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Alex Macdonald

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@alexfmac

Venture Artist /// Founder & CEO - @joinsequel / Chairman @auroramastery / 1 x exit - Velocity Black
Los Angeles, CA sequel.co Joined August 2011
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Alex Macdonald Verified account @alexfmac
Gagan is a very persuasive man.

Funny story: he cold-called me on WhatsApp to pitch me investing in the round.

I was reluctant to take the call initially, but came away from it wishing he’d called me earlier.
etn. Verified account @etnshow 1d
Ancep CEO and Co-Founder @GaganSKhurana makes the case that insurance is the “single most important market on planet Earth”:

“In this universe, we have these crazy people at the edges of human experience that go off and do things for the very first time. You have the Apollo program, which takes us to the moon, or you have Elon Musk, who’s going to take us to Mars. Thank God we have these crazy people.”

“For everyone outside of these crazy people, you need insurance to industrialise the taking of risk. It’s the single thing that allows people to go out and do things that they otherwise would not have.”

“Good luck getting a house, good luck getting a loan. All of this stuff is built on insurance as the core primitive underneath it. And it is an industry that just doesn’t get enough love.”

“You go back 200 years in time, I would really argue, much to the chagrin of my ancestors, if it wasn’t for insurance, the Brits would not have been able to conquer the world.”

“It was the single structural advantage that the Brits had that allowed them to pool risk across many [backers]... I think the quote goes: ‘Let the risks sit lightly on the heads of the many rather than heavily on the few.’”

“Elon might get us to Mars, but if we’re going to go and expand into the solar system and beyond, insurance is going to be the thing that underlies that.”
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Alex Macdonald Verified account @alexfmac
Completely unrelated to 'the current thing'...

I'd strongly advise against submitting your confidential IP to be 'valued' by third parties.

For a long list of reasons...

This org apparently connected to Oxford Uni & endorsed by spokesperson for AI in the House of Lords 👀
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Alex Macdonald Verified account @alexfmac
Is insurance the most important market in the world?

A very talented team here with a monster trans-Atlantic round led by two of the best funds.
Gagan Verified account @GaganSKhurana 2d
Insurance is the single most important market on planet Earth, yet it still runs on manual work. Today ancep is coming out of stealth with an $8.5m pre-seed round to change that. Our AI agents are being used daily by the largest global brokers to help them place more risk.
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Alex Macdonald Verified account @alexfmac
If you think this isn’t happening in Europe and London specifically you’re ignorant.

Founders and VCs in frontier tech should be extra vigilant on this issue.

I was ridiculed for pointing this out previously.

Tentacles of CCP are very long and have preyed on our ignorance.
Mike Solana Verified account @micsolana 3d
you should not cheat on your wife and you should especially not cheat on your wife with a chinese spy imo
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