Samuel Desjardins

I love explosives

[Samuel Desjardins @ANFO_DONUT]

@jakobdiepen This video goes hard!!!

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

America's the best country in the world.

But we need more founders working on real problems.

If you're in the early stages of building something that actually matters, you have to be in El Segundo. 🇺🇸

Apply to the Fall Cohort in bio.

Deadline August 31st.

[Discipulus Ventures @DiscipulusVent]

Excited to announce that @ADoricko, founder of @RainmakerCorp, is joining the Discipulus team as a venture partner, alongside his work at Rainmaker.

We’re grateful for his continued support and look forward to working together on upcoming Cohorts.

Get involved with Discipulus at the link in bio!

[Watoga @watoga_tech]

First article in CIM commemoration! with a great cameo from Sam.

[Samuel Desjardins @ANFO_DONUT]

@ti_morse @elliot_fp @agnicoeagle thoughts on the comment? 34:00

[Samuel Desjardins @ANFO_DONUT]

🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

My first interview with Elliot F. Poirier (@elliot_fp) co-founder of Watoga

Watoga is building the AI operating system for the mining industry

0:26 Almost being stabbed at a mining conference
3:23 How Elliot got interested in mining
6:17 Math & divinity
11:45 Company building
17:30 Watoga, Fallout, Rockhound
19:27 Why Watoga is based in Québec
22:08 Starting Watoga
28:40 What is blasting
31:34 Building an AI operating system for mines
40:06 Building relationships in the mining industry
43:32 Going through Discipulus
48:34 First customers
51:05 Finding talent in Québec
53:35 El Segundo Airbnb story
55:22 Focus for the next year
1:00:30 Hardest thing he’s overcome

[Dave Font @davefontenot]

6/ Discipulus Ventures

Residency for the most important companies in America

The only early stage fund in El Segundo

@jakobdiepen @DiscipulusVent

[Eric Jorgenson 📚 ☀️ @EricJorgenson]

Wake Up!

New Investment Just Dropped...

What's the biggest industry you're not thinking about at all?

Mining.

Trillions of dollars go into mining around the world. This industry is the foundation of aerospace, defense, electronics, and... almost everything else.

Yet the info and tools mining engineers are using to make multi-million dollar decisions (which they do weekly if not daily) are often outdated, imprecise, or both.

If "Software is eating the world" -- Mining has barely been nibbled at yet.

The team at @watoga_tech is digging tf in.

A founding team of cracked mining engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists bringing AI/ML and physics sims to EXPLOSIONS in mines.

When mistakes cost millions of dollars and the right decision can make millions more, the right tools are life and death for Mining Directors.

DID YOU KNOW that the entire USA only graduates a few hundred mining engineers per year? That's insane! WE NEED TO GET THESE PEOPLE SOME LEVERAGE.

With the vision @elliot_fp laid out for me, getting 10-20% more efficiency out of drill-and-blast mines globally with JUST software improvements is possible.

For a $500B industry, that's a potential $100B impact. PLUS, huge downstream impacts on every buyer of minerals.

MINE MOAR MINERALS, CHEAPER, SOONER!

These dudes are sharp. Follow the @watoga_tech crew here: @elliot_fp @ANFO_DONUT @RokoBaljakand and watch them blow up for blowing shit up.

Shout out to @ADoricko @isaiah_p_taylor for shining a light on this team and getting them the support to move even faster.

We're doing the next industrial revolution. We need mines absolutely cranking to get factories absolutely cranking.

Onward.

[Samuel Desjardins @ANFO_DONUT]

@EricJorgenson @elliot_fp @RokoBaljak Boom! 🧨