Denton Baird

Had the pleasure of touring @zipline factory today w/@dentonbaird Airframes so light you can hold them with one finger Zipline is going to win

@DisruptionHedge @zipline Great having you out! Always a pleasure

@aphysicist Just under the deadline x.com/zipline/status…

WHAT DID YOU GET DONE THIS PAST YEAR: in search of all the most memorable launch and hype vids of the past 12 months for hard tech / manufacturing companies. big or small. BONUS: other vids that may have inspired you to build.

@benhylak Honestly was way better than it had any right to be

being a founder is weird because everything will be normal and then someone will randomly dress up like alexander hamilton and start rapping about your company

@samsheffer gm Sam

okay let's see who can reply to this

@dejavucoder Gm

mutuals and people who mutuals follow (despite me not following them) can talk in this thread

@rrhoover @DylanAbruscato breaking news

We're closed. Gonna miss tweeting about this.

@bephrem Surprised no one else has rented out Cafe Zoetrope

There are maybe 5 great looking filming locations for rent in San Francisco. This is one of them. I constantly see it in videos (and I rented it once). It’s called “Creative SOMA Loft - Off-site Space” and it’s sort of expensive $300/hr (4hr minimum). It looks great due to the variety of textures (soft wood ceiling, stone wall, light hardwood floor) and well-distributed exposure throughout. We need to do better at production design for startups.

@Matt_Schulman1 My big break was getting around paywalls for my tiny agency. Subscriptions added up!

I broke into comms by getting really good at finding reporters’ email addresses so my tiny agency didn’t have to pay for Muck Rack

@aadilpickle I can’t sponsor, but are any of them looking for eng. jobs? I will help fast track them if they want to work @zipline — dope project

For 2 years my friends have been working on turning a $500 beater 1990 Honda Accord into a racecar This weekend, they're competing in a race called 24 Hours of Lemons, a parody of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Just some average joe-schmos who dress up in funny costumes, decorate their cars, and try to get the best lap time while hoping their car doesn't blow up (dw there's a lot of fire extinguishers on site) I watched their team, MagiCARp Motors, push their Gyarados themed Accord to the limit, doing most of the track at 70 mph in a car older than everyone on the team The event is electric. 60 of us gathered under their canopies to observe them monitoring the situation of the race through a homemade Claude Code telemetry setup. They were streaming the driver's pov on twitch next to our friends DJing and learning to drive stick on a racing sim they brought from home. It's a nutty amount of effort to put into something. There's really no point other than fun, but everyone's so committed to the bit. Our team's car is GEARados, but there was one that looked like a cop car, a bee car, and my fave: the emotional support vehicle. It's actually a one of a kind thing to be a part of. Most teams have sponsors to fund them, but so far my homies have done everything out of pocket. Funds often have special access to sporting games, but that's so unoriginal at this point. Imagine taking someone you're trying to woo to a Lemons race instead and getting to meet the MagiCARp motors teams instead. If you're a startup I can't see a better way to close a potential hire. But for real, if you're interested in supporting this awesome team, DM me for more info and we can work something out. A million tech people are involved in races like this - we ran into folks from every big AI lab and founders from all over this weekend, I'm sure getting your logo on the car would be ROI positive.

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@juliapintar @rohanrkumar If you know Rohan you know ball

this guy put Kevin from The Office in a glass box with 600,000 receipts printing for 8 hours. same guy ran MrBeast's TikTok for 4 years. grew it to the fastest growing account on earth. didn't know how to make a video when he started. whole playbook with @rohanrkumar 👇

@mansourtarek_ @Alfred_Lin @matthuang @aleximm @luanalopeslara @_charlienoyes @abhishekm1636 @creatine_cycle bat signal

This is how Kalshi Q1 board meeting ended. cc @Alfred_Lin @matthuang @aleximm @luanalopeslara @_charlienoyes @abhishekm1636

@whatdotcd @Bonecondor This is so dope

@Bonecondor should we start a new one? also sign up here closefriends.email

I've had my agent summarize a group chat I'm in with my really successful really smart friends. I think they're fun to read and I'm debating on sharing them more widely, would you subscribe to something like this? Reply and I'll DM you to get an email so you can get them and also give feedback <3

@nicholasychua Come visit @zipline any time

if you are interested in everything i've learned over the past 3 months about x articles, formats, and content strategy. stay tuned ;)

@TheBrianMcManus You had a good run

I accept that my number 1 spot on Nebula is about to be dethroned by the return of the King

Nebula is about to print money. Huge get for them.

@creatine_cycle @mattyp Jeff Nippard on MOTS when?

how to do a deadlift: - bar over your shoelaces - grip about shoulder width - brace core - stand up do this and you'll never get injured while doing a deadlift (video demonstration for visual learners)

“Heat-seeking missiles for pain. That is the perfect definition of people who really succeed at startups.” @Keller is the CEO and co-founder of @Zipline, the world's largest commercial autonomous delivery system. Back in 2011, he set out to solve the un-fancy, real-world problem of transporting life-saving medicines to people who need it. To do it, he’s enlisted builders who are willing to “crack some eggs.” On In Depth, he sits down with @brettberson to share why building hardware is 10X harder than you’d think. He shares: -Why Zipline had a 1% chance of working -The blood drone delivery launch in Rwanda that was near-catastrophic -What it took to scale to 5,000 hospitals -How he hires at Zipline, from execs who aren't above "plunging the toilets" to teenagers who’ve built submarines and robots in their garage -Why the most important companies of the next 10 years will be hardware

@creatine_cycle It's okay you're a great human being and good to your friends

@DentonBaird oh my god

for the love of god the best way to get high quality interactions on your launch post is to simply be a great human being and be good to your friends or pay a bunch of people and disclose that you did. the amount of dms even moderately high follower accounts get asking for free engagement is insane this year and it's getting worse. i get it from people i have never met and when i don't respond i get follow ups (i am very important). like bro at least ask how i'm doing