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Founder & GP @giantstepvc // 💵: @vardaspace @turionspace @bfrobotics @finlessfoods @orbitfab @regentcraft @albedo @eatcala @madeinspace @k2spaceco @picogrid
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Bezos on experimental vs operational failure. Simple and elegant comparison.
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This is how potatoes are unloaded in high volume for a potato chip factory in the midwest.
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@balajis
is spot on this one. PR is legacy. dead.
For every billion in valuation, a tech co should spend a few million on original content, with their own editor-in-chief. Not on PR; that’s just an interface to legacy media corporations.
Tell your own story, it’s your defense budget. Bloomberg isn’t Bloomberg without Bloomberg.
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Deep tech startups will capture the highest exit concentration the next 2 decades like never before. Many 100b++companies will emerge
Advances in energy/energy storage, semiconductor, manufacturing, space mfg, robotics, material science, longevity, sensor tech.
Accelerated.
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I’m very sorry for all the people that didn’t invest in Varda.
You had your chance.
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I am excited to announce
@GiantStepVC
’s participation in
@VardaSpace
’s $90m Series B, with total capital raised at $145m
This allows Varda to transition from demos, to serving various publicly traded pharma and gov customers.
A new era of space utility has begun.
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.
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@NiharRan
@DavidSacks
Anyone can self host, in the 2000 , I hosted my own media and web servers. No problem. Decentralization is coming !
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@JimJarmuschHair
I only remember him from the short circuit movies and he did brownface for that ….. and brown people were very confused why this brown person speaks Hindi like a white guy.
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Everyone don’t forget we
@VardaSpace
also have a factory in space. Floating. Just like the rocks.
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There was this one time when Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and David Sachs staged a coup and ousted Elon Musk as CEO of PayPal…
*Which accelerated the founding of SpaceX*
Good things are likely to come of an unhinged and based Sam.
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Hard Tech is sooo back !
So glad we can finally talk about this! Fury is a high-performance, multi-mission group 5 autonomous air vehicle. It is capable of pulling 9Gs at Mach 0.95 for a tiny fraction of the cost of similarly performant fighter craft.
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To all my engineering followers who love cars
I am in this documentary featuring
@LewisHamilton
@therealdcf1
my friends
@MaroEngel
and
@Vici_swarovski
and more.
I share my experiences over all three episodes, enjoy on Apple TV or Prime!
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Quick reminder that
@VardaSpace
is making a Giant Step in American History this week.
It’s FIRST time the FAA has licensed a commercial company to land a spacecraft on U.S. 🇺🇸 soil. (SpaceX’s Dragon capsule can only land in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico.) 🚀🛰️
WERE BACK.
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Fun day. I’ve raced the track in the AMG One, at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and also Circuito do Estoril. Hoping for many more and all the F1 tracks prior to the F1 races.
Carefully pushing
@MercedesAMGF1
to make that happen especially for Monaco and Singapore.
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We didn’t raise 7.6b but…..
Deployed over 3.0m in Q1 24 across a variety of early stage deep tech startups
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I recently had an LP say on a co, “extremely capex intensive - big risk vs reward”
Me: we didn’t get to the moon trying to save money and we didn’t build the American industrial base by being risk averse. Now is the time to redefine the future and how fast we build it matters.
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We are delighted to announce that we
@GiantStepVC
have backed
@zanemountcastle
‘s
@picogrid
alongside
@Initialized
@CredoVentures
@starburst_vc
@alumniventures
@DominoVentures
Read more here:
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The century of Hard tech /// Deep Tech has begun. e/acc’n
I was concerned going into 2023 that the VC crunch would hurt capital hungry hard-tech companies.
The exact opposite has happened. My hard-tech investments are doing great and raising rounds but the SaaS/Fintech investments are struggling.
Why do you think that is?
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The first
@payloadspace
summit + full week of seeing the spirit of builders up close was nothing short of outstanding.
I am proud to see the level of progress and the dedication of each of these teams.
On behalf of the
@GiantStepVC
team,
@E_Bruxxx
and I would like to thank
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Well done
@KaranKunjur
& the
@K2SpaceCo
team!
Exclusive:
@K2SpaceCo
raised $50 million in an equity round led by
@altcap
, as the developer of monster satellites prepares for its first demonstration mission later this year.
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Gundo vibes in this image + SF on the bottom layer 😂 ☢️ 🌧️ ⚙️ 🚀
@ADoricko
@isaiah_p_taylor
@FilArons
@zekedup
@zanemountcastle
@hardaway_cam
@soren_ma
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We were the greatest nerds of all time in grade school. One sold his startup to UPS, and I exited to AOL but not as bigly as him.
He remains unplugged and not on the internet.
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War time vehicle secured. That is me sitting on the roof to give you an idea of the size.
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The man standing in the middle next to me is the man who designed and architected everything about the McLaren F1. Gordon Murray. IYKYK.
OpenAl CEO, Sam Altman stepping into his $20 million McLaren F1
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Acceleration into 24 - everyone hold on 🚀 time for another Giant Step!
Encouraging all to enter action with boldness ! 🔥
Once we decided to officially join forces –
@_Faraz
and I moved FAST to accelerate
@GiantStepVC
🚀 🔥 💪
Flying all over the country attending events, meeting founders, LP roadshows – it’s been one hell of a ride closing 2023 with a bang!
We have our sector-focused strategic
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this is a job for
@elonmusk
’s
@boringcompany
and he could prob get it done in a year or less. 24/7 shifts. Bore 4-5 paths one for rail, 4 for cars. No reason for it to take 10 fucking years.
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@SawyerMerritt
If it was me, there would be 5600 new jobs available. The same way regan did with the Air Traffic Controllers …. that was 11,000 then.
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Has anyone else noticed an increased resting heart rate after taking the Pfizer COVID shot? My resting has gone from 55-57, to 77-92 been like this since the two shots. A little concerning.
Class action ?
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@micsolana
A true American. Man works for pay - so he’s going to take down the indecency of theft. I did the same at my first retail job as a teenager. It takes balls. Standing for what is right. More people should mob up and stand for what is right in the face of this new type of
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January is a wrap at
@GiantStepVC
We started 2024 incredibly strong - giant investments, in total three very outstanding companies / teams we have great conviction in.
@E_Bruxxx
and I will be announcing the details soon!
Note: I hate calling them ‘deals’
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China has the money, NASA funding isn’t going to take us there.
investors / LP’s / Funds should take note - space exploration is the LARGEST opportunity and responsibility of the human race.
We cannot allow the Chinese+ to beat us there.
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Super excited to announce our continued participation in writing lead sized checks into outstanding startups.
@GiantStepVC
congratulates
@TopherHaddad
and the team
@Albedo
👏
Orbits in VLEO begin early 2025!!
Albedo closes $35M at boosted valuation to build satellites that orbit very, very close to Earth
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SF Deep Tech Week is June 23 - 29th
@GiantStepVC
will be hosting a few events!
More to come ! 🚀 ⚙️
We build a science fiction future for all mankind.
SF Deep Tech Week is June 23 - 29th
Registration and Calendar launch next week.
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@lieselvaidya
LinkedIn should add a feature that automatically deletes the message and redirects them to bumble, tinder, or a psychiatrist based on the content of message and data on page visits to the profile they are so enamored by.
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Over 500 people RSVP’d for Aerospace Night, hosted by
@GiantStepVC
We have room for ~125…
We are handpicking everyone at this time, if you registered and haven’t heard back please use this thread and we will try to accommodate / waitlist as we expect some attrition.
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@KimDotcom
In case anyone doesn’t want to have that happen. Here’s a great list of non extradition countries.
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@faisals_io
Disagree.
Steve Jobs did it with the iPhone release.
Automakers do it all the time.
Chipmakers compare thier product. Others test them and share.
Embrace competition, should drive AI pin to be more competitive and take off thier reality distortion field goggles
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Illinois: home to many disruptive founders.
Jawed Karim and Steve Chen
co-founders of YouTube
Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal / affirm
Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape / A16Z
Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle
Enrico Fermi / CP-1
Ken Griffin - Citadel
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In just two years we have come so far. Incredibly proud of one of the brightest teams that I have believed in since the day these guys raised shot glasses and chose to change the world. Ad Astra per Aspera!
@WillBruey
@zebulgar
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
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@iamyesyouareno
@CommunityNotes
This is a yearly ‘Ashura March for people who practice this small (Shi’ite) sect of Islam. The OP seems to target this as unwanted, negative labeling this as ‘tragic’ - borderline hate.
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Clubhouse just got boring. In order to maintain its coolness it had to be an exclusive club. Now it’s the overcrowded club everyone has been to a million times.
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I am so sad - an hour ago I lost the most precious creature that has been by my side the last 18 years. I tried until the last moment to save you. I will always love you so much Kiwi, you are my little daughter, my baby and I hope to see you again someday sweet Angel.
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It’s a wrap! great meeting everyone at
@Techweek_
-
@bruckner724
and I look forward to making it back!
Special thanks:
@suffiyanmalikk
@MichelleVolz
@ChrisLyons
@KatiaAmeri
@a16z
@decisivepointvc
@draper_u
@k17ubha
+ all the guests who attended Building Atoms pt1!
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They sure do!
Thank you for selecting me for the Virgil Abloh Maybach
@MercedesBenzUSA
📸
@rasidelslika
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We have our differences - but we are, and will always be - one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
🇺🇸 God Bless America
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Excited to announce our investment in
@fintorapp
a platform where non-accredited investors can invest in residential real estate rental properties for as little as $5/share. With Participation from
@HustleFundVC
@500Startups
and
@GrapheneVCF
.
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Also a demand signal.
Way north of a trillion.
The space industry has a labor problem.
Some analysts predict the space economy will be worth up to $1 trillion by 2030, but that kind of growth takes a trained, robust workforce that the industry is currently struggling to attract.
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I’ve known Augustus personally before he began the journey to begin rainmaker, he has always been profoundly passionate about his craft and the change it can bring to the humanity. I am elated to see him close his seed and bring climate control one step closer to reality. 🌧️
Announcing
@RainmakerCorp
‘s $6.3M seed from
@LongJourneyVC
@1517fund
@starship_vc
@tamarackglobal
@dayoneventures
and angels like
@garrytan
and
@balajis
Our farms and ecosystems at risk of collapse because we are running out of water. Rainmaker’s cloud seeding solves this.
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Boomerspace paved the way but chose not to be dreamers. Hence all the older Elon haters.
New space dreams big, builds bigger, and then works to out do themselves. They think - innovation beyond boundaries.
Elon showed us to dream it, build it, think bigger.
Be boundless.
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Excited to announce the team I have worked on building the past year.
@E_Bruxxx
and I are pleased to work alongside an incredibly talented group of people.
Stay tuned for more details on each of their remarkable backgrounds and stories in the coming days!
Today is a monumental step for
@GiantStepVC
🇺🇸🚀
@_Faraz
and I are beyond thrilled to announce the Innovation Director Team we are taking to the battlefield to champion the innovators who dare to chart new territories.
Innovation Director Team:
Poppy Crum: – Situational
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Now is also a good time to mention that
@Picogrid
scored part of a 950m Air Force contract. 🔥 🚀
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Not all tech that reaches remarkable levels of perfection will go obsolete…
I support continued acceleration of all forms of mechanical expression.
Have a look at the making of this masterpiece from Patek Philippe, the GrandMaster Chime ⚙️ 🕰️
Technologies often reach a remarkable level of perfection just before they become obsolete.
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Who’s down to build personal spacecraft that can launch on an F9 …. Hang out for a few orbits and re-enter on Autopilot.
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GM ☀️ break your own personal records and reach your maximum performance
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Steve Jobs died at just the age of 56, world need more visionaries - not just Elon. VC responsibility: it’s not just a ‘deal’, it’s the future. and to founders: give us the dreams of the future, not just a paycheck and exit. Think different. Hats off to those that do.
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@JacobB1290H
You can’t compare a nearly 10 year old S class to a new car. Get in a new s580 and you won’t have that result. If you want to compare it apples to apples you’d consider the EQS vs Model S. Incomparable fit and finish to the Mercedes.
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Two of my portfolio companies are launching on SpaceX transporter 8 this week. A milestone moment we’ve all been waiting for !!! Congrats to the teams at
@VardaSpace
and
@TurionSpace
for all the dedication and work they have done.
@WillBruey
@zebulgar
@RyanWesterdahl
🚀 🛰️ 🛰️
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Super excited for my dear friend Oliver Blume taking Porsche public.
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We had a great morning visiting my friend
@mannykhoshbin
at his ‘pallazo’ in soCal
Erik and I talked about his ambitions in real estate, and also touched on what we are doing at
@GiantStepVC
Manny is one of the greatest real estate investors on the planet
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After 13 years on Twitter …. I finally hit 1k followers.
legacy of an introvert - I appreciate all of you !
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@bchesky
I pass on my cleaning fees to the guest, and my cost is 165 -175 USD for 1 bedder in Chicago. Cleaning is restocking, deep clean for next guest full setup, as new. Washing sheets, towels, replacing them, pillow covers, TP, clean out fridge, dishes, etc this takes time. 3 hours
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@mattshumer_
With iMessage you can now edit your text. Assuming ios. Change it to ‘Love your Portfolio’🤣🤣
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The
@GiantStepVC
team,
@E_Bruxxx
and I will be at Defense Ventures Summit in DC
Hosted by
@MikeSlagh
and
@shift
.
Excited to meet fellow VC’s, portfolio companies - including
@regentcraft
and fresh founders working on hard startups.
Let’s Build! 🚀 ⚙️
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My first job was at age (the day I hit 15) I was a wheelchair boy at ohare airport - my most memorable story is Mohammad Ali came in from a flight into Chicago - and I got take him on my electric cart to his limo. Still feels surreal to think about that coincidence.
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