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co-founder @8VC

Texas
Joined March 2009
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This is sad, strange, and frustrates me. Fortunately for the world @mualphaxi and @arenamag are crushing it and telling stories and reporting the right way.
The lead story in the new issue of Popular Mechanics is “How to Fight a Data Center.” How sad and bizarre. Another once-great technology magazine turned against technology by leftists. Subscribe to @arenamag - we actually like technology, and America 🇺🇸
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NEW 🚨 Why Did America Stop Building Airports? Sky Harbour CEO Tal Keinan on the AI Wealth Wave, Private Jet Boom & Solving the Hangar Shortage @JTLonsdale sits down with Sky Harbour ($SKYH) CEO Tal Keinan They cover:  - How did USA build thousands of airports in the 1930s and 40s? - Why did we stop building new airports? - The AI wealth wave and private jet boom - How Tal pioneered the home-based operator model - How Sky Harbour uses AI to pinpoint new locations and customers (00:00) Episode intro (01:45) Eighteen years as an F-16 pilot (04:00) Clarity Capital and Israel's tech explosion (08:16) “Nowhere to park it” / Why did America stop building airports? (10:40) Why general aviation airports don't make money (13:15) The FBO duopoly & why they love NetJets (16:05) How Tal created the home-based operator model (19:10) How the Sky Harbour business model works (24:50) How Tal uses AI to scout customers and locations (27:09) The AI wealth wave & private aviation boom
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Adam was a great guy. Big loss and so sad.
BREAKING: Texas tech entrepreneur Adam Robinson, 44, his wife Helen, their two young children, their nanny and two friends were among the nine people killed when a Learjet 60 crashed in Florida while traveling from Austin to the Bahamas, according to TMZ. The crew members were identified as pilot Jeff Gregory, 55, and co-pilot Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, 20. The cause of the crash remains under investigation. 📸: @TMZ
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This is so sad. We need to protect America and make sure it doesn’t follow in France’s footsteps.
Absolute savages… The historic town hall in Limoges, France is gone. The steeple just collapsed.
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This makes me very happy to see. My two favorite countries partnering 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 @8vc @MavrookasD @JTLonsdale
Δοκικές Μη Επανδρωμένων και Αυτόνομων Θαλάσσιων Συστημάτων από το Πολεμικό Ναυτικό και πρώτη επιτυχής προσβολή στόχου από kamikaze Μη Επανδρωμένο Σκάφος Επιφανείας.
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Excited for @jsantosaranda and the team. @8vc is proud to be involved here.
AI needs clear liability. Today, @harborai_ comes out of stealth with a $10M seed round led by @Base10Partners, @AbstractVC and @8vc. @elechi_v0, Cristian, Luis and I started @harborai_ with one mission: to insure the agentic economy. Rather than pacing the frontier, we believe the solution lies in pushing this frontier with real skin in the game.
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Beautiful day in Montana with @BedrockRobotics
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world order is being restored. @andrewoetting
Blue Bottle has defaulted back to whole milk. Woke is over.
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Jake Medwell retweeted
Austin was the 4th largest US startup market in Q3 with $6.4B in venture capital raised, passing Boston. For context, Austin was 5th last year with $7.5B. We are accelerating. 🤠🚀🦾
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Very proud to be a part of @GallatinAI with @agilemofo and the team. Great @8vc build company coming out of stealth. Gallatin will help keep America and our allies ahead of the rest.
We've announced our $50M Series A. Military logisticians deserve better than spreadsheets and endless briefings. Now we're putting Navigator in the hands of every allied sustainer. To the spreadsheets: we're coming for you. gallatin.ai/news/series-a-an…
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Horrible and tragic day. Am Yisrael Chai 🇮🇱
OCTOBER 7, 2023: SHE KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO DIE. Libi Cohen-Meguri, a 22-year-old infantry officer, went to the Nova music festival. She was shot while fleeing the party. At 8:11 a.m., she called her parents and said: “I’ve been shot in the stomach, I’ve been shot in the arm, I’m losing blood. I’m going to die.” Calmly, quietly, she understood; these were the last minutes of her life. She asked her parents to call Tomer, her twin brother, and Maya, her little sister, and said: “I’m going to die. I just want you to listen to me. I love you, Yariv. You’re the best father I could have asked for. Mom, stop screaming. Just listen to me. You are the best mother we could have ever had. Don’t forget to be a good mother to Tomer and Maya after I die. Tomer, how lucky we were to live this life together. I love you. My Maya, never forget—you are the treasure of my life.” When she finished speaking, her parents told her to get out of the car, lie down on the road, and pretend to be dead. With her last bit of strength, she got out of the car and laid down on the road. “Mom, they’re coming to shoot me again,” Libi said after lying down. While her mother listened on the phone, shouts in Arabic could be heard, and then a barrage of gunfire. It didn’t stop. It kept going, until the call was disconnected. And that’s how Libi died—with demonic beasts from the pit of hell standing over her and emptying a full magazine into her body. Libi died with LOVE on her lips: love for life, love for her family, and love for her people. Her memory will forever be a blessing. NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER AGAIN IS NOW. Israel is hunting down every single Palestinian and Hamas terrorist who participated in the October 7th Massacre—to kill them all. They’re living on “borrowed time,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Sooner or later, every one of these monsters will be found and eliminated.
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OCTOBER 7, 2023: SHE KNEW SHE WAS GOING TO DIE. Libi Cohen-Meguri, a 22-year-old infantry officer, went to the Nova music festival. She was shot while fleeing the party. At 8:11 a.m., she called her parents and said: “I’ve been shot in the stomach, I’ve been shot in the arm, I’m losing blood. I’m going to die.” Calmly, quietly, she understood; these were the last minutes of her life. She asked her parents to call Tomer, her twin brother, and Maya, her little sister, and said: “I’m going to die. I just want you to listen to me. I love you, Yariv. You’re the best father I could have asked for. Mom, stop screaming. Just listen to me. You are the best mother we could have ever had. Don’t forget to be a good mother to Tomer and Maya after I die. Tomer, how lucky we were to live this life together. I love you. My Maya, never forget—you are the treasure of my life.” When she finished speaking, her parents told her to get out of the car, lie down on the road, and pretend to be dead. With her last bit of strength, she got out of the car and laid down on the road. “Mom, they’re coming to shoot me again,” Libi said after lying down. While her mother listened on the phone, shouts in Arabic could be heard, and then a barrage of gunfire. It didn’t stop. It kept going, until the call was disconnected. And that’s how Libi died—with demonic beasts from the pit of hell standing over her and emptying a full magazine into her body. Libi died with LOVE on her lips: love for life, love for her family, and love for her people. Her memory will forever be a blessing. NEVER FORGET. NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER AGAIN IS NOW. Israel is hunting down every single Palestinian and Hamas terrorist who participated in the October 7th Massacre—to kill them all. They’re living on “borrowed time,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Sooner or later, every one of these monsters will be found and eliminated.
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This is such a courageous act by the passengers. These men are hero’s and saved hundreds of lives. It’s crazy to think how long this bad actor was in the system before trying to pull this off. Terrorism is scary.
Warning: Graphic Earlier today an airplane was briefly hijacked by a terrorist en route to Israel Israeli passengers fought off the terrorist and helped land the airplane Most have forgotten that 27 airplanes were hijacked by anti-Israel terrorists from ‘68-86 Crisis averted
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Jake Medwell retweeted
Earlier today, Vice President JD Vance helped break ground on Saronic's new Port Alpha, where a $3 billion investment is expected to generate up to 10,000 jobs and lead to an economic impact of $264.5 billion for the great state of Texas! American shipbuilding is BACK!
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Amaizng day here for Texas and the United States @Saronic @8VC @JDVance @GregAbbott_TX
Looking good, gentlemen. Building and hiring in Texas to make America strong, thanks to the leadership of men like these!
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Incredible team. Incredible company.
Cognition has crossed $1B in annualized revenue run rate. This milestone belongs to our customers. Here's how a few of them are building with Devin.
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My official nicotine pouch review: Zyn->Some big Swedish guy named Ole punches you in the face Sesh->Angels come down and massage your cerebral cortex Alp->Is this thing even on? Am I in the placebo holdout?
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Love this
Replying to @elonmusk
Boring Company is working on a simple, precursor Hyperloop tunnel between Austin and San Antonio (>200 mph). Due to traffic congestion, that journey can currently take up to 2.5 hours. @BoringCompany can reduce that to a consistent <30 mins.
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