Wiz 👨‍🚀

Spacecadet was founded on the insight that founders working on the most important problems of our lifetime (Function, K2 Space, Rainmaker, etc.) need the most help telling their stories. Not because they're bad storytellers, but because they're working on such big, crazy ideas for the future that they need help grounding them. Today, we're officially announcing our new storytelling agency, Spacecadet Studio, to help more VC-backed startups turn impossible ideas into unforgettable stories. If you're a founder building at the edges of the game map and need help telling your story, my DMs are open!

@SpaceNews_Inc TMD solar from Arinna

The race to build orbital data centers is missing its biggest variable: power spacenews.com/the-race-to-bu…

Big night 🚀

@TaylorCSargent @realKunalAShah @KaranKunjur Eh more power (build bigger) + TMD power (Arinna) solve for a lot of that 🤓

@WizLikeWizard @realKunalAShah @KaranKunjur LEO - lower latency; less beam spread -> more secure comms and higher bandwidth; higher EO resolution; easier EOL logistics. MEO - absolutely bathed in high energy particle radiation.

I can’t wait to see how their 20kW thruster performs. Super ambitious undertaking. Godspeed @KaranKunjur and the rest of the K2 team. 🫡

@meshgelman I’m one of those 20% of people psychos who only drink coffee hot 🫣

@WizLikeWizard Cumulus Cold Coffee Bar ? Let’s do it!!!

VCs are all the same 🤪

@miamishor @pipedream_labs @martinvars Aren’t like 12 or 13 of them yours? 😅

aside from combined @pipedream_labs ownership, @martinvars and I have 14 kids combined.

@TaylorCSargent @realKunalAShah @KaranKunjur Too expensive. Need wayyyy more sats in LEO to get similar coverage of a MEO or GEO network. Less large things higher up with more power.

@realKunalAShah @KaranKunjur Option C…LEO proliferation of large sats.

Big day 🫡

@ExaltedFoks Also running that half. Also fucked.

Have a half marathon in three weeks. Be honest if this was 70% effort how fucked am I

@DStrachman Let’s collab! Minus cats lol

Cat cafe, maker space, library vibes for 1517…been talking about this for years!

@eglyman I love this

We only hire builders (and we’re on a hiring spree)! Reply with something you've built. I'll read them personally. We’re interviewing the best ones. You’ll be a good fit if you: - work best without permission - default to “how could I automate this” - had weird teenage hobbies - spend your sunday making side projects - have more Claude agents than cousins - shipped something this week - make prototypes, not powerpoints - don’t like hierarchy - are good at games: chess, monopoly, poker - would take dinner with Elon over $100k Good luck, Eric

@thatguybg @daniel_eckler @Ryanair extra good

@daniel_eckler @Ryanair this is extra

.@ryanair can’t afford ads, so we made one with AI.

@TurnerNovak @daniel_eckler @Ryanair 😅😅😅

@daniel_eckler @Ryanair Imagine paying €10 for a Ryanair ticket and you have to set middle seat between two Chuckys

We made an unhinged spec ad for @Ryanair. This is the type of AI video we've been cooking lately at Spacecadet Studio. If you know any creatively ambitious founders, send them my way 👨‍🚀

@werdelin @nocap_so @prehype Love

Big news: we at Audos.com just bought @nocap_so (Forbes called it "the world's first autonomous AI investor"), and we're announcing our first cohort of funded founders. Quick backstory: I spent 15 years at @prehype helping founders build billion-dollar companies (BarkBox, Ro, etc). The whole time something bugged me - for every founder who made it, thousands with the same talent never got a shot. The system just wasn't built for them. AI changed that. One person can now build what used to take twenty. We're watching it happen on audos.com every day. When I talked to @ednevsky (No Cap's founder) we realized we'd reached the same conclusion from opposite sides. He'd evaluated 9,000+ startups with AI and saw that the VC model is broken for 99% of founders. We'd been inside the system for 15 years and knew the same thing. So we joined forces. No Cap's 9,000 founders + 60 YC alumni community. Audos's platform + funding + 15 years of builder DNA. The proof is already here. First cohort: AI golf coach, $100K+ revenue in 2 months Two Brooklyn high schoolers helping 100K NYers/month find housing London dad built AI care concierge for his son with Down Syndrome Cornell addiction psychiatrist making CRAFT therapy accessible to everyone AI grief coach spending 2 hrs/week with each client Boat merch from a childhood memory, $1K sales week one Up to $100K each. Zero equity. Revenue share that only works when they work. Not unicorns. Real businesses solving real problems by people who actually understand the customer. Tag a builder audos.com

If you like COFFEE & POKER, boy do I have the event for you... Tournament co-hosted by @FellowProducts this Sunday afternoon in SF. DM for invite ☕️🃏

@PeterJ_Walker What are top 1%?

VC benchmarks. IRR, TVPI, DPI. How does your fund (or your portfolio of funds) stack up?

Excited to lead Arinna's Seed! Biggest first check we've ever written! We talk to space companies daily. Same constraint keeps coming up: POWER Silicon solar tech is 70+ years old and can't keep up with the Build Bigger space era. Arinna is unlocking the final frontier 👨‍🚀

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We're closed. Gonna miss tweeting about this.

@mamoonha @kleinerperkins Congrats!

Today @kleinerperkins announces KP22, our twenty-second venture fund with $1 billion to back early stage companies, alongside $2.5 billion in growth funds to back high-inflection, category-defining businesses. Together, these new funds total $3.5 billion and reflect our conviction that this is one of the most important company-building periods in our firm's 54-year history. We are at a breakthrough moment. The best founders are putting down roots right now, and building enduring companies. kleinerperkins.com