Xander Cogan
138 posts
Xander Cogan
@xandercogan
Sales, Hardware, Robotics
San Francisco, CA Inscrit le Şubat 2025
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@cameron19460429 alas, Ukraine does not have the air supremacy required for JDAMs in 30 minutes or your money back all war long
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the Ukrainians have learned that the best solution to CQB is to just huck grenades
Archived Tactical@Archivedtactic
SOLO CQB When we teach Solo CQB, we don’t teach it because we believe people should clear entire structures alone.
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@allencontrol @craft_ventures @rallyvc @InspiredCap @rcanedesignwrks is about to have some amazing data for you guys
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Allen Control Systems has raised a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital, with participation from @craft_ventures, @rallyvc, and @InspiredCap.
Low-cost drones are reshaping modern conflict, and the demand for proven counter-drone defense is accelerating. This funding enables us to scale Bullfrog, the most trusted kinetic solution built for the U.S. military and allied partners worldwide.
We're hiring across manufacturing, engineering, and operations to scale the next generation of counter-drone defense.
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we are gonna reindustrialize the shit outta america
Janicki Selects Great Falls, Montana for $800 Million Manufacturing Campus Expansion
>2 million sqft of production space
>2,000 jobs
>driver is aerospace, defense, and space demand outrunning their current capacity
>Founded 1993
>Gianforte framed it as a high-tax blue state company moving to a low-tax red state, Montana W
>John and Peter Janicki visited every candidate community in person with their families before deciding
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@fishPointer @verdakorz Born too late to be a WW1 balloon buster. Born just in time for the dawn of space combat
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at times such as these, nothing appeals quite like the real pure ensouled adventure of a seafaring individual
verda🪄✨@verdakorz
boats are very og cybernetic technologies. one must appreciate the boat
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Becoming entirely unhirable and unhinged is the only way you'll make it as a business owner
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$5T+ TAM… 16k machine shops… Fragmented… Labor shortage… Robots… Reindustrialize…
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@0x_rxkvys i pay 1850 for my own room with my own bathroom and a private back entrance with a window in my shower overlooking the bay
oh also my utils and internet etc all included
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@rcanedesignwrks @stefan_salaices Every day I wish I could go back to being bald
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@stefan_salaices Leave facial hair, shave head.
Every man should go through that ego death.
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@1a1n1d1y @SimoneSyed It’s an indescribable feeling when you realize you’re one of 1-4 people even trying to solve your problem. Without you, this might never happen. Really changes your outlook on life
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@SimoneSyed used to be disappointed, now i’m just thankful the world peeled away from me enough to allow me to take this fully focused shot at something i’ve been bothered by for decades
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Being a founder is pretty consistently realizing no one else can do the thing you're doing and then have that realization terrify you about the state of our world right now
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Who has an agent trained only in dealing with FAA regs....
@ethanblagg help a brother out
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@himmycartersalt @echantech1 thats not strong talent
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uber is a fascinating case of the dead FAANG era where microservices were new and distributed reliability was a hard problem
it’s a legacy company now trying to survive
Patrick OShaughnessy@patrick_oshag
Dara (CEO of Uber) on their AI spend: "We blew through our AI budget in a quarter, for the whole year. It is forcing us to adjust. We are going to meter headcount increases because to the extent that my engineers are getting much more efficient, their throughput is increasing. There's a cost to that, and it's a significant cost. AI adoption has been occurring in all parts of the business –– whether it's engineers and how they scope projects, how they build, debugging, platform migrations. I'm pushing the teams to fundamentally use the power of AI to rebuild systems and processes from the bottoms up. I do think it's a combination for us right now of encouraging adoption, but then driving efficiency. We're using the more expensive models to explore. Once we scale some of these experiences, we'll look to bring in more efficient models that are more efficient on a token basis or are open source."
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@1a1n1d1y @AJA_Cortes “Should I fix this or eat lunch?”
Six hours later and you’re still fixing it.
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@AJA_Cortes it’s the 50 lbs i’ve lost from eating mostly eggs and yogurt
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The fundraising 50 is putting 50lbs on your incline bench
Right?
Kaia Rhodes@kaiarhodes
@E_Bruxxx All I'm going to say is, they warn us about the freshman 15. They just don't tell us about the fundraising 50.
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China flew a 7 ton drone.
3.5 tons of payload capacity.
Who’s working on this in the US?
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I don’t think about things in terms of profits, only justification of creation
I don’t care about a dollar man, a dollar is nothing to me
But dollars buy more machines, so if I need to make a lot of something I need to buy more machines, and I can justify it
Machines are power
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@marshallrichrds @kylensorensen I feel like all it would take is one drone to blow up right there, then it blows it open for the rest to go through the opening
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this was an intrusive thought that deserved to be tested.
drone vs. wood beaded door curtain
low-cost indoor drone defense has been achieved internally.
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