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Software That You Can't Shut Down

Plus: The billion-dollar search for immortality 

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June 28, 2023

In Today’s Edition

  • How to scale revenue faster at your startup

  • SpaceX making more than 1,000 changes to next Starship rocket

  • Fanatics increases its offer to $225 million to acquire PointsBet’s U.S. assets

  • Would an OpenAI work assistant put the company in conflict with Microsoft?

  • Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

  • The one-shot drug that keeps on dosing

  • The billion-dollar search for immortality

🚀Startups Nuts

Sam Blond identifies how most startups get scaling revenue wrong by not properly diagnosing the biggest bottleneck to growing and wrongly placing too much focus on fulfilling demand rather than generating it.

VC firm AVC explores how smart contracts on fully decentralized blockchains allow software to be censorship-resistant and un-shut downable, as evidenced by the example of an AI being trained to teach children to read.

🏭Business Nuts

SpaceX's plans for upgrading its Starship megarocket include changing how the rocket's two stages separate, propulsion system improvements, and a beefed-up launch pad. Elon Musk estimates that there is a 60 percent chance that the next Starship test flight will make it to orbit. It may be some time before SpaceX obtains clearance for its next test flight. This article details the changes that SpaceX will make to Starship.

Fanatics increased its offer from $150 million to $225 million to acquire PointsBet’s U.S. assets. The PointsBet board unanimously approved and recommended the proposal and will vote on it Thursday night. The deal would give Fanatics access to 15 U.S. states that it operates in.

📱Tech Nuts

OpenAI's plans to market a personalized assistant for work would put it in competition with Microsoft. Microsoft owns an estimated 49% of OpenAI. It is likely that the issue of OpenAI releasing a work assistant was discussed prior to Microsoft's $10 billion investment into OpenAI in January. There is no doubt that OpenAI was planning to enter the enterprise market as it is quite lucrative.

An internal Microsoft presentation, revealed as part of the ongoing FTC v. Microsoft hearing, discusses a full Windows operating system streamed from the cloud to any device. Windows 365, a service that streams Windows to devices, has so far been limited to commercial customers. Microsoft has been working on bringing the service to Windows 11. Moving Windows to the cloud would enable improved AI-powered services and allow people to roam freely with their devices.

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🎁Miscellaneous

Scientists from Rice University have engineered drug-delivering microparticles that release their contents in timed delays that can span days or even weeks. The injections contain hundreds of tiny microplastic particles that each encapsulate a small dose of a drug. The microplastic particles are made of a polymer that breaks down safely in human bodies. Timing and dosage can be controlled by adjusting the molecular weight of the polymer used for each capsule. A long-active delivery strategy like this will help many people with chronic issues who are unable to follow their prescribed treatments.

Altos Labs, one of the best-financed startups in history, is on a mission to increase healthspan. It aims to find medicines to treat many diseases at once by targeting aging. This article takes readers on a tour of Altos' UK hub. While some argue that the quest for longevity benefits all humanity, there is no evidence that the benefits will trickle down to the non-billionaires.

💡What else are we reading and seeing?

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  • SpaceX’s valuation skyrockets amidst IPO spark

😎Fun Fact

Honey never spoils - archaeologists have found honey pots in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

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