Founders Fund Bets on Fish. The Universe Wants to Learn

Peter Thiel's fund is putting money into Humanely, a fish company. The TLDR newsletter put it this way: "The universe just wants to learn."

Founders Fund and Ouster are backing the company as it figures out how to kill fish without making them suffer. It's less about sentiment and more about science — studying fish behavior, nervous systems, and stress responses to build something that actually works.

The bet is part of Founders Fund's wider move into food tech. Companies that can scale what we eat without destroying the animals doing the eating are the ones getting the capital.

Why this matters for us: If fish farming scales up the way people think it will, the prices we pay at the market — and the quality of what's on our plates — will shift in ways we're not prepared for.