Prashanth Vijay

Excited to be working with @amplovc @HyperplaneVC @ChristaWCollett @jefielding @jfiance @AkashMalhotra on this new round of funding to fuel our growth into the future 🚀 Big thanks to @ankurnagpal @yakubchyk @35Ventures @dpteran and many others as well!!

@grok @PalmerLuckey @micsolana Wild - can you breakdown the 1.2M per classroom how does that make sense?

@PrashanthVij @PalmerLuckey @micsolana Based on NYC DOE's $42.8B FY2026 budget and ~884,000 students (including pre-K), spending is ~$48,400 per student. With avg class size ~25, ~35,400 classrooms, so ~$1.21M per classroom.

imagine paying $50 billion for public schools. they're about as dangerous as the locale juvenile detention center, and half the kids can't read. every year you're told their failure is your fault, because you don't give the communist teacher's union enough money.

@PalmerLuckey @micsolana @grok how much is this per public school student and how much is it per classroom this year?

@micsolana The NYC Department of Education spends more on education than Japan's Ministry of Education spends on the entire country of Japan.

Not sure about the vacuum vs higher refractive index - but pipelining the requests for each page or set of tokens so that AI-WAN clusters can be built with distributed energy sources seems like a very natural place for this to be headed. Extra data stored in transit is a bonus.

Coverage update 📡 Our partnership with @FlumeInternet enables us to cover nearly 1 million households in the Bronx and Manhattan. This means we can provide coverage to over 90% of households in the Bronx. Take a look at one of Flume’s sites in New York City using a Tarana antenna. More deployments are coming soon 👀

Looking forward to @FlumeInternet putting up more @dawninternet sites in NYC!

@boringcompany Greenpoint <> East Village, Hoboken <> Chelsea walking tunnel with a bike lane 😍

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@pitdesi Cable has been losing like 200k subscribers a quarter for a few years now. This will accelerate it but their main defense is bundling. You’ll see more aggressive TV and MVNO bundles as has been the case with cable when fiber and fixed wireless stated taking residential share.

At some point this has to impact Comcast meaningfully right? I don’t see how it gets wiped out (they still have physics on their side) but now there’s real competition for a huge subset of their customers, prices should come down.

Who Will Build NYC if Builders Are the Enemy? As a New Yorker Jew, I'm surrounded by people who have been in real estate their entire lives. I am not trying to feed a stereotype, but that's my reality. They aren't activists or online commentators. They are people who bought their first buildings with all their savings, carried debt through rate hikes, fixed things themselves when there was no money to hire, and stayed in New York through high crime, recessions, 2008, COVID, rising taxes, insurance increases, and an ever-expanding book of laws and codes. None of them were promised fairness before they started, and none of them were protected from risk. They succeeded very slowly, and painfully, but with responsibly. That experience is exactly what is missing from the worldview of Zohran Mamdani, and it shows in every part of his housing agenda. Mamdani has never built anything. He never signed a personal guarantee, never met payroll, never carried a mortgage through a rough month, never had to choose between fixing a boiler now or hoping it survives another winter because there is no cash. He has only operated in a political world where consequences are abstract and other people absorb the risk. When you have never operated in the real economy, it becomes easy to believe that shortcuts are solutions. It is also why his message resonates with a certain type of voter. The people demanding “housing reforms” are not bad people. They are frustrated renters who feel like the system is rigged against them. I understand the frustration. But frustration doesn't change math. Housing is hard. Ownership is a very slow process. Building anything meaningful in this city takes years of stress, and debt. The people calling for "landlord policies" often want the outcome without the grind, the stability without the risk, and the reward without the years of sweating that every responsible adult who succeeded here had to endure. But it does not work like that. NYC is in housing crisis. Citywide vacancy sits around 1.4 percent, a level economists consider an emergency. Median rents keep rising anyway, with Manhattan near $4,800 and Brooklyn around $3,800, even under an already thick layer of regulation. The reason is obvious. Supply has not kept up. In a good year, New York adds roughly 30,000 units. The city needs hundreds of thousands more over the next decade just to stabilize prices. At the same time, construction costs here are among the highest in the country, financing is extremely difficult, and insurance is wildly expensive Mamdani’s proposals take that fragile situation and make it worse. When you cap upside while leaving downside unlimited, rational people stop participating. Developers do not argue on X. Lenders do not protest. They simply reallocate. Projects stop coming up. Renovations are postponed. New construction dies before a shovel hits the ground. The people I know in real estate are not angry. They are disengaging. Some are buying elsewhere. Some are sitting on cash. Some are done entirely. And when that happens, tenants do not win. Buildings deteriorate, supply tightens further, and rents rise anyway. What Mamdani offers is emotional satisfaction, not solutions. He tells voters that prices are high because someone else is greedy, not because the city has spent decades making housing harder and almost impossible to build. He frames landlords as villains instead of participants in an ecosystem that only works when incentives align. That framing feels good, but it does not produce housing. It produces resentment, fear, and withdrawal. Everyone I know who made it in this city did it the same way. Slowly, without shortcuts. Policies written by people who never did that do not create fairness or affordability. They create shortages. NYC doesn't have a landlord problem. It has a confidence problem. And a city that teaches people to hate the builders while demanding more building is a city sabotaging its own future.

@elonmusk However I do think LEO providers could be a great wholesale backhaul option in multifamily residential areas to power head ends - if they can increase channel bandwidth to push 1Gbps and start peering / doing BGP with ISPs.

I often get asked by investors about whether Starlink is a competitor for ground based fiber systems like Flume. Please take 1 minute and watch this clip from the man @elonmusk himself explaining why its complementary and not competitive. youtube.com/clip/Ugkx7HVt7…

@elonmusk The physics of using the Ku and Ka band (10-30GHz range) does not allow for concentration of the main RF beam signal for dense areas.

@elonmusk Seems pretty qualified?

People will die because of this. Proven experience matters when lives are at stake.

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@Hayesfawcett3 @Rivals @MyelsSmith @grok which of the schools whose logos are in this photo has the most alumni that started billion dollar companies?

@elonmusk Can you do BGP with us and sell us gigabit backhaul so we can do apartment building backhaul with yall instead of commercial fiber?

SpaceX has way more satellites in orbit than the rest of the world combined, so maybe we know a thing or two about the subject 🤣 Starlink V3 will be 20kW and launched at scale around Q4 next year. No problem to scale that to >100kW if the satellite mass is shifted towards solar arrays and radiators for AI compute, instead of giant phased array antennas for Internet connectivity. As you mention, it would use the same laser comms system as Starlink to connect to Starlink. An AI satellite is easier, not harder, than the Starlink V3 design, which is a marvel of engineering created by an epic team of humans. I am so proud of the @SpaceX team.

It’s crazy how quickly opinions flipped on this.

Point differential by division: AFC East: -85 AFC North: -189 AFC South: +66 AFC West: +25 NFC East: -164 NFC North: +138 NFC South: -246 NFC West: +285

Ooo yes please give me those pass/fail sheltered physics classes for 4x the cost

Yup the future of this is gonna be AI-WAN data centers and low latency / high bandwidth fiber + SFP optics. Not these single site gigantic campuses. Just listen to Satyas latest podcast

@neilc_dawn The voice as a password ai stuff is such bullshit 😂

I love how when dealing with a Verizon outage their first order of business before helping me is automatically enrolling me into voice tracking

Woohoo