“I love Palantir boys… I just want to go up to them and tell them how attractive they are.” - three girls on the LIRR, uttering words I never expected to hear in my life
Heartbroken for Israel, and for Jews worldwide. I'm disgusted to see friends of mine post things like "Free Palestine" or "but, both sides" as their sole response to Hamas' indiscriminate terrorism in the last few days.
I am hosting Dimi Kellari for a fireside chat on “What it takes to build next-generation infrastructure in America” on 2/28 in NYC. If you are building in or thinking about starting up in energy, mobility, waste, or water, this event is for you.
This is not how I expected news to get out, but yes: I am shutting down Countdown.
We've delivered strong performance, but I believe the future of this space favors larger firms than mine. I don't know what the future holds for me yet, but I look forward to sharing once ready.
The
@usairforce
has selected Anduril to design, manufacture, and test production-representative Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).
In this era of great power competition, there is no time to waste on business as usual. We look forward to delivering CCAs on schedule, within
I don’t know anything about productivity, but one of my favorite things about
@mlevchin
and
@affirm
was the ecosystem for incubating new ideas, whether to be built internally or externally (or both!)... and how supportive (ex-)employees are to one another
Friend in venture: “I think half of the mania in venture growth is explained by young deal makers who want to just jam shit in the portfolio and make a name for themselves.
There’s a nice good business that’s single digit ARR, 3x’ing this year, and ahead of plan. But
Some news: incredibly excited to announce that we’ve raised our second fund of $15M
@CountdownVC
to continue investing in founders rebuilding the American industrial base at the earliest stages. 🚀🇺🇸
I've tweeted it before, I'll tweet it again - go work at Settle and with some of my favorite colleagues from Affirm, including
@AlekKoenig
(CEO) and Shane Moriah (CTO). I hear
@rahulkartgupta
is pretty solid at engineering, too
Starting today, you can leverage Polywork's metadata to search for Twitter profiles that meet certain criteria (e.g. ("product manager" or "contributed to open source" or "open to angel investing in startups").
holy fucking shit we did it
it took 1,128 days but we did it
and we're going to do it again and again
and establish the first industrial celestial empire
Ganymede - the largest moon of Jupiter, and now the best way to set up your life sciences or manufacturing shop.
Proud to support Nathan, Benson, and the Ganymede team.
We're proud to announce our Series A lead by
@caffeinatedcap
! Our Lab-as-Code harmonized data platform and lab instrument integration system are transforming biotech, pharma, chemicals, and broader manufacturing.
Read more here:
Proud to be a tiny part of the critically important collaboration between tech and government 🤝
Thank you
@jacobhelberg
and
@zebulgar
for organizing yet another successful Hill & Valley forum 🇺🇸
Excited to share that Saronic is expanding its headquarters in
#Austin
, TX to support the rapid development, production, & manufacturing of its growing family of ASVs! We also expect to add 100+ new roles throughout 2024. Learn more:
What are the enterprise software companies out there that have invested tons of R&D into not just their product, but also into the operations and internal tools by which they conduct data integrations and deploy solutions at scale? And what are some of those investments?
Just finished reading Fellowship of the Ring, and this line stuck with me:
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
Amazing event - thanks organizing and having us! Hats off to
@jacobhelberg
,
@CGarrett_15
, and
@zebulgar
for bringing the technology and national security crowds together.
Varda has been awarded a $60m Air Force STRATFI contract to advance our nation’s hypersonic capabilities
The Air Force will utilize our re-entry vehicle as a hypersonic test-bed while flying back to Earth after microgravity production
Usually I like to write a thread about why we're so excited about an opportunity, but in this case, there’s no way I could articulate it better than Charlie has already, so just read his launch thread.
I've started a company, Astral, to continue building high-performance developer tools for the Python ecosystem.
We're going to keep building Ruff, and build more Ruff-like things.
We've raised a seed round led by
@Accel
.
I'm extremely excited :)
Related: work with people who want you to do great work.
You can tell if they want you to do great work if they know what great work looks like, help you do it, economically incentivize you to do it, and tell you when you're not doing it.
Being a scout was the best and most challenging job I've ever had, and I am fortunate to be able to stay at Caffeinated and pay it forward. Over the next two years, Ray and I will take responsibility for your success and ensure it is the most rewarding role you have.
Write your own personal history, website, and Wikipedia page.
What are you proud of? What did you learn from? Whom did you work with? Whom do you think you are?
Check out
@PolyworkHQ
I've made 40+ angel investments over the last two and a half years. Finally put together a page (using a new seed investment
@PolyworkHQ
!) to share a few of the public ones:
Also cool to be using a professional social network on a domain I control. :)
Robinhood was not the first company to claim to “democratize finance” and then seemingly contradict themselves, nor will they be the last.
Democratization and decentralization are processes, not values. Processes may not be able to solve for a lack of values (like transparency)
So we (
@ImpulseLabs_
) made the highest performing ... stove.
- 3x the performance of induction and ~5x gas (equiv. of ~72,000 BTU/h!).
- A nontrivial advance in temperature sensing, transforming cooking.
- And it ships this year (taking deposits starting ... today).
Excited to see my friend
@Vbob202
, Dino, Rob, Doug, and the rest of the Saronic team undertake the Herculean effort of modernizing the United States Navy for the 21st century
This might be the least sexy Not Boring essay ever.
@ohadsamet
&
@trueaccord
like it that way. Over 8 years, it's quietly built a fintech juggernaut that's helping people get, and stay, out of debt.
Now, it's partnering w fintechs to rethink the system.
I started at Caffeinated in this role in 2020. With immense help from Ray and the Caffeinated ecosystem, I cultivated my network, invested in 25+ startups alongside smart investors, and have begun (I think!) to learn what makes exceptional founders tick.
BREAKING: The Navy released a fact sheet late Tuesday showing that every major shipbuilding program they're working on is delayed by years. YEARS. It's jaw-dropping.
Today, Boom announced the successful flight of XB-1, the world's first independently developed supersonic jet, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California. Flown by Chief Test Pilot Bill "Doc" Shoemaker, XB-1's inaugural flight marks a major milestone toward the return
Young guy on the NYC subway, yelling at nobody in particular at 11pm: "You know the transit system in Japan? It’s 1000x better than this shit."
Old guy next to me, dressed like a pimp, whispers to me: "He's on the shit."
I’m excited to announce that REGENT has taken flight! 🛫
We combined the benefits from ground effect flight, distributed electric propulsion, and hydrofoiling into a single platform: the seaglider
Which will massively improve convenience & affordability of regional travel
🧵👇
Couldn't more highly vouch for this team and opportunity. Learned tons from
@AlekKoenig
and Shane at Affirm... they possess the rare ability in fintech to drive growth, manage risk, and build quickly, all at once. Oh, and you'd work with
@rahulkartgupta
, who's not so bad either
1/3 We're growing like crazy! I can't believe we're already 30 people (9 end of last year 🤯) and now it's time for the next stage of hyper growth, so we're looking for the best @ :
- People Ops Manager
- Lead Recruiter
- Backend Engineers
👇
Hot off the press! We have served more than 20M consumers in
#debt
with digital-first experiences, and the client and customer results are remarkable. Read more about how our
#machinelearning
gets better with experience:
I’m having a small happy hour Tuesday in NYC for American Dynamism builders and allies. If you haven’t gotten an invite and want one, DM me. A few spots left, particularly for founders. Near Madison Square Park.
To celebrate our launch on May 6, we'll create a beautiful AI diagram for you if you post your diagram prompt and mention
@eraserlabs
.
For example:
@eraserlabs
"using a flow chart, show me how to use GitHub "
lfg
@Polywork
: "If existing professional networks list only our job titles and schools and social networks like Twitter have devolved to screaming contests optimized for likes/followers etc, where do we go to really connect and do things together?"
Something about taking a train into Westchester for Thanksgiving and discovering East Coast fall colors for the first time… Happy Thanksgiving! Logging off -
Herculean effort by
@willR_leopold
and William Steenbergen to digitize P&C underwriting with modern architecture, enabling underwriters to save time and insurers to leverage first-party and third-party insights for making better decisions.
Federato is proud to announce that it has raised $15M in Series A funding, led by
@emergencecap
, the investors behind Salesforce, Zoom, Veeva, Box and other SaaS leaders, with participation from
@caffeinatedcap
and
@pearvc
. Read the full announcement:
Just finished reading The Two Towers, and this line stuck with me:
"But I expect they had lots of chances, like us, of turning back, only they didn't. And if they had, we shouldn't know, because they'd have been forgotten."
We're pumped to announce this partnership with Wolfram|Alpha, bringing more computational capabilities to AI models on
@JuliusAI_
Now you can solve math equations that LLMs traditionally struggle with on JuliusAI 🚀
Randomly met someone whose grandparents lived in Delhi, just like my grandparents.
Turns out… his grandparents lived above my grandparents (based on unit numbers).
Unfortunately, we’ll never know if they knew each other, because they have all passed away in the last 3 years.
@kevin_scott
@OpenAI
A little unclear what exclusive means here... "OpenAI will continue to offer GPT-3 and other powerful models via its own Azure-hosted API, launched in June.”
@julienchien
Three years ago, we had a wild idea to expand manufacturing to space.
Today, after we've launched & reentered the first-ever commercial spacecraft to land on US soil, we're announcing the completion of a $90 million Series B funding round -- and we're just getting started.
Excited to announce that we've raised a $42m Series A to build the world's first space factories
Co-led by Khosla Ventures (
@SamirKaul1
) & Caffeinated Capital (
@tonsing
)
Varda will bring the benefits of space to a much wider population via our products we bring back to Earth!!
@Suhail
Emporium for arcade games, axe throwing, classes (making cocktails, terraria, pasta, etc.), minigolf (Urban Putt), hiking in North Bay and then relaxing in Sausalito (e.g. Bar Bocce), escape rooms, etc.
🔥
In founding Neros, we began with immense drone experience (in fact, both of us started building tech by age ten, and originally met as some of the few teens at early drone races.”
Jonathan Levin, a distinguished economist and Stanford alumnus who has led the Stanford Graduate School of Business as dean for the last eight years, has been appointed the next president of Stanford University, the Board of Trustees announced today.
5/ Third,
@haystackVC
is proud to promote
@aashaysanghvi_
to Principal. Aashay has demonstrated a high-powered work ethic combined w/ innate judgment re: people, opportunities, risks & planning. Please join me in congratulating Aashay on this well-deserved recognition