Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼)

Founder & GP @SilentVentures •

[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]

A second affair for Jensen? $NVDA has erased $500B in value since the first allegation. Now down >6% after hours...

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@JoshuaSteinman Love that trigger discipline.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@suzannexie @JoshuaSteinman Indeed

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Important phishing PSA for defense and deep tech ecosystem. Do your research! @JoshuaSteinman https://t.co/TvDuFt4mAp

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@goodmattg @JoshuaSteinman Good to know. X take note.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@vc Epic coins

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

The marginal utility of an extra hour worked after 80 hours of grinding is effectively 0. Approach 90 and you're a net detractor. Really appreciate Matt's take here. Young Founders: Listen to those who've walked the walk. Everyone else talks.

[Matt Grimm @mttgrmm]

GFY

Propaganda bullshit. Expected, I suppose, from a Nashi propagandist.

I have 3 miniature humans that aren't my hobby - they're my entire raison d'être. To say nothing of my delightful wife that I greatly enjoy spending as much time with as possible.

Every single late night at the office, business dinner, investor event/retreat, trip to a supplier, visit to a customer, etc is a direct trade-off against my being an involved and present father (and husband). It's a difficult balance! And yet I've done it.

The real talk side of the "hustle culture" bullshit that nobody talks about is how your work output falls off a cliff around ~60 hours. Maybe a bit more if you're super young, but I doubt it. In most cases, that 80th hour at your desk is performative - it's theater.

Balanced lives (whether it's raising kids, sailing, tinkering on hobby cars, fitness, whatever) directly lead to balanced thinking and a FAR more sustainable lifestyle than "all work no play."

And, more importantly, it models for your employees that balance is actually good for output, morale, retention, etc.

Building big, impactful companies is a marathon. An ultra marathon. 10 years of marathons back to back. Your mind (and body) do need to actually rest and restore, or else you burn out. Fact of life.

Nonsense claims like this are propaganda from the (typically) VC crowd who want to see MOAR HOURS as if that makes PMF happen, under the misguided belief that hours in linearly equals company value out.

Have hobbies. Have kids. Take a vacation with your partner. And also work hard to build your company. The balance is difficult to find, but very doable.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@eventidia @SilentVentures Founder mode

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

.@SilentVentures defense portco just closed a 9-figure contract larger than most late stage funding rounds.

You love to see it.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@MLFiuk @SilentVentures

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@aelirdil @SilentVentures Thank you. It’s all the founding team. They’re the one who deserve the praise.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@insureMartin Spot on

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Health insurance covers nothing. The system is purposely opaque. Nothing is in-network. Co-pays don’t exist.

All health insurance plans should be viewed as catastrophe insurance. Combine premium, deductible, and max out of pocket expenses and you’re looking at $10,000s per year.

Buy the cheapest plan with the highest deductible. The purpose and experience is identical to the highest premium / lowest deductive plan. Insurers just receive less of your hard-earned money.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@AlexFrommeyer Damn straight

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@AlexFrommeyer Was gonna say https://t.co/yN66mNV3Zt fixes this.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Yet another reminder of why Dems swept. Graft.

[Dan Alexander @DanAlexander21]

1/ I'll explain exactly how this happened because I'm the person at Forbes who calculates these numbers.

This is going to take some unraveling, but here's a spoiler: The president's answer here is nonsense.

[Dan Alexander @DanAlexander21]

29/ These are the main reasons why Trump's net worth increased by $3 billion from the fall of 2024 to the fall of 2025, in rounded numbers:

-$1B+ of crypto earnings
-$1B of crypto tokens created out of thin air
-$400M expansion of branding business
-$500M fine wiped out

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@eventidia @Castelion @anduriltech @Furientis @SilentVentures

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Three companies, three missile types, one America. Humbled to be an investor in these great companies: @Castelion @anduriltech @Furientis. The United States is safer because of them. Also, keep an eye out for more @SilentVentures memos.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@v0idsplat @CurtisLemay Lattice will eventually replace this... and it isn't the hardware, which is what matters.

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

Didn’t have this on my bingo card. Very lofty valuation. Curious to see how this turns out.

[Bloomberg @business]

Defense tech startup Shield AI hits $28.8 Billion Valuation with $5.3 billion acquisition of radar firm https://t.co/vk4RFjSn7W

[Jackson Moses (🇺🇸,🇹🇼) @jamoses92]

@jakeadler You know where to find me. https://t.co/pl8qUYWkD8