Gaurab Chakrabarti
@GaurabC
CEO @Solugen | MD/PhD building the modern chemical industry | Making molecules that power humanity | Takes on manufacturing, energy, molecules, and biology
America's next revolution won't be in AI or crypto. It'll be in the world's most overlooked $6 Trillion industry. Chemicals. Here's the "96% efficient" breakthrough that will bring manufacturing back to the United States:🧵
Most don’t see it yet but this is the start of the US Chemicals industry resurgence to power. Stay tuned!
Most people underestimate just how huge the chemicals industry is. One of our customers: An 80-person water treatment company in rural middle America, quietly doing $250M/year revenue and spending $150M/year just on chemicals. There are thousands more just like them driving…
Beware hiring execs with fancy resumes who aren’t able or willing to do the work themselves (also known as administrators). We’ve learned this lesson the hard way.
Better to hire and fund people who are scrappy and hungry, who can build, who have high velocity, than the person with the fancy resume with the huge ego YC has *never* had success funding or hiring the latter "Hire for slope, not y-intercept." —@paultoo
I will be going on @TBPN at 240cst to talk about on-shoring critical-chemicals production, make sure to tune in!
Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: - @CJHandmer (Terraform) - @PatrickMcGee_ (Apple in China) - @aphysicist (Atomic Industries) - @GaurabC (Solugen) - @lukasczinger (Divergent3D) - @pronounced_kyle (Astranis) - @matsiiako (Infisical) - @alexeheath (Verge) - Sean Liu…
Morning. Here are our guest call-ins today: - @CJHandmer (Terraform) - @PatrickMcGee_ (Apple in China) - @aphysicist (Atomic Industries) - @GaurabC (Solugen) - @lukasczinger (Divergent3D) - @pronounced_kyle (Astranis) - @matsiiako (Infisical) - @alexeheath (Verge) - Sean Liu…
TBPN | Monday, June 9th x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
"A scene with Rockefeller giving a tour of one of refineries. He's super happy make it look like it's been made in 2025, crisp, but he has clothing and stylings from his era. Do a closeup on his refineries as he's doing his tour. zoom into a distillation column and then zoom out…
The one who can tolerate the most uncertainty is the one who will eventually win. That’s why scientist founders are the best
AI has perfect memory…
Multiple Waymo vehicles set ablaze here in LA
Looks like a Dyson swarm
The number of satellites launched into space has grown incredibly fast
And will need some pretty gnarly materials science
Type II: A civilization that can harness and control the total energy output of its host star, often through structures like a Dyson Sphere or Swarm (a network of satellites or structures capturing a star’s energy). This level implies mastery of space travel and colonization…
I would like a version of this for my children deepmind.google/models/gemma/d…
Remnants? Life started from a single source
crazy that this thing is in almost every eukaryotic cell on earth and we don't know why