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[Lorenzo @lswank]

pfp appreciation thread

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@c_hillmedia what app is this!?

[Lorenzo @lswank]

friend: "is your grandma still alive?"
me: "yeah, 87 or something. i think she has alzheimers. i cannot remember."
friend: "..."
me: "the irony is not lost on me"
friend: "you're like jeff bridges showing up to the set of The Big Lebowski"

[Lorenzo @lswank]

That printing plate just screams ITAR risk.

@GJarrosson you guys have audited this and there is no unintentional “deemed export”?

[Gabriel Jarrosson @GJarrosson]

I almost passed on Perseus Defense because they had zero ARR.

That would have been the worst mistake of my career.

Applying SaaS metrics to defense hardware is like judging a nuclear submarine by its app store rating.

Perseus was founded by an engineer who led NASA's Titan Dragonfly program and another who built autonomous systems for Boeing and USV swarms for the Navy.

The Ukraine conflict proved that $500 drones can destroy $100M military assets.

Perseus was solving that problem at speed - a functional micro-UAS prototype in one week, two guided missile versions a month later.

The DoD at the table is the early customer.

That's not a pipeline.

That's a market validation no ARR dashboard can replicate.

Stop asking hardware founders about recurring revenue.

Start asking whether the problem they're solving can afford to wait.

[Lorenzo @lswank]

@AstrusDastan @pitdesi It's really the all day Friday off. Say you're a VC without saying you're a VC...

[Lorenzo @lswank]

lets no longer refer to a "wizard" in computer terms by that word. it doesn't make any sense.

let's call it a "Gandalf". because it makes about the same amout of sense but it's better.

[talia @taliasbonnin]

Put me unmedicated in a room with RFK Jr. for 30 mins and he’ll come out saying we need Lexapro in the drinking water

[Lorenzo @lswank]

"live fire threatens ceasefire"

uhh...

definitionally the end of "cessation of live fire"

[Lorenzo @lswank]

@j_jason_bell @yuanyi_z do bad we didn’t do it before they deleted to post

Unless we did?!?

[Lorenzo @lswank]

@SinnerReformed1 @nicksortor @grok what are the minimum number of hours outside of the simulator that this pilot would’ve had to train in order to receive his license to fly passengers into EWR? what are the minimum number of hours his copilot would’ve had to have received for passenger transport?

[Lorenzo @lswank]

@dhh Actually... also Windows Phone. Satya killed that one aggressively. good point.

[Lorenzo @lswank]

are you on Verizon fiber at home *and* Verizon for your cell service by chance? (that would be what I would mean by ISP)

this sort of “why am I blocked, I didn’t do anything” situation most often manifests itself when someone (for example) does something shady on Verizon (for example) in a given city and a company has tools that automatically blacklist a block of public IPs used for consumer internet/mobile internet from that company.

if your cell service is a different company (not MVNO) from your home internet then this is indeed a conundrum of a different sort

[Lorenzo @lswank]

@raywongy yeah probably someone else on the same isp then

did tethering to your phone change the outcome because you should be on a different ip block that way

[Lorenzo @lswank]

@Josh_PSJ bullish on load

bearish on the number of split consoles and services

but also an industry trend apparently...

[Lorenzo @lswank]

If you don't commit securities fraud with real conviction, you were never destined for Forbes 30u30.

Note the small bump due to Elizabeth Holmes who aged out at 30 but was convicted later.

[Lorenzo @lswank]

@kashimayusuke_ i think this cultural exchange has now gone too far. west coast does not approve.

tell you what. chiba can be friends with georgia but west of the rockies we would like to claim himeji / kobe / osaka / kyoto.

[Lorenzo @lswank]

@Thedrivenman someone doesnt (yet) know about computational photography

[Lorenzo @lswank]

@micsolana can we please stop giving the verge oxygen, April fools or not? It’s time for us to put it to rest. once @backlon left, it took on a very sinister, anti humanity vibe