Run towards the opportunity to work with @drauwsy
We need more metallurgists
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We need more metallurgists
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In 2021 we sized the space economy as a $424B market, largely on the back of government programs and a single reusable rocket...
5 years later the size of the opportunity is approaching $700B, @SpaceX trades publicly at the top of the market's stack and launch, the constraint that defined the industry for sixty years, is on its way to becoming less than 5% of the opportunity as we see it. In moments of paradigm shift, it’s useful to return to first principles
Our latest thoughts are here: docsend.com/view/s/idzuiabq2…
3 broad themes here to get stuck into:
1) Near-term, defense-anchored infrastructure execution (in-space mobility, assured PNT, space domain awareness, and Golden Dome procurement),
2) Near-term cash generators in the in-orbit application layer (satellite broadband and direct-to-device, Earth observation, servicing, and orbital compute), and
3) The Cislunar Frontier (resource utilization and orbital propellant), offering asymmetric, long-duration upside.
Across the 3, winners look like @GoToImpulse, @ChaosDefense, @StarpathSpace and OHR.
This guy has proven he can make it rain with data and all… @ADoricko with a whitepaper for transparency. This is how it’s done…rainmaker.com/blog/alaska-va…
Rainmaker just produced ~19M gallons of water in Alaska via next-gen cloud seeding over 3 hours of operations.
We are the first company to provably produce precipitation in Alaska. As promised, we’ve linked our white paper and relevant data.
In the future, Rainmaker will protect and restore glaciers with man-made snowfall.
Immediately, this demonstration shows how Rainmaker will add new water to the Colorado River and Great Salt Lake in the coming months.
We turned around this analysis and white paper just a couple days after operating. There are many data sources I want to deepen our understanding of the atmosphere and increase our provable production; we’re building the instruments to collect that data in subsequent operations. But at Rainmaker, we won’t tout LOIs, simulations, or lab tests. What matters is physically measuring that you’ve affected the atmosphere; proving that we’ve produced water. We prefer sharing only the tech that has proven to make more water for farms, industries, and ecosystems in need.
Expect a regular cadence of these from us as we build the best atmospheric science lab in the world. Feedback is welcome in the interim.
Rainmaker Century.
rainmaker.com/blog/alaska-va…
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I’m excited to announce the Rainmaker Fellowship
Our goal is to build the best atmospheric science lab in the world, specializing in weather modification. This program exists to:
1. bring the best specialists’ perspective to Rainmaker’s research
2. support the researchers at our existing national labs
3. cultivate the next generation of weather modification post-graduate researchers at American universities
Rainmaker is hiring aggressively for atmospheric talent of all kinds, but is excited to bring in professors and grad students as fellows who remain committed to academic research.
China has multiple weather modification degree programs. I hope this program accelerates development in the field both at Rainmaker and beyond.
If you are a dedicated researcher that wants to solve the weather and make Earth habitable, you are welcome to apply
Today we are introducing Rainmaker Fellows, a three-month program supporting high-impact research in weather modification and developing the next generation of scientific and technical talent.
We are looking for applicants interested in scientific and engineering questions that are important to the development of effective, measurable, and scalable weather modification systems.
Read more in the comments, and join us on our mission to solve the weather, and make Earth habitable.
So much armchair shade being cast at Situational Awareness… ‘“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again… who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”
‘math maze’ in Stockholm in a park, have to cross alternate colors only (R,B…) took my 8 year old a while, go…
Nothing says #ReIndustrialize like @lukasczinger @Divergent3D announcing Factory 2 in Long Beach complete with 64 Monolith printers and the creation of 1k highly skilled jobs while on stage in Detroit @reindsummit
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We built the world's largest cargo drone @poseidonaero
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Building at scale, building at speed.
Proud to announce that our CEO and Co-Founder @lukasczinger will be taking the stage at @reindsummit 2026.
Reindustrialize gathers the most influential leaders across manufacturing, defense, venture capital, and industrial technology to discuss the systems, infrastructure, and technologies shaping the next era of American industry.
Learn more about this year’s agenda here: reindustrialize.com/
SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT
We're honored to feature:
Lukas Czinger (@lukasczinger)
Co-Founder and CEO of Divergent Technologies (@Divergent3D)
Previously announced:
>Antonio Gracias - Founder, CEO, and CIO of Valor Equity Partners
>Blake Scholl - Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic
>Daleep Singh - Vice Chair and Chief Global Economist at PGIM
>Doug Petno - Co-CEO and CIB at JP Morgan Chase
>John Henry Harris - CEO of Harbinger
>Jim Belosic - Founder of SendCutSend
>Kelly Loeffler - SBA Administrator
>Alexis Ohanian - Founder of 776
>Ed Mehr - CEO and Co-Founder of Machina Labs
>Bryon Hargis - CEO and Co-Founder at Castelion
>Emil Michael - Under Secretary of War for Research and Engineering at DoW
>Del Costy - President and Managing Director at Siemens Digital
>Brendan Carr - FCC Chairman
>Mike Pyle - Deputy Head, BlackRock Portfolio Management Group
>Justin Lopas - Co-Founder and COO, Base Power Co.
>Augustus Doricko - CEO, Rainmaker
>Mike Solana - Chief Marketing Officer, Founders Fund
>Alan Schwartz - Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners, LLC
>Ambassador Waltz - U.S. Representative to the United Nations
>Dan Wright - Co-Founder and CEO of Armada >Andrew Lonsberry - CEO of Path Robotics
>Tara Murphy Dougherty - CEO of Govini
>Chris Power - CEO of Hadrian
>Mark Widmar - CEO of First Solar
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Today I'm excited to share that Hark has raised $700M at a $6B valuation
When I use these AI models today, they feel basic. They should be able to listen and talk naturally, understand vision, retain persistent memory, and become deeply personalized over time. They should be able to see the world, interact with it, and take action
To build that future, the capital we raised today will be used to:
→ scale our GPU infrastructure
→ accelerate future AI model development
→ grow the Hark team from ~70 to 200 engineers
→ design and build the next generation of AI hardware
The Series A round was led by Parkway Venture Capital with participation from NVIDIA, Align Ventures, AMD Ventures, ARK Invest, Brookfield, Greycroft, Intel Capital, Prime Movers Lab, Qualcomm Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Tamarack Global
At Hark, we are building the most advanced personal intelligence in the world. Intelligence that begins to think like you and sometimes, ahead of you to offload your mental workload
This is what scale looks like, congrats @JakeJurewicz and team ⚡️prnewswire.com/news-releases…
So much obsession with existing TAM out there, exhibit A… that rare breed of founder that creates an entirely new market, 🙌🏽 @ADoricko
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Built this in 7 days in El Segundo
All-in cost: <$1,000
Working photobioreactor
• sensors, controls, light delivery
This is how fast iteration in biomanufacturing can move
Now imagine 1 month
Now imagine 1 year
Autonomous, robot-driven bioreactors coming next
We’re Raising
