David McColl

1/Closing the year out at Fervo with one more big announcement: a new funding round. Fervo has raised a $462 million Series E led by B Capital to accelerate our geothermal pipeline.

@ax_pey @Vignesh_Robots @innate_bot Can I come 👨‍🎓

My co-founder @Vignesh_Robots just prepared in 30mn a 1hr introduction to robot Behavior Cloning for the team at @innate_bot Best robot class I've ever seen We might invite people from outside next time :)

@ax_pey NICE!!!! This is epic

Introducing MARS, the first Personal AI Robot. In technology, getting to the future we want starts with building it together. This is why we designed Mars. Inspired by early PCs, Mars is a powerful, complete, extendable robot. It runs BASIC, an open embodied AI agent we created for you to program with code, demonstrations, and prompts. This allows Mars to perform complex long-horizon tasks involving spatial memory, reasoning, manipulation and navigation. Pre-orders open now ⬇️ Demos & details in the thread

@ax_pey Yewww that’s what I’m talking about!! 🇺🇸

absolutely stoked to have been approved for my O1-A visa! i love this country, came here to build and i’m so glad to be able to continue do this for a long time also my lawyer is literally the 🐐, reach out if you want the best!

@rlacombe I’m sorry my friend 😞

I lost a friend of 20 years tonight. 💔 Life is so unbelievably fragile. Hug your loved ones while you can.

@apoorv_bh89 Currently sitting on a plane, not able to sleep, and really feeling the low blow of this tweet

Man, I feel for those of you who can’t sleep on planes. Just did my 15.5 hour flight and slept for like 8, played a kickass game for another 3, read a book, did some work. *evil laugh*

@paigefinnn And this Bryan Pellegrino thread: x.com/primordialaa/s…

@paigefinnn I always see Chris Dixon’s essay on “introducing randomness” as the parallel to PG’s essay: cdixon.org/2009/09/19/cli…

Furno Materials is decentralizing cement production to bring it closer to customers, thereby saving transport costs and emissions. Great to see DoE support the cause with a $20M grant to built out our first commercial facility!

@TimMLatimer announcing that @fervoenergy is a decade ahead of NREL geothermal projections lnkd.in/e83979E2

@AlexLaplaza_ @RainmakerCorp God that’s legendary

The best jobs maximize the number of "How did I get here?!" moments. One month into @RainmakerCorp, I was in the Middle East acting as an Italian translator between our team and an Egyptian Coptic priest serving us cold Budweisers while asking about cloud seeding

@IanRountree This is very good. @TimMLatimer has a similar one where the edges are “just raise capital”

When LPs ask what I’ve learned in the 8 years since founding Cantos.

Everyone in climate knows it’s time to get to business when Ash brings out the blue suit 💥

@AliBHamed This is great

My newest blog post on “Getting Through the Hard Part” with companies, and reflections for the hardest years of some of our most successful companies crossstack.substack.com/p/getting-thro…

“How are we going to power all of these data centers??” I’m not worried, @TimMLatimer is on it

@fervoenergy is a leader in sustainably powering the data and AI revolution. Congratulations @TimMLatimer and the whole Fervo team on this pioneering partnership with Google and NV Energy!

@a_laplaza The Power Rangers of Adaptation

Excited to support @MadisonCFreeman’s seminar on financing First of a Kind climate projects through the Stanford Sustainable Finance Institute. Please join next week! events.stanford.edu/event/sfi-semi…

Pumped for my man @a_laplaza to be in the operating side!!

One Stanford class churned out 45 climate companies that raised $725m and created ~700 jobs in just 7 years. Some alums: @fervoenergy, @SublimeSystems, @BrimstoneEnergy, @Mitra_Chem, @NitricityInc, @SwiftSolarPV, @guidewheel1, Holocene, Verne, Zanksar, Conduit, Furno, and more