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space drugs and arms @vardaspace | village idiot/partner @foundersfund
Miami, FL
Joined September 2010
We've smoothly commissioned W-2, acquired signal, & turned on the re-entry capsule!. Over the next few weeks we'll be performing some manufacturing & then re-entry. During re-entry, we won't just be coming down, we'll be testing a spectrometer for our customers in the Air Force!.
After a comfy ride to space yesterday, we successfully acquired signal from W-2. Initial checkouts are now complete and we can confirm that the capsule is happy and healthy. We're looking forward to seeing Australia soon! @southernlaunch @AusSpaceAgency.
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how depressing. our society has failed to provide ambitious role models to our children
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NO FUCKING WAY THEY CAUGHT THE BIGGEST ROCKET HUMANITY HAS EVER BUILT WITH CHOPSTICKS ON THEIR FIRST TRY.
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currently in europe and man. it really is noticeable how much poorer it is than the united states now. and that gap just keeps widening every year. wild to watch that gap be created over the course of my life, when I was a kid the two continents were equivalent. .
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AND TO THINK THAT ONE OF THE HARDEST PARTS ABOUT WHAT THEY DID TODAY. WAS GETTING THE FAA TO APPROVE THE TEST. 😂😂😂.
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incredible ad. showing the dystopian gig economy future. versus. the re-industrialization utopian future every american can contribute to
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Its impossible to write comedies with this good of a script. SBF pitches the sequoia partnership. Vision? "Buy a banana with fake internet money". Blows the partnership away. Wow. During the partner meeting ? PLAY LEAGUE OF LEGENDS. This is god-tier comedy
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what a fucking legend. the true definition of fuck you money. specifically fuck you bob iger
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At Founders Fund we are looking to fund companies. That believe in The Future of Work*. * Working in an office.* Hiring based on merit.* Employees are expected to bring their work self to work, not their whole self.* Believe in actually working hard.* Focused on making money.
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this election can be summarized in a simple way. you're either voting for the side building the massive landing rockets. or you're voting for the side trying to strangle the progress of rockets to death via regulation. choose wisely.
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our generations smartest minds went from working on ad optimization to digital ponzi schemes. a tragic misallocation of talent.
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still such an incredible moment. larry david wouldn't be able to create this funny of a scene if he tried
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Even Ayn Rand would be amazed how the government is slowing down our most successful inventor. - FAA delaying Starship launches.- FCC refusing to work with Starlink, first claiming its incapable, then claiming its too good.- President not commenting on the first private spacewalk.
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holy shit anthropic just said when they made the AI less racist. it became stupider. what does this mean for humans?!?! 😂.
Finally, we discovered a feature that significantly reduces bias scores across nine social dimensions within the sweet spot. This did come with a slight capability drop, which highlights potential trade-offs in feature steering.
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crazy that there are two american astronauts stranded in low earth orbit without a clear answer on how or when they are getting home. and no one is talking about it.
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Crazy to think this was all in the last few days. Humanity is so back baby
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Man Reid Hoffman has had a tough last 6 days. If only there was an island he could go to, to recharge.
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maybe now 25 year olds will finally build things in the real world now rather than trading around jpgs of donkeys.
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Does the DOJ realize. That Space companies, like SpaceX and Varda are ITAR-controlled. So BY LAW we HAVE TO DISCRIMINATE BY US CITIZENSHIP. What in God's name kind of corrupt lawsuit is this.
JUST IN: The Biden Department of 'Justice' is suing Elon Musk's SpaceX for refusing to hire refugees and asylum seekers. Musk should change his name to Hunter Biden and coerce foreign entities to get rich so the DOJ ignores him. “The lawsuit alleges that, from at least
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25 years ago my family moved to US w/ $500. Now Im a homeowner in a city thats majority-immigrant. This year immigrants invented mRNA vaccine technology & heavy lift reusable rockets . Anyone that tries to tell you America isn't the greatest fucking country on Earth is delusional.
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i have only one simple policy priority for the next 4 years. the moon should be a state
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I went to MIT & studied CS, one year under SBF. When he graduated in 2014, the place where all the top tier engineers went was Palantir. If you couldn't pass that interview, then it was Dropbox/FB etc. And the third-tier was quant/finance, ie Jane Street. SBF was tier-3 bad eng.
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Wow you know I was really worried about WeWork's future, but this slide from Softbank's earnings call really clears up all my concerns. Will make sure to use a slide like this with our other late stage companies
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literally a 20 story building. filled with explosive rocket fuel. bringing itself back to earth to land upright.
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greta thunberg has somehow single-handedly had the most negative impact of any human in history on our beautiful earthly oasis.
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after a week in miami ive realized the most racist people i know are sf leftists.
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damn. vivek basically said nerds deserve to rule the world and jocks suck. and they disappeared him. maybe they're making him watch friday night lights 24/7 till he gets it.
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Can someone explain to me why our taxpayer dollars are going towards the SLS rocket?. A rocket that has less cadence, less payload capacity than Starship, and has zero reusability. How is this even legal at this point?? cc @CJHandmer.
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It's actually crazy how much technology companies change over time. Netflix used to mail CDs, now they're a production studio with streaming. Amazon used to sell books, now they run the world's datacenters. Stripe used to be a payments API, now they're an Irish mob.
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This is insane if it's actually true. Could completely change the power dynamics between China and the US, and how much of a threat them taking over Taiwan is.
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America still needs to update its priors on Europe. In 2007, Europe was our equal partner, someone to be negotiated with. In 2024, Europe is just our vassal state, someone we should be using carrots vs sticks on when they behave how we like vs not. More like a petulant child.
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I've got an idea for a podcast. In my job I get to know a lot of phenomenal operators that have zero public persona but they make startups work. Once a month I interview one, not high-level, but super nitty gritty tactics. Would you listen? RT/Like if so, so I can gauge interest.
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Imagine identifying the cultural rot that had the potential to decimate our nation's great institutions in 1995. & then watching our country descend into chaos because of those ideologies. And only finally after 30 years does everyone FINALLY wake up and you acheive total victory
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IDF: Highly precise attack using pagers, barely any civilian casualties. Woke leftists: How dare they. Iran: Firing missiles indiscriminately into civilian areas, endangering 10m+ lives. Woke leftists:.
Approx. 10 million civilians are the targets of Iranian projectiles.
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why is it that height/athletic ability being correlated with genetics isn't controversial. but intelligence/mental ability being correlated is?.
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still thinking about how the biggest european startup conference. decided to keep the lights off in the conference hall, so it was super dark all day. for "sustainability" reasons. what a terrible mindset. instead we should have so much energy that it is too cheap to meter. .
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ok this ones from a friend. Since we can say the truth now:. 1. Masks never worked.2. Inflation wasn’t transitory.3. Not a vaccine if no immunity.4. Men can’t get pregnant.5. Lab leak theory is plausible.
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25 years ago, my family and I moved to the USA w/ $600 in our pockets. 2 years ago, I decided to start my own space company. Today, we're announcing that we've been awarded a $60m program from the US Air Force to work with them on hypersonics. Truly the American Dream. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸.
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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Do not go gentle into that good night,.Old age should burn and rave at close of day;. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Welcome to Planet Earth my son, I have much to tell you.
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THE WORLD'S FIRST SPACE FACTORY HAS WINGS. WE HAVE DEPLOYED TO SPACE!!!!.
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i gotta say i was skeptical of the whole breathing intelligence into sand chips thing. but this. this work of art. i have seen the future and i love it
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this is an absolute banger. "tell me this alex jones monologue over the @foundersfund intro reel doesn't make you want to go change the world" - @peteoxenham.
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SF restaurants: please pull up your masks between bites. MIA restaurants: we accept crypto now
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hear me out. im no geopolitics expert. but it seems like a bad idea. to provide large amounts of foreign aid. to people that chant "death to america".
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Blue Origin Flight 1 Passengers:. - The richest man in the world.- His brother.- US's first female astronaut.- Some random 18yr old trust fund kid
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the worst part about our generation is our aversion to commitment. the best things in life compound once you take a risk and commit to them, whether it's relationships, startups, hobbies, etc. don't be in your 40s still watching Netflix, going to bars, and working at Google/FB.
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god bless the greatest country on earth!!!. a government of the people, by the people, for the people. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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24 years after my parents arrived with $400 in their pocket. i am getting to fulfill my american dream of building an aerospace company. grateful and proud to be an immigrant to the greatest country on earth. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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living in san francisco is the fastest and most effective way to go from a die hard liberal to alt right.
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In Miami the homes in my neighborhood wave the American Flag proudly. In 9 years in the Bay Area I almost never saw one. Most in the Bay Area have never experienced how bad other countries can be. Vs Miami is majority immigrants who appreciate how fucking amazing America is. 🇺🇸🇺🇸.
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In 9 days, Israel completely eliminated their enemy's entire leadership. With barely any units on the ground in Lebanon. Incredibly impressive
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I find it hard to take any professionally successful straight man seriously. that is over 35 and hasn't married and had children. Reveals a complete lack of judgement and understanding of the purpose of life itself.
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correct. the FTX entire saga is crazy. but the fact that this "genius" was hard stuck bronze 3 is the most shocking
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most of silicon valley:. we love to invest in technology* startups** changing the world***. * software-only that runs on AWS, definitely no science or hardware that's too risky.** needs to have $1m ARR + growing 15% MoM minimum.*** making niche enterprise workflows more efficient.
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"You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman. But anyone, can come to live in America & become an American.". I came to America in 1996. 24 yrs later I started Varda, which is flying the world's first space factory. Only possible in this great nation. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸.
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Imagine having to wake up every day and work in SaaS. While the world is regularly landing orbital rockets, breathing life into silicon, and synthesizing superconductors using alchemy.
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Happy birthday to the greatest fucking country on Earth. My family arrived here with $500 25 years ago. And now I get to work on building the world's first space factories. Only possible in this amazing country. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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i still find it hard to wrap my head around the fact. that the most prominent "believe all women" advocates. have now become the loudest voices in denying the extensive rape of israeli women by hamas. can anyone explain to me how this happens.
The decapitated baby lie, the lies about rape— it was all to establish some moral distinction between the pile of bodies killed by Israel & the pile of bodies killed by Hamas. Neither Hamas nor Israel respects international law. But this is the shell game played to justify.
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Very few people in the world can go from this first photo to the second in <30 seconds. That is a strong-willed individual
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hopefully over the next decade we can have our brightest minds working on better problems than optimizing engagement and showing more personalized ads.
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holy shit this @reidhoffman advisor email just leaked and it is DERANGED
MAX MEYER EXCLUSIVE:. I have obtained the sick, twisted email in which @reidhoffman's chief political advisor Dmitri Mehlhorn says that newspapers need to consider that Trump may have staged the shooting - with PUTIN. He says, "this is a classic Putin play". Here it is in full:
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how to be contrarian in 2023. - live in a city that respects the law.- think in decades rather than days.- spend time with your family.- walk 10k steps/day w/o headphones.- marry "young".- make babies.- expose yourself to sunlight.- lift weights / do pilates.- say what you think.
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VARDA MADE ROCKS FLOAT LATE LAST NIGHT. AND I SAW THE ROCK WITH MY NAKED EYE. COULDNT SLEEP AFTER.
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I still think people it's underappreciated how different this second Trump term will be. First time around caught him, and the country, completely by surprise. So there wasn't much of a team built up. This time?. Surrounded by some of the most effective people on the planet. .
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Last night when we were all sleeping. Humans went the furthest in space that we've gone in 50 years. And performed the first private spacewalk in private spacesuits. A truly historic moment in our path to the stars. Congrats @SpaceX @elonmusk @rookisaacman
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Masa Son performing diligence as he writes multi billion dollar checks over and over.
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the most important decision you make in your life. both personally and professionally. is who you marry.
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Hell ya DOGE is real. And Elon + Vivek are running it. What a time to be alive
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looking for your next job?. come work at a company where our first reaction to the superconductor news was realizing we had almost all the equipment to replicate it. so ~10 engineers are coming in over the weekend to give it a shot.
1000c annealing furnace - check.Oxy-Acetyl torch - check.Quartz ampules - check .High vacuum pumps - check .Glass working skills - check . Red phosphorus - not check.
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soooooo @micsolana promised me that he'd run for SF local office in 2022. if this got at least 2022 likes. so twitter, vote with your feet (or fingers).
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you're telling me that we don't have superconductors because of a manufacturing/yield issue??. solid state formulation challenges? crystalline lattice imperfections?. if only there were an environment that was less entropic when exposed to heat. somewhere w/o convection perhaps?.
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