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James Farha

@JamesFarha

CEO of Ray Systems - build the first commercially viable bio-inspired propulsion systems - starting with RayDrive a zero signature, long duration UUV.

🇬🇧 Katılım Mayıs 2022
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JamesFennell MBE
JamesFennell MBE@FennellJW·
A number of LUSV proposals have broken cover from British shipbuilders and designers. BMT's proposal is a long narrow wave piercing aebow, with weapons carried in PODS on a long protected weatherdeck aft.
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James Farha
James Farha@JamesFarha·
The lack of UK sovereign capital in Britain makes it almost impossible to build fully sovereign UK businesses of any scale - ultimately the capital comes in and goes out elsewhere. Any government wanting to build economic strength should make this a major preoccupation.
Made In England@BuyEnglishMade

Cadbury was founded in Birmingham in 1824. In 2010, it was acquired by an American company. Today, much of the profit from one of England's best-known chocolate brands flows to overseas shareholders. The UK chocolate market is worth over £8 billion a year. If just 10% shifted to English-made producers, that's £800 million supporting businesses, jobs and investment here. We're building MadeInEngland.com to make it easy to find them.

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James Farha
James Farha@JamesFarha·
@arian_ghashghai One of the best things about our company is putting the system in the water wherever and whenever we can!
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arian ghashghai
arian ghashghai@arian_ghashghai·
also as a side note: the reason the deployment opportunity is so big imo is not because it's non-obvious, but because most "smart" people don't want to go to rural/unsexy parts of the country and get their hands dirty (they'd rather raise money and pontificate from their ivory tower)
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arian ghashghai
arian ghashghai@arian_ghashghai·
robotics is inherently about hardware, however I'm meeting more and more founders who want to find a software (or just non-hardware) business to build for robotics. thoughts: > software is behind hardware (so this realization is correct, but not unique), and "robot brain" is indeed a hard problem to solve (further out than most think). that being said, I don't think solving robot intelligence as a company that is neither 1) collecting data (either by robot deployment, or other means) nor 2) a true research company like PI makes a lot of sense > Selling dev tools to robotics companies is a horrible business idea right now (sounds smart, but not enough robot deployments + nowhere near the #1 pain point) > the most obvious non-hardware opportunity is in the deployment gap. specifically, imo the demand for businesses in manual labor that want to try robotic solutions *today* I believe is much greater than most people realize, however no robot (humanoid to service bot) is ready to work out of the box (i.e. someone needs to come set them up, teleop, maintain etc). if I were thinking about a business, I would think about doing something that helps old-school, regular-ass businesses put robots into their space tl;dr build stuff that actively puts more robots into the world
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James Farha
James Farha@JamesFarha·
@jenzhuscott Interesting to think what medium Shakespeare and Dickens would have written (Dickens wrote a lot in serial in the newspapers so I would guess Netflix series would have been his medium of choice).
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Jen Zhu
Jen Zhu@jenzhuscott·
Imagine if Oscar Wilde or Mark Twin were on Twitter. They would’ve loved it and had 300 m followers.
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Nicolas Dessaigne
Nicolas Dessaigne@dessaigne·
So many people are stuck doing boring work because they don't have the right background or aren't in the right community. But now? Anyone can use ChatGPT for free. And it doesn't cost that much to access the superpowers of Claude Code and Codex. These tools giving people capabilities that used to belong only to highly trained engineers. It doesn't cost much to start building. The people who are going to win, whatever their background, are the ones who just do things. Don't wait to be told.
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James Farha
James Farha@JamesFarha·
Some of the most successful sports teams have focused more on growing their own talent (PSG for example) - something that we should consider in the US and UK as well.
@jason@Jason

@beffjezos Sports teams recruit the best of the best, globally, in order to win... the US should be no different.

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SMB Attorney
SMB Attorney@SMB_Attorney·
@RobertFreundLaw Do you know how hard it is to scale a law firm to $100 million in revenue lmaoooooooo
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Rob Freund
Rob Freund@RobertFreundLaw·
What does Hormozi know about this lol
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James Farha
James Farha@JamesFarha·
A lot of British farmland saw prices rise because of the combination of rollover relief (now business asset disposal relief) and the lack of inheritance tax. Business owners could exit an asset, roll the gain into farmland and then die without inheritance tax.
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

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ThinkingWest
ThinkingWest@thinkingwest·
Find me a better example of masculine leadership. I'll wait.
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