David Mount has started four companies, served as CTO, watched funding dry up, and built a passion project about nuclear energy called Atomic Ambitions. When his previous startup, Chinchill.AI, ran out of money, he signed up on YC's Work at a Startup. Two weeks later, a founder from 10x Science reached out & x2014; someone who had actually taken the time to experience Atomic Ambitions. That detail mattered. 10x
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