Robin Davids

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

🇺🇸 HIRING YOUNG INDUSTRIALISTS:
- 1 Fall Remote Ops Intern (Aug–Oct)
- 3 Cohort Ops Leads In Person (Sept 29–Oct 8).

Help us support our Cohort founders solving America's hardest problems in El Segundo.

If you're mission-driven and organized, apply below.

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

250 years ago, a small group built something the world had never seen: America. 🇺🇸

That spirit never died. In 2002, @elonmusk moved into a warehouse in El Segundo and proved Americans could still build the impossible.

A generation of companies was born from that building. They're still being built here today.

If you're building something your family and your country will be proud of, come to the Gundo and build what you need to. Apply for the Fall Cohort below.

Deadline July 17th.

Featuring @jordannoone and @jordan__black

[Michael Glynn @realmikeglynn]

The posting is going to continue all year long.

Long live the Aerospace Republic.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

USA FOREVER! 🦅

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

Excited to announce a $30M oversubscribed fund. 🇺🇸

El Segundo is the world's best place to build hardtech and we're the pipeline for founders from across the world coming here to do it.

Joining @tbpn later today to share more.

If you're at the earliest stages of building hardtech for critical industries reach out now!

Link to Axios article in thread.

[Ashlee Vance @ashleevance]

Went off the coast of California with a fish killing robot from @ShinkeiSystems yesterday.

The robot kills the fish using the Japanese Ikejime technique where the brain is spiked and the gills are slit to bleed the fish. It all sounds a bit rough, but it's this versus the fish suffocating on deck for hours and being stressed.

The result of the Ikejime process is much higher grade fish. Also we saw whales.

[NewLimit @newlimit]

Following breakthrough results, we’re bringing longevity medicine to human trials.

We’ve raised a $435M Series C led by @foundersfund to make it happen.

Reprogramming cell age has the potential to create more healthy years for everyone. We're closer than ever to realizing it.

[Robin Davids @RobinDavids_]

"To my knowledge, this is the first time a public company (~$25b market cap) is using its own balance sheet to work toward producing a physical product in low Earth orbit for the benefit of people on Earth."

Exciting times ahead

[delian @zebulgar]

https://t.co/nF604EZ5x1

[delian @zebulgar]

Today's Varda news is that we're making space drugs with United Therapeutics ($25b in market cap)

First time a public company has dedicated their balance sheet to making a physical product in space

Ba-boom

[Varda Space Industries @VardaSpace]

Varda believes humanity's first space-made product will be a pharmaceutical.

Today we announced a research collaboration with United Therapeutics. Together we will explore the use of microgravity to develop improved formulations of medicines for rare pulmonary disease aboard Varda’s orbital platform. Small molecule drugs will fly to low Earth orbit, form novel crystals in microgravity, and come home via our W-series reentry capsule.

Through this collaboration we will pioneer pharmaceutical processing in space, to benefit people on Earth.

[Robin Davids @RobinDavids_]

I haven't read many crypto articles recently, but this one is definitely worth it. Great insights!!

Multiple catalysts are converging and it's definitely worth paying attention to this field:

"Privacy used to be mostly unusable, and not particularly useful for most people anyway, while regulations were out of touch with the technology. All three of those things are changing. The core PETs are getting faster and cheaper. Regulations are getting more specific and enforceable. And the use cases, from verifiable and decentralized AI to institutional onchain activity to private shared state in health, social, and advertising, are getting more concrete."

[Archetype @archetypevc]

https://t.co/udqu09pFZE

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

THAT'S RIGHT. 🇺🇸

[Yadin Soffer @yadinsoffer]

https://t.co/OS7pyGVX2A

[Robin Davids @RobinDavids_]

@0x_N8_ @EvgenyGaevoy Probably "Reasoning by analogy actively leads to the wrong conclusion"

[camron @camronmira]

Really solid DD report on Venice AI made by Claude after I shared my chat logs with one of the best analysts I know in the space. Its not perfect but pretty damn good
https://t.co/Dv9FQXxzYX

[Colby Adcock @adcock_colby]

Today I am extremely proud to introduce the Fury Autonomous Vehicle Orchestrator 🇺🇸

For the past 12 months, the Scout AI team has been building this quietly. Now we’re finally ready to unveil it to the world

Just like AI agents are transforming the digital world, Fury Orchestrator brings that same agentic intelligence into the physical world for the U.S. warfighter

It is the first agentic system that can take a commander’s high-level mission intent, spoken or typed in natural language, and turn it into coordinated autonomous action across a mixed fleet of unmanned assets

More in 🧵

[Robin Davids @RobinDavids_]

If you're an early stage founder in a critical industry, drop everything right now and apply to Discipulus Ventures’ upcoming spring cohort!!

[Jakob Diepenbrock @jakobdiepen]

America is the greatest country in the world.

But we need more founders working on real problems.

If you are in the early stages of building something that matters, you have to be in El Segundo.🇺🇸

Apply to the Spring Cohort in bio. 

Deadline February 20th.

[NASA Technology @NASA_Technology]

Coming in hot! ☄️

Today a @VardaSpace capsule, carrying science and technology experiments, safely returned to Earth using a protective heat shield manufactured in-house with material licensed from @NASA. Learn what this development means for the agency and commercial space industry: https://t.co/HXq2qqHSSU

[Varda Space Industries @VardaSpace]

New research out from the Varda team and our partners @AFResearchLab - the first publicly available in situ measurement of orbital reentry over Mach 25.
https://t.co/Vm34X5iUCz

[Sergio Gallardo @sgallardo_9]

https://t.co/3x4Yt7QPnO