Today, the acquisition of @ataibeckley, the psychedelics biotech company I founded in 2017, by @EliLillyandCo for up to $ 3.8 billion closed, marking one of the largest biotech acquisitions of the year - and the largest transaction in the history of the psychedelic sector. When I first started contemplating bringing psychedelics back into mainstream medicine in 2014 - which ultimately resulted in founding $CMPS and, shortly after, $ATAI in 2017 - it was widely seen as a crazy idea with virtually no chance of success. Looking back today, it is almost funny how quickly collective memory changes. Today, psychedelic medicine feels almost inevitable. Back then, it was anything but. And I am very proud and satisfied that I was able to play the role of one of the lead evangelists of this new era of mental health treatments. I expressed all my thoughts and feelings in the blog post I published on the day the acquisition was announced. Feel free to revisit it: nitter.siddz.com/C_Angermayer/status/20… But there is one point I want to emphasize especially today: I believe Lilly is the best partner we could have wished for. Not only is Lilly the largest and most successful pharmaceutical company in the world, but throughout every interaction - both before and after signing - they have demonstrated a deep understanding of the importance of bringing these valuable therapeutics back into the medical world and making them available to patients as soon as possible. As I wrote in my blog post: Psychedelics needed an evangelist ten years ago. Now it is all about commercialization. And I cannot think of a better rollout machine than Eli Lilly. And, as you have probably already guessed, selling AtaiBeckley certainly does NOT mean that I will be stepping away from neuroscience - and especially not from psychedelics. 😉 I believe more strongly than ever that the brain and our consciousness represent humanity’s final frontier - and one we need to explore with urgency, particularly as increasingly capable, and potentially sentient and conscious, AI systems move closer to reality. I have some major news coming over the next few weeks, which may blow your mind, so make sure you follow me and turn on notifications if you don’t want to miss what’s next.

You really start to grasp just how powerful AI is going to be when it makes us fall in love with what it can do - right before our extinction. And I’m guilty as charged. I love the song and am already in love.

There are many explanations for what is happening in France right now, and especially why, with riots being the most visible symptom. A disastrous immigration policy spanning decades is undoubtedly part of the story. But I believe there is a deeper issue, which I tried to explore in my blog post a few months ago, and which worries me the most: the sheer speed of change, leaving ever-larger parts of society *feeling* left behind, left out, and increasingly fearful of what the future holds. People are beginning to question what their place will be in a world being radically restructured by AI and robotics. The last time we experienced a technological transformation of comparable scale was during the decades leading up to 1914. On the upside, the period saw an unprecedented economic boom, driven by the platform technologies of its time: electricity, the automobile, the railway, and the telephone. But alongside this extraordinary progress came fear, resentment, and disenfranchisement. And with them came seemingly simple answers to profoundly complex questions: It's the Jews - kill them. It's the rich - kill them. And here we are again 😢 The most worrying part? We are only at the beginning of this cycle. Call me an optimist, but I believe we can learn from history and do better this time. The tragic irony of the last great technological transformation is that so much of the fear proved misplaced in the long run. The world became dramatically better - not just for the elites, but for ordinary people, too. A working-class person in the 1950s generally enjoyed a standard of living, access to healthcare, consumer goods, and opportunities that would have been unimaginable to someone in the same position in 1850. I believe the same will ultimately be true of AI and robotics. The end state could be extraordinary for humanity. But that outcome is not guaranteed, and the transition will not take care of itself. Our greatest risk is not that technology fails to make the world better. It is that we destroy ourselves, and each other, out of unjustified and misplaced fear of a future that could ultimately make us all better off. We need to find a way to navigate the transition without allowing understandable anxiety about change to turn into hatred, scapegoating, and violence. Because the future may be better than anything we have experienced before. We just need to make it there. Read my thoughts here: nitter.siddz.com/C_Angermayer/status/20…

Back in May, he competed as a natural athlete in the @enhanced_games and already wowed the crowd. No surprise there: Hunter is one of the greatest swimmers of our time. 🥇 Two-time Olympic gold medalist. World champion. Now, he’s going all in. @ArmstrongH_ has decided to go enhanced. 🚀 His reason? “Enhanced is investing in athletes and giving us a stage that didn’t exist before.” LET’S GO, HUNTER! Don’t miss the next $ENHA Breakers Swim event on December 19 in Las Vegas - with Hunter in the lineup!

$ENHA not only delivered a globally recognized sporting event last May and is gearing up for the 2nd Enhanced Games in 2027, but also brings world-class competition to audiences year-round through its Breakers series. We’ve just announced the next event, taking place in Las Vegas December 19. Find all the details here:

A day in the life of investor Christian Angermayer trib.al/T9lCEAv

Il y aura un avant et un après le 17 octobre 2026. Qu'on arrête de nous raconter que la jeunesse française s'est soulevée pour une école en panne. C'est faux. L'immense majorité des lycéens n'était pas dans la rue samedi. Si on lui demandait son avis, elle dirait qu'elle veut étudier, bosser, construire sa vie. La majorité silencieuse ne brûle pas des mairies. Ce qu'on a vu samedi, ce n'est pas une révolte sociale. C'est une instrumentalisation totale. Des structures radicalisées qui utilisent des gamins de 16 ans comme bouclier moral et des revendications légitimes comme paravent. Mais il faut comprendre d'où ça vient. Pendant 20 ans, le bloc central a gouverné main dans la main avec le globalisme bruxellois. Macron, Ursula von der Leyen, la Commission, les mêmes réflexes, le même mépris pour les nations, la même certitude d'avoir raison contre les peuples. Ils ont laissé l'immigration se gérer toute seule. Ils ont laissé l'école s'effondrer. Ils ont laissé la vie devenir hors de prix. Et chaque fois que quelqu'un osait le dire, ils le traitaient de raciste, de facho, d'extrême droite. Ce système a fabriqué le chaos. Et aujourd'hui, c'est l'extrême gauche qui le récolte. Voilà l'intrication que personne ne veut nommer. Le centre globaliste a créé le vide. L'extrême gauche s'y est engouffrée, en s'appuyant sur une immigration mal gérée et une jeunesse qu'on a abandonnée. Les deux se détestent en apparence. En réalité, l'un produit les fractures, l'autre les exploite. Et les deux ont un ennemi commun : ceux qui disaient la vérité depuis le début. Samedi, des millions de Français ont regardé les images. L'hôtel de ville de Limoges en feu. Un poste de police saccagé à Marseille. Des journalistes agressés à Paris. Et ils ont compris : ceux qu'on faisait taire décrivaient simplement la réalité. C'est pour ça que je suis optimiste. On est à l'aube d'une prise de conscience globale. Je le dis depuis longtemps : on va vivre un nouveau 1989. Les empires du mensonge ne tombent pas sous les coups. Ils tombent le jour où plus personne n'y croit. La France tombera la première. Mais elle tombera la première pour se relever la première. La fin du globalisme incarné par Macron et von der Leyen ne sera pas la fin de l'Occident. Ce sera sa renaissance. Le 17 octobre, quelque chose s'est brisé. Pas la France. Le mensonge. On s'en souviendra.

You've probably seen the video. A young Frenchwoman in Paris, in tears, begging looters to stop. "Why are you doing this? That's not what we stand for." Some accounts are mocking her. "She voted for it." I won't. Because what you see on her face is not stupidity. It's a disease that has infected the entire West, and it has a name: suicidal empathy. The term comes from Gad Saad, an evolutionary behavioral scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. A man who fled the Lebanese civil war as a child, and who knows what it looks like when a society falls apart. His new book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind, is the follow-up to The Parasitic Mind. Here is the thesis, and why it concerns every one of us. Empathy is one of the best things about us. It evolved for a reason: to care for our children, our kin, our tribe. It was calibrated for a world where the people you felt for were the people around you, and where empathy always came paired with its counterweight: the instinct to protect your own and to recognize a threat. Suicidal empathy is what happens when that mechanism misfires. When it fires at the wrong targets, in the wrong amounts, with no brake. When we feel more for the criminal than for his victim. More for the stranger who breaks the rules than for the citizen who follows them. More for how compassionate we look than for what our compassion actually produces. Where does it come from? Four layers. First, biology. Empathy is a spotlight, as the psychologist Paul Bloom put it. It lights up the one face in front of you and leaves everything else in the dark. The crying migrant on the boat is visible. The thousands of future victims of a broken system are statistics. A spotlight is a terrible tool for running a country. Second, our own civilization. The West is the civilization that put the victim at the center of its morality. Christianity taught us to care for the stranger, the poor, the weak. It was one of the greatest moral revolutions in history. But cut off from its other half, justice, responsibility, the duty to protect your own, it turns into something else. Third, ideology. In The Parasitic Mind, Saad described idea pathogens, ideas that hijack our reasoning. Suicidal empathy is the emotional counterpart: an ideology that hijacks our compassion. It sorts the world into oppressors and victims, then demands unlimited empathy for whoever ranks as the victim, whatever they do. Fourth, status. In the age of social media, empathy has become a display. Posting "refugees welcome" costs nothing and earns applause. The bill goes to someone else: the working class, the suburbs, the women walking home at night. The results are everywhere. Criminals treated as victims of society. Sexual assaults by migrants met with lenient sentences. Self-defense branded as aggression. Borders treated as cruelty. Saad's conclusion is simple: a society dies when it would rather display infinite tolerance than use its survival instinct. Now the part I'll add myself, and that few people dare to say. On average, women score higher than men on measures of empathy. It's one of the most consistent findings in psychology, across cultures, and it makes perfect evolutionary sense: for most of human history, the survival of children depended on it. It's a strength. But it means an ideology that weaponizes empathy will hit women harder. And the data shows it: in country after country, young women have moved sharply to the left of young men, especially on immigration. This is where men have a responsibility. Not to mock. Not to lecture. Not to say "she deserved it." Empathy has always needed a counterweight, and that counterweight was the protective instinct: the one that draws lines, says no, and stands between the threat and the people it loves. Men abandoned that role. They were told it was toxic, and many believed it. So they stayed silent at the dinner table, at work, with their partners, sisters, daughters and friends. That has to end. Men have to have this conversation, honestly and with respect: compassion that cannot say no is not compassion. It's surrender. And the first to pay for it are women. Many women already understand this better than anyone. Some of the bravest voices in this fight are women, precisely because they are the first to feel the danger in the street. A civilization rests on a balance: compassion and strength, openness and borders, mercy and justice. When one side swallows the other, the foundations crack. What we are watching in Europe is what happens when empathy has no counterweight left. Look at that young woman again. She isn't the enemy. She's what this ideology made of a generation that was told kindness would be enough. Our job is to make sure she's the last generation that has to learn it this way.

It’s not as though Europe wasn’t warned

I 100% agree with @elonmusk here. This is precisely why my family office and investment firm, @ApeironInvests, has been investing heavily in sports (for example $ENHA), entertainment, and hospitality for years: these are the industries that will help people make the most of their newly gained free time. As an added bonus, these assets are far more difficult - if not practically impossible - to disrupt at scale. There is only so much hotel capacity in iconic locations, only so many tickets to a given concert, and only so many seats at a major sporting event. While, like Elon, I believe the end state could be amazing for humanity, what concerns me is the transition. The loss of jobs - even if replaced by UBI - will shake us to our core. Work is more than just a source of income; it provides purpose, identity, and structure. Losing it on a massive scale will inevitably create fear and uncertainty. And humanity has never done particularly well when driven by fear. Read my thoughts here: nitter.siddz.com/C_Angermayer/status/20…

Still one of my favourite podcasts of the year so far. If you haven’t listened yet, it might be just the thing for a quiet Sunday autumn afternoon. “Better Sex, Better Hair, Better Sleep: ‘Humanmaxxing’ Is Here” - the headline captures the content quite well 😉 @Douthat60 and I ended up discussing perhaps the biggest question of all - one that is as philosophical, even religious, as it is scientific: As humans gain the ability to enhance themselves in ever more profound ways, are we actually meant to do so? And is there a point at which enhancement makes us less human rather than more? Give it a listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

The Bronze Age Collapse may hold a cautionary lesson for our AI future. When bronze gave way to iron, the old powers lost their monopoly on weapons. The world order collapsed. Today, AI is doing something similar: decentralizing power and lowering the barriers to capabilities once reserved for states. I’m not afraid of a post-AGI world. I’m afraid of the transition. History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.

It’s been only 3 months since the #PCAC convened in Washington to opine on 7 #peptides, and it’s amazing to see that the FDA has now submitted an interim access policy for compounding with these peptides to the White House for review. Love seeing this progress and hope the rulemaking follows soon. $ENHA is very well positioned and very excited, once the rulemaking is there, to provide our athletes and consumers with access to these peptides. Can’t wait!! Link below

Plasma and @Stripe are partnering to bring a new generation of products to market. Our co-development of multi-currency cards is the first step in realizing this vision.

Crypto is an industry that is rarely short of hyperbolic announcements. But this “low-key” one is, in my opinion, a genuine game changer - both for @Plasma and for the broader crypto ecosystem, particularly when it comes to payment rails. Plasma and @Stripe are partnering to bring a new generation of products to market. The collaboration starts with the co-development of multi-currency cards, but this is just the first step toward realizing a much broader joint vision. It’s also a huge validation for the Plasma team. With all the bias that comes with being the founding investor, I genuinely believe they are among the best entrepreneurs in the entire crypto space. They are real builders, not here for the hype, but focused on creating systems and products that can fundamentally improve people’s lives around the world - while ensuring that the value they create ultimately accrues to plasma:native token holders and that the XPL community remains at the heart of this journey. That’s what crypto should be about.

Formula 1 has announced a landmark 10-year agreement to bring the sport back to the African continent, with the Formula 1 African Grand Prix, presented by @visitrwanda_now and hosted in beautiful Kigali, set to join the calendar in the early 2030s. This marks a historic milestone for the sport and will see F1 return to Africa for the first time since 1993. They could hardly have chosen a more compelling host country than Rwanda. Having done business in Africa for almost 20 years, I’ve seen firsthand how different countries approach ambition, development, and execution. Rwanda stands out for its clarity of vision, its ambition, its integrity, and, above all, its ability to consistently turn promises into reality. Rwanda is showing the world what is possible when a country thinks big, invests in its future, and pursues its ambitions with determination and consistency. It is a powerful example of the opportunities that emerge when leadership, long-term vision, and national ambition come together. Bringing @F1 back to Africa is about so much more than racing. It’s about putting the continent firmly on the global stage, creating opportunities, attracting investment, and inspiring a new generation. Kigali is a fitting place to make that vision a reality. A huge congratulations to President @PaulKagame and the entire team who have worked tirelessly to make this vision a reality. It’s a remarkable milestone for Rwanda and an exciting moment for Africa. Looking forward to seeing the world’s fastest sport return to the continent in a country that knows how to think big and deliver 🤩

Worth defending, indeed. And building upon it and taking it to the next level 🚀

Will's founder letter: bridgeneurotech.com/letter