Ben Marcus @FlyingBenji
Helping transform the moving world. Co-Founder and Managing Partner @UPPartnersVC, INTJ Santa Monica, CA, USA Joined February 2012-
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Never. Give. Up.
It’s very common for people who visit @SkydioHQ, and get a taste of our flying robots up close, to want to be a part of what we’re doing. So we’re going to try making it more deliberate. On June 23rd, we’ll host “SkydioTeardown: Behind the Flying Robot” - an in-person engineering-focused event at our San Mateo HQ with hands-on flight demos, technical deep dives from the engineers building our core systems, and a full lab tour. It's designed for technical people and space is limited. If that's you: live.skydio.com/public/events/…
We are super excited to share with you our initial release of Lucky Engine. We are building a robotics engine from the ground up to be what we wished we could find in a simulator before
Sound on. 🔊 Over a decade of acoustic R&D, in one listen. 🛩️ Cirrus SR22 🛩️ Beechcraft Baron 🚁 Robinson R44 🚁 Bell 206 🚁 Leonardo AW109 Then us. You don't need a spec sheet to hear the difference. #TheQuietRevolution #ElectricSkies #NotLikeUs
@carder613 @mikey_lap @ArashMarkazi I’m sure there will be more destinations soon!
Live from the sky over Vermont with BETA! @GMA and @GioBenitez became the first morning show to go live from an electric airplane, aboard ALIA, showing the country the reality of electric flight. Cargo delivery. Medical missions. Passenger flight. Cheaper and safer for every town in America, big and small. Operations launch in September as part of the eVTOL Integration Pilot Program. America, meet ALIA ⚡️
Rockets are hard. Flying robots are harder. Sensing, compute, and software stack that parallels a self-driving car, but three orders of magnitude smaller in size and weight. Plus the full gamut of aerospace complexity spanning aerodynamics, thermals, vibration. Very high flight volumes, low and close to the ground, in and around obstacles. And you have to fight for every gram.
🚨WATCH: THE FUTURE OF AVIATION IS TAKING OFF🚨 It was an honor to become the first U.S. Transportation Secretary to fly in an eVTOL🇺🇸 Now we’re taking the future of flight to the next level with projects across 26 states that include testing of: ✅ Urban air taxis ✅ Emergency medical flights ✅ Regional travel America will WIN the race for the next generation of aviation @BETA_aircraft @FAANews 🦅
Flying taxis could be coming to Santa Monica sooner than expected as Joby Aviation explores flights ahead of LA28. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: smdp.com/joby-aviation-… #SantaMonica #JobyAviation #LA28 #FutureOfTransportation #AirTaxi #Innovation #SMDP
There's no more significant application of AI and robotics than Drone as First Responder, and @LVMPD is doing it at scale: 38 docked X10s, 7,500 flights over the past 90 days, with incredible results. And you know it’s important because @chamath talked about it on the @theallinpod.
Freedom in FLIGHT! Love to see PATRIOTISM of the new JSX jet take off in celebration of America’s 250th birthday! @flyjsx @Freedom250 🇺🇸✈️
First R10s are in customer hands. Indoor, confined space, GPS-denied — built for the places flying robots couldn't go (and people shouldn't). Now shipping ⎆ skydio.com/r10
The 20th century was shaped by the airplane. Not the semiconductor. The next phase looks similar: breakthroughs in the physical world, accelerated by software—not defined by it. That’s the idea behind The Kinetic Age.
Today we're releasing our annual report: The Kinetic Age 2026, formerly The Moving World Report. It’s our most ambitious one yet. AI is moving beyond the screen and flowing into factories, vehicles, energy grids, defense systems, and national strategies, triggering the largest
Taking flight by turning traffic into air. @jobyaviation celebrates American innovation and the new Golden Age of Flight with NYC’s first electric air taxi demo from JFK to Manhattan. $JOBY
Santa Monica residents — do you have a strong opinion about keeping the airport closed or open? Let me know!
What?? You can now buy Bamba at Trader Joe's? Amazing!
Feed your babies delicious Bamba snacks to help prevent peanut allergies! Bamba is actually how they discovered this. Jewish kids in the UK have 10x peanut allergies as Israeli Jews, they studied it and determined it was bc Israeli kids ate Bambas.
This week I chaired a Research & Technology Subcommittee hearing on strengthening U.S. leadership in robotics and the rise of “physical AI.” Robotics is already transforming industries such as manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics, but China and others are investing aggressively while the U.S. still lacks a national strategy. My bipartisan National Commission on Robotics Act will help ensure America stays competitive and turn innovation into real world results for our workforce and economy.
@bznotes Jay has been a dear friend of mind for 15 years. He's a great guy... we're lucky to have him as a leader in Congress during this AI era.
Jon Ostrower @jonostrower
145K Followers 7K Following Editor-in-chief of @theaircurrent, co-founder @yawmanflight. Chaser of things that fly, dad, unapologetic geek. CNN, WSJ & Flightglobal alum.
Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle
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Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh
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Brendan Schulman @dronelaws
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Paul Eremenko @PaulEremenko
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John Santry @j_santry
449 Followers 687 Following Making American drones great again @skydiohq · Pioneering Drone Operator @ SOCOM & Naval Special Warfare ·🇦🇫🇮🇶 Vet · Sharing stories and news about drones
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Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle
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Bilal Zuberi // Red G... @bznotes
62K Followers 2K Following Founder, Red Glass Ventures. Seed investor. ex GP Lux Capital & General Catalyst. MIT PhD. $$ in Applied Intuition, Nominal, Nozomi, Evolv + many more. 🇺🇸🇵🇰
Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh
231K Followers 8K Following co-founder + partner @ Lux Capital | Trustee @SfiScience Santa Fe Inst | Founding Chair @CiPrep (Brooklyn) | Co-Founder of Carson, Quinn & Bodhi w/ @ltwolfe
Steve Schlafman @schlaf
95K Followers 2K Following I guide ambitious professionals in midlife though transition and burnout.
Paul Eremenko @PaulEremenko
9K Followers 2K Following Co-founder and CEO @p_1_ai. Former CEO of @Universal_H2, CTO of @Airbus & @UTC. Also at @DARPA, @Google, @Moto. Trying to get us to the singularity.
Harry Stebbings @HarryStebbings
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