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TravisDirks

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Dr. Travis Dirks is CTO at Ribo, an AI-powered biotech finding new biology to unleash the next wave of highly effective drugs. Based on his groundbreaking RNA + AI technology, Ribo has generated a pipeline of drug repurposing opportunities, lead molecules and novel targets across 11 indications in oncology. Ribo spun out of XLabs, which Travis co-founded. He’s now the CTO, building moonshots powered by artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

Prior to XLabs, Travis was Chief Science Officer & cofounder of Seldn, an AI that could accurately predict rare global socio-economic disruptions. Travis led the team at Seldn to predict ‘black swans’ such as labor strikes in 12 countries, massive jumps in 30+ commodities & currencies, and societal riots four months before they happened, with 95% accuracy. Prior to Seldn, Travis co-founded and led Rotary Gallop – a machine learning fintech firm that applied game theory to corporate control (for M&A, hostile takeover, and activist situations...

  1. Steel Bending Bare Handed and What I Learned About Developing Technology (linkedin.com)
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  2. Moonshot: Ambitious Technology Development – A Book of Methods from the Trenches

    If the following book were written, would you care? Would you share? Save me from a herculean thankless task with your indifference, or hurl me into the abyss with your prospective interest. Title Moonshots: Ambitious…

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  3. Seldn Creative Sabbatical for Front End Devs and Data Scientists

    Warning Nonstandard Opportunity to enjoy life. Please vote it up and pass it around to the coolest front-end Developers/Data scientists you know! Creative Sabbatical in Maui, HI with an AI startup The Details: About Us:…

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  4. Weight loss:a tech guy's lessons losing 50lbs(2013) and keeping it off(2014) (alwaysascending.weebly.com)
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  5. Why Michael Dell wants to change the buyout voting rules so badly, in one chart. (qz.com)
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  6. Thank You Rework: We Took a Stand and Got Featured in the New York Times (dealbook.nytimes.com)
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  7. Where Steve Blank Went Wrong About Art, Science, and Entrepreneurship.

    (Don't worry, Steve can take it. He's right about nearly everything else :P) I recently read Steve Blanks post - Entrepreneurship is an Art not a Job…

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  8. Jack Dorsey’s 28.3% Square ownership gives him 75% control.

    Hi all, HN newbie here :). I was invited as a YC finalist back in April for our business which revolves around measuring shareholder control. Some of you told me you thought the community would find the link…

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