Greg

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[Greg @gregbrainard]

@dara_venture There is alpha in commitment

[Greg @gregbrainard]

@E_Bruxxx Never overthink funding the absolute dawgz

[Greg @gregbrainard]

@fikocian Nice

[Greg @gregbrainard]

@dara_venture Kinda seems like manic founders get more funding

[Greg @gregbrainard]

The level of demand for industrial components is insane.

Actuators, panels, wire harnesses, etc.

Demand is solved for industrial startups. Capacity and scale are the challenge.

[Greg @gregbrainard]

Out: search funds
In: VC-backed rollups

[Greg @gregbrainard]

@maxkolysh Good advice. Love the 5 minute deck

[Greg @gregbrainard]

The wire harness tracking shot you didn’t know you needed

[Greg @gregbrainard]

@aphysicist 🧙🏼‍♂️

[Greg @gregbrainard]

Great day to pick a niche product in a sleepy industrial category and make it better/faster/cheaper

[Greg @gregbrainard]

There’s so much dry powder that VCs are backing startups that are PEs

[Greg @gregbrainard]

@signulll Went from banking to VC to startup and am having more fun now than ever before

[Greg @gregbrainard]

We need a @GrowSF in LA

[Greg @gregbrainard]

@hunterlanier We truly live in the age of metal

[Greg @gregbrainard]

@iamjakestream Similar dynamic in hard tech right now https://t.co/F6m2G4bvDd

[Greg @gregbrainard]

All startups are fake until they are real

[Greg @gregbrainard]

Silicon Valley, like always, is in a gold rush. Move fast or become the permanent underclass.

El Segundo is building towards decades-long timelines.

One builds AI and one builds hardware. Both move at the speed of their products.

[Aditya Agarwal @adityaag]

https://t.co/AoyPtuI9jx

[Greg @gregbrainard]

Anthropic at $1 trillion
SpaceX at $2 trillion

What a year

[Greg @gregbrainard]

This is the first cycle where we’re seeing vc-backed startups acquire non-vc backed businesses

[Greg @gregbrainard]

We’re living through the golden age of steel based coffee equipment

Just got the miir pourigami for plastic free pour over while backpacking

[Daniel Lockyer @DanielLockyer]

In case you didn't know, AeroPress now has a stainless steel metal version!

I have one, it's really good

Slightly bigger capacity than the normal plastic one too

It's heavy though, like in a dense, sturdy way. Nice feeling but not for the weight conscious

[Greg @gregbrainard]

In San Francisco, software engineers have the most aura. They go on to be the most revered founders.

Something similar is happening in el segundo with manufacturing engineers.