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Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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Really awesome that he was able to do this and give back, but none of this would have been possible without his unfathomable wealth and access.

And all of a sudden, I was bestowed with the greed to acquire more money than I can spend in a single lifetime. If I get cancer, I'd rather be rich and be able to do stuff like that, rather than die quietly.

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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Maybe it's time for him to give the metabolic cancer theory a go and try to bump up his mitochondrial function as much as possible? It's practically untestable due to science testing all compounds in isolation instead of a cocktail over longer period of time that can't be properly controlled even if it might be true. Every single cancer cell has a damaged mitochondria and often switching it properly on leads to cance…

You said it’s untestable but then said a Swedish hospital did a study on it? I don’t see why things can’t be tested over a long term. There are many such studies.

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to some online sources his total wealth is under $3B. Hardly ‘unfathomable wealth’ IMO. Sure, billionaire territory but nowhere near the ultra-wealthy.

3 billion is ultra wealthy, you can't be serious.

It’s entry-level billionaires club. The top 10 each hold $100B–$300B+, so the wealth distribution is extraordinarily skewed even within billionaires themselves. Musk is hundreds of times richer. Hardly obscenely rich.

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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post #11

Maybe it's time for him to give the metabolic cancer theory a go and try to bump up his mitochondrial function as much as possible? It's practically untestable due to science testing all compounds in isolation instead of a cocktail over longer period of time that can't be properly controlled even if it might be true. Every single cancer cell has a damaged mitochondria and often switching it properly on leads to cance…

You said it’s untestable but then said a Swedish hospital did a study on it? I don’t see why things can’t be tested over a long term. There are many such studies.

Swedish hospital study was about desloratidine:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33550204/

Metabolic theory of cancer is untestable in practice as you can't control all variables over long time.

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

#25

There's a crazy story in here where Sytse invested in a click chemistry cancer research startup (Shasqi) in 2017 and ends up becoming a customer six years later. I sincerely hope it works out for him.

It's mentioned in the slide deck on the url linked. I highly recommend clicking through all the slides. It's absolutely one of the most fascinating decks I've come across. His sheer will to want live is impressive and inspiring.

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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post #20
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

According to some online sources his total wealth is under $3B. Hardly ‘unfathomable wealth’ IMO. Sure, billionaire territory but nowhere near the ultra-wealthy.

Friend, $3B is unfathomable wealth for an individual.

I can fathom 3B, I can’t fathom 300B

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3 billion is ultra wealthy, you can't be serious.

It’s entry-level billionaires club. The top 10 each hold $100B–$300B+, so the wealth distribution is extraordinarily skewed even within billionaires themselves. Musk is hundreds of times richer. Hardly obscenely rich.

I must be talking to AI

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

#28
The linked post about his treatment is basically a vanity article; low in useful information, but high in vague assertions and platitudes. There's also a link to a post griping about the red tape someone experienced while trying to self-treat their dog's cancer that's weird. I clearly live in a different world than these people.

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

#29
When it comes to cancer, there is an awful lot of legacy thinking and "way things are done" taking lives. Starting with the so called "standard of care", which makes patient lose precious treatment windows while they wait for a possible miracle from "first-line drugs" from thirty and forty years ago which frankly are not that good. But it's hard to reform because the fraction of people who ever think about cancer as a problem to be solved is quite small; and it ought to be far larger, given that cancer is the second or even first leading cause of death across much of the world. I wish Elliot Hershberg every success.

Re: Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

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post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

3 billion is ultra wealthy, you can't be serious.

It’s entry-level billionaires club. The top 10 each hold $100B–$300B+, so the wealth distribution is extraordinarily skewed even within billionaires themselves. Musk is hundreds of times richer. Hardly obscenely rich.

It's entry-level obscenely rich club.
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