Fifty Years is VC firm that backs founders making something civilization needs. Think companies curing disease, combating the climate crisis, ending aging, accelerating science.
I felt like folks were getting too optimistic in the early days and now I feel folks are getting way to pessimistic. We don't know if any of these failed replication experiments actually made the same LK-99 the Korean team did. The only way of knowing for sure if LK-99 is a room temp superconductor is if outside labs test the samples the Korean team has made. It's entirely possible that the exact impurities in their material caused by their exact manufacturing process are required for superconducting properties to emerge. Seems like that will be done in the next few weeks. Still betting against it working but keeping my fingers crossed.
Fifty Years | Recruiter / Talent Partner | San Francisco (on-site) | Full-time
The climate is heading off a cliff. Thousands die every day of malnutrition. Pandemics put the world at risk. Technology entrepreneurship can solve these problems and many more! Fifty Years is a different kind of venture capital firm. At Fifty Years we believe technology entrepreneurship can and should solve the world’s biggest problems and we only support entrepreneurs working to do so.
We're looking for an experienced Recruiter / Talent Partner to both help our portfolio founders find great talent directly and also to help them learn how to build world class talent functions internally. The role will be 50% direct recruiting and 50% coaching founders on how to recruit well -- building pipeline, interviewing, reference checking, closing, etc. Candidates should have experience recruiting at a high growth startups or building a talent function at a VC firm.
Every modern society, looking back fifty years, condemns behavior once considered normal (male-only voting, interracial marriage bans, jailing gays, etc).
I'm convinced industrial animal agriculture will be one of the things today's society is condemned for, fifty years from now.
"Technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate and use it."
Therefore builders "bear a particular ethical and spiritual responsibility" because "every design choice reflects a vision of humanity."
The questions shouldn't just be 'can we build it?' or 'will people want this?'
We need to also ask 'should we build it?' and 'will this make humanity better?'
The encyclical calls on us to “join forces in building up the common good.”
This is a message we need right now.