Joe Rainey

For +2,000 years, construction has stuck to the same tech: blueprints. Instead of innovating beyond, tech incumbents have locked our builders into 2D drawings and profited off their toil. Announcing @StructionAI: the only company working to build beyond drawings and specs.

[un]real

@kylejeong wooden ftw

when i joined the growth team i didn’t know literally everything was gonna grow tech bro feats of strength pt 2 first time trying 275, got it for 3 @ 161 bw

takes a small army of modern geniuses to shine a pale light on what Michelangelo vibe-chiseled

holy crap Struction is gonna win

@alexkshieh @antifraudco @AbstractVC @browdercapital @dunevc V cool

Introducing The Antifraud Company (@AntifraudCo) 🧵 We raised over $5M from @AbstractVC, @BrowderCapital & @dunevc to build a private-sector DOGE, where we use AI and investigative journalism to track down those who defraud American taxpayers.

why not just raise income tax rates? because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”. you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens. you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.) the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen. the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure. it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking. that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all. i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%. want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes. want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

engineering circa 2028

Rollercoaster Tycoon is a surprisingly good testbed for real-world planning, reconciling spend vs business impact, and allocating resources.

Big Things Coming

this is what happens when you pick Ryobi

Holy shit I need it

few know how painful it is. few know how rewarding it is.

Very dumb take. Anyone who spends a second in construction will realize this is not harming interior designers - only empowering them. The creative challenge is not idea generation, but harvesting cohesive design from a finite set of economically procurable materials. This just allows designers to iterate faster (e.g. take on more clients).

This roof is buying some trade guy a brand new truck

you should probably not work at a startup or be around startup CEOs if you don't want to get asked about why this isn't happening faster... always, until you die or the company achieves mega-scale. and even then, we're gonna want it to go faster. and it almost always can go faster.

@nihalmehta @timy0ung @Hadley @EniacVC amazing!

16 years ago today, November 19, 2009, we officially incorporated Eniac I. Still feels like Day 1, just with slightly more gray hair. Grateful for all the founders who continue to inspire us every day. Here’s to the next 16. 🚀🚀🚀

big week!

BUILD

Dave: "Masa Son, welcome to the show. What's going on?" Masa: "Dave, I sold my entire NVIDIA position." Dave: "How much?" Masa: "All 32.1 million shares. $5.8 billion." Dave: "And why did you do that?" Masa: "To go all-in on AI." Dave: "You sold your NVIDIA stock... to invest in AI." Masa: "Yes." Dave: "NVIDIA makes the chips that run AI." Masa: "Correct." Dave: "So you sold the shovels to buy lottery tickets." Masa: "I prefer to call them 'high-conviction bets.'" Dave: "Got it. And this is your second time selling NVIDIA completely." Masa: "That's right." Dave: "In 2019, you sold $4 billion worth." Masa: "Yes." Dave: "Which would be worth $150 billion today." Masa: "I'm aware." Dave: "So you already missed out on $146 billion from the first sale." Masa: "When you say it like that—" Dave: "And now you're doing it again. To put $30 billion into OpenAI." Masa: "And a $1 trillion AI manufacturing hub in Arizona." Dave: "Right. Because WeWork worked out so well." Masa: "That was a stain on my life, Dave." Dave: "Cost you $11.5 billion in equity losses. Plus another $2.2 billion in debt." Masa: "Adam and I fell in love." Dave: "You fell in love with a guy who wanted to trademark the word 'We.'" Masa: "He had vision." Dave: "And before that, you lost $70 billion in the dot-com crash. The largest personal loss in history." Masa: "But then I made it back with Alibaba." Dave: "After a six-minute meeting." Masa: "Jack Ma is very persuasive." Dave: "So your entire investment strategy is falling in love during short meetings and then losing generational wealth." Masa: "I believe in the singularity." Dave: "Right. So just to recap: you've lost $70 billion, missed out on another $146 billion, burned $13.7 billion on WeWork, and now you're selling NVIDIA at what might be the worst possible time to bet it all on Sam Altman." Masa: "Sometimes you have to push all your chips to the center of the table." Dave: "You've done that four times and lost three of them." Masa: "But that one Alibaba win though." Dave: "Okay. Thanks for calling in."