Faraz 🇺🇸 🚀
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Faraz 🇺🇸 🚀
@_Faraz
Founder, GP @GiantStepVC | deep tech
Chicago, IL Katılım Nisan 2009
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Fully reusable rockets bias towards higher T/W, as propellant cost dominates cost per ton to orbit.
Even for Falcon 9, which is ~80% reusable, losing the upper stage costs way more than the propellant, so relatively inefficient use of propellant (low T/W) still reduces $/ton to orbit.
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When you nail thrust to weight ratio, you can get off the pad properly.
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Once again, I am extremely bullish on @RadiantNuclear.
Jack Prandelli@jackprandelli
Dow Chemical is putting a nuclear reactor on a petrochemical plant. First industrial-scale advanced nuclear deployment in North America. X-energy's Xe-100 at Dow's Seadrift, Texas facility: → 4 units × 80 MWe = 320 MW electricity → 200 MW of high-temperature steam per unit for industrial processes → Baseload power + industrial heat...Simultaneously. This is the capability gap no one talks about. Solar and wind generate electricity. They can't deliver the high-pressure, high-temperature steam that chemicals, refining, and heavy industry run on. Nuclear can and Long Mott is the first proof of concept at industrial scale. AI data centers get all the nuclear headlines. But industrial heat is 20% of global energy demand with almost no clean alternatives. If this works at Seadrift, the replication opportunity across petrochemicals, steel, and refining is enormous. Dow didn't sign a clean power certificate. It put a reactor on its own site.
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@marcrandolph No. It means they have taste, and also understand that ergonomics and comfort make for productive days. I also trust founders to get great deals on things when they can.
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One of my reliable signs that an early-stage company is in trouble: I walk in a few weeks after their seed round closes, and every employee is sitting in a $1,000 Aeron chair behind an automatic standing desk.
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Faraz 🇺🇸 🚀 retweetledi
Last week, we announced a partnership with United Therapeutics that we believe will result in the first commercial products made in space.
Read more from @techreview:
MIT Technology Review@techreview
United Therapeutics is collaborating with Varda Space Industries to test pharmaceuticals in outer space. trib.al/XZC8zcL
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@zanehengsperger Ask customer what can you do to keep their order in America 🇺🇸
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Faraz 🇺🇸 🚀 retweetledi
United Therapeutics is collaborating with Varda Space Industries to test pharmaceuticals in outer space. trib.al/XZC8zcL
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Insane improvements over the last … congrats @Gwynne_Shotwell and the entire @SpaceX team.
SpaceX@SpaceX
Watch Starship's twelfth flight test twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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JUST IN: The Enhanced Games are set to debut this weekend in Las Vegas, with athletes allowed to use steroids, testosterone, HGH, & other banned substances.
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Outstanding opportunity
Farza 🇵🇰🇺🇸@FarzaTV
I am building a team. If you're really really really good at building stuff, design, filmmaking, writing, pushing the models to their limits, or just making people care about a product at mass, certainly reach out. Let's collab + make stuff. Details: docs.google.com/document/d/1sf…
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Personal update: I left Physical Intelligence and going to take a short sabbatical to decide what I want to do next.
PI has a cracked team and It's been an honor to be part of it, but me and PI weren't a good match.
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💡 🤔 convinced felons who have done prison time can also handle two years of bad food and confined spaces.
Toby Li@tobyliiiiiiiiii
Just in - Chun Wang @satofishi, commander of the Fram2 mission, will be part of an interplanetary Starship Mars flyby mission lasting 2 years. Ahead of this Martian mission, Wang will also join the first commercial Starship lunar flyby mission.
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@GS_VCactivist This goes into what @rosscenters says. The moon is a computer
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Roaming interstellar package.
Starlink@Starlink
The Starlink team is exploring ways to extend connectivity beyond our planet
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This Factory Five GTM with 3K miles for $60K in Irvine right now
DL@DL53654129
If you had $75,000 to spend on a vehicle (new or used) that will be used strictly for fun (no daily commuting, winter driving, running errands, hauling things, etc.) what are you getting and why?
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Decoding Bio has joined Arkaea Media Group!
What started as a passion project with an incredible group of cofounders (s/o @pablolubroth, @patricksmalone, @morgancheatham, @KetanYerneni) is now part of something much bigger.
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who read, attended, and debated with us these last few years. And thank you to Mo and the Arkaea team for really seeing our vision and wanting to build for this community together.
We're just getting started.
Mo Islam@itsmoislam
BIG NEWS: I'm thrilled to announce that Arkaea Media Group has acquired Decoding Bio, one of the leading media brands in biotechnology. This is our first acquisition and a continuation of our thesis to build media for the most consequential industries in the world. Decoding Bio was founded by @ameekapadia, @pablolubroth, @KetanYerneni, @patricksmalone, and @morgancheatham and built into the definitive voice covering the intersection of AI and biology. The opportunity in biotech media is concentrated in one place: the intersection of AI and biology. This is where the future of the industry is being built. AI is rewriting how drugs get discovered, how trials get designed, how proteins get engineered. Frontier AI labs are racing into pharma. Pharma is responding with nine and ten-figure commitments. A new generation of companies is being built by founders who grew up on both sides, and they're moving faster than the legacy industry can absorb. The media covering this shift is broken. Legacy biotech publications miss the AI story. Tech publications don't take biology seriously. The intersection between them is where critical work is happening. Decoding Bio is the only brand covering it with real credibility. To Amee, Pablo, Ketan, Patrick, and Morgan: thank you for building such an incredible brand and for choosing to build the next chapter with us. The best is ahead.
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.@Citadel paid 50.00 for theirs and still use it ….
Kyle Anthony Miller@kyleanthony
We need to rebrand this company ASAP
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President Trump signed EO 14301 nearly a year ago today. Since then, 11 teams of engineers have been racing to achieve the President's goal: criticality in three advanced reactors outside of the national labs by July 4th.
Grateful to be part of it as we enter the final inning!
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@datarade For places fiber can’t reach. Distributed applications that need connectivity.
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