Mr.
@traestephens &
@foundersfund,
First, great read on VC Firms and the moral imperative of the top VCs to go after hard, yet good, quests. I found this particularly relevant to the plight of a small company that is trying to revolutionize the way we treat cancer.
Second, I'm going to highlight a few sections for my
$NWBO friends and then end with a question.
"In the most simple terms possible: a good quest makes the future better than our world today, while a bad quest doesn't improve the world much at all, or even makes it worse....Most Good Quests are Hard...A hard quest is high-risk and operationally complex, with a low chance of success. Reversing aging, going to Mars, curing cancer, building a supersonic plane, creating AGI, or founding a new country — these are all hard quests, and most players attempting these quests will fail....In the 1980s, a venture capitalist could truthfully say their investment was the difference between life or death for an important, generational technology company. Funding such companies, in this way, was absolutely a good quest. But today there are more people "helping the builders" than actually building, fighting one another in a zero-sum game for allocation in competitive deals...For our best players with exceptional fundraising and hiring superpowers, hard quests are difficult. But for everyone else, they are nearly impossible. Therefore, there is a moral imperative for our best players to choose good, hard quests...If you are an experienced founder with lots of money or social capital, leave the next food delivery startup to the Level 1 neuromancer, and ask yourself: what would the world look like if our best players took on good quests?"
My question(s): Would using your own immune system to cure all solid tumor cancers with 0 toxic side effects be a good quest? How about starting with one of the hardest to treat cancers in the world (glioblastoma multiforme) where 5% survive 5 years and increase that number up to 50%? See Image 1. Getting this treatment to the world could change the landscape of cancer care. Where are the best and brightest VC Firms in this quest?
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