I've only interacted with him a couple of times, years ago, but he was very helpful and accepted my MR.
Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies
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Doing well. We've not seen the cancer for 10 months (not for lack of trying) and I'm enjoying an international trip for pleasure!
Glad to hear! After losing my wife to cancer (highly aggressive brain tumor, she only had six weeks), I'm happy that you had the time, resources, strength, will to take cancer by the lurven
Yea, it is incredible to see what could be accomplished with time and technology.
Someone in my immediate family had Glioblastoma, it felt like fighting a hurricane.
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#263I think you’d find Dr. Richard Scolyer’s story really relatable. He’s an Australian cancer expert who, along with his colleague, is using himself as "patient zero" for a world-first treatment for his own brain cancer. They’re basically doing the research and the treatment in parallel to find a new way forward: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-30/dr-richard-scolyer-sp...
Unfortunately, I found this from 12 days ago https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15655909/Dr-Richard... . Glioblastoma is a horrible disease.
3 years is already beating the odds with a stage 4 glioblastoma. It's one of the worst
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#264(slightly sarcastic) So we should give rich people diseases so they are incentivized to fund medical research? Sid seems like a decent person. I'm glad that he's able to push cancer research forward on his own. Hopefully his work will make things better for everyone else with bone cancer. Seems like that is well under way. (and I guess I should recognize that he funded a cancer treatment company years before he knew…
The bottleneck isn't research funding, it's getting past the FDA
The bottleneck is capitalism, in which only things that turn a profit are deemed worth doing.
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#265This is one of the most punk rock things humanly possible. "F** the doctors; I'll fix the cancer myself!" Gigantic respect, and massive congrats to being right!
Good on you, Mr. GitLab!
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Quick, without doing any kind of Googling or calculation: if I asked you to count 3B grains of rice by hand, how long would that take you? How big would that pile of rice be? How long would it take you to eat it? A billion is already unfathomably large. If you think it isn't, you just haven't tried imagining what a billion of anything would be like.
The problem with this exercise is that I have a few million in wealth and I cannot actually visualize a few million grains of rice but I am fully aware of my total capacity to allocate capital to problems. Neither $3b nor $300b are realistically unfathomable to me. I find them easy to consider in terms of the projects I can build if I achieved each of these amounts. As an example I’d have to allocate somewhere betwee…
Friend, it's truly great that you can do that. But you're missing the damn point.
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#268There'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.
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or the top 1% of value holders means your connection to other holders is vastly smaller than the other 99%. also highly likely to get cancer no matter who you are. i think the odds are better than people think, was just a matter of time
regardless of that observation: i am glad it's good people working with good people on these problems!
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#269so many of these now. it is so sad and scary. been thinking about prenuvo all the time now but not sure if thats going to help or make me more paranoid.
Before I got my Prenuvo MRI everything online said “don’t do this, man. You’ll find all sorts of things that will worry you that you wouldn’t be worried about if you didn’t do it”. That makes no sense to me. Totally irrational. So I did the scan and saw a bunch of things which had no clinical significance - including the amusing thing that I’m missing the transverse processes on a couple of vertebrae (easily explaina…
There is a chicken and egg problem with advanced diagnostics like Prenuvo. I’m optimistic that if all disease were to be caught early, (1) the health system would evolve what is standard of care downstream in the working up and treatment of findings and (2) as individuals we would be less likely to overreact in chasing stuff down and feeling anxious. As CEO of Prenuvo, we do our best to contextualize and risk stratify in what is an evolving practice.
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Not the time nor the place
I was afraid of that. I hope you find a path.
Having lost several members of our family to cancer over the last several decades, including my mother, I sometimes question where all the money going into cancer research has gone. Maybe what has been lacking are motivated patients with both the means and the intellectual capacity to drive for solutions. Again, I hope you find a path.