- Anja Health (anjahealth.com) was introduced as a new YC-backed startup offering low-cost umbilical-cord blood banking, pivoting from an earlier surrogacy-matching concept and apparently subsidizing prices with venture capital while the founder promotes the service heavily on TikTok and is “weirdly big into crypto.”  
- Participants debated whether the company’s model is sustainable, describing it as “losing money on every sale but making it up in volume,” highlighting skepticism about VC-funded bio-startup economics.  
- A Verge article (https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/11/22928867/western-digital-nand-flash-storage-contamination) was shared, noting that Western Digital lost 6.5 billion gigabytes of NAND flash to contamination, an event expected to spike SSD prices and potentially affect storage-heavy bioinformatics or AI projects.  
- Discussion of SpaceX Starship progress expressed frustration that recent “updates” contained no substantive new information, with one member dismissing current efforts as “big model rocketry” until a vehicle actually crosses the Kármán line.  
- It was observed that an empty Starship upper stage could theoretically single-stage-to-space above the Kármán line and already has FAA approval, prompting surprise that SpaceX hasn’t attempted such a high-profile milestone flight.