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Danny Crichton
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Danny Crichton
@DannyCrichton
Write and design Riskgaming scenarios on tech, science and politics. Partner, Research @Lux_Capital, Fellow @ManhattanInst, former Managing Editor @TechCrunch.
- This would massacre most major R1 universities. Stanford, Harvard et al basically run entirely on NIH/NSF indirect cost reimbursements. Everything from librarians and computer clusters to real estate and lab space are paid out of these funds – there are no endowments that coverLast year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above
- My career to date has been VC -> TC -> VC -> TC. I'm taking up the siren call of the dark side yet again (-> VC), this time at a firm named for light, aka @Lux_Capital, where I will be head of editorial
- The biggest concern among TechCrunch staffers on this call is whether we will be forced to use Microsoft Teams post-acquisition
- 1) This week, my good friend and brilliant geopolitical professor @crmiller1 published his new book “Chip War” – already short-listed for best business book of the year by FT. We discussed it on the “Securities” podcast today, and here are some surprising highlights:
- It's a huge day @Lux_Capital – we're officially launching Riskgaming! For a year, we've been developing four scenarios around climate change, national security, China, AI, election security and other topics. Now, we're finally making the first of these scenarios public
- If you’re in or near Manhattan, @Lux_Capital is hosting another set of beta tests of our first wargame scenario (which we have dubbed “riskgaming”), focused on national security and climate change. Come join us in Flatiron! DM me as we schedule runthroughs – more details below
- 🔊 Space is getting crowded thanks to the low cost of getting payloads into orbit. That's why @GoToImpulse is building next-gen rocket propulsion to cheaply maneuver satellites. @lrocket and I discuss the co's new Helios engine design that debuted today: pod.link/1615629580/epi…
- I am saddened that @TechCrunchPlus, where I was founding editor, is being shuttered. Here's a reflection on the past and present of @TechCrunch's economics and business model within the maelstrom of the media hellscape:
- Excited to announce that in addition to my writing and riskgaming scenarios @Lux_Capital, I've joined @ManhattanInst as a Fellow focused on improving America and the world's economic growth and progress on science and technology manhattan.institute/person/danny-c…
- 1) Is there a limit to the amount of learning we should do? Is it ever possible to learn too much? The academic research answer appears to be "yes," and that is the subject of this week's "Securities" newsletter and podcast on "Marginal Stupidity" 🧵
- Just finished listening through a draft of our first multi-part “Securities” podcast series and god I want to listen to it again. Get ready for some incisive insights on bias, risk, and decision making from the most eminent scholars and practitioners in the field. Dropping soon!
- Replying to @NoahpinionSeoul is a great place to live. I'd say the key difference with Tokyo is that the outdoor amenities is just vastly superior. The number of excellent parks and mountain trails in Seoul is quite impressive. It's Bay Area + NYC, where you can subway straight to nature in 30 mins
- 🔊We have a new "Securities" podcast today, bringing together two biotech community builders: Nicholas Larus-Stone of Bits in Bio and Michael Retchin of Nucleate. We brought them together in person for the first time! Some highlights and the link: 🧵
