Prasad 🇺🇸

Co-Founder, Founding Software Engineer - @SpiffyAI, @Possiblefinance, @Axon_US, @Gizmo5

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

I’ve always found people who bristle at “American exceptionalism” kind of… weird. Not because I lack self-awareness — I’ve spent my career cataloging every way this country fails to live up to its own rules. But that’s exactly why I love it so damn much. We built a system designed to be shamed by its own founding documents, and it still delivered one of the most spectacular, world-altering runs in human history. A genuine force for human flourishing.

I also found the argument against American exceptionalism to be historically illiterate. Here’s a sample of what we were first at:

• The first large-scale democratic republic in human history — not a city-state, not a monarchy with a parliament bolted on, but a bold continental experiment in self-rule, popular sovereignty, and ordered liberty.

• A written Constitution (1789) with separation of powers and checks & balances — still the oldest national constitution in force anywhere.

• The Bill of Rights (1791): the first time a nation wrote “the government cannot touch these” into supreme law and actually meant it. A dare the world copied — from later rights charters to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Public land-grant universities and mass higher education (Morrill Act), opening college to ordinary people no aristocracy would have let near the gates. (but don’t get me started about what happened after we started. Massively federally funding it.)

• Kitty Hawk, 1903 — first controlled powered flight.

• The Moon, 1969 — still the only ones who’ve been there.

• The world’s largest economy since ~1890, powering unprecedented prosperity through grit and genius.

• The assembly line, skyscraper, transistor, personal computer, ARPANET — the backbone of the modern world.

• Telephone, phonograph, GPS — connecting and powering daily life.

• Surgical anesthesia, polio vaccine — saving and transforming millions of lives.

• Jazz, blues, rock ‘n’ roll — brand new American art forms that conquered the globe.

• Hollywood’s dreams, blue jeans, bourbon, and a culture so open a kid like me could devour sushi, burritos, stuffed cabbage, and tabouli in the same week and rightfully think of it all as American.

That’s the part that fills me with genuine love and pride: not just the power or the wins, but the appetite for freedom, creativity, and reinvention. The audacity to say “We the People” and keep trying to live up to it.

What do you love most about this truly exceptional country? 🇺🇸

[America @america]

Happy 250th Birthday, America 🇺🇸

[Prasad 🇺🇸 @prasadmahendra]

@AxonRick @SpaceX 🇺🇸

[Rick Smith @AxonRick]

@SpaceX just went public. One private company now lifts more mass to orbit than Russia, China, Europe, and the US government combined. Look at what happened between 2013 and 2024.

4,400 employees became millionaires today. Welders. Machinists. Cafeteria staff. One welder started at $28/hr in 2015. Didn't even know what SpaceX was. That stake is worth $880K today.
A launch engineer turned down GE, stayed 12 years. At $135/share, his 100,000+ shares = $13.5M. He's 37.
Software IPOs minted millionaires for 30 years.

This is the first one where the money reached the factory floor.

We took the same approach at @axon_enterprise. In 2019, 300+ employees voluntarily converted $75M in guaranteed pay into at-risk equity. Same milestones as my CEO comp. Shared ownership of our successes.

The teams that build things that last are the ones where the risk and the imagination are shared at every level.

What companies have you seen get this right?

[Prasad 🇺🇸 @prasadmahendra]

🚀👏

[Blue Origin @blueorigin]

LIVE NOW: Tune in to watch the NG-3 webcast!
https://t.co/n8WKJoiH8s

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth.

On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world.

Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.

[Prasad 🇺🇸 @prasadmahendra]

@MavrookasD @Saronic @kleinerperkins 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Prasad 🇺🇸 @prasadmahendra]

@ScottAdamsSays RIP Scott 💔

[Brett Winton @wintonARK]

More than 40% of your parenting time has elapsed by the time your kid enters kindergarten.

Once they get into middle school it is 2/3rds gone.

[Aaron Levie @levie]

Did something change in robotics like exactly one month ago to make all of this possible. This is crazy.

[Prasad 🇺🇸 @prasadmahendra]

@unusual_whales 😱

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

25% of jobs added in the US economy over the past two years were government jobs, up from 5% in 2021 and 7% in 2022, per Apollo.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

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[Figure @Figure_robot]

Meet Helix, our in-house AI that reasons like a human

Robotics won't get to the home without a step change in capabilities

Our robots can now handle virtually any household item:

[Prasad 🇺🇸 @prasadmahendra]

@alexandr_wang @xai @elonmusk @ibab @jimmybajimmyba @Yuhu_ai_ 👏

[Gwynne Shotwell @Gwynne_Shotwell]

We’re excited to team up with @TMobile to bring our @Starlink Direct to Cell capability to the US!

[Prasad 🇺🇸 @prasadmahendra]

@pmarca 😂

[Turpentine @TurpentineMedia]

Moment of Zen podcast: Marc Andreessen on the political vibe shift for Silicon Valley, Elon as John Galt, and what a Twitter files for the government could reveal.

Full episode with @pmarca on 𝕏