Simon Pastor
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At the end of our ny defense tech hackathon people came up to me and said they didn’t know that events like these existed, that it was the first time they had « met their people » We knew we couldn’t stop there, we had to make this bigger. We went west and organized the el.
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Congrats again to our winning team who built a long-range, RF-silent drone relying solely on laser communication 🚀🇺🇸 For context, I had coffee with ethan a few months ago at MIT and then invited him to a hacknight i was organizing on campus. He brought his friends with him and
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A few months ago, I had to listen to more than a hundred speeches from World Leaders at the #UN General Assembly. Here’s what I learned 🙂.
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Wrapped up the hackathon by bringing everyone outside for a demo from @soren_ma co-founder of @neros_tech and ex-drone racing world champ
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NYC Marathon🗽. Really struggled from miles 22-24, my stomach hurt, my legs were stiff, i just wanted to stop and convinced myself that my sub 3 dream was lost. But i really really wanted this, it’s the only thing i’ve been thinking about for the last few weeks, the only thing
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goodbye ny… hello sf! . just moved here for the summer, who’s around? who should i meet?
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Between the a16z party on thursday and our hackathon this weekend i’ve now met 90% of the people on my twitter feed.
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Very emotional and powerful ceremony as doctors, nurses and other frontline workers join the troops for the Bastille Day parade. #BastilleDay #14juillet .#FeteNationale
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15 Harvard and MIT students and dropouts braving the snow for a hack night❄️🔥
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Looking for a graphic designer, send me a DM or tag people you know! .Thanks :).
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60 of the best students in Waterloo/Toronto hacking to be fast-tracked into our S24 cohort in SF 🚀
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Matt is one of the few reasons im actually optimistic about the future of the UK. He’s also kind, humble and extremely smart, the UK and Europe could benefit from a few more Matts.
Matt is one of the most capable and thoughtful people I've ever met. No one in the UK has done more to build AI companies and drive growth. The government isn’t an expert in scaling tech or AI—but Matt is. We need more people like him, working tirelessly (and for free) to get.
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Two exciting announcements🚀. @join_ef is back in New York🗽 We'll be running our third US cohort there in January 2025!. We're hiring a New York-based Talent Investor Associate. Why join as a TI?.- Your job is to find and spend time with exceptional individuals across the US.-.
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Top 3 teams demoing in front of 200+ builders and investors
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This concludes my week on the west coast after having visited and hosted office hours and fireside chats at usc, caltech and ucla, spent two days in sf assessing 15 of the top talent from all over the country at our selection summit, and co-organized the el segundo defense tech
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2 hours before we unveil 30 companies to 100+ partners from the valley’s best firms
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A few of our pre-seed/seed companies are looking to hire interns/full time ML and software engineers! Reach out if you’re interested/know anyone who might be 🚀.
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Really enjoyed hosting our ai dinner with @ns_whit and @WorksInProgMag 🚀.reach out if you want to join the next one🔥
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Was a pleasure meeting my friends of @rhapsodycurated at the @rencontresarles 📸.Go check out their amazing work and stay tuned for their exciting upcoming collection! 🖼
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Kicking off the NYC BioHackathon with @NucleateHQ and @huggingface ! Stay tuned for the pitches on November 11 at the EF office :)
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Vib, cto & cofounder of Saronic kicking off our packed NYC Defense Tech Hackathon with @8vc 🚀40 participants were selected (out of 120+ applicants) and flew in from LA, SF, Atlanta, Boston, Minnesota and more @anishgoel_ @0xPHBD @MichaelJGTZ
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Always a good read, pandemic or not. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in The Time of Cholera)
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And it's a wrap for the NYC Defense Tech Hackathon🚀Congratulations to our winners @jake_theripper @adamyormark @owebb99 who worked on wake fingerprint detection for vessel identification through a Buoy-Drone network equipped with high-fidelity accelerometers and gyroscopes
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less than a week left before our hackathon. join some cracked ny builders and attempt to win a lunch with John Collison 🗽
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Well done @hud_zah and all the @Socraticainfo team 👏.
hacker culture is so back. yesterday, 450 ppl registered to see 25+ incredible demos, ranging from alternative proteins to self balancing robots to songwriting
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Excited to be back in Toronto and Waterloo next week. Who’s around?.
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Only read a third of Garcia Marquez's A Hundred Years of Solitude and I've never been so confused😅 Check out this family tree 😳
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Starting 2024 with a central park midnight run and a nyc marathon qualification🍾
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We’re only getting started in the 🇺🇸 a lot more exciting things to come!.
We’re launching a new hub in San Francisco. From now on, startups across our global sites will be invited to relocate to San Francisco after funding from our Investment Committee. Read more here:
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will be running a lot tech-related events in ny over the next few weeks - and trying out many different formats. dm if you want to join or support (might be looking for new venues).
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Every week i speak with internationals that are applying to jobs they're not excited about just to be able to stay in this country. That's why we organized an event with @lisawehden from @plymouthstreet to show them they they have options :).If you're an international that wants
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Three months ago a group of recent grads, young professionals and dropouts left everything to participate in the first EF cohort in the US. Today we just announced our first investments in their companies (covering biotech, insurtech, dev tools. ) Excited to reveal them to the.
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« France will extend lockdown until May 11th. » . - Macron on National Television.#StaySafeStayHome #Macron20h02
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The 🌎 turned blue this week for the United Nations' 75th Birthday! . This time last year I was working in the 3rd Committee. Though it's not perfect, the @UN really is an amazing and unique organization. To 75 more years 🍾
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50+ apps in less than 24h 🔥.After the success of the NYC defense tech hackathon we're excited to be organizing a second, even more ambitious event, in El Segundo on Feb 17-18 🚀.And it's off to an amazing start, apply now before it's too late 👇.
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It's often quite hard to describe what Entrepreneur First's program looks like, so what I like to do is bring people to our office. Seeing a dozen teams in their environment you can immediately sense the energy and intensity in the room and people are always surprised to learn.
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16hrs in things are starting to take shape at the NYC Defense Tech Hackathon 🚀
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“MGM put a 5$ limit on me because of arbitrage betting”. That’s what @NoahShamus told me the first time I met him. He was working on low-latency solutions at a fintech. Very quickly we knew that such an obsession about a topic and willingness to do whatever it took to beat the
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« We are going to rediscover part of our art of living, our taste for freedom. In short, we are going to fully rediscover Frenchness! ».#macron20h
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if you're in ny and into math, i'm organizing a math competition tonight with some quants, founders and .researchers. dm for details.
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Just finished my 15th book of the year ! Back on track for my 50 Books Challenge😀.
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extra spots available 🔥. i'm bringing a dozen builders together this weekend outside of ny, as you can seen below i got a bit carried away with the space which means we have a few spots available👇
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“He helped build self-driving submarines at NASA to look for life on Europa, a moon of Jupiter.” . That’s what I knew about Théo, an MIT/ETH Zurich mechanical engineering graduate. He had been talking to my colleagues in Paris and London but was keen to build in the US and
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Fascinating research by The Economist which finds that "In the past 60 years epidemics have been less deadly in democracies".
The Economist has analysed epidemics from 1960 to 2019. A clear correlation emerged
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Very cool visualization of the evolution of political polarity in the US since 1840 (its interactive too!). Nice work 👏 @FlerlageKev @flerlagekr.
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a few exciting updates.- we're partnering with @JakeZegil and @fractaltechnyc to make this even more epic 🔥.- we've secured a partnership with @redbull to power you through the night ⚡️.- we've joined forces with @juicy_kix as we were organizing very similar events🚀.
less than a week left before our hackathon. join some cracked ny builders and attempt to win a lunch with John Collison 🗽
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Hey, I’m looking for an intern from Jan - June (flexible), can lead to full-time role !.Location: US (flexible).Salary: 3k/month.Commitment: part-time or full-time.Your goal is to help the Entrepreneur First team find exceptional individuals across North America. Will involve.
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Really exciting work from @leonardtang_ and the @haizelabs team 🚀.
Today is a bad, bad day to be a language model. Today, we announce the Haize Labs manifesto. @haizelabs haizes (automatically red-teams) AI systems to preemptively discover and eliminate any failure mode. We showcase below one particular application of haizing: jailbreaking the
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excited to host a chess tournament for founders and investors next week with @nicole_ripka and @betaworks🔥. limited spots, register below
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Last two editions of the NYC Chess Circle were amazing! Had a very interesting crowd of students and young professionals and some great chess players (Franceso Rambaldi, Marc Arnold, @robinvkampen, @wgraif, @julesgambit. ) .DM for a chance to register for the next one :)
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Will be in Toronto and Waterloo 🇨🇦 next week and will be hosting a few events/dinners, DM if you want to participate or grab a coffee.
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22hrs to build something cool and win a lunch with John Collison . food, energy drinks and OpenAI credits will be provided.register below 👇
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I’ll be visiting usc, caltech and ucla next week (starting tomorrow) who should i meet/who’s around? Would love to grab a coffee!.
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No doubt it’ll be the best one yet 🚀.
Here is the updated list of partners and sponsors for the defense tech hackathon my org, @apollo_defense, is hosting. The talent density of applicants has been otherworldly – excited to meet everyone in person and get to building. Application link below 🇺🇸
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Great session of ‘ML in the trenches’ tonight with @jacobcd52 discussing mechanistic interpretability
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I started writing my newsletter during last year's lockdown in France. In the beginning, I found it really difficult to find my space and my voice. Yet, if there's one thing I learned, it's that we're way more creative than we think. Have a read 👇.
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No relationship is perfect, but at the end of the day we're all family 🇪🇺❤️. Happy Europe Day everybody 🙂
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2024 is off to a good start 🚀 I’ve been to the following cities/campuses so far: .- atlanta.- boston.- london.- austin .- ny . boston, pittsburgh, la and sf are next, where should I go after that?.
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Organizing a Defense Tech Hackathon in new york in 2 weeks with world-class investors and industry leaders. DM/comment to register
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