Victor Boyd

Victor Boyd Verified account @VictorWBoyd · Apr 23

Had fun

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TBPN Verified account @tbpn · Apr 23

It's Thiel Fellowship Day:

- @VictorWBoyd (Cavalla)
- @alexkshieh (Antifraud)
- @NDobroshinsky (EveryTicker)
- @ishangpta (Juicebox)
- @antoni_kiszka (Derpetual)
- @HighPriestOfSWO (Opt32)
- @G413N (SI)
- @needaubrey (Swoop)
- @samuelclcc (Praso)
- @clairebookworm (Researcher)

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Thiel Fellowship Verified account @thielfellowship · Apr 21

Welcome 2026 Thiel Fellows!

WHO ARE THEY?

Victor Boyd: Birmingham, AL - @VictorWBoyd
Cavalla is on a mission to get anything anywhere in under 5 hours. Starting by building autonomous forklifts, through to developing hypersonic highways.

Samuel Carvalho: Recife, Brazil - @samuelclcc
Praso is building the new infrastructure for wholesale commerce — powering procurement, credit, and workflow tools for SMBs across underserved areas in Brazil.

Nick Dobroshinsky: Sammamish, WA - @NDobroshinsky
EveryTicker is democratizing institutional-grade financial research across the entire U.S. stock market, including the thousands of smaller companies Wall Street ignores.

Ishan Gupta: Kanpur, India - @ishangpta
Juicebox is building an AI recruiter that helps companies make better hiring decisions. Agents that understand real skills and move hiring from guesswork to true meritocracy.

Antoni Kiszka: Strzyżowice, Poland - @antoni_kiszka
Derpetual is building the infrastructure to create a market for any asset — with leverage.

Milan Lustig: Cold Spring Harbor, NY - @HighPriestOfSWO
Opt32 is building modern compute infrastructure to put AI onboard objects in the physical world — from robots to cars and drones.

Galen Mead: Chapel Hill, NC - @g413n
Standard Intelligence is building aligned general learners, pretraining large models to actively explore and learn from the Internet.

Aubrey Niederhoffer: New York, NY - @needaubrey
Swoop is building the super app for Africa, starting with food delivery in Nigeria and expanding into financial services across the continent.

Harry O'Connor: Cork, Ireland - @HarryOC493
Sentient Machines is a research lab building foundational models for robotics that generalize across tasks and environments.

Alex Shieh: Salem, NH - @alexkshieh
The Antifraud Company is a fraud bounty hunter defending American taxpayers with AI and investigative journalism.

Claire Wang: Los Angeles, CA - @clairebookworm
Claire is building biologically accurate simulations of entire nervous systems, starting with C. elegans. Developing a simulated brain that researchers can communicate with helps lay the foundation for brain-computer interface (BCI) technology.

Kyler Wang: Portland, OR - @kylerywang
Action is an artificial intelligence company in stealth.

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NASA Verified account @NASA · Apr 1

Liftoff.

The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon.

Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.

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