Founder, GP @GiantStepVC | deep tech

Joined April 2009
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Huge announcements soon. 1.5 years worth ๐Ÿคฃ
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Iโ€™m looking forward to reindustrialize this week! See you all there!
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He injects reindustrialization into our veins. The man, the myth, the legend..
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT We're honored to feature: Aaron Slodov (@aphysicist ) Co-Founder and CEO, Atomic Industries Previously announced: >Antonio Gracias - Founder, CEO, and CIO of Valor Equity Partners >Blake Scholl - Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic >Daleep Singh - Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist at PGIM >Doug Petno - Co-CEO and CIB at JP Morgan Chase >John Henry Harris - CEO of Harbinger >Jim Belosic - Founder of SendCutSend >Kelly Loeffler - SBA Administrator >Alexis Ohanian - Founder of 776 >Ed Mehr - CEO and Co-Founder of Machina Labs >Bryon Hargis - CEO and Co-Founder at Castelion >Emil Michael - Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering at DoW >Del Costy - President and Managing Director at Siemens Digital >Brendan Carr - FCC Chairman >Mike Pyle - Deputy Head, BlackRock Portfolio Management Group >Justin Lopas - Co-Founder and COO, Base Power Co. >Augustus Doricko - CEO, Rainmaker >Mike Solana - Chief Marketing Officer, Founders Fund >Alan Schwartz - Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC >Ambassador Waltz - U.S. Representative to the United Nations >Dan Wright - Co-Founder and CEO of Armada >Andrew Lonsberry - CEO of Path Robotics >Tara Murphy Dougherty - CEO of Govini >Chris Power - CEO of Hadrian >Mark Widmar - CEO of First Solar >Lukas Czinger - Co-Founder and CEO of Divergent >Jacob Helberg - Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs >Filip Aronshtein - Co-Founder and CEO of Dirac >Scott Kupor - Director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management >Chris Raymond - President and CEO, Boeing Global Services >Cody James - Founder and CEO, Open X >Paul Kwan - Managing Director, Global Resilience at General Catalyst >Justin Bibb - Mayor of Cleveland >Greg Bernstein - CEO, The New Industrial Corporation >Colin Greenspon - Co-Founder and Partner, Narya >Keri Findley - CEO and Founder, Tacora Capital >Darin DiTommaso - VP of Engineering for Defense and Systems, GE Aerospace >Zane Mountcastle - Co-Founder & CEO, Picogrid >Ti Morse - Founder, Relentless >Colin Miller - VP and General Manager, Phantom Works, Boeing Defense, Space, and Security >Max Lobovsky - Co-Founder and CEO, Formlabs >David Lorch - Director of the Office of Strategic Capital, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of War >Adam Johnson - CEO, Principal Mineral >Packy McCormick - CEO, Not Boring >Shilpan Amin - Global Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer, General Motors >Drew Oetting - Co-Founder & Partner, 8VC >Matthew Steckman - Chief Revenue Officer, Anduril >Cameron Schiller - Co-Founder and CEO, Rangeview
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Set is ready @ElonMusk We built it 25min from downtown Austin and can shoot anytime in the next 7 days on 1h notice. Humanity is on the verge of becoming a multi-planet species and spacefaring civilization. My goal with this interview is to help people viscerally feel what that future is going to look like and get everyone excited to help build it.
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My perfect spec.
Porsche chose a 911 GT3 RS equipped with the Weissach Package to represent Buzz Lightyear. The body and wheels are finished in white, while hand-painted green and purple accents recreate the suit's signature color scheme. Even the massive rear wing has been styled to evoke Buzz's deployable wings.
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Lewis Hamiltonโ€™s choices have ruined F1
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Hard, but also rewarding and fun!
You think โ€œhardware is hardโ€? Try jet engines
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Set is ready @ElonMusk We built it 25min from downtown Austin and can shoot anytime in the next 7 days on 1h notice. Humanity is on the verge of becoming a multi-planet species and spacefaring civilization. My goal with this interview is to help people viscerally feel what that future is going to look like and get everyone excited to help build it.
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Markets look normal for once.
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I took my father to the botanical gardens yesterday, our first outing since my mom passed. Time is precious. Love your parents. They arenโ€™t here forever.
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I once had a founder tell me on a zoom call ( while he was sitting in the dark with a very tiny light far away from him ) he proceeds to tell me that he has achieved superluminous travel and and he was pretty serious about it too. I said nice, very nice, then ended that call.

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I was once pitching in a board room at a top 3 VC firm for a $15M Series A. 12 people in the meeting. One of the GPs fully fell asleep. Out cold for 30 minutes. Nobody acknowledged it. Everyone just kept going. I kept presenting my Series A slides to an unconscious man in a Herman Miller chair and somehow that was considered normal. That's venture capital. You might fly across the country to perform for people who may or may not be conscious. It's a dance. And sometimes you lead and sometimes you follow and sometimes your partner is unconscious. If you're raising right now, just know: every founder has a story like this. The process is weird. The power dynamic is weird. You're not crazy for thinking it's weird. No one talks about it because they want to continue raising. But I'm happy to stick my neck out there. It is weird.
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Faraz ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿš€ retweeted
the most exciting place in tech right now is Main Street. it's never been a better time to grow a business in America, and we're honored to be the first major AI company doing this alongside the @SBAgov
Today we're launching the Main Street AI Accelerator with the U.S. Small Business Administration. We're committing $25M in Computer credits, $250 each for up to 100,000 eligible companies, in honor of America's 250th anniversary. Learn more: main-street-ai-accelerator.pโ€ฆ
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Nah Utah wonโ€™t have any water shortages thanks to @ADoricko and @RainmakerCorp ๐ŸŒง๏ธ ๐ŸŒง๏ธ ๐ŸŒง๏ธ
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My friend Rocky interviewed Sergey Brin, have a listen !
Sergey Brin (Google co-founder) sat down for an unscripted fireside chat with Rocky Yu to open our @GoogleDeepMind Build Day. ๐Ÿงต
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Faraz ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿš€ retweeted
NETANYAHU: WE WANT TO CHANGE RELATIONSHIP WITH U.S. FROM AID TO PARTNERSHIP NETANYAHU: I WANT U.S. ISRAEL TO INVEST EQUALLY, SHARE IN FRUITS OF INVESTMENTS
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458โ€™s tripling value in 90 days was not in my ๐Ÿ”ฎ
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Faraz ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿš€ retweeted
I'm happy to permit Data Centers in Texas - but the compute should be for Texans and not for coastal elites. If the coastal elites want Texan FLOPS, they should be paying us a Flop tax premium for being coastal elite Montauk Trustwads. Discounts for everyone in Southeastern sunbelt and a few midwestern states. Everyone else gets the montauk flop tax premium.
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Faraz ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ ๐Ÿš€ retweeted
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more people starting at varda in a single week than we had at the entire company for the first 5 months
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