Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼)

VC • Investor @EreborBank @Saronic @CastelionCorp @CHAOSdefense @GoToImpulse @BasePowerCo @HadrianInc @Armada_AI @AMCAinc @GallatinAI

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

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I’m a 2x founder and early stage space, defense, and frontier tech investor.

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[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Nuts the opportunity squandered by @BostonDynamics. Thanks political correctness.

[Helsing @HelsingAI]

Introducing RX-1, our experimental European robotics platform. Every step the quadruped takes is a step toward Europe’s technological sovereignty. We make it available to academic labs across Europe.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Really unfortunate. I so respected the Benchmark partnership for never drifting outside their strike zone. $400M after $400M was their sweet spot. Not becoming a platform like Sequoia or Accel is what enabled real alpha. Looks like this era is coming to an end.

[Kate Clark @KateClarkTweets]

Scoop: Benchmark has raised $2 billion across two new funds, including its first growth fund, a big shift for a firm that spent decades defending a smaller, focused approach to venture investing. Details here:
https://t.co/bhikTRE3HI

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Immaculate vibes from @ereborbank. Is your bank unapologetically patriotic? No? Time to switch.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@connorcaproni @SilentVentures @SVDG_official @Saronic We’re happy so long as our founders get the credit. For Silent Ventures, those who know, know. And this is fine by me 🤝

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Proud that @SilentVentures has backed so many transformative defense tech companies over the years. Including personal investments, we have 10 standouts in @SVDG_official's 2026 NatSec 100 list.

On behalf of the fund, I'd like to tip my cap to the patriots at:

2. @Saronic (since Seed)
9. @Castelion (since Pre-Seed)
15. @HadrianInc (since Pre-Seed)
17. @GoToImpulse (since Series B)
18. @ChaosDefense (since Series A)
45. @Firestorm_Labs (since Pre-Seed)

I'm confident we'll see the following emergent defense tech companies on SVDG's 2027 NatSec 100 list:

@ereborbank @basepowerco @armada_ai @harbingermotors @GallatinAI @AeonIndustrial @Furientis @traysartech @DominionDynamic @SwarmAero

Keep up the momentum, America 🇺🇸

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@cptdankkk Fair. Main thing is don’t take financial advice from actors not named Ashton Kutcher.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@Jack_Raines * at a major discount to FMW

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@ADoricko Whenever the tulip thing was happening

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@exec_sum There’s nothing as permanent as a one time tax.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Local, decentralized compute is also a way to circumvent multi-year lead time, red tape data center buildouts.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

The laptop hasn't changed in 30 years. NVIDIA just changed it

RTX Spark is their first PC chip ever.

- RTX 5070 level GPU
- 128GB unified memory
- 1 petaflop of local AI
- thin, light, barely throttles unplugged

Your AI agent lives on the machine. 24/7. No cloud.

This is step one of the agentic AI PC, and everyone else is about to copy it.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@SpaceKoala Markets evolve. Products adapt. People make or break companies.

Don’t break them six months after joining. Poor business decision.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

“We’ve reimagined business insurance. We’re a vertically-integrated AI play that uses foundational models for underwriting. No one has done this before… ever. This is revolutionary, just don’t DD our back-office ops. Also, we’re backed by YC. Naturally what we’re building is as or more important than the Manhattan Project.”

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Everyone who’s successfully built and *exited* their startup knows bluster like this gets you so far. It certainly appeals to the YC crowd. But these paper markups often go unrealized because execution is all that matters, and “hardcore” culture like Corgi’s rarely attracts the best talent.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Founders, this isn’t how successful companies are built. Please know:

1) The vast majority of startups do not employ this counterproductive thinking.

2) Those that do rarely achieve life-changing outcomes.

3) Burnout is real and will quickly destroy people, relationships, and companies.

4) The last entrepreneur to absolutely crush it under similar pretenses is Travis Kalanick.

5) This company isn’t Uber. This CEO is not Travis.

6) You can work hard and simultaneously be happy. Life is a dynamic balance. See SpaceX.

7) Rampant tattooing of company logos is the reddest of red flags. Avoid.

8) Productive output requires an equilibrium. All humans have diminishing marginal utility as time progresses without rest.

Work smarter, not harder.

Yes, you’ll still work 16+ hour days for years because startups by definition shouldn’t succeed. Building something from nothing is almost impossible. However, should you choose to do so, you needn’t embrace maniacal virtue signaling and industry cliches to be successful.

Builders will always build. This is their serial habit. They do so because they love it. It just so happens extreme wealth is a derivative of successfully building… and building is habitual.

And I promise you the best builders aren’t podcasting and advertising slop managerial practices under the auspices of “hardcore” company culture. No, the best builders lead by example. They’re by your side in the trenches and acknowledge the grind, but also realize 24/7 work is impossible, unproductive, and unnecessary.

[Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings]

"If you are not working 7 days per week, you are going to lose".

Corgi Insurance is the most intense workplace culture in startups.

- The company works 7 days per week.

- Founder (@nico_laqua) lives and sleeps in the office.

- He built a cafe in the office because there was no local cafe that was open 24/7.

- 2/3 of the first 30 team members have the Corgi logo as a tattoo.

Today I went behind the scenes with Nico, who has used this culture to scale the company to a $2.6BN valuation in just two years.

My condensed notes below:

1. If You Are Not Working 7 Days Per Week, You Are Going to Lose:

Whatever you can get done in 5 days, you'll get more done in 6 and 7. If you are trying to solve the world’s hardest problems, a standard 5-day workweek will not cut it.

2. Work Trials Repel the Mediocre:

Corgi forces candidates into mock work trials over the weekend. If seeing a full office on a Saturday scares them, they don't belong. True intensity acts as a natural filter to attract killers and repel clock-watchers.

3. Lead from the Front Lines

You can’t demand 7-day weeks while sitting on a yacht. Nico sleeps 3–4 hours a night on a mattress inside the office. If you want your troops to bleed, you have to be in the trenches with them.

4. Culture Only Means One Thing: Winning

Forget superficial jargon like "hackers" or "ex-founders." Strip away the corporate fluff. A great startup culture is aggressively optimized around one single word: Winning.

5. Lifespan vs. Victories

Building something world-historic requires radical sacrifice. When asked if he'd rather build a trillion-dollar company and die at 50, or fail and live to 80, the answer was easy. "I would rather measure my lifespan in victories."

6. Reject the Comfort of "Quiet Quitting."

If you are operating in a hyper-growth environment and your days off happen to be Saturday and Sunday every single week, you are quiet quitting. To win, you must deliberately bypass the off-ramps of personal comfort and low volatility.

Corgi isn't for everyone—and that’s exactly the point.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Absolute 🔥 from @ndrewpignanelli

One is not like the other lol

[andrew pignanelli @ndrewpignanelli]

We're at "comparing an insurance company to the manhattan project" stage of the cycle

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@oaktoebark These claims are founder malpractice. They do a disservice to the startup ecosystem.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@BellicoseBestie @AJA_Cortes 🤝

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@merkle_eric @AJA_Cortes 🤝

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@yadinsoffer Heck of a leading indicator…