The 1957 issue of Life that includes the first coverage of Psilocybin Mushrooms in the Western World also has an advert for a local KKK sponsored baseball team. Wild.
Tabula Rasa Ventures | Remote ET | Head of Media & International Events | Full time | tabularasa.ventures
Im the Founding Partner of Tabula Rasa Ventures an Investment firm focused on psychedelic therapeutics. If you're interested in breaking into the world of VC through your expertise in Media and Events management this is a perfect role.
Most folks have been reading about the psychedelics renaissance.
A humongous problem is the absolute lack of data that many psychedelic assisted therapists, guides, spiritualists have, to be able to point to their specific types of therapy as effective.
You come across folks that make humongous claims about the specific modalities they use, but don't track the progress of their patients and therefore don't have the data to prove it. We're working with volunteers at Tabularasa.ventures to develop some simple applications to both screen clients and also allow for practitioners or individuals to record progress (reductions in depression, PTSD, etc.) over time whether treating with microdosing, self administered, or more standard psychedelic assisted therapy (PAT) methods.
This is by far the most comprehensive and quantitative report we've seen. Our firm is also working on publishing industry insights: tabularasa.ventures/research
Considering that vasectomies are completely reversible you're just giving people a safer form of birth control that they can opt out of any time. It's not about not trusting people. It's making individuals lives easier through the implementation of a default that allows for people to make more conscious decisions.
But porn doesn't have high margins. No one (except the large distributors like Mindgeek - Pornhub, Redtube, YouPorn) is making much money. Especially these small sites that are being built. After you subtract legal, production, performer fees you're left with almost nothing.
I worked in the Adult Industry for several years, but building tech for the industry wasn't financially stable for me so I had to leave. Still really passionate about the sex worker community though. Porn performers/activists are the kindest, sweetest, most intelligent group of folks I've ever worked with.
Maybe we can start a small group of engineers who want to discuss working through some solutions together. My email is [email protected] if anyone is interested.
Unfortunately, I've reached out to MIT, Yale, USC which seemed to have departments focused on parts of what I do, but they all basically said "awesome stuff, much needed, we don't have the funding to explore, but please keep in touch".
I play at the intersection of systems engineering and social movements.