A thread about the unreasonable effectiveness of writing on the internet, or how I got 8.6 million dollars from a blog post

Tech has produced several trillion-dollar companies. Biotech has produced none. If I were completely impartial to what disease I treat or what modality I use, could any of the existing company-building strategies create a trillion-dollar outcome? This essay is a set of musings on

🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵 Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open. doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

after getting Sam Altman to testify at his first Congressional hearing, I moved to the Bay to work for @CerebrasSystems CEO. now, i’m building and investing at Lux Capital! here is a blog 2.5 years late about why I moved from DC -> Bay 🤠 if you’re moving from policy to tech, DM!

AI is not on track to eradicate disease in our lifetime. Scientists need to generate more data, but they’re physically limited by how fast they can work. That’s why we’re launching Medra: Physical AI in the lab, doing and optimizing real experiments. Thread👇

Ambition is social. And unlocking breakthroughs requires exceptional talent willing to think differently. Which is why we want to bring more peer groups for ambitious, counterintuitive thinking into existence. Today we're launching a call for ARIA Innovator Circles🧵

Attention Columbia Students I’ll be at Columbia tonight at 8:30pm with Cory Levy to talk about all things startups. Come say hi!

Introducing Axis: the first AI model that generates regulatory DNA elements and predicts their function. Gene therapies suffer from poor efficacy, toxicity & specificity. Models like Axis can help overcome such risks. Axis beats Google DeepMind's AlphaGenome at predicting

🪩The one and only State of AI 2025 is live! 🪩 It’s been a monumental 12 months for AI. Our 8th annual report is the most comprehensive it's ever been, covering what you *need* to know about research, industry, politics, safety and our new usage data. My highlight reel:

Unicorns, decacorns, centaurs... but what do you call a company with over $10Bn in annual revenue? A Titan. Only 15 software companies have ever reached this scale. I got curious: Who are they and how long did it take? 👇

Come join Maya Arce @uchemedoh Jingtian Zhou and start your lab at Arc Institute as a Science Fellow! Researchers receiving their PhD, MD, or MD/PhD between spring 2024 and summer 2026, are encouraged to apply. Applications are being reviewed starting January 12, 2026.

I attended the 2025 Progress Conference and had a lot of interesting conversations about agentic AI for science, which prompted me to write down some thoughts I've been developing on this topic. Here's seven thoughts on the future of "AI scientists": corinwagen.github.io/public/blog/20…

I’m excited to join Cohort 1 of the Encode: AI for Science Fellowship (via Pillar VC, ARIA, @SciTechGovUK). Have enjoyed getting to know the other fellows — a group uniquely motivated to solve tough, important problems with AI. Check out our projects below! 👇🏽