BAE - Ben’s Channel

Merry Christmas, all.

I've recently been MIA due to the perfect storm of flu/strep + some family matters + the holiday season.

I’m still here and will be back at it soon.

🎄🎅

venturecapital

neuroscience phd, DeSci advocate, interfaith chaplain. co-host of the /okbanger show and vibe imagineer for /christin. https://seemore.tv/christin

What's one question you have about venture capital?

Building https://srcbook.com // creator of the https://blockchainsmokers.xyz

DeSci

Building something new. 🟪 Host: /venturecapital /adventures /theitinerant

(taking foot out of mouth - didn't see this was in the DeSci channel)

coder / founder / investor Founding partner @FirstStarVC 

Loves: AI/ML, data, Bitcoin, climate, techbio, coffee, and pie.

There are many nuances to the conversation, but writ large, no b/c the challenges won’t be for lack of brains, capital or vision.

Happy to chat more offline.

Out sick. If I owe you a response to something, thanks for your patience.

My understanding is that commercialization is still a ways away

Humankind Candles

🕯️They/them. Scaled cos from 0-$300k in arr, 7-35 employees, 0-100k users. Now I make beautiful, functional, and ethically made candles at humankind.place

Keep at it Sam - you have a small army of people pulling for you!

Ethereum

Building @kiwi 
Writing @ https://kanfa.macbudkowski.com/

🕯️they/them, candlemaker at https://humankind.place

I’m so proud that you did the IRL pop up. It sounds like it’s been amazing and lots of leanings especially about how people feel about the candles. I especially loved the story of the couple who came back. My friend is getting that milk bread candle because she tells me she still dreams about it. She kept the bag it came in because it smelled so good and I’m
Going to get a wax melter so I can make the last 20% last even longer. As a migraineur I’m terrified of smells so I took a chance with your candles. Most trigger
Migraines. Yours DO NOT because they are wonderful and not full of shitty chemicals.  I will be a customer forever. Fuck all other candles and non wooden wicks.

Founders

Mint Chinese Dance by Tchaikovsky. 
It took me 24 years to make it sound so fun and easy 😁 https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x19e96d4d7fa371f0926e8c9e7c5c9031cc203f01/2?referrer=0xCb4328Df3a5A6522BF41fD4Ab1E720CffC2a1F76

A good reminder for all the founders grinding on a Sunday: hard work and earned wisdom accumulate over time.

Also, mint this video by @katekornish

Classical musician and educator with psychology qualification. Teaching and playing worldwide. https://paragraph.xyz/@katekornish https://zora.co/@katekornish

Nature

more alien

Working on building zkTLS infra/products. A ruthless empiricist and meme connoisseur.

http://opacity.network

Where'd you go? Its one of my favorite hobbies

creating and destroying; built flying cars & autonomous vehicles, now building /faust, more here: /july, web: july.rocks

Whats an example of something you could do in Claude that you can't in ChatGPT?

I build languages for scientists of all ages.
https://hub.scroll.pub
https://scroll.pub https://pldb.io

Neynar

working @ /neynar   🪐  casting @ /rish

Thanks for the detailed breakdown, rish. Very helpful

Ben - [C/x]

@benersing