ian 💥➰ @IanRountree
Living out delusions of associated grandeur via @cantos. 1st $750K-1.5M for founders transforming the real world. Host of the Near Frontier pod. ianrountree.com San Francisco, CA Joined March 2009-
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Recognized a multi-$B fund manager on my plane and he was… editing his pitch deck. Stars, they’re just like us.
There are few things as satisfying as seeing a company you've worked with for years getting the Packy treatment. Excited to have Not Boring Capital as a co-investor in @earthaiexplore!
There are few things as satisfying as seeing a company you've worked with for years getting the Packy treatment. Excited to have Not Boring Capital as a co-investor in @earthaiexplore!
Nuclear is already cool but AI will put it over the edge. Rapidly deployable, distributed power is why we need micro-reactors like @RadiantNuclear, @AaloAtomics, and @AntaresNuclear are building. I'm biased (we're investors in Radiant) but cheering them all on for all our sakes.
Nuclear is already cool but AI will put it over the edge. Rapidly deployable, distributed power is why we need micro-reactors like @RadiantNuclear, @AaloAtomics, and @AntaresNuclear are building. I'm biased (we're investors in Radiant) but cheering them all on for all our sakes.
Sorry, this was a long one. The TL;DR is: Do you want to bet against the dude who spent a year in the tundra and forests of far east Russia fighting off bears because he loves rocks so much?
Sorry, this was a long one. The TL;DR is: Do you want to bet against the dude who spent a year in the tundra and forests of far east Russia fighting off bears because he loves rocks so much? https://t.co/QkUWhqcFt1
$2B fund VC: Your ownership is too low. We shoot for 20-25% Me: Let’s say our next fund is $100M and we get 10%. Isn’t that the equivalent of y’all owning the company TWICE?
If I weren’t running Cantos I’d want to work with my guy @LouisOrigny on weird special sits with a tech lens… not that he’d hire me
If I weren’t running Cantos I’d want to work with my guy @LouisOrigny on weird special sits with a tech lens… not that he’d hire me
Once every three years I get really into @figma.
Thank you Marc.
delian @zebulgar
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255 Followers 432 Following Water Damage Guy - Servpro Operator of 4 Franchises 🚛💧- AI SaaS Founder 🤖Gabe @gabednconfused
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306 Followers 2K Following Real-Life Supernatural Adventures! Not on social media much anymore but rest assured we are still out there, hunting things - saving people. https://t.co/k2AFzt0cZvliam casey @liamcasey
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1K Followers 879 Following Investment Director @OSSVentures. Investing in the modern factory stack and the future of operations. Formerly @SGHCapital.CR @MixedByCR
1K Followers 3K Following 7x Platinum Music Producer/Engineer/MGMT - Creds: Offset, Don Toliver, Ryan Trey, Polo G, Bryson Tiller, Tee Grizzley, Hit-Boy, NLE Choppa, MAYC #34 stolen 😔delian @zebulgar
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74K Followers 1K FollowingBilal Zuberi @bznotes
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45K Followers 2K Following VC | Lead Pre/Seed 🧬🤖⚙️ @2048vc | Pitch me https://t.co/7RMuMRnXF1 | Coach @HarvardHBS | Blog https://t.co/0DoDmSLmNZ | Systems ThinkerSemil @semil
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84K Followers 7K Following Unearthing the mysteries of outlier startups. Partner @floodgatefund. Unabashedly grateful to live in the USA.Jake Chapman 🇺🇸.. @vc
22K Followers 2K Following Working at the nexus of national security & venture capital. Father to a superhero. Lets live forever and travel the stars ✨https://t.co/NEkiT1IbJc?Nathan Benaich @nathanbenaich
51K Followers 32K Following solo member of investment staff @airstreet, brewing ambition @airstreetcafe, next token predictor @airstreetpressTaylor Sargent @TaylorCSargent
2K Followers 1K Following Deep Tech VC @AirbusVentures. Trying to give every dog the best pet of its life. Prev @Lux_Capital @DARPA @NASA. 🎾🔭@GMU_COS, 💼@UCLA. Views are my ownLee Edwards @terronk
18K Followers 2K Following Partner, social media intern, Webmaster @RootVC. Chill technical investor in devtools & AI. Former CTO & t-shirt model https://t.co/CyrjesBpxa 🏳️🌈 he/himnicole ruiz @nwilliams030
21K Followers 4K Following ☧ homemaker // formerly: VC @compoundvc investing in former science projects, @compoundarxiv; core @ConstitutionDAO https://t.co/RpV1PHIaDUsamir kaji @Samirkaji
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17K Followers 2K Following On Hiatus. You know where to find me off here.Elliot Hershberg @ElliotHershberg
11K Followers 924 Following Genomics @Stanford, writing https://t.co/3XO8B8H4yG, writing/investing @notboringcoOwen Lewis @is_OwenLewis
1K Followers 5K Following Science & space enthusiast, degrees in geology & psychology. Fusioneer, ecomodernist, classical liberal, writer, techno-optimist, Christian humanist. @is_fusionDavid Weisburd 🚀 @DWeisburd
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304 Followers 38 Following Quilt builds AI Assistants that give unsung SE heroes powerful tools.Looking at another 5m preseed at 25 post
Instead of testing 1,000 therapies each in 1,000 mice, what if we could test 1,000 therapies in a single mouse. @GordianBio is making this possible for gene therapies.
Shouldn’t aging be part of drug discovery for diseases of aging? gordian.bio/blog/introduci… Gordian exists to move therapeutic testing from plastic wells and young mice into a living environment with all the complexity present in patients with age-related disease. We’re now…
Y’all are not prepared for a poasting power couple.
That was my very awesome first @Waymo ride! Rode with @Thalolabs founder @bhermalyn who helped build much of the onboard tech! Mostly uneventful, but a couple rush hour left turns had us head-swivelin! 😅
@IanCinnamon If it’s anything above 0 then consider it marketing dollars well spent!
Anyone want to bet how many sales come from the billboard?
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Love when a person from a country that doesn't really have free speech who is a representative of a country that DEFINITELY doesn't have free speech lectures me on my own constitution and form of government.
Our CEO Shou Chew's response to the TikTok ban:
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@benblumenrose @IanRountree Amazing, thank you!!!
Trae will never take credit for himself, but Newcomer’s profile on @traestephens is the first I’ve seen that properly acknowledges his role in founding the modern defense tech wave
@IanRountree edit: change fund size from $1B+ to <$100M. Problem solved!🤣🤣
@IanRountree tell him there's an app/ai for that...
@m2jr It's also mathematical illiteracy. Later in the thread, she advocates for eliminating parking spaces in cities to build "local food systems" and "playgrounds". This has about 1/1000th the potential impact as just shifting to EVs + investing in systems like @TerraformIndies .