Bringing freedom & autonomy to young people. Built @thielfellowship and @1517fund. First investor @lambdaAPI @loom @Mach_Industries @RainmakerCorp @positron_ai
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Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
for all the laws in the world, the only real currency is trust
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Isaac Newton spent decades huffing mercury fumes in a Cambridge cellar, grinding lead into a worthless sludge while praying to the gods of alchemy. Now Marathon can use its reactor blanket to turn mercury-198 into stable gold by the ton. The alchemist will lose to the atom.
Last month, we demonstrated high-rate alchemy: turning mercury into real, stable gold, beating CERN’s record by a factor of 10.
Last week, we enriched isotopes in the world’s most powerful plasma centrifuge, beating the Soviet record that stood for 40 years.
Now, we’re building a fusion reactor in San Francisco to achieve record power density.
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
If you're in Massachusetts, you are welcome to our Open House, Saturday 10/24, 1:00 PM. No RSVP needed, but we're glad to know if you're coming:sudburyvalley.org/admissions…
Can't make the Open House but want to arrange a visit with your child?
sudburyvalley.org/admissions…
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
Bringing navigation into the 21st century. We need better than GPS - Xona is kicking ass. Centimeter accuracy.
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
Our first genetically selected horse embryos going up for public auction on Sunday! Expecting it to sell for $35k+
Wheely is a really fast stakes broodmare we purchased after we found she had a variant in her growth hormone that could possibly create speed and size advantages
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It’s wild how many GPs try to argue with me after I pass. I’m not sure what outcome they’re hoping for, but it’s never changed my mind. The best thing a GP can do is go prove me wrong and keep me updated. That has a much better shot at changing my mind.
We don’t always get it right, but getting hostile after a pass only ever makes me feel better about passing.
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
tidying and cleaning your space is a clear sign to the universe that U love and care for yourself, that U are grateful for what U have received and are a faithful steward of the blessings that come to U, and that U are ready to receive much, much, much more ❤️
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
today we're opening @DetectIfAI to every developer.
real-time voice deepfake detection, 24 ms per check.
#1 in latency on Podonos' independent benchmark, ahead of companies that raised hundreds of millions.
97.3% of cloned voices caught.
API + MCP. link in the comments.
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
We noticed this early in the Thiel Fellowship.
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
7yo: So they only made three Star Wars movies and never made any more?
Me: Yes exactly
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
A girl just said she tried to get rejected 1000 times in 2025 and ended up being cast in plays, winning pageants, securing hella paid brand deals, and appearing in commercials.This is your sign to chase rejection to the point of "accidental" success. You'll be surprised.
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
There is a network of small farms upstate that sell to Michelin-starred restaurants and I’ve been trying to get them to do a farm box to households in NYC.
They’re doing a pilot. Sign up link below.
The apple tree is from the 1800s: God has spent centuries perfecting these apples.
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
they say you need to "re-parent" yourself once you have kids and damn if that isn't true.
I was feeling downcast about my cute mother daughter Halloween costume idea, and I almost decided to scrap it and do nothing instead.
Then I realized the reason why was because I was imagining my daughter as a hostile teen looking back on the photos some day. I imagined her rolling her eyes and feeling annoyed that her mom was assuming a closeness and sentimentality that never had any hope of materializing between us.
and sure there's all kinds of reasons this is coming up for me--from the relationship I had with my own mom as a teen, to the struggles I have right now being a step-mom to a teen daughter, to the implicit assumption I carry into any relationship that I'm destined to be rejected--but I don't need to immediately resolve any of this.
what I need is to touch grass. My baby is 4mo. I am currently the light of her life. Her face brightens like the sun when she sees me or hears me. she's snuggled on my chest sleeping right now. why would I pre-reject myself and deny us both a cute memory to look back on out of fear we won't want to look back on it??
I'm going to do the cute mother daughter costume, and I'm going to do it to capture the real bond we *already* have right now. and let adolescence bring what it will.
Danielle Strachman 💗 🐈 💃 🪴 🎸 🎨 🐕 retweeted
Today we’re launching @neomatterai (YC F26), the operating system for in-house legal teams.
Neomatter picks up legal requests wherever they come from (email, Slack, Salesforce, etc) and does all the work. Then the lawyer reviews, approves, and sends.
We thought legal could use some change. Book a demo and see it for yourself!
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our team’s cranking out a few more new solvers
here’s a parametric, coil-wound heat exchanger model generated from just the 3rd image as an input wired up to an updated CHT solver
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The first movement of “Summer” from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons… on an accordion?! This is genuinely amazing.
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Def interested in funding this
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An unfiltered look inside the Thiel Fellowship with @DStrachman: review.firstround.com/inside…
Sixteen years ago, when @William_Blake and I were on the founding team of the Thiel Fellowship, we called it an older young person’s homeschool program.
In a very Thiel-ian way, we built something that fostered independent thinking by giving young people permission to explore what interested them in an environment that trusted them to make decisions and execute on their work.
@firstround’s editorial team wrote a really thoughtful piece about those first years of the fellowship. It also covers my journey — going from school founder to handing out $100K grants to teenagers.
So wonderful to chronicle that very special time that has become the genesis of 1517 💗 (Link in comments)