Jake Simon

Investor, Porsche Ventures @porsche | prev @fontinalis. Below average golfer, above average cartner. Collaborating with pioneers building the industrial future.

[New American Industrial Alliance @newindustrials]

.@atomic_inc is expanding! It just celebrated the ribbon-cutting of their second Michigan facility. Kudos to NAIA Co-Founder @aphysicist and his team for driving the future of AI-driven manufacturing and truly making hard things easier to make.

[Jake Simon @jacob_a_simon]

@zachglabman @will_alverson @reindsummit @GavinYuan_ @mattfreed @bridgetyoungs @ChipForsythe @LaneKonkel @noxmetals 😂

[Will Alverson @will_alverson]

Post @reindsummit thoughts: Physically tired, spiritually charged.

This year the momentum felt a lot more tangible. More people are scaling and those who are not yet are taking massive swings at big problems 🇺🇸

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

The next industrialists are in Detroit, millions of jobs coming back, and most of these founders believe floor workers should get stock. Just totally different from the repulsive greed of Big Tech. These guys believe in America and also the American worker. 🇺🇸

[Keagan Wernicke @keaganwernicke]

YOOOO

[Ryan Eppley @RyanEppley]

See yall at @reindsummit

Great to be back in Detroit, Rock City ⚡️

And proud to be returning as an official partner of @newindustrials — this is how we win.

[Caro @carobotic]

@deployconduit demo reind nightcap tomorrow

[Jake Simon @jacob_a_simon]

Great day to be a factory
🏭✂️

welcome to Detroit

[Brian @bheiligenthal]

Stainless steel, prismatic silicon chips, latticed circuit boards and supersonic rockets. How can you not be romantic about hardtech?

It’s impossible. That’s why we’re starting @heavymetalmag, the first design periodical sharing stories and research from the frontier of critical hardtech. Written from Detroit, c/o @joinrouge.

Heavymetal 001 with @connorkapoor (@digitalmetalinc) is out now. Get a glimpse inside the future of America’s industrial base:

[Fed @fedpoasts]

GOOD MORNING DETROIT.

LET'S GET HEAVY.

HASHTAG REINDUSTRIALIZE.

[zach @zachglabman]

TLDR: the SBA is making the bankable manufacturing companies fundable again by translating industrial capability into something a lender will touch

[Conduit @deployconduit]

Committed to greatness and helping American manufacturers win the next chapter.

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

GM DETROIT
WE ARE GOING TO REINDUSTRIALIZE

[Zane Hengsperger @zanehengsperger]

if you come to Reindustrialize 3.0, there is only one way to see the true raw industrial capacity of Detroit Metro

drive to:
- Ecorse
- Auburn Hills
- Fraser
- 8 Mile

It's a circuit that tells a good story. Key areas:
- USSteel
- GM/Ford plants
- Random factories everywhere

[REINDUSTRIALIZE SUMMIT @reindsummit]

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT

We're honored to feature:
Shilpan Amin
Global Chief Procurement and Supply Chain Officer, General Motors (@GM)

Previously announced:
>Antonio Gracias - Founder, CEO, and CIO of Valor Equity Partners
>Blake Scholl - Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic
>Daleep Singh - Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist at PGIM
>Doug Petno - Co-CEO and CIB at JP Morgan Chase
>John Henry Harris - CEO of Harbinger
>Jim Belosic - Founder of SendCutSend
>Kelly Loeffler - SBA Administrator
>Alexis Ohanian - Founder of 776
>Ed Mehr - CEO and Co-Founder of Machina Labs
>Bryon Hargis - CEO and Co-Founder at Castelion
>Emil Michael - Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering at DoW
>Del Costy - President and Managing Director at Siemens Digital
>Brendan Carr - FCC Chairman
>Mike Pyle - Deputy Head, BlackRock Portfolio Management Group
>Justin Lopas - Co-Founder and COO, Base Power Co.
>Augustus Doricko - CEO, Rainmaker
>Mike Solana - Chief Marketing Officer, Founders Fund
>Alan Schwartz - Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC
>Ambassador Waltz - U.S. Representative to the United Nations
>Dan Wright - Co-Founder and CEO of Armada >Andrew Lonsberry - CEO of Path Robotics
>Tara Murphy Dougherty - CEO of Govini
>Chris Power - CEO of Hadrian
>Mark Widmar - CEO of First Solar
>Lukas Czinger - Co-Founder and CEO of Divergent
>Jacob Helberg - Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
>Filip Aronshtein - Co-Founder and CEO of Dirac
>Scott Kupor - Director of U.S. Office of Personnel Management
>Chris Raymond - President and CEO, Boeing Global Services
>Cody James - Founder and CEO, Open X
>Paul Kwan - Managing Director, Global Resilience at General Catalyst
>Justin Bibb - Mayor of Cleveland
>Greg Bernstein - CEO, The New Industrial Corporation
>Colin Greenspon - Co-Founder and Partner, Narya
>Keri Findley - CEO and Founder, Tacora Capital
>Darin DiTommaso - VP of Engineering for Defense and Systems, GE Aerospace
>Zane Mountcastle - Co-Founder & CEO, Picogrid
>Ti Morse - Founder, Relentless
>Colin Miller - VP and General Manager, Phantom Works, Boeing Defense, Space, and Security
>Max Lobovsky - Co-Founder and CEO, Formlabs
>David Lorch - Director of the Office of Strategic Capital, Senior Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of War
>Adam Johnson - CEO, Principal Mineral
>Packy McCormick - CEO, Not Boring

[Conduit @deployconduit]

American manufacturing is being rebuilt right now, and the best seat in the house is on the factory floor next to the people doing it. Let's build.

[Jason Carman @jasonjoyride]

You've heard of @zipline, but you probably don’t know how close they are to delivering in your neighborhood.

On episode 73 of S3: see how the drone company that started by delivering blood in Rwanda is reinventing how anything gets delivered, almost instantly.

[David Hansen 🇺🇸 🇳🇿 @boxcardavid]

Detroit is beautiful this time of year, recs:

Ride a bike in Corktown
Boostan for late night food
Grandma Bob’s pizza
Dearborn Meat Market

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

On Saturday we finish construction on Set II

For the past three months, I've been asking myself the simple question: What would Elon do?

Elon would build the rocket and put it on the launch stand before he got approval.

He would ask: "What's the biggest bottleneck to achieving my mission?"

And then go about systematically unfucking the bottlenecks until he and his team made the impossible happen (or failed knowing they burned the 3am oil and did everything they could).

"A maniacal sense of urgency is our operating principle."
– EM

I live by the philosophy: Put your foot on the gas and accelerate towards the cliff believing that ground will appear beneath you.

For most people, that would be incredibly stupid. But, this is also how you make impossible things happen on maximally aggressive timelines.

To be clear: there is no guarantee this works.

But, if it does, I believe this interview will have a significant positive impact on how people see the future and their place in it. And to me that's enough reason to try.

Right now, a large swath of humanity has a meaning problem. They feel uncertain about the future and are unsure whether or not they can have a real impact on shaping it for the better.

I believe they can. I am max long humanity.

"When something is important enough, you don’t worry about fear of failure.

You just say: Fuck that. We’re going to get it done."

We're building Set II so we have a full month to make this interview happen.

If it works, awesome.

If not, I'm proud of the effort my team and I put in and we will carry this same mission and urgency into everything we do moving forward.

[David Zagaynov @DavidZagaynov]

We built the world's largest cargo drone @poseidonaero