24 Mar 2026Meta(re)verse, EU INC, Vibedesign, Microsoft Vs. OpenAI, The Situation Room
Jeff Lynn on Day Zero & Early-Stage Investing
Jeff Lynn — chairman of Day Zero, Republic Europe and the Startup Coalition — recounts co-founding Seedrs, the world's first regulated equity crowdfunding platform, in 2009 and selling it to Republic in 2022. He explains Day Zero's thesis with the Opus community: 8–10 concentrated pre-seed/seed bets, backing founders on founder-market fit and tenacity rather than hours worked, and harnessing community support post-investment. He also contrasts founding today's low-barrier, AI-saturated environment with 2009's wide-open field and directs founders and investors to DayZeroInvestments.com.
Oliver Vince (Basecamp Research) Interview Begins
After a Base ad read, the hosts welcome Oliver Vince, co-founder of Basecamp Research, noting he must be busy and that the company is doing world-changing work — per the earlier rundown, building the trillion gene atlas, the biggest effort to map life on Earth since the Human Genome Project, in partnership with NVIDIA and Anthropic. The conversation is just getting underway as this part of the recording ends.