#B747 DODc ops.🇺🇸

Founders unless yous selling like this yous ain’t selling!.

Dying 🤣

Would you stay here for a quick getaway?.

Yes.

It’s amazing how @Apple’s battery problems always appear AFTER a new iPhone release.

I keep seeing all these tech bros wearing aviator jackets who aren’t even pilots. This is how it’s done!. How yous doin’ ?.😎

Yesterday NASA announced it is speeding up the Moon program. The way it's speeding up is by sending the next crew to low Earth orbit instead. I’ve been silent for a few cause we’ve been racking up customers and prepping for our next round but NASA’s announcement caught my attention. A quick thread 🧵 1/ I spent two decades+ flying heavy jets, so I'm fluent in this dialect. "Minor delay" means grab a sandwich. "Accelerating" means we moved the goalposts and called it momentum. 2/ To be fair, the boring part of the announcement was the good part. Freeze the vehicle. Fly it more often. Add capability one flight at a time. That isn't a moonshot philosophy. That's a Tuesday at any airline on Earth. It's why the jets I used to fly didn't get a press conference every time it pushed back from the gate. And the industry is clearly listening. 3/ Rocket Lab just put up launch number 19 for the year. ESA dropped a spaceplane prototype from altitude and the parachute decided to sit this one out, which is fine, as long as the lesson landed somewhere more durable than a Slack thread. The FAA is trimming the review process so companies can move quicker. Getting to orbit has never been this routine. 4/ Which raises the question nobody asks at the podium: when the launch cadence goes weekly, what happens inside the facility?. 5/ Because the satellite still shows up in a crate. Someone still opens it by hand, inspects it by eye, fuels it by procedure, and integrates it according to a workflow that lives in three places: a binder, a spreadsheet, and the head of some guy called John whose about to retire or because they were a wrench tech on starship who knows why step 14 comes before step 9. 6/ We standardized the rocket. We're still processing the payload like it's a custom wedding cake. That's the gap where schedules go to die. It's also where the next ten years of margin are hiding. 7/ We are working on that part. Spoiler: it isn't a rocket. #BuildingForAmerica🚀🇺🇸

This.

Name shrink.

Viper.

A lot of people and by people I specifically mean “founders” and “investors” start companies not because they are entrepreneurs or want to actually make the world a better place but simply because they want to get rich. That is almost always the wrong reason to do it. Money is a byproduct not the end game. That was evident back when I was investing into founders and GP’s myself. I first heard of foursquare back in 2011/12 in the city at some tech event(I think), and thought their company was pretty cool…. The NYC founder circle in the city at least the ones I was part of were pretty small back then. I can name names on my fingers of the few folks who are still in the game from back then. Learning a little about this company and its folks(never met anyone from it to be clear), and following their milestones for a bit was pretty cool. At that point I had not dipped my toes into building….. yet. I always had tremendous respect for anyone building anything and admired all of them from afar but I think he reason I write this is because this was one of the many companies that inspired me to pull the trigger on starting something back in the day!. Startups are hard. Obviously this is a sad outcome but not the only one. Kudos to this CEO for sharing their story but just know your story had an impact on a lot of future builders.

Great advice for anyone whose just starting out and shit for those whose also got a second wind!!!.

IDK which founder needs to hear this but PULL UP!. That’s HALF the battle right there.