Optimist | Executive Coach | Turbines I just make shit happen in sales, semiconductors, construction. College Football Coach "Give and you shall Receive"
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[email protected] Join a Winner with VALUES and No Ego’s #Hiring
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Been thinking about which founder credentials have mattered most in my hard tech investments. Ex-SpaceX/Anduril/Palantir, elite university, network, previous founder, etc. Keep coming back to two things: time spent immersed in the problem & what they walked away from to solve it. Founders who spent years encountering the same constraint. Tried workarounds. Understood why existing solutions failed. Started developing an answer long before starting a company. Their career built toward a problem they couldn’t leave alone. Also pay attention to opportunity cost. What were they building toward elsewhere? What made this mission worth abandoning an exceptional trajectory. Walking away from something valuable doesn’t guarantee success. But understanding why someone made that trade reveals a lot about their conviction. Outsiders can absolutely win. For me, years of earned insight followed by a deliberate decision to go all in carries more weight than a prestigious logos on a resume.
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It’s funny looking at all my old transcripts as I prepare for PHD applications next month
My life in fact did not end when I got a C in Thermodynamics
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All of my buddies are going to be the next generation of American industrial barons. – at El Segundo, CA
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The gym would be a lot cooler if people didn’t freak out when you light up a Marlboro after a good set
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Highly recommend taking yourself on a solo trip to a place you love. It took working on myself, perspective, and the hardest year of my life, but lucky and grateful to be on the other side where being alone can be a place where I feel the least lonely. Everyone deserves that.
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Reason #65 why big city folk always in a hurry would not like it here in Wyoming.
We are, what America was.
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Steven, Mike, & the Fleetzero crew are so awesome. I'm proud for @cantos to have been an early investor and pumped that they're showing more of what they're up to between Houston and the Louisiana coast! Rebuilding American shipping power, mostly.
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Data centers in Loudoun County, Virginia: “We get $1.2 billion a year in local tax revenue, about 40% of all of our tax revenue...on 3% of our land”
Buddy Rizer, the county's economic development chief, explained how “data center alley” grew:
“We would have never looked at having 55 million square feet of data center, 230-some buildings. That was not the plan. The plan was to utilize the fiber loop, the internet exchange, to utilize a reclaimed water line, and buildings that were already built. That was the plan, right? And so that made a lot of sense.”
“But, you know, fast forward, today we are largely dependent on that. We get $1.2 billion a year in local tax revenue, about 40% of all of our tax revenue. And while that looks overwhelming, data centers take only about 3% of all of our land in the county. So it’s quite a return on investment. You know, 40%, $1.2 billion, on 3% of our land.”
SpaceX’s Arizona data center, per a county supervisor: “We could be reducing property taxes across the board in Cochise County, the entire county, by 20%”
Frank Antenori, whose district includes the site, brought up the county’s tax math during a live Q&A:
“Here’s just something to just chew on. Arizona has an expenditure limit requirement that is placed on counties. If we exceed that expenditure, we have to rebate back to the taxpayers a certain amount.”
“So, if we’re receiving revenue in from SpaceX, by law, we have to offset that to the taxpayers. We have the potential to reduce, based on the projected revenue they’re creating, as much as 20%.”
“Let me just say it again. We could be reducing property taxes across the board in Cochise County, the entire county, by 20% to offset for the revenue here, because we can’t spend all that money. So, we have to give that money back to the taxpayers. The law says we have to.”
“So, you could see a potential significant impact to local property taxes. What that is, I don’t know. We’re going to have to do the math on it. But the law, if we have this large increase in property tax revenue, we have to balance those rates. So that will reduce dramatically the property tax burden of every resident in the county.”
“The construction sales tax, which also is the TPT, the transaction privilege tax, the retail tax, and the jail excise tax. So that will be part of the construction tax. We could literally use that money to pay the jail off in 2 to 3 years, as opposed to the 13 to 20 years.”
“So this could be a revenue to eliminate the half-cent sales tax in 2 to 3 years. We can get rid of that half-cent sales tax.”
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America is going to win in everything 🇺🇸
We are reindustrializing everything. We will be the industrial power house of the world again.
Factories. Data centers. Nuclear reactors. Rockets. Robots. Superintelligence.
Progress 📈☀️
We were always the underdogs and still barely a baby country.
We are going to colonize the moon and Mars. We are going to expand.
Robots will walk the streets and take care of our homes.
I am nothing but optimistic.
100% .. Relationships and how you treat people is the key driver for success @StonePowerUS
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america has ~12 blast furnaces left... in the 1970s it had ~140
US Steel has a 250-Ton getting more electrical capacity and relining
$350M for the unit all in
