Tristan

Scaling energy ⚡️ + industrial 🇺🇸 startups at @gener8tor 👉

[Tristan @pollock]

Most founders have no idea Nevada is doing this. ⚡

The only active lithium mine in the U.S. The Tesla Gigafactory. An industrial park larger than the city of Detroit. Reno-Tahoe is the #5 emerging data center market in the world.

Battery manufacturing growing 6x the national average. Zero income tax. Electricity roughly half California rates. And it's only a 3-4 hour drive from Silicon Valley.

We built a @gener8tor accelerator here because this is where energy companies should be building right now.

Electrify Nevada is equity-free, state-backed, and open to founders across battery tech, critical minerals, grid edge, commercial electrification, AI infrastructure, and physical AI.

One requirement: you want to build in the fastest growing energy economy in the U.S. 🇺🇸

We are open to any stage, globally. We want the best energy founders in the world building in NV.

Fall 2026 applications are open. First round closes June 30.

Comment BIG ENERGY and I'll send you the link to apply early and get a first review.

[Charlotte W. Nazarian @CWNazarian]

do you understand? we are in the race towards hyper-techno-industrialism and we will win.

[Tristan @pollock]

Literal inventor of rechargeable lithium ion batteries AND @NobelPrize winner M. Stanley Whittingham in Reno, Nevada today discussing the future of the American battery industry ⚡️

at @unevadareno tech hub

[build_ @buildcities]

Calling all Northern Nevada garage builders, hard tech enthusiasts, founders, etc.

Come gather next week with @pollock, @gener8tor, and company at the Kiln in Reno.

RSVP below
https://t.co/cYGACies2k

[Tristan @pollock]

Let’s build NV!

[Jim Belosic (scs) @jimbelosic]

Okay it’s happening:

- Added 160k square feet in Reno for our automated high volume lines and parts up to 5’x10’. Operational now.

- Added 170k square feet in Pittston PA for 1-day shipping (or faster) to the Northeast US. Landing machines and growing the team now.

- Southeast US is next (flying out next week to negotiate a lease). 3 more leases in 3 more states to sign after that. Expect massive lead time reductions across our factory network.

- Finalizing our first acquisition and working on the second and third. These are services you’ve been asking for. More coming. We’ll be able to say yes to more of your BOM.

- Welding is ramping nicely. More assembly support soon.

- More materials and capabilities for CNC machining in development now, including much smarter pricing. Increased capacity will also help us cut lead time drastically.

- Added 450 people so far this year. Hopefully double that in 2027.

- Candy and merch budgets have been tripled.

…And we’re just getting started. That’s a big part of why we raised again: to build more, ship faster, and make manufacturing easier and more accessible. I’m doing my best for ya. I love you guys.

Big thanks to @willreed at @sparkcapital , @caitlinbolnick1 at @CRV, @marksugarman at MHS, @andrew__reed at @sequoia and @matthuang at @paradigm for supporting our Series B (and the extra rocket fuel)

LFG!!!!! 🇺🇸

[Tristan @pollock]

@Chasecaffrey 🫡

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

I wish I were 18 today... If you ARE young and reading this, the most accomplished people alive envy your starting position. The tools are becoming free, the problems are enormous, and this time you don't need to ask for permission. 

Go change the world!

[Tristan @pollock]

@jimbelosic Fresh

[Tristan @pollock]

🎸 homegrown metal

[sendcutsend @sendcutsend]

making guitars with sheet metal

[Tristan @pollock]

@boardyai I want to invite your hard tech investors to my demo day

[Tristan @pollock]

@boardyai @hf0 I want to come to HF0 demo day

[Tristan @pollock]

🧑‍🍳 👩‍🍳 👨‍🍳

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

I've never seen an exceptional product that was designed by committee.

Too many cooks in the kitchen make products that are complicated and diluted. Every compromise feels small in the meeting, and together they water down the whole thing!

[Tristan @pollock]

I’m going to host a virtual reindustrialize startup demo day for my program in November - DM me to get on the list 🏗️

[Tristan @pollock]

@zanehengsperger @aphysicist Scott of Optimotive - industrial tech robots 🫡

[Tristan @pollock]

Love driving by this

[Mo Monuments @MoMonuments]

TIL a Swedish architect found the drive through Utah’s salt flats so boring that he built an 87 ft tall concrete tree there

a casino offered to fund it if he put its sign on the sculpture. he said no and sold his condos to pay for it himself. 5M people a year drive past it

[Tristan @pollock]

@heinenbros That’s what I’m saying! (But in reno)

[Tristan @pollock]

Industrial Tech startups RISE UP

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Applications for the YC Winter 2027 batch are now open!

Apply by November 2: https://t.co/OnqI05W53Z

[Tristan @pollock]

@NKLinhzk @LithiumAmericas figuratively not literally

[Tristan @pollock]

Nevada is the #1 mining jurisdiction & has the only active commercial lithium mine in the entire USA + one of the largest reserves coming online soon w/ @LithiumAmericas

[New American Industrial Alliance @newindustrials]

The future of warfare runs on batteries. America needs to be able to build them.

Yesterday, NAIA joined @ARPAE and the Virtus Innovation Center in Arlington, Virginia, to host Next Generation Batteries for Tactical Systems, bringing together battery innovators, defense officials, and industry leaders to explore how we can accelerate the deployment of these technologies.

The mission: Get American innovation into the field, faster

[Tristan @pollock]

building is also fixing

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

We need repairmen

[Tristan @pollock]

@Tocelot @Boeing @BedrockRobotics @Nexxa_AI @PhilippWehn Solid lineup/topic!