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.