Dan Madden

VC | Marine | defense and frontier tech

[Dan Madden @DanFMadden]

The U.S. doesn’t just have an unmanned systems procurement gap. It has an unmanned forces gap.

My thoughts Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces and what it means for U.S.'s @DeptofWar #AutoWarCom.

Published by @FirstBreakfast:
https://t.co/YBlEPyDDJx

[David Jeans @DavidJeans2]

New- Will Somerindyke supplied munitions to warzones for years.

Now with investor BVVC, he's joined the defense tech boom, and is in talks to raise "hundreds of millions" for Union, a startup making artillery shells.
https://t.co/4CN4zjf78U

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@tomwaits Standing on a corner in Austin, singing Martha to myself.

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@kwilliams101 Oh my gosh, 22 year old me wishes they had politicized the Japanese encephalitis shot. That thing threw me for a loop. (take the shot, no whining)

[Shubhro Saha @shubroski]

This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets.

It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial.

For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...

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@shubroski Love it!

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@sovietologist Love the cubist scenario.

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@mouthofmorrison NY had a similar experience. Voters didn't love it...

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@mouthofmorrison I feel like there's an enterprise version of this that randomly cancels meetings.

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@CarolineCBaxter We need to experiment with new words for this. Glad you're using a travel mug to avoid spit takes from this thread. Good luck today!

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@kwilliams101 I remember as an RA having undergrads be uncertain which side of the Cold War the Russians were on. I feel like there might be greater clarity now.

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Really appreciate Mark's reflections on the tension between product and services, raising and executing, founders and boards.

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A passionate and thoughtful postmortem of Descartes Labs by a cofounder, Mark Johnson.
https://t.co/574m1HzVp1

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Startups can have a tremendous impact on national security, service a humongous market, and find supportive VCs. Vote for this panel, I'd love to see you in Austin!

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Tech x VC x National Security @ SXSW
Vote for DoD CTO Heidi Shyu, Defense Entrepreneurs Forum's Exec. Dir. Trish Martinelli, ValidEval CEO Adam Rentschler, and Squadra Ventures (me).
https://t.co/9LJn0dauzG

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@CarolineCBaxter Caroline, I'm so sorry. Your mom sounds very rock and roll.

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@wolfejosh In fairness, half the guys probably think they're supporting nuclear weapons.

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@CarolineCBaxter Starting with hooey leads you to the wrong decade of music.

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@mariogabriele Nice piece! There's a ton of exciting things happening in defense tech, ranging from autonomy, quantum sensors, privacy enhancing technologies, to neuromorphic computing. It's a big and exciting world!

[Dan Madden @DanFMadden]

Had fun judging at DHS's Homeland Security Startup Studio event today! Great technology, exciting founders, important mission. Julie Brewer provided great insights on DHS's needs. Thanks to the FedTech team for organizing.
https://t.co/WYkPTgDQUW