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Lyn Stoler retweeted
This was one of my favorite interviews I’ve ever done.
Cam has a gift for interviewing.
His project to bring back the World’s Fair is of civilizational importance and I’m excited for Ulysses to play a part in this project.
In the 1960s, people imagined living and working beneath the ocean. What happened to that ambition?
@Willob, co-founder of @UlyssesInc, joined me at our most recent @WorldsFairCo event to talk about bringing it back: underwater robots, restoring seagrass, mapping the seabed, and building in the ocean.
00:00 Welcome to World’s Fair Co
01:26 The forgotten ocean frontier
08:18 The ocean tax
10:36 A surf trip, seagrass and the start of Ulysses
13:44 A failed deployment and lessons learned
17:40 Meet Mako: modular underwater robots
22:38 Why underwater robotics is possible now
25:13 Ocean stewardship and mapping the seabed
30:05 Audience Q&A
30:15 Climate, company values and San Francisco
34:52 Restoration, security and treasure hunting
38:12 Navigation, motherships and life at sea
42:25 What to build next—and the next 20 years
Lyn Stoler retweeted
If we're doing lists of SF people, I prefer heroesofsf.org
Lyn Stoler retweeted
Had a blast talking about our forgotten ocean ambitions with captain of the sea @Willob 🫡
Lyn Stoler retweeted
if you're curious about what an exciting future looks like, i'd love to have you at our events -> worldsfair.org
Lyn Stoler retweeted
we're hiring for EE @ImpulseLabs
DM me for more specifics but:
now at the point where there's an opportunity to build the power electronics+controls stack well beyond the "stove" market.
+ work w/ a super experienced team with deep experience shipping hardware at scale.
at this talk i learned that @wildtype is likely the single most underhyped company in the bay rn??
in the process of cultivating salmon they incidentally created a new platform for protein +peptide manufacturing, & enriched medium for defense, medical, and longevity applications
"The flavor of raw salmon is harder to solve than consciousness"
One of the most incredible companies you've probably never heard of: @wildtypefoods. They're the first company to successfully bring cultivated salmon to market...and it tastes amazing.
Cofounder Aryé Elfenbein joined for @WorldsFairCo's live SF event series to tell us about their 10 year journey, overcoming FDA approval, and their vision for a thriving future of food.
Get inspired!
00:00 Welcome and Mission
02:13 Meet Aryé and Wildtype
02:37 From Cardiology to Salmon
06:07 Why Salmon Matters
09:35 How Cultivated Salmon Works
13:11 Scaffolds and Texture Breakthroughs
16:12 First Tastings and Doubts
23:29 FDA Journey and Launch
27:53 Scaling and Financing Bottlenecks
30:21 Restaurant Reactions and Q&A
37:29 Flavor and Nutrient Secrets
41:58 Future Vision
44:31 How to Support Wildtype
Lyn Stoler retweeted
"The flavor of raw salmon is harder to solve than consciousness"
One of the most incredible companies you've probably never heard of: @wildtypefoods. They're the first company to successfully bring cultivated salmon to market...and it tastes amazing.
Cofounder Aryé Elfenbein joined for @WorldsFairCo's live SF event series to tell us about their 10 year journey, overcoming FDA approval, and their vision for a thriving future of food.
Get inspired!
00:00 Welcome and Mission
02:13 Meet Aryé and Wildtype
02:37 From Cardiology to Salmon
06:07 Why Salmon Matters
09:35 How Cultivated Salmon Works
13:11 Scaffolds and Texture Breakthroughs
16:12 First Tastings and Doubts
23:29 FDA Journey and Launch
27:53 Scaling and Financing Bottlenecks
30:21 Restaurant Reactions and Q&A
37:29 Flavor and Nutrient Secrets
41:58 Future Vision
44:31 How to Support Wildtype
Lyn Stoler retweeted
had a blast sharing the future of food that @wildtypefoods is building here in sf
packed house with attendees age 7 to 70 to learn about cultivating salmon from cells and getting to taste it for themselves
this is how we get everyone excited about the future!
Lyn Stoler retweeted
hiring for hardware right now
we have more customer demand than we can practically service (which means new use cases) and need to scale the next generation of power systems for a bunch of future products.
DM me the most ambitious thing you’ve built + why you want to collab.
as an ops person who spends ~80% of my time in claude code, i'm now slop-proofing the most important stuff by just refusing to accept some documents digitally
it's only ~5% of the time, but if something is consequential enough, it's handwritten on paper or verbally delivered
by literally every element of this definition @sdamico is peak weird
Lyn Stoler retweeted
Westmag will be serving branded dogs on Monday at Pre/Industrialize in Detroit
.@640oxford presents:
PRE/INDUSTRIALIZE
The pre-party to @reindsummit. Detroit. June 15th.
Industrial bonfires, demos, installations, and whatever other crazy shit you can think of alongside those building the future of America.
Hosted with @DiscipulusVent, @cantos, Riot Ventures, @CrucibleCap, @AcequiaCapital, @grid_cap, @trucksvc, @dugsong, & more.
Located in a former wartime production stamping facility, and the home to @noxmetals & @beaconmfg.
Powered by: @VulcanForms
Link below:
Lyn Stoler retweeted
In The Electric Slide, I mentioned that I'd invested in a stealth motor company.
Today, Westmag is out of stealth, and I went deep on why America needs a motor and actuator company to build great products, and how Westmag plans to build the big one.
notboring.co/p/westmag
Lyn Stoler retweeted
Westmag is building American robot actuators and drone motors at scale.
In 2025, @westmagco raised $11M led by @a16z, with participation from @FoundersFund, @LuxCapital, NFDG, @MenloVentures, and other top investors.
Since then, we’ve been building industrial capacity, crawling up supply chains, and securing high-volume customers.
Now, we’re ramping production at our factory in South San Francisco to deliver against committed offtake orders from high-volume customers.
Westmag is committed to scaling quickly in the US to deliver millions of drone motors and robot actuators to the surging domestic and global market.
We’re building the great American motor and actuator company.
Lyn Stoler retweeted
1. DataCenter, every SF resident gets a slice of free compute
2. Use it to heat the sutro baths
build hardware that induces "mania-laced enthusiasm"
(from our first @ImpulseLabs review in @NYMag)
Lyn Stoler retweeted
Trying something new (ft. @boxcardavid @stolerlyn)
If you're an early-career builder working on the electric stack -- we'd love to host you at our office this summer. More info in the next post.
hype to launch the Electric Stack Fellows at @ImpulseLabs with @boxcardavid & @westmagco
we're picking 3-5 students/early-career builders to work in our SF office this summer. if you're building/researching the electric stack, apply below. decisions in 2 weeks
apply here! electric-stack-fellows.verce…
and please, for the love of god, keep your applications short. someone (me) has to read them.
