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who are the best early-stage hardware investors?
i meet incredible hardware founders early on and would love to share.
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Is trillium the only game in town for made-in-USA drone cameras?
Kind of crazy if this is in practice, effectively true
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Pictured: Orion – 30,000 miles above Earth on the Artemis II mission – separating from the rocket's upper stage.
Anduril now has over 400 telescopes around the globe. Advanced space sensing software provides real-time focal plane processing to identify & track objects. Think Sentry Tower software, but for space.
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The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.
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Proud to announce that Phobos, the second @AetheroSpace satellite, was successfully launched to orbit earlier this morning
We’re partnered with @BoozAllen on this mission to demonstrate capabilities for adaptive event detection using high-fidelity Earth observation data collected on orbit
This will enable satellites to achieve faster, smarter, decision-making on orbit, and is a major step towards building the orbital intelligence layer for defense needs!
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If you're interested in how this came together, one of my magicians created a montage of our first set build.
Please don't sue me HBO, thanks!
Ti Morse@ti_morse
My first interview with @Brian_Armstrong, Co-Founder and CEO of @Coinbase. 0:25 Crafting narratives 2:28 Bias towards action 4:06 Biggest calls in Coinbase’s history 5:53 Developing intuition for making big bets 7:30 Getting truth out of people 10:04 Being anti-authority 12:30 The 3 levels of communication 14:39 Practicing to pitch w Paul Graham in 2012 16:55 Working w Fred Ehrsam 20:33 Hashing out bad decisions in the early days 22:23 Having a scarcity mentality around people 23:31 Action produces information 27:34 “If you wait for perfect clarity, you’re never going to get anything done” 31:45 Uber vs Lyft in crypto 34:23 Building trust 36:30 Advancing the mission of Coinbase 38:33 Skillsets: fundraising, storytelling, recruiting, sales 40:10 Prediction markets and AI generated content 43:58 How he operates differently than other big startup CEOs 45:18 Solving his greatest fear 48:09 Burnout and running at a marathon pace 51:20 Experiencing pain 54:32 Hiking and getting out in nature 56:54 It’s always wartime 58:58 Defining moments of crisis 1:05:35 Finding the next marching post 1:07:18 Installing ideas in people’s minds 1:10:25 The power of bringing people together over dinner 1:13:00 Action produces action 1:14:10 Backing founders outside of Coinbase 1:15:45 Scheduling 4 week long-long vacations a year 1:18:35 Finding people who raise your energy 1:20:18 Leaving a trail of proof of work 1:23:03 Touching people emotionally 1:25:19 Why we built the Iron Bank of Braavos 1:26:38 Playing an infinite game 1:31:47 Selling brownies on The Silk Road 1:35:36 My philosophy for Relentless 1:38:35 Business is like playing Civilization 1:44:59 Bonding w Fred Ehrsam over video games 1:45:47 Never leave a meeting without next steps 1:49:06 How Coinbase makes acquisitions 1:50:30 Why Coinbase’s best acquisitions were people 1:52:00 Bitcoin is the new gold standard
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In 8 days, we’ll be launching yet another space GPU with a hosted AI model being developed by a major defense prime
Now officially going from 1 -> 2 active satellites
Exolaunch@Exolaunch
#Transporter16: We’re delighted to announce the upcoming launch of #PHOBOS, a satellite of our customer @AetheroSpace , aboard @SpaceX's Transporter-16 mission. Exolaunch is set to deploy 57 customer satellites aboard Transporter-16 🚀 📸: Aethero
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New 144 MHz entry-level STM32 Cortex-M33 MCU with up to 1MB flash, 256KB SRAM.
cnx-software.com/2026/03/09/stm…
Manufactured using @ST_World 40 nm process, the STM32C5 MCUs feature Ethernet, USB, OctoSPI, CAN bus, DMA, and various peripherals, including ADCs, comparators, and an op-amp.
The STM32C5 series is supported by the STM32Cube ecosystem, and the company provides three development boards to get started: NUCLEO-C542RC and NUCLEO-C562RE Nucleo-64 boards, and the larger NUCLEO-C5A3ZG Nucleo-144 board.
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Some of our best hires were totally unqualified on paper.
They always had the same qualities: entrepreneurial, high agency, smart, mission aligned, and they got shit done.
If you’re hiring, especially in early stages, seek out & bet on these people. Don’t over-index on resumes.
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God gives his longest red eyes to his strongest soldiers
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Today, Valar Atomics became the first startup in history to split the atom.
Announcing Project Nova, a series of zero power critical tests on Valar Atomics' Nova Core in collaboration with Los Alamos NCERC and NNSS.
Nova went critical for the first time this morning at 11:45am.
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this goes unbelievably hard
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The Valar Atomics team and Kiewit are proud to announce our groundbreaking at the San Rafael Energy Research Center for Ward250, our first reactor!
This is a major step on our mission to answer the President's call for three advanced reactors on American soil by July 4, 2026.
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On-chip spectrometer with Bragg Interrogator and 100 detectors, monolithically integrated in indium phosphide (InP), bandwidth of 100 nm and 100 channels around 1.3 um, from Fraunhofer HHI, ~ 2019
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Class 100 Cleanroom Shed I Built For Semiconductor R&D :)
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Tacking on some more hot takes if you’re in space:
1) SSC Front Door is a total waste of time. Teams meetings are waste of time. Fly out and go meet them in person.
2) Primes are not your friend, and subbing for them will only take you so far.
3) Have a plan to vertically integrate from day one. DoD doesn’t buy components. If you want to be a SMB forever, fine, but if you’re taking venture then I assume you don’t want that.
4) There is no point to doing a Series A for most space companies if you don’t have a clear path to being a prime in your own right. Exits will be impossible and you will never have the fundamentals to justify your valuation.
5) Past performance will always triumph over potential future capabilities, no matter how great the promise is.
6) Unless you’re in telecom, you’re a defense company. Commercial uses for space just aren’t that many yet. Almost all space companies make the majority of their revenue from the federal government. Plan accordingly.
chris@cwamidon
a few more words of warning on the state of defense tech
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Not responding to anymore q’s
If I like your reply after this one;
It is an affirmation
Else read no more into it
And will not speak more on this
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When you find out
About the non-human life,
That walks amongst us;
Will your mind accept it?
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