Two years of /N1BA sign-offs, and today the motivating piece behind them lives at n1ba.com.
"The myth of the solo genius makes for a better magazine cover. The truth of the ecosystem makes for a better civilization."
"No One Builds Alone" is a statement about how science-advantaged startups actually get built—and about who shows up!
Founders, investors, operators, program managers, tech transfer officers, the LPs funding long-horizon hold periods, the sensemakers who translate.
Today is also when @TheEndEffector buds into paid publishing house.
(Telemetry stays free.)
Our Operator membership opens Core Robotics, gated Thrust analysis, and Downrange event finder.
To founders building tough tech: it's on the house.
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“Robots eat cars”. Thesis: modern cars are starting to operate on robot architecture, and that foreshadows how such architecture will spread to every industry that moves physical things.
telemetry.endeff.com/p/robot…
28 of 50 U.S. critical minerals have zero domestic processors. Gallium – no modern tech without it – is 100% imported with nobody building. We mapped every one: endeff.com/ix/critical-miner…
Who draws the red lines on dual-use AI when there's no treaty to draw them in?
A private AI company just became a de facto arms control negotiator and the governance infrastructure that should exist simply doesn't...
New Telemetry → telemetry.endeff.com/p/red-l…
Free drinks and food. Tough Tech On Tap is hosted and sponsored by JP Morgan Chase Commercial Banking, @CushWake, and @EndEffectorThe (including @Imjmill, Grey, Jethro, Rose). See you at @citizenM beside TD Garden!
Dear Tough Tech community: Save October 2 6pm in Boston for Tough Tech On Tap! Ping me or add your email below and I’ll send you the event page as soon as it's available! airtable.com/appuf40Fh08JkeG…
Excited to see you. Plus, we are adding another great sponsor! 🙌
Great images. For Telemetry (by @EndEffectorThe), we feature similar technical visual art in the pre/postscript of most editions of the newsletter! Will plan to include some from @MachinaLabs_ ! telemetry.endeff.com/
Excited for this to premiere. It’s critical for reindustrialization and the future of industrial sustainability to rethink how our heavy machines are designed and actuated. Thanks for hosting me @RiseRobotics!
I also have additional information on the episode page endeff.com/thrusts/tee-ris/. Our members who are “read in” get access to a bunch of interviews and walkthroughs, too, in beautiful fully-produced 4K videos 👑