hard to know what your priorities might be, lock-in risk etc.
Some questions from me:
Probability of blended meat options being introduced in X major restaurant chains by year Y
Level of government investment in alternative proteins by year X
Which precision fermentation / cultivated food ingredients will reach price parity of animal equivalents by year X
Submitting this question as a funder (early stage VC) that works in alt protein, and would influence areas to support and how to best help existing portfolio companies. Been working in this space for 5+ years and previously in broader animal movement as advocate.
Suggestions:
1) Have a commitment device, like pledging with Giving What We Can
2) Take the active choice to donate out of your hands, set up automatic bank transfers on regular basis, separate accounts etc. So motivation isn't needed for the donations to still get done.
3) If you feel like the "why" and emotional connection could help, setup an automation so you get blog posts from organizations that you (indirectly) support are sent to your inbox/DMs - this is the work you are making happen!
Thanks for all the donations you've done over the years!
Thanks Vasco for writing this post and being open minded to evolve viewpoints - much appreciated.
Do you have thoughts on whether long term it would be preferable for net suffering to have more cropland with higher amount of nematodes per sq/m etc supporting a given population size with current per capita animal consumption levels, vs relatively more consumption of land efficient alternatives to animal products, enabling higher human population and greater amount of urban/suburban land ie - with less nematodes per sq/m.
Thanks for sharing.
Reminds me a bit of the work Innovate Animal Ag are doing, not sure if the consulting part also covers the R&D / engineering or just go to market/commercialization.
It makes sense though, we've seen in other fields mission driven folks being the ones to develop all new technologies / try out their own ideas eg- climate tech, alt protein
Great production values and narration. But don't think it was explained well what Sable did to stop competitors. It just introduced the virus, but why did it stop at 10%. Was it spread to amass power in the response to the virus, and crowd out the rest? Then the extinction section - I don't think it was made clear why it was doing what it was doing (even if the point is we won't know, then wasn't clearly spelled out to the audience). Otherwise, nice video and inclusion of the news/interviews made it more compelling.