American manufacturing is one of the hardest problems of our generation. We're here to solve it.
Today we announce $19M in seed funding, backed by @khoslaventures, @hanabicapital, @redglassvc, @ZeroShotFund, and all our other incredible investors.
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We're incredibly excited to have Angela and her team at Worktrace AI as our first investment at Zero Shot.
Working with Angela at OpenAI we were amazed with her ability to understand the technology and how it could accelerate what was possible.
@realEstateTrent Iโm so excited for this. Will speed up our process redesigning and flipping houses significantly and drastically reduce the cost working with an architect on initial plans. Pumped!
Iโm confused. For years people complained about excessively stringent paylines @NIH reduced budgets for labs & general clunkiness of the system but now they donโt want an audit of budget allocation to reduce non-research excesses because the audit is done by guys in their 20s?
Connecting the dots:
(1) You work your ass of, with no real wage growth over the past many years.
(2) The government takes more and more of your money through taxation, telling you it all goes to a good cause and you will reap the benefits.
(3) Nothing actually gets better so you start to question wether this is just a huge grift.
(4) DJT promises to take a wrecking ball to all of it. He doesn't hide his intensions and his transparency gets him elected with a landslide and without a shadow of doubt.
(5) The wrecking ball arrives via Elon and his Gang of Five and you start to learn that your money was being used to create and sustain a shadow government. Your money was being pilfered by unelected bureaucrats to prop up organizations domestically and abroad to do their bidding - Politico, NYTimes, NGOs. The list goes on and on.
The only questions left are how far the rot goes and how complete the removal of this cancer will be.
This is not a Republican or Democrat issue anymore, its common sense.
I think we can all agree on a few things:
We have $36 trillion of national debt growing at a rapid rate, that must be refinanced and issued at a materially higher interest rate as our bonds come due and as new funds are needed.
We had a $1.8 trillion deficit in fiscal 2024.
There is an enormous amount of fraud, waste, and inappropriate spending in our government budget.
It is illegal and/or otherwise should not be permitted for our government to fund activities that it cannot do directly through NGOs and other non-profits.
@elonmusk has a proven ability to takeover dysfunctional organizations and turn them into highly functioning ones while massively reducing wasteful overhead and other spending. See Twitter.
@realDonaldTrump won the election with a mandate for eliminating wasteful government spending and ending regulations that interfere with our countryโs progress.
President Trump announced during his campaign that Elon would be appointed to oversee @DOGE. In other words, the American people voted for and signed up for DOGE and Elon as its leader.
We are extremely fortunate to have one of our greatest business leaders and entrepreneurs devote a considerable amount of his limited time for free to help our country.
We are extremely fortunate that some of our most talented young people have signed on to help DOGE succeed.
DOGE is just getting started and has already identified a massive amount of waste and likely fraud, and has begun cutting a material amount of costs.
It is axiomatic that those who are beneficiaries of waste, fraud and unnecessary government spending will be the most threatened by the cuts that DOGE is making in these programs. These beneficiaries of waste and fraud are also extremely worried about the reputational, legal and potential criminal risk they will suffer by being exposed by DOGE.
The beneficiaries of government waste, fraud and inappropriate spending will protest loudly and state false reasons for why DOGE must be stopped because their careers and livelihoods are threatened and put at risk by DOGEโs success. I have seen this movie many times before, but in the corporate world.
The president has stated clearly that he is overseeing DOGEโs activities and that no important decisions will be made without his consent.
Our legal system will ensure that no laws are broken as DOGE executes on its important mission.
Other efforts over the last many decades to eliminate government waste and fraud have totally failed.
DOGE is our best hope for fixing our fundamentally flawed and highly ineffective bureaucratic system for running our country.
Elon and Trump will face enormous pressure and pushback from those who benefit from the current corrupt system.
All Americans must therefore make their voices heard loud and clear about how much they support DOGE, Elon and our presidentโs efforts to help our country. We cannot let DOGE fail as our country is rapidly on the path to insolvency.
Letโs not let our country down. Letโs do our part in making sure our Congressmen and Senators know that we are 100% behind the president, Elon and DOGE.
Itโs the least we can do.