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Startup founded by ‘Survivor’ champ debuts airless bike tires based on NASA rover tech

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SMART, which is co-founded by “Survivor: Fiji” champion Earl Cole and engineer Brian Yennie, worked with Padula and Creager, along with former NASA intern Calvin Young, to apply the benefits of SMA to the consumer market. Early Stage is the premier “how-to” event for startup entrepreneurs and investors.

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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

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With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. The mystery of Oceankind’s money. Page and his family are reported to have spent much of the pandemic in Fiji.

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This startup is betting that you want to binge remote-work content

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Jesse Chambers , the founder and CEO of wrkfrce , thinks there’s an opportunity for a media publication dedicated solely to helping workers navigate what he thinks is an irreversible shift. The company isn’t competing with any publications, as most cover remote work as one topic of many.

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The Station: Uber’s new battles in the UK, Lucid Motors’ second life plans and Cruise acquires Voyage

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The company’s last public fundraising announcements were more than a year ago. SMART’s co-founders, Survivor: Fiji” champion Earl Cole and engineer Brian Yennie, are targeting the cycling market first with their METL tire, which is set to become available to the general public by early next year.