Well well @deeptechweek has wrapped for 2026 It was a fun experiment to see how much I could grow it this year - went from 2 to 7 cities, averaging around 3k attendees per city and ~28 events per week. It went from a 'once in a while passion project' to a 'rapidly growing profitable business' I'll be adding another 5-6 cities next year, each a recurring annual event. 3 in the US and a couple more international. San Diego, Boston, Bangalore, Tokyo, Sydney, Paris, Zurich, Denver, are all candidates. Overall theres been 65k attendees, 9,400 founders, 5,500 investors and 8,000 engineers and scientists. I think this makes it credibly the largest deep tech startup community on the planet, and, I think I can double it in 2027. I will write up some thoughts on how I see the deep tech ecosystem evolving and what comes next! And I'll start building out some more mcp surface area so attendees and hosts can fully leverage the social graph backend to find customers, investors, cofounders, startups, and so on. Also theres like a hundred hours of recorded talks going up within the next week. I think this is a reasonable "first product" for @hyperstition_x, there are two more in the works, more in the realm of sci-fi.

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