Joshua Clemans

Co-Founder, CEO @VashonCompany

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

It's a beautiful time to be an expeditionary capitalist.

[Santiago Pliego @SantiagoPliego]

Will be in SF & Menlo Park on Thursday.

Holler if you’re around!

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

@CWNazarian @JoshuaSteinman 1000%

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

Yarvin pessimism vs. steinman optimism. Put it in the history books.

[Curtis Yarvin @curtis_yarvin]

Good morning we can only win in one step.

Good luck untying that Gordian knot tho

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

@DeltaClimbs 10/10 differentiation

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

One of my favorite unhinged founder emails. Guy threatened to airstrike our portcos.

[Matthew Prince 🌥 @eastdakota]

Two of our worst VC stories:

1. A Sequoia partner passed on Cloudflare because he didn’t think a woman could lead a security infrastructure company. Seriously. 🙄

2. I got introduced to @pmarca. Meeting got scheduled for a Monday, which should have been a clue. I thought it was just a casual meeting. He thought it was a pitch and brought the whole @a16z partnership team. Hilarity ensued. 🤪 At one point one of them said: “You don’t seem very prepared.” Which was true because I wasn’t. I framed the rejection letter they sent.

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

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.

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

@ti_morse @elonmusk Stoked

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@NateAFischer @SantiagoPliego Many such, we need a compilation of NF short stories

[Joe Rigney @joe_rigney]

An excerpt from JD Vance’s new book.

In America, we have all kinds of Protestants, even Roman Catholic Protestants.

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

@WillManidis 😂

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@takimunk @youwillmakemaps

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@youwillmakemaps @hthieblot 😮

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

@ChadCazel @BlackwingVC @Initialized @reindsummit 🫡🫡🫡

[Santiago Pliego @SantiagoPliego]

This is it. We're so close.

@heavypulp's Odyssey when?

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@SantiagoPliego @heavypulp

[brexton @brexton]

We're entering a new era where value accrues to physical assets and supply chains/infrastructure are national security imperatives

There will be infinite demand for intelligence and we're rate limited by physics & compute

Lots of opportunities for startups. Bullish on builders

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

@AdamDraper Double dash?

[Ethan Thornton @ethanrthornton]

Deeply thankful to everyone who helped make this milestone possible, and to @InfiniteXYZ and @RibbitCapital for their partnership.

Excited for what comes next.

[Evan Applegate @youwillmakemaps]

May 21, 2025: I finish an orthographic-orbit animation of the @DurinMining drill test site, halfway up a hill in an NV gold mine. Sentinel-2 imagery draped over a NED DEM, displaced as a mesh in Blender, sunsetty .EXR.

Ten days later: I’m bumping over shin-deep ruts in a rental pickup aimed at the site. Geoscience head Chris Seligman gamely points out nouns I need to catch up on: overburden. Waste rock. Outcrop. We’re an hour from the last bar of cell service and I’m glad I downloaded an offline sat map into GAIA

More honest cartographers, e.g. DIY trail mappers and survey techs, only map what they tread. I generally don’t see the territory depicted on the maps I sell. So when offered a bunk in Durin’s flophouse I gladly accepted; let's see a core drilling site in a desert mine

When we dismount thumb-sized crickets, desperate for moisture, thwack against our legs. Talc-fine dust boils around our feet, crowds our sinuses. This is nowheresville, pop. diesel gens and their tenders, the sharp end of the "primary sector"

Much better drivers than I towed the two-ton robotic drill and big tanks of sloshing liquids past the same ruts. Totally routine for exploration drillers: drive to dustland, bring core samples to the surface with watch-your-clothes rotating equipment, drive back, hear beery tales in bad-lumbar chairs, repeat for weeks, months, 12 hours on, 12 hours off.

Modernity rests on this cycle. One can’t dig up copper, iron, nickel, gold without sending men to breathe that dust and punch those holes.

Going to work and editing territory...the antipode of making maps.......

[Joshua Clemans @JoshuaClemans]

Interviewer: Why didn't you accept the Goethe Prize?

Jünger: Do you like eating from a bowl that someone else has already spat in?