Cardano has never had a shortage of talented builders. What it's lacked is a bridge from that talent to Silicon Valley networks, mentorship, and capital. That's the gap the Genesis program is built to close, and this week, we watched the first cohort pitch on stage after four weeks of building, testing, and rewriting their ideas. Thirteen teams, spanning AI, payments, DeFi, infrastructure, and consumer, some brand new to Cardano and some who've been building here for years. Great judging panel including @TimDraper, @Andytang, @samizb, Aleeha Banerjee from our investment team, and Stephen Wood from @Cardano_CF. It was amazing to see Orion Fund come to life in person alongside the builders. Every part of Orion came together: @Cometa_Labs providing technical mentorship and growth support, our very own @DraperDragon investment team mentoring and advising founders, and @draper_u making it all possible. Best of all, this is only the beginning. Our investment and growth teams will continue working with these founders well beyond Demo Day, with many more cohorts to come across all stages this year and next. Thank you to everyone who made it happen!

Insane Discovery: It turns out my battered 200,000 mile Dodge Viper probably isn't actually a *Dodge* Viper. It's most likely a long-lost Hennessey Venom 500!

If you find an idea that you love, and want to take it forward, we are working to either make funds available or connect you to investors who might be willing to fund. My whole goal is to cause more great startups to be formed via idealab.ai..

People playing loud music on buses could face £100 fine bbc.in/4yR9HFa

Write compositor with TSX

Paramount has acquired Red Rising film rights and attached Francis Lawrence to direct the first book’s adaptation. Justin Rhodes will write, and Pierce Brown will executive produce. di.gg/s/gc5b3p77

"I don't want flying cars. I want raw nature and real human connection." Brother… YOU are CURRENTLY SELLING $50 worth of protein bars that were not foraged, not hunted, and not hand-pressed by a village elder at dawn but manufactured in a FACILITY on a production line powered by the electrical grid, sealed in plastic made from petroleum pumped out of the earth by giant drills, boxed, labeled, barcoded, and scanned into an inventory system running on servers cooled by industrial AC units humming 24/7, then loaded onto a DIESEL TRUCK that hauls them down an interstate bulldozed straight through the exact wilderness you want to get lost in (you will not get lost, there is a Buc-ee's), dumped into a sorting hub full of conveyor belts and robotic arms and lasers, thrown onto ANOTHER truck, handed to a mail carrier idling in a van in a cul-de-sac, and dropped on a porch in a cardboard box that gets ripped open in four seconds and tossed in the recycling, all so someone can eat a bar they bought on a phone with a credit card processed in 0.3 seconds by a bank mainframe and then YOU logged on to tell the rest of us technology doesn't make anyone happy, when it's clearly making YOU very happy, and the second someone figures out drone delivery you'll be first in line with your logo on the propellers, so no, you're not a troglodyte, because troglodytes never offered free shipping on orders over $75.

New Porsche kind of looks like it's pooping an old Porsche and now I can't unsee it

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Here is the new @Tesla Roadster doing 0-60 in 1 second. It has 4 thrusters in the rear development by @SpaceX. Tesla did a live launch and did 0-60 mph in 0.81s. This is the fastest car in the world, BY FAR.

Our design language has evolved since the last reveal: from S3XY to Cybertruck, Cybercab & Optimus Roadster is inspired by the SR-71 & F-35

The book is in pre-release here, and should be on Amazon soon! oreilly.com/library/view/con…

Working on something for Midnight that is pushing me to my limits. Never worked this hard in my entire life. No sleep, all code. [ANN] soon @phil_uplc @rvcas