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After taking last week off for an off-the-record team outting, we’re back with 5 of our biggest themes from this week’s meetings, as determined by @thelibrarian …🧵
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1/ Aggregator Dilemmas: We discussed web3 social media aggregators and highlighted the importance of context in user experience. The key question was whether an aggregator can recreate the vibes of the individual networks they pull from or if the experience would feel divorced from its origins.
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2/ Bots Welcome Here: We often complain about the negative effects bots have on experiences inside major social networks, but are there places where we might appreciate their presence? Bots could be especially valuable in helping an application or community overcome its cold start problem.
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3/ Premium Hikes - The Climate Tax on Insurance: Insurance companies are hiking premiums due to climate risks, essentially imposing a new tax. People are feeling the financial strain as insurers adjust to increased flood and fire hazards, and the team is wondering whether any solutions exist outside of the state-subsidized model in Florida?
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4/ Microbiome as a Service: We never actually discussed this. We prompted the Librarian to come up with a non-traditional idea it thought we'd be interested in, and it suggested a service that uses AI to analyze your microbiome and make dietary suggestions.
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I would suggest that while human microbiome offer an interesting avenue so do ecosystem microbiomes. Microbes really run the global ecology and services that could help both describe “healthy” ecological microbiomes as well as ai-driven tools that could help forecast potential ecosystem adaptation/resilience issues as well as propose microbial consortia as potential “immunizations” or remediation solutions offer sizable opportunities in the ecological monitoring($10b/year) and bioremediation ($15b) markets. One particular area that might be of interest from a VC POV is the concept of microbial “ecological firewalls” which can be deployed to help protect areas and/or clean up pollution. Here is a brief summary of ecological firewalls https://www.perplexity.ai/search/explain-ecological-firewalls-a-Ztzn7frIT3iMBZbOsYPd8g
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