Erick A. Brimen

Founder and CEO of Próspera.

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

Congrats @Keller !

I can relate 100% - sometimes the most important innovations to unleash human flourishing have to start abroad!

Keep up to great work 🚀🖖

[Keller Cliffton @Keller]

Today, Zipline raised $1.5b at a $21.5b valuation.

When we started Zipline, flying autonomously in the US was illegal. Which made it really hard to convince investors to give us money! But we were too naive to think that meant we shouldn’t try.

We started the company on a cow farm. We worked out of run-down construction trailers so that we could keep engineering, manufacturing, and flight test all unified and in one place. Hiring people from normal companies like Google was hard because we didn’t have a cafe or laundry service. But enough risk takers and rebels wanted to go on an insane adventure with us. They became the early team.

We decided to launch in smaller countries and focus on life-saving use cases. We hired incredible entrepreneurs and operators in Rwanda, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, and other countries. For eight years, Zipline expanded our service across Africa, serving thousands of hospitals and health facilities and reducing maternal mortality by 51%. Today, the network saves over 14k lives every year and is cash flow positive.

Last year, Zipline launched at scale in the US and the service exploded. We grew flight volumes about 100x over the last 18 months, and now make more than a million deliveries a year per metro. We’re now expanding with our partners to millions of deliveries per day. Normal families love having access to anything they need in 10-20 minutes, no matter where they live. Spend more time with loved ones and less time worrying about errands.

Zipline builds drone delivery that is silent and safe. No one wants to hear an extremely loud “swarm of bees” delivering to their backyard or their neighbor’s. Automated delivery needs to be insanely quiet, which guided the overall architecture of our technology delivering from 330 ft in the air. We are 6 times quieter than the closest competitor during delivery. Zipline also now has over 150m commercial autonomous miles (10x the rest of the industry combined) and no safety incidents. Neighborhoods should demand silent and safe delivery!

Today, Zipline is announcing two things. First, we just signed the largest autonomous vehicle contract in human history to expand automated delivery nationally with Walmart, our first and biggest partner in the US. We’re starting by scaling to 300 supercenters throughout the country. Second, we’ve raised $1.5b at a $21.5b valuation from existing and new investors, led by Paradigm, WCM, and Layer.

Zipline was a hard company to believe in for the first ten years of our history. Investors didn’t think the company was “investable”. Most people didn’t even think Zipline was an economic venture. Thanks to those who have rooted for us along the way. To all of the tens of millions of customers and families who rely on Zipline day in and day out: thank you for helping us build the future. Zipline has grown more than @ryanzip, @keenanwyrobek, I, and all others at the company could have imagined.

There is a big opportunity to build a new layer of infrastructure for humanity over the coming years. We want to approximate teleportation. We can build a logistics network that connects and serves all people on earth. We can free human flourishing from the choking constraint of traffic and roads. There are no roads where we’re going. 🚀🌎

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

@elonmusk unless we fix governance itself, the problem will persist - governments will just regulate and tax AI and robots. The only way to fix the fundamentals is through a form of intrapreneurship. Doing to territorial governance what SpaceX did to the space industry.
https://t.co/3WTaMGzhVn

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

Best form of leadership is from the front!

Proud moment for all Venezuelans.

[María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA]

Estoy aquí. Con ustedes

[María Corina Machado @MariaCorinaYA]

Estoy aquí. Con ustedes

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

No tiene que ser así! HNDs tiene el potencial de ser el caso de éxito más impactante de los próximos 10 años de cómo transformar pobreza a prosperidad!!

De eso se trata nuestra misión como @Prosperahn en colaboración con el estado de HNDs vía @ProsperaZEDE

@TN5Telenoticias

[CIA @CIA]

“A aquellos que buscan crear un cambio positivo en Cuba – Este es el momento. La decepción de las promesas fallidas, la corrupción, y las vidas privilegiadas de unos pocos – Aprovecha esta oportunidad de crear el cambio que deseas a través de una asociación discreta con la CIA.”

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.

The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.

[Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel]

GREAT NEWS: The Council voted to advance Esmeralda's approvals!

This was the single most important vote of the project, Oct 14. Adoption of the ordinances is on track for Nov 11

These approvals will unlock tremendous value & opportunity

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

$4,085…

👀

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

Mi publicación anterior ha sido una de las más virales que he tenido de forma orgánica. Y los comentarios dejan algo claro: esta conversación despierta mucho interés tanto en Honduras como en El Salvador. 🇭🇳🇸🇻

Hubo de todo: «envidia», «pudiese, pero no lo hacen», y observaciones sobre seguridad, corrupción y burocracia.

Pero un comentario resumió muy bien el desafío: «Te faltó terminar la frase… “Solo si”».

Tiene razón. No basta decir que Honduras podría atraer más inversión. Hay que explicar qué tendría que cambiar para lograrlo.

Primero: bien por El Salvador. Que al vecino le vaya bien merece celebrarse. Mi planteamiento no es restarle mérito, sino preguntarnos cómo Honduras puede atraer más inversión de la que recibe hoy.

Ahora, una pregunta:

¿Y si Honduras no tuviera que esperar a que todo el país cambie al mismo tiempo?

¿Y si distintos municipios tuvieran espacio para probar mejores maneras de atraer empresas, simplificar trámites y crear empleo? Con reglas claras, responsabilidades definidas y resultados que todos podamos comparar.

Que lo que funcione en uno pueda replicarse en otros. Que compitan por servir mejor a su gente.

Seguridad. Menos burocracia. Más certeza para invertir. Y una medida del éxito que importe de verdad: mejores oportunidades para las familias.

No competir por quién tiene el país más grande. Competir por crear un futuro mejor.

¿Qué tendría que cambiar en tu municipio para que lleguen más empresas y mejores empleos?

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

Honduras pudiese atraer mucha más inversión!…

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

Honduras pudiese atraer mucha más inversión!…

[Cesia Mejía // CM News @CesiaMejiaHN]

➪El presidente Nayib Bukele anuncia la mayor inversión privada en la historia de El Salvador, tras suscribir un acuerdo con el presidente ejecutivo de Grupo Cox, Enrique Riquelme, por un monto inicial de $2,900 millones. El acuerdo contempla el desarrollo de proyectos estratégicos en los sectores de energía y agua, con el objetivo de impulsar el crecimiento del país y generar beneficios para la población salvadoreña.

#cmnews #honduras #lifestyle #noticias

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

@criteriohn 1. Ninguna empresa puede convertirse en una ZEDE - que es una jurisdicción de character público similar a una municipalidad, según lo establece la constitución y la ley
2. El congreso si estableció la primera ZEDE (art. 39), y Honduras Prospera Inc. cumplió con todo lo requerido

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

When I started Coinbase, getting a bank to work with us at all was nearly impossible.
Now Citi is partnering with us to bring stablecoins to institutions.

We’ve come a long way from 2012. Thank you @Citi.

[Handre @Handre]

Learn Austrian Economics in one X post:

1. Humans act. Every choice a person makes traces back to an incentive, a trade-off, a cost weighed against a benefit. Remove the incentive and the action stops. Distort the incentive and the action warps.

Tax income at 90% and watch producers stop producing. Subsidize failure and watch failure multiply. The behavior follows the reward structure, always.

2. Value exists only in the mind of the person choosing. A glass of water is worth nothing to a drowning man and everything to a man dying of thirst. No central authority can calculate this, because it changes with every individual and every circumstance.

Nothing has value in itself, only the degree to which humans choose to value it. Diamonds and even gold only carry value because humans decided they do.

3. Money does not come from a government decree. It emerged spontaneously when traders needed something durable, divisible, and widely accepted to escape the limitations of direct barter. Gold won that competition across centuries and across dozens of independent civilizations because the market, not a ministry, chose it.

Fiat currency is the state hijacking that evolved institution and replacing it with paper backed by nothing but a legal threat. Every central bank on earth operates on this model right now.

4. Wealth does not fall from the sky. A farmer who eats his entire harvest produces nothing next season. The farmer who saves seed, plants it, and specializes in what he grows best accumulates a surplus. That surplus is capital. Capital funds everything that comes after.

Consumption without prior production is just burning down the furniture for warmth. Every welfare state eventually reaches this point.

5. Strip private property rights and production collapses. A farmer will work his own land until midnight. That same farmer, working collective land, stops at noon. The Soviet Union ran this experiment across seventy years and killed tens of millions, proving the point.

When you cannot own the outcome, you do not produce the outcome.

6. Voluntary trade generates wealth from nothing but mutual preference. When you pay twelve dollars for a meal, you value the meal above twelve dollars; the restaurant values twelve dollars above the meal. Both parties walk away wealthier in real terms. No politician, no regulator, no bureaucrat added anything.

Protectionism destroys this. The 2018 US steel tariffs raised steel prices for American manufacturers, killed more jobs in steel-consuming industries than existed in steel production itself, and transferred wealth from productive firms to a protected few.

7. Ludwig von Mises identified inflation as a tax. Every dollar the Federal Reserve creates without corresponding production dilutes every dollar you already hold. The new money flows first to the government and its contractors, who spend it at current prices. By the time it reaches you, prices have already risen.

The US M2 money supply grew from roughly 15 trillion dollars in January 2020 to over 21 trillion by early 2022. Consumer prices followed. Your savings took the loss.

8. Prices carry information. A price spike tells producers to produce more and tells consumers to use less. It coordinates millions of strangers without a single central command. Interfere with that signal and the coordination breaks.

Rent control in New York City is the cleanest example. Cap rents below market and landlords stop maintaining buildings, stop building new ones, and convert units to other uses. The people rent control was supposed to help pay the price through collapsing supply.

9. Interest rates are the price of capital over time. When the Federal Reserve pushed rates to near zero between 2008 and 2022, it told every investor that capital was nearly free. Businesses built projects that only made sense at zero percent. When rates normalized, the projects failed. The 2022 collapse of the US tech sector and the crypto market were not random events. They were the correction of a decade of artificially cheap capital.

The business cycle is not a mystery of capitalism. Central banks manufacture it.

10. Bureaucrats face no profit and loss. A businessman who misallocates capital goes bankrupt. A bureaucrat who misallocates capital writes a report requesting more funding. The feedback loop that disciplines markets simply does not exist inside a government agency.

The US Department of Education has spent over a trillion dollars since 1980. Literacy rates have not improved. No one at the department has been bankrupted by this outcome.

11. Every producer inside a local market holds knowledge that no bureaucrat in a capital city can replicate. A wheat farmer in Kansas tracks soil moisture, futures prices, local equipment costs, his specific buyer relationships, and a hundred other variables simultaneously. That knowledge lives in the price he sets.

Friedrich Hayek called this tacit knowledge in 1945. The Soviet central planners ignored him and spent fifty years proving him correct, producing chronic shortages of goods that private markets coordinate effortlessly. No model, no algorithm, and no committee can compress what millions of independent actors know into a single plan.

12. Every government intervention produces effects you see and effects you don't. You see the road the state builds. You don't see the factory the tax dollars never funded, the job that never existed, the innovation that never happened because capital was extracted at gunpoint and redirected by bureaucrats with no skin in the game.

Take the 2009 Cash for Clunkers program. Congress destroyed 690,000 working cars, handed dealers a short-term spike, and you saw the sales numbers. The used car market was stripped of affordable inventory, pricing working-class buyers out for years afterward.

13. Prices, supply chains, and language itself coordinate millions of strangers without any central planner issuing a single command. That coordination is spontaneous order: complex, functional patterns that emerge from individuals pursuing their own goals under rules they did not collectively design. No committee holds the dispersed local knowledge required to replicate what voluntary exchange produces every second.

Watch how English evolved. No king designed its grammar. Millions of speakers across centuries adopted words and structures that worked, dropped ones that didn't, and produced a language richer than any bureaucrat could have engineered. Central planners who believe they can replicate that process with price controls or production quotas destroy the feedback mechanism that generates the order in the first place.

Thanks for reading this long post! What would you add to this list?

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

De lo que ha surgido, los puntos importantes que se repiten son varios. ¿Que consideran es lo MÁS importante asegurar para nuestros “TPSianos” al regresar?

1. Empleo formal
2. Crédito y vivienda
3. Acompañamiento y guía
4. Trámites y documentos

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

En @Prosperahn estamos pensando en formas en las que podemos ayudar a mitigar el impacto negativo de esto y, de hecho, convertirlo en una oportunidad masiva de ganar-ganar.

Doy la bienvenida a todas las ideas constructivas.

Comentario o DM.

Honduras: SI SE PUEDE!

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

It’s time to make America the crypto capital of the world.

@POTUS and the current administration have done an excellent job of moving us towards this. Now we need to get Clarity done.

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

@Juanz_hn @Prosperahn Quizás se la mejor oportunidad para que se entienda y aprecie la verdad de lo que es Próspera. Dios sabe lo que hace. Tengamos Fé 🙏

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

@talbottlg @Prosperahn Buenos puntos! Gracias por compartir

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

En @Prosperahn estamos pensando en formas en las que podemos ayudar a mitigar el impacto negativo de esto y, de hecho, convertirlo en una oportunidad masiva de ganar-ganar.

Doy la bienvenida a todas las ideas constructivas.

Comentario o DM.

Honduras: SI SE PUEDE!

[Erick A. Brimen @erickbrimen]

@JAaaa1261 @criteriohn AI? Si ese post satánico es real, personalmente lo investigo y de ser acertado, tomaré acción al respecto.

For favor enviar link y/o evidencias.

Gracias