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At Tesla, Niccolo Cymbalist led ‘far out’ technology development in the New Programs Group. Thanks to 5050, he’s now running his own startup clippership building automated cargo sailboats. Next step: build a fleet to cover the earth in point to point transport.
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Don’t work at Anduril. Or SpaceX. Or Tesla. Build your own company. There’s never been a better time for engineers to start startups. We’ll teach you how.
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Co-Founder & CTO @Velocity Bio | Microfluidics & Drug Discovery | Stanford & Boston University alum
The 5050 program is a FANTASTIC catalyst for spinning out of academia! It pushed me to think on a much grander scale and demystified many aspects of building a startup! Maybe even more valuable is the incredible pool of scientists and engineers that 5050 brings together. They have a keen eye for talent, and at our MBC Biolabs location alone, FOUR startups have 5050 roots! If you’re considering the leap, I highly recommend this program! 🚀
NIH grants frozen. Discoveries delayed. PhDs pushed out. Academia getting gutted. Innovation must continue! There’s never been a better time for scientists to start startups. We’ll teach you how. 5050 is a free program to help great scientists and engineers become great founders and start deep tech startups. At Fifty Years, we’ve backed 100+ deep tech startups and helped them raise over $4.6B. We’ve built deep tech companies ourselves and published the Spinout Playbook. We've distilled everything we know about deep tech entrepreneurship into 5050. Whether you’re validating an idea or ready to build — 5050 is for you. 5050 has helped launch 55 companies, many of which wouldn’t exist otherwise. Mark Budde joined as a Caltech postdoc. 5050 helped him realize the workflows he built to speed up his research could be the foundation of a great business. Three years later, Plasmidsaurus is profitable, growing fast, and delivering overnight plasmid sequencing across all 50 states and most of Europe. Scientists love it. Niccolo Cymbalist joined as a Tesla engineer. Three months later, he co-founded clippership and is building autonomous sailboats to decarbonize maritime shipping. “Without 5050, the chances of starting the company were maybe 10%.” 5050 helps you answer: • How do I turn breakthrough science into a business • What do I need to make a startup idea work? • Is entrepreneurship for me? • Am I ready to be a founder? We’ll coach you through the early days of building in deep tech. Through the program, you’ll: • Zero in on civilization-scale problems to tackle. • Learn what it takes to grow into a great founder. • Learn the critical components of building a deep tech startup. You’ll also join a community of entrepreneurial scientists and engineers to navigate the founder journey together. 5050 alumni, many of whom are now deep tech founders, are eager to share their experiences and support your journey. Scientists and engineers have the potential to build civilization-bending companies. 5050 helps them get started. Apply or recommend someone who should join!
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The 5050 program is legendary! It was a total game changer for us. Apply!
NIH grants frozen. Discoveries delayed. PhDs pushed out. Academia getting gutted. Innovation must continue! There’s never been a better time for scientists to start startups. We’ll teach you how. 5050 is a free program to help great scientists and engineers become great founders and start deep tech startups. At Fifty Years, we’ve backed 100+ deep tech startups and helped them raise over $4.6B. We’ve built deep tech companies ourselves and published the Spinout Playbook. We've distilled everything we know about deep tech entrepreneurship into 5050. Whether you’re validating an idea or ready to build — 5050 is for you. 5050 has helped launch 55 companies, many of which wouldn’t exist otherwise. Mark Budde joined as a Caltech postdoc. 5050 helped him realize the workflows he built to speed up his research could be the foundation of a great business. Three years later, Plasmidsaurus is profitable, growing fast, and delivering overnight plasmid sequencing across all 50 states and most of Europe. Scientists love it. Niccolo Cymbalist joined as a Tesla engineer. Three months later, he co-founded clippership and is building autonomous sailboats to decarbonize maritime shipping. “Without 5050, the chances of starting the company were maybe 10%.” 5050 helps you answer: • How do I turn breakthrough science into a business • What do I need to make a startup idea work? • Is entrepreneurship for me? • Am I ready to be a founder? We’ll coach you through the early days of building in deep tech. Through the program, you’ll: • Zero in on civilization-scale problems to tackle. • Learn what it takes to grow into a great founder. • Learn the critical components of building a deep tech startup. You’ll also join a community of entrepreneurial scientists and engineers to navigate the founder journey together. 5050 alumni, many of whom are now deep tech founders, are eager to share their experiences and support your journey. Scientists and engineers have the potential to build civilization-bending companies. 5050 helps them get started. Apply or recommend someone who should join!
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NIH grants frozen. Discoveries delayed. PhDs pushed out. Academia getting gutted. Innovation must continue! There’s never been a better time for scientists to start startups. We’ll teach you how. 5050 is a free program to help great scientists and engineers become great founders and start deep tech startups. At Fifty Years, we’ve backed 100+ deep tech startups and helped them raise over $4.6B. We’ve built deep tech companies ourselves and published the Spinout Playbook. We've distilled everything we know about deep tech entrepreneurship into 5050. Whether you’re validating an idea or ready to build — 5050 is for you. 5050 has helped launch 55 companies, many of which wouldn’t exist otherwise. Mark Budde joined as a Caltech postdoc. 5050 helped him realize the workflows he built to speed up his research could be the foundation of a great business. Three years later, Plasmidsaurus is profitable, growing fast, and delivering overnight plasmid sequencing across all 50 states and most of Europe. Scientists love it. Niccolo Cymbalist joined as a Tesla engineer. Three months later, he co-founded clippership and is building autonomous sailboats to decarbonize maritime shipping. “Without 5050, the chances of starting the company were maybe 10%.” 5050 helps you answer: • How do I turn breakthrough science into a business • What do I need to make a startup idea work? • Is entrepreneurship for me? • Am I ready to be a founder? We’ll coach you through the early days of building in deep tech. Through the program, you’ll: • Zero in on civilization-scale problems to tackle. • Learn what it takes to grow into a great founder. • Learn the critical components of building a deep tech startup. You’ll also join a community of entrepreneurial scientists and engineers to navigate the founder journey together. 5050 alumni, many of whom are now deep tech founders, are eager to share their experiences and support your journey. Scientists and engineers have the potential to build civilization-bending companies. 5050 helps them get started. Apply or recommend someone who should join!
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You have the potential to shape civilization like never before and you're working on AI sales agents?
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We're close to getting more applications for 5050 UK than for the last US cohort 🤯. Amazing 🇬🇧 energy! Today is the last day to apply! Share to help put the UK over the top.
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5050 by Fifty Years was one of my highlights of 2024! I'd highly recommend this FREE program to all my friends - now also in the UK! Deadline is Feb 17 - so shoot off your application ASAP! Thanks Alejandra Borda, Seth Bannon, Alex Teng and the rest of the team for making this program epic! https://lnkd.in/gYuiW8AN
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“For more than 95% of innovations, someone needs to take it and turn it into a product or service and scale it for the world in order for the impact to manifest.” Our Activation Partner, Fifty Years’ Seth Bannon, spoke to Sifted about the their plans for the first UK cohort of their 5050 programme, and its mission to help great scientists become great founders: https://lnkd.in/eXQePNwH Applications for 5050 are open until 17 Feb: https://lnkd.in/dZ5Rqa4W