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@Gaurab Fear not, @Dylan_Morri is loading…

You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.

So much obsession with existing TAM out there, exhibit A… that rare breed of founder that creates an entirely new market, 🙌🏽 @ADoricko

Built this in 7 days in El Segundo All-in cost: <$1,000 Working photobioreactor • sensors, controls, light delivery This is how fast iteration in biomanufacturing can move Now imagine 1 month Now imagine 1 year Autonomous, robot-driven bioreactors coming next We’re Raising

Hell yes

a little aura farming and then back to work really big new planes coming soon

@mattcirac @DiscipulusVent @jakobdiepen @KingJamieLee @tamarackglobal @RodrigoCorEst shreds

@robeloff @DiscipulusVent @jakobdiepen @KingJamieLee @tamarackglobal Who was the best surfer?

Little known fact about El Segundo founders - they can walk on water. Last week’s cohort of @DiscipulusVent builders put their physics and judgement skills on display for a pre-demo day liquidity event with fearless leader @jakobdiepen and @KingJamieLee @tamarackglobal. Your move @PalmerLuckey

Don’t sleep on @JakeJurewicz. For the U.S. to deliver scaled fission, balance of plant is the bottle neck. The team at Blue Energy execute at the speed and cost required for energy abundance. @tamarackglobal is honored to have the opportunity to continue backing this team techcrunch.com/2026/04/21/blu…

Hardtech hits harder in El Segundo. @DiscipulusVent @jakobdiepen keeping it real with Cohort 4, well played.

This is exactly the type of leadership we need right now to get us back on track. To the moon.!

@jakobdiepen @DiscipulusVent Don’t sleep on @DiscipulusVent

If this seems like something you NEED + you’re building a company CRITICAL to the national interest, come to El Segundo and be a part of a @DiscipulusVent Cohort. 🇺🇸

@brexton @austinbishop @tamarackglobal *hit

@brexton @austinbishop Capital fluency is our business @tamarackglobal if you need directions on who wins at leasing, lending, warehouse financing and growth funding besides the obvious names us up.

I’ve never seen so many startups raising debt As more startups tackle physics-heavy problems (w heavy capex), more of venture will want to look like merchant banks & have capital markets expertise Given how insular venture is, there are very few firms who are built for this

@StarlightSolar_ Epic @SauravShroff_

Introducing Starlight Air, the world lightest space solar panel. Order today at terawatt.space Engineered by Starpath in California.

@HalenMattison Epic

This could be a game-changer for the space industry. Virtually every exciting thing about the future of space (habitats, data infrastructure, manufacturing) is ultimately bottlenecked by power.

We went to LA and saw some things. Get on your knees.

In partnership with @Mach_Industries, Venom moved from clean-sheet concept to flight hardware in just 71 days using the DAPS™ manufacturing platform. This milestone demonstrates how software-defined manufacturing delivers deployment-ready hardware at a fundamentally different pace. Read more: divergent3d.com/company/news/s…

Divergent is proud to announce that it has been awarded a position on the Missile Defense Agency’s Scalable Homeland Innovative Enterprise Layered Defense (SHIELD) IDIQ. The goal of the $151B-ceiling SHIELD IDIQ is to rapidly field, scale, and sustain advanced capabilities in support of America’s Golden Dome missile defense initiative. Divergent welcomes the opportunity to partner with the Department of War and innovators across the industrial base to deliver next-generation manufacturing capabilities that enable faster development, qualification, and fielding of critical missile defense technologies.

Not every day you can take a stroll down memory lane to see the world’s first nuclear power plant. EBR1 was built in Idaho 75 years ago.