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Fabian Leipelt

@fleipelt

Investing @WestTechVC

Joined March 2010
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Financial Times
@FT21 Jan 2024
Can people be fooled into thinking authoritarianism is better than democracy? Here is what award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood has to say:
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Es ist (mal wieder) Zeit für dieses Video von @JungNaiv. Wenn wir unser Klimaschutzgesetz nicht einhalten, werden wir alle schon bald wesentlich unfreier leben. Schon jetzt sind wirtschaftliche Schäden d. Klimakrise riesig & Hitzewellen tödlich. #Grundrechte #LetztenGeneration
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THREAD: What is going on in #Lützerath? In Germany, a small village next to a giant coal mine has advanced to become an epicenter of the global struggle for climate justice. Today the eviction of the the village has started. But this is not "just" about a single village. 1/
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Joining the chorus of media nerds who are devastated by this news. Nuzzel is hands down one of my most used apps. At the same time, it’s a no brainer for Twitter to offer similar functionality in its main app. Just do it quickly, please! blog.nuzzel.com/nuzzel-is-go…
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Max Roser
@MaxCRoser26 Sep 2020
Solar has reached prices today that are 30 to 40 years (!) ahead of what the IEA had forecast in its 2014 Solar Technology Roadmap. An important text by @ramez⁩: Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020 edition) rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/sol…
Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)

Solar’s Future is Insanely Cheap (2020)

This is part 1 of a series where I’ll look at the future costs of clean energy and mobility technologies.

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Barack Obama
@BarackObama31 Mar 2020
We've seen all too terribly the consequences of those who denied warnings of a pandemic. We can't afford any more consequences of climate denial. All of us, especially young people, have to demand better of our government at every level and vote this fall. latimes.com/politics/story/2…
Trump weakens fuel economy standards, rolling back key U.S. effort against climate change

Trump weakens fuel economy standards, rolling back key U.S. effort against climate change

The Trump administration released weaker fuel economy standards for new cars and trucks, pitting the federal government against California.

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Meltem Demirors
@Melt_Dem23 Mar 2020
so @TheOnion already wrote the article explaining what’s happening in US markets right now, but in 2010 😂
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@NeerajKA23 Mar 2020
U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion theonion.com/u-s-economy-gri…
U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion

U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion

WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy ceased to function this week after unexpected existential remarks by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke shocked Americans into realizing that money is, in fact, just a...

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Liebe Startup-Szene, wir haben den ersten Aufschlag für einen Startup-Rettungsschirm verfasst. Bitte kommentiert und helft uns hier ein sinnvolles Paket auf den Weg zu bringen. Wir müssen das zusammen machen: drive.google.com/file/d/1IAo… Euer Team vom @StartupVerband

20200319_SchutzschirmfuerStartups_StartupVerband.pdf

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The New York Times
@nytimes6 May 2019
Breaking News: As many as 1 million species are at risk of extinction, posing a profound threat to human well-being, a sweeping U.N. report concluded nyti.ms/2ViyVxp
Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace (Published...

Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace (Published...

A dire United Nations report, based on thousands of scientific studies, paints an urgent picture of biodiversity loss and finds that climate change is amplifying the danger to humanity.

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Hussein Kanji
@hkanji28 May 2018
“A joint effort is also needed to further improve the venture capital environment and regulations to allow successful market transfer of breakthrough innovations” reuters.com/article/us-eu-in…
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*tess
@ptr20 Dec 2017
This is really incredible. ML is forming an impenetrable moat around many Google properties, and Maps is perhaps the most visible example. If you're hoping Apple Maps will be competitive someday, don't hold your breath. justinobeirne.com/google-map…

Google Maps’s Moat

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Josh Kopelman
@joshk17 Jan 2017
Meet @goforward "…a doctor's office that feels like an Apple Store…that learns so it gets better with more data" forbes.com/sites/miguelhelft… – at Providence, RI
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Fred Destin
@fdestin13 Jan 2017
[New post] "Doubling down on your winners" - medium.com/@fdestin/doubling…
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Steven Pinker
@sapinker22 Dec 2016
Most people think the world is getting worse. They're wrong. The history of progress in 5 charts. Our World In Data goo.gl/anfzb3
The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it

The short history of global living conditions and why it matters that we know it

Very few think the world is making progress. In this article, we look at the history of global living conditions and show that the world has made immense progress in important aspects.

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Aaron Levie
@levie28 Oct 2016
We wanted flying cars, instead we got-- well ok looks like Uber is giving us flying cars. medium.com/@UberPubPolicy/fa…
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The internet is actually controlled by 14 people who hold 7 secret keys read.bi/2dGOdF0
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The New York Times
@nytimes10 Aug 2016
If you think Amazon’s drone delivery idea is a gimmick, think again. nyti.ms/2b7T9TY
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Shift AI@Shift_AI_Events30 Jun 2016
Germany's top SaaS Founders & Investors are joining us in Dublin for #SaaStock16. In B2B SaaS? you should too! 🇩🇪🇩🇪 – at Berlin, Germany
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Shift AI@Shift_AI_Events10 May 2016
EU SaaS leaders are joining us for #SaaStock16 incl. a great group from the German scene 👉 saastock.com – at Berlin, Germany
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Andrei Brasoveanu
@algovc19 Apr 2016
"A handful of companies employ humans pretending to be robots pretending to be humans" bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots

The Humans Hiding Behind the Chatbots

Behind the artificial intelligence personal assistants and concierges are actual people, reading e-mails and ordering Chipotle.

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