Specific Impulse

2025 was the year the space economy stopped talking about ambition—and started demanding execution. On @SpecImpulseFM , we break down what actually changed 👇 🎙️ Jason Carvalho × @JeffThornburg ▶️ Full episode: youtu.be/Hi5abysSxZg?si…

What a launch night and team at @vast ! And thanks for the ride, SpaceX. Haven Demo’s mission success has turned us into a proven spacecraft company. The next step will be to become an actual commercial space station company next year. Something no one has achieved yet.

This is what collaboration looks like. On Day 01 of #BramHacks2025, this group of speakers, mentors, and community partners came together to support the next generation of builders in space and tech. Here’s to a great BramHacks weekend!

Building the future of data and compute in orbit @Techweek_ @a16z #SFTechWeek @spacebilt @azoraspace @katalystspace

Full pod up at Going Direct - open.spotify.com/episode/1Wxs5T… Follow me for weekly conversations at @jrwolfe with people building a decentralized real economy.

It was fun chatting with @jamiegull on US re-industrialization and his newly minted pre-seed VC fund Wave Function Ventures. Highlights below 🧵:

Are you an investor looking to break into the UK’s growing space sector? 💡 Applications open for the Investor Pathway - get exposure to high-potential UK space companies & invest with confidence. Secure your place in the next cohort starting 22 Sept ➡️ forms.microsoft.com/pages/response…

DEEP DIVE: How The Thiel Fellowship Created $750B+ In Value | Ethereum, Figma, OYO, Anthropic “Brilliant thinking is rare, but courage is in even shorter supply than genius.” - Peter Thiel Danielle Strachman (@DStrachman), a Founding architect of the Thiel Fellowship, shares the inside story behind the radical program born out of Peter Thiel’s Thiel Foundation - giving $100K to teenagers willing to drop out & build One of the most consequential programs in history, she shares the impact & second order effects to education, silicon valley, & the world. Highlights - $100K Grants → $750B+ In Value - Outcomes: Ethereum, Figma, OYO, Anthropic, Scale AI - Fellowship 2.0: 1517, OSV & 776 Fellowships - Disrupting Education + Zuckerberg’s Secret School - Alpha School: Next-Gen Contrarian Education - Why People Think Thiel is “Evil” ? - Selection: Traits, Anti-Traits & The Famous Question - The Legacy - List of Notable Fellows **At the time of recording we had the figure at $550B. We recently learned Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah was also a Thiel fellow - new $750B figure includes Anthropic's upcoming financing at $170B. Timestamps (00:00) Thiel Fellowship (01:10) $750B+ Outcomes: Ethereum, Figma, Scale AI, OYO, Anthropic (08:32) The Contrarian Question (15:00) The Fellowship: $100K, No School, Radical Freedom (19:00) Media Backlash & Cultural Criticism (26:45) Cultural Impact & Future Vision (33:02) Is Peter Thiel Evil? (37:41) Reshaping Silicon Valley's View of Young Founders (39:10) Key Traits That Predict Success (45:10) Founding 1517 Fund: Fellowship 2.0 (52:52) 1517: Funding Dropouts & Sci-Fi Scientists (55:30) The Rise of Alpha School: AI-Based Education @William_Blake | @1517fund | @thielfellowship