Karan Talati 🔧 @karantalati Twitter profile

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Karan Talati 🔧

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2 years

Sorry Indian Americans. It's no longer good enough to be CEO. You have to be prime minister of a former colonizer now. That's the new bar.

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2 years

@Sharekh_ Kya ye politics bolitics mein fas gaya? Boris ki haal dekh!

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1 year

You're telling me this startup raised only $3m from a tier 3 VC before becoming a $140bn company???

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4 years

Excited to be featured in @TechCrunch today! After working quietly with our early partners, I'm excited to share how our Factory Operating System is helping manufacturers build better, faster, and safer for a better world.

Founded by former SpaceX engineers, First Resonance pitches tools to make things the SpaceX way |...

After operating in stealth mode for about two years, First Resonance, a company founded by former SpaceX engineers, is finally showing the world their

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3 years

I am incredibly happy to announce our $14m Series A round today! This funding validates the work we've been doing and will allow us to scale the ION Factory OS to more manufacturers solving today's most important challenges.

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First Resonance brings its space-scale manufacturing OS to hardware makers with $14M A round | by Devin Coldewey

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5 years

@ABC7 Unpopular opinion(?): This is good. Curbside rideshare pickup at LAX is a disaster.

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3 months

If you’re a founder that recently became enamored by hardtech, hmu for 150000 ideas that are better than automating CNC.

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4 years

Announcing our latest $3.5m funding round at First Resonance

First Resonance raises $3.5m led by Blue Bear Capital, bringing total funding to over $5m.

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4 years

@CatchKristen But they're strategic and intellectual elites. How dare you make them stoop to the peasant affairs of... building a company?

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2 years

OH in tech LA: "It looks like LA Tech Week is actually LA Tech Investor Week"

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9 months

You can tell how much someone knows about hardtech by how difficult they believe wire harnessing is.

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9 months

SpaceX took ULA’s contracts AND created new market. Anduril will take Northrop’s. I will add 100 other companies to this list by the end of this decade.

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3 months

@kwharrison13 Aren’t the scooters on their balance sheet worth more?

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4 months

We are a startup based in Los Angeles that is building the critical digital infrastructure for over 50 companies building insane things like nuclear reactors and electric airplanes. I can’t imagine not being this ambitious.

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3 years

Bring your dad to work day.

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4 months

LA is the home of deep tech because only a hydrogen-extracting nuclear reactor-powered eVTOL that goes to space can get us from a happy hour in Torrance to a VC dinner in Pasadena on the same night.

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6 months

Every old guard aerospace engineer reading the article about an F1 team tracking their parts in Excel.

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@karantalati

10 months

Investors be giving people $1bn to 3D print something that doesn't need to be 3D-printed, but think purchase order automation for the industrial base is solved 😅

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6 years

@Austen "Oh wow. Saw that you're connected to Austen. I'm building something in edtech. Could you connect us?" "Nah, saw him from across the hallway once in 2011."

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3 years

Most people that say "ITAR" have no idea what they are actually saying let alone how to manage it. No, an order for office snacks is not an ITAR-regulated information exchange.

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4 years

@McStempel One chiefs. The other staffs. Together, they are the joint chiefs of staff.

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2 years

@nanvorden This is true! I was surprised by how nonchalant people were about Antonio Costa.

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1 year

Technical founders: It's important to know that when you move from a technology world to a CEO/founder role, you are signing up for a career change from technology/engineering to psychology (not really even business. Accounting and financial modeling are very easy)

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5 years

@KunalTandon @shriyanevatia I'm an Indian CEO, and my dad still messages me about Indian CEOs who aren't me.

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6 years

@semil Pre-seed fund: "We like it, but tell us about your path to raising an A"

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2 years

Amazing to see what our team has been doing with manufacturing data and machine learning. We are soon going to be able to predict material failures, fixes to them, lead times for supply chain, and more. This is going to change everything.

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2 years

What a day. Toured a portable nuclear reactor company, mapped requirements for an autonomous airplane company to their regulatory needs, and discussed the economics of concentrated solar power at our happy hour. Stock markets be damned. Your boy is powering the future.

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5 years

On 10/8/18, @NealSarraf and I flew up to San Francisco to meet with a bunch of prospective customers and investors, not sure if we were even worthy. Today, we're having our first company all-hands meeting with our team of 9 strong.

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2 years

People seem worried about this surveillance balloon flying over the USA, so my reporters and I went out for a live shot of it. Check it out:

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2 years

China was never going to be the only place to build. The sheer idea of sending all knowledge to one place and then putting all of those things on boats to ship out to the rest of the world is wild. Imagine if we did this with pizza...

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4 years

@airtable @annbordetsky Noops

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26 days

Following up: If you are a hardtech founder, beware that procurement/supply chain is a highly-saturated space.

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3 months

If you’re a founder that recently became enamored by hardtech, hmu for 150000 ideas that are better than automating CNC.

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3 months

Seems like Detroit is the place to be next week for Reindustrialize. Looking forward to it. If you will be there, let me know!

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1 year

It's astounding how much economic effort is put into predicting the future rather than building it.

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2 years

It's hard to work with me. Because I get shit done, and I hold a high bar – for myself and everyone I work with. The people who enjoy working with me IMPRESS me regularly. Non-impressive people struggle. We may get fewer applications bcuz of this tweet, but they will be better.

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2 years

We started @firstresonance because we knew the biggest opportunities in the 2020s were going to be in energy, transportation, robotics, and more.

US Factory Boom Heats Up as CEOs Yank Production Out of China

There has been a sense in financial circles that the fever among American executives to shorten supply lines and bring production back home would prove short-lived. As soon as the pandemic started to...

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@karantalati

5 years

It me.

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@firstresonance

5 years

@TechCrunch came by! 🎥 Our CEO Karan Talati, @ktal90 , had a great chat about the #newspaceeconomy , life after #SpaceX , tech fueling #manufacturing and the energy of the LA #tech scene.

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2 years

Overheard in LA tech: "I heard he moved to Miami, bought a house, and got married. I don't even follow him on Twitter. The algorithms just wanted me to know."

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6 years

Person: How did you meet your fiancée? Were you arranged? My brain: I listened to Linkin Park, played Halo, ate Toaster Strudels, and skateboarded. I was whiter than your kids. My mouth: We met in college.

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2 years

Photos from @firstresonance annual summit. As we've expanded to almost 50 people this year, our annual summit is an opportunity to connect personally and professionally, so we can build a better ION Factory OS.

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@karantalati

5 years

Holiday party 2018 vs. holiday party 2019. Feeling blessed to have grown something from nothing with @NealSarraf this past year and to have an amazing team of Resonators and our family and friends as we charge into 2020.

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5 years

@PPathole @elonmusk Isn't another way to measure demand (as a function of the price) to charge the full cost of the vehicle? Or even slightly discounted to incentivize opting into the up front payment? You can do that right now too.

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5 months

Think I might get into hardtech.

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4 years

As an early-stage founder, I'm busy trying to build the best product for the customer, build a team, etc. It is relieving when the customer approaches ME about growing our contract so we can deliver to them faster. #humblebrag

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2 years

Candidates be asking me about our ethical position on powering aerospace and defense companies. And then they tell me they are considering opportunities at Facebook 😅

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2 years

Perception vs reality of what factories look like. Don't take work for granted. Pictured here: Tesla (left), Tesla (right)

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2 years

Hardtech CEOs: It's time to build. Social media CEOs: It's time to bill.

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4 years

These past few weeks at @firstresonance ... let me tell ya. This is taking off 🚀. Happy Friday! 🍻

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2 years

People think "boring factory software". Meanwhile, the First Resonance team just spent this past week touring companies building the future of air and space travel. Companies building on ION.

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4 years

If you type "Hi Karen" in an email to me in this climate, it's more than just a typo 🤬

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@karantalati

4 years

Excited to share that I'm joining @beondeck 's On Deck Scale fellowship! Looking forward to connecting with other founders that are pushing the boundaries for the world, their companies, and for themselves. Ready to learn and share!

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2 years

When we were fundraising in 2019, we used to hear ridiculous things like "All manufacturing will eventually go to China". This is as myopic as saying that all food will one day grow in Illinois.

America's 'once unthinkable' chip export restrictions will hobble China's semiconductor ambitions

America's introduced sweeping rules aimed at cutting China off from key chips and components for supercomputers. That could hurt China's semiconductor industry.

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3 years

One of our engineers went on a week-long camping trip. Upon his return, he's been wearing a collared shirt and tie every day. Idk what happened in that forest 🌲

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10 months

My favorite part about interacting with other software for hardware founders is spending the first 10 minutes telling each other about how we're not going to bleed into each other's domains. Because one company can definitely build all of the following: CAD PLM MES ERP

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6 years

Pitch: Reality TV series that follows the planning, execution, and drama of Indian-American weddings.

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9 months

God spread out LA, so we can build more factories.

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4 months

Just interviewed a candidate who said they don't want to work for a first-time founder after a 5-year stint at Meta. What gives?

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6 years

I've been using @auth0 for identity management for my new project. It's amazing how these "as a service" things are continuing to come up. We're getting a resilient "composable internet". This idea transferred to the enterprise is HUGE.

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6 months

Silicon Valley won't get manufacturing right because they are physically too close to Apple and is influenced by too many people from Apple to understand the broader picture, including where the world is going (localized manufacturing, defense, energy/utilities, etc.)

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5 years

Dentist just texted me saying I owe $200. Asked if I want to pay or they have to call collections. Yeah cool let me just hit the "Pay" button nicely integrated in this text message. Help, @fast !

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1 year

Amazing to be a part of @jobyaviation 's rollout of their first aircraft off of their production line. Their ingenuity from design to manufacturing to business model is impressive. It's a great honor to watch their development and be along for the journey. ⚡️🔋✈️

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4 years

@hunterwalk @JoeFernandez Well... But "our team has a collective 356,000 years of product experience"

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@karantalati

5 years

Any great @webflow developers in LA? We're looking for someone to make our website designs come to life. We're building the manufacturing intelligence platform for next-generation hardware companies. This is a very cool thing.

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4 years

@jamesbeshara LA is making great progress with vegan and environmentally-conscious eating. Here come the keto bros biohacking their way down the 5.

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7 years

@notsbstnrd @N_Musicc @FolkertWierda @elonmusk Both correct (ish). Physicist by training, engineer in practicality, scientist in title (Chief Scientist at SpaceX)

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2 years

Software is eating the world. We are about to debut a low-code interface to further connect people building atoms with bytes. True to its name, a Factory OS is extensible and interfaceable.

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6 months

Is Palantir hard tech or SaaS?

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3 years

@zebulgar Musk Industries products in increasing order of impact: The car is the product. The rocket is the product. The factory is the product. The people are the product.

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5 years

Indian tech Twitter: Is this a "Hi uncle, First Resonance is a..." situation or do I break all known boundaries and call Deepak uncle by his name?!?!

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2 years

Started learning to DJ this past weekend. Those who know me know that I love music. I also find that I'm a huge pattern matcher. Analogies, metaphors, and cross-industry lessons are where I work best. I'm excited to exercise my passion with a new form of creativity.

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2 years

@thakurign Can I make this my Twitter bio?

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5 years

No surprise given the amazing team we've been building through 2019! 2020 is set to be an even more exciting year. Make sure to follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn to keep up with the latest. Pssst: We have some very exciting announcements coming in a few weeks!

First Resonance

@firstresonance

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Proud to announce that we made the LA list of 50 #Startups to Watch in 2020! #BuiltIn50 #BuiltinLA #engineering

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If you are an investor looking to make more investments in the physical world, hear this from this guy: Design costs round down to 0. We live in a world where being operationally excellent is the value. And in hardware, that's manufacturing. Not design.

ELON MUSK : DESIGN IS OVERRATED MANUFACTURING IS UNDERRATED

Taken from this awesome interview by Everyday Astronaught : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t705r8ICkRw&t=807s

www.youtube.com

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4 years

Somewhere in the USA, a 25 year-old FAANG engineer just got a raise to $190k so that they don't leave to go join that one startup solving climate change. Somewhere else in America, a family just received $700 in the mail.

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2 years

"Big hairy audacious goals" are harder to write when you're an infrastructure company. It's not as glamorous as "flying cars for everyone by the end of the decade!" But being comfortable in enabling the world's biggest endeavors is self-selecting... And a bigger opportunity.

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2 years

Introducing our new Director of Business Development.

President Biden

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American manufacturing is back.

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1 year

All teams should aspire to the synchronous, attentive, and high-accountability format of an F1 debrief.

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6 years

@chrisrweeks @dd0novan @duhlinduh @SpaceX The sound can also damage the rocket. This is a very dynamic Twitter thread.

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2 years

Awesome to visit some of our growing customers @EatStellarPizza and @launcher on our @firstresonance field trip. Their products are more than cool. Stellar is making delicious food affordable, and Launcher is opening up access to a growing space economy. The future is now!

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4 years

PSA when all of this ends, don't drive pls.

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2 years

Just visited a customer who told us the horrendous story of their multi-month wait for an ERP implementation that is still not on track. They had a request for a keyboard shortcut in the ION interface. We deployed it while we were in the room.

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1 year

A lot of smart people have been advising that I put our focus on legacy/traditional companies. Well - one of those is apparently selling itself for parts (If you don't know ULA, you at least know Boeing and Lockheed Martin). On the other hand, a company built on ION just got a

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3 years

Very few people understand this, but First Resonance is the best company.

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5 years

I remember conversations like this about 5-6 years ago: "I work at SpaceX" "What's that?" "You know Elon Musk?" "No. Who is that?" "You know Tesla?" "Yeah." "The guy who runs that... He has a company that builds rockets."

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4 years

Actively hiring for people who will paddle like hell to catch a great wave rather than just expect to catch one for free. By the way, let me know if you ever want to go surfing 🏄‍♂️

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1 year

SpaceX has had a lot of good effects on the future of manufacturing. Defaulting to Siemens Teamcenter is not one of them.

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6 years

@naval Dogma -> Worldview

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4 years

I was recently asked about why I left such a cool company doing very meaningful things for the world. Aside from rockets and spaceships, one of SpaceX's most important products is hunger. I have friends who have gone on, hungry for something different.

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2 months

Not sure if we’re going to restore the industrial base or Coachella, but it’s going to be big.

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2 years

Good morning! It feels good to be powering the future. ⚡🤖🇺🇲 @EpirusInc

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5 years

In a startup, you keep pedaling even on a cloudy day. Literally and figuratively. Really great to celebrate our summer beta push and to welcome news members to our team in Catalina last week. We're just getting started!

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4 years

A challenge I've had recently: Explaining to people that the true disruption coming out of Silicon Valley in the past ~20 years is not technical. It has been about distribution and democratization of access.

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4 years

2010: Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. 2020: Proficient in Python, Webflow, and Figma. 2025: Proficient in Something New.

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10 months

Amazing (and humbling) just to count how many of these companies are #BuiltWithION #manufacturing #longla

Nick Kim

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10 months

All over LA, founders are setting up clean rooms and robots to manufacture everything from rocket engine components to portable nuclear fission reactors. @jdsisteron and I compiled a list of 50 hard tech companies you should know about in and around LA:

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7 years

She said yes.

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2 years

SpaceXers commercializing best practices into software comapnies isn't competition. It is THE stack for building hardware.

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5 years

2010s: PayPal Mafia at work. 2020s: Musk Mafia. Let's go.

SpaceX alumni are helping build LA's startup ecosystem | TechCrunch

During the days when Snapchat's popularity was booming, investors thought the company would become the anchor for a new Los Angeles technology scene.

techcrunch.com

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6 months

There is a big opportunity for a "pull-based" enterprise communication tool. Email and Slack are assaults on our attention, and we put the onus on the individual to manage their notifications. People should be able to put anything into the system and "pull" information like,

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2 years

Incredibly grateful and humbled by the super intelligent, respectful, and caring team we are building at @firstresonance . Scaling is tough, and I feel blessed that we are bringing in just some gosh darn good people.

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4 years

So on the bright side, I've reconnected with multiple founder-friends this past few days and scheduled for next week. We all know it's going to be hard, and we can't rely on the fat funding rounds, press, awards, events, stages, glamor, VC hype squad, etc. Game on.

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