Jannik Schilling

Physicist. Investor. Schilling Capital.

I am a physicist by training and work on technical frontiers. I invest in and work with technical founders working on important problems. I live in San Francisco and grew up in Germany. I was previously an investor at Founders Fund. At thirteen, I studied theoretical physics where I researched galaxy simulations and star formation. After two years, I came to the conclusion that theoretical physics had stagnated and left the field. I still think about ways to fix foundational science and try to read as many physics papers as I can (email me your favourites). I plan to fund and build a…

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