Antoni Kiszka
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Antoni Kiszka (Derpetual): Derivatives for Any Asset & the Thiel Fellowship
Derpetual co-founder Antoni Kiszka explains a protocol for creating derivatives that don't require locked-up liquidity, enabling longs and shorts on assets from meme coins to AI compute, with a CFTC-licensed derivatives exchange as the end goal. He describes dropping out of university for the Thiel Fellowship, his parents' reaction, and his hope that such markets redirect quantitative talent like Jane Street's toward socially useful prediction.
Dr. Andre Retterath (Earlybird VC): €360M Fund & Augmented VC
Earlybird GP Dr. Andre Retterath announces the firm's new €360M early-stage fund, its largest ever, and walks through its deep tech, infrastructure/foundation model, and AI application theses. He explains how AI collapsed the cost of generation and shifted the bottleneck to distribution, details Earlybird's in-house data stack and 'augmented VC' philosophy, and argues public markets are entering an accountability phase after the capex build-out.