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Putting this out here as a sign to tap when folks respond with "things are worse today" or "middle class shrinking" or other wrong ideas they have.
Everyone should internalize and have these charts as core understanding of the world today.
The time price of everything has gone down over this same time frame (see Superabundance).
And while the middle class might technically be smaller, that is only because the upper class is much, much bigger. And fewer of us are in poverty.
Globally, and nationally. Things are better.
Abe Murray retweeted
Its been a whirlwind week, but I am so excited to share that we've established comms with Starburst-1, stabilized the spacecraft, deployed its solar array, and achieved power-positive status—all within hours of reaching orbit yesterday morning
I can't emphasize enough how proud I am of this team. Successfully launching this incredibly high performing platform on its very first mission, having raised under $75M to date and still with under 60 people. All while maturing our larger Supernova vehicle and securing launch for a 2028 mission. This team is the definition of scrappy.
So much more to do, but its been an unbelievable week
Satellite in space, doing space things
Love to see it
I’m beyond thrilled to report that the Portal Space team quickly made contact with Starburst-1 after launch yesterday, established communication, stabilized the spacecraft, deployed the solar array, and are power positive on orbit!! More to come!
geekwire.com/2026/portal-spa…
Abe Murray retweeted
Great conversation with Shaun about the scale of hardware in the coming decades.
🇺🇸 The Race for Hyper Techno Industrialism w/ @isaiah_p_taylor (CEO, @valaratomics) & @shaunmmaguire (Partner, @sequoia)
A conversation from the @DiscipulusVent Cohort in El Segundo.
Including:
> Why the best builders are congregating in the Gundo
> Hyper techno industrialism & the race against China
> Why hardware will look like software did 20 years ago
> How China actually plays the game
> OSC, raw material subsidies, & catching up
> The Caltech wind tunnel fluke that built SoCal hardware
> What’s next: biology, robotics, & gigawatts at a cent
> Why everyone is underestimating the hardware buildout
Highlights:
(00:00) The race for hyper techno industrialism
(01:07) Why El Segundo: touring every US hard tech hub
(02:15) You bump into great engineers in the Gundo
(03:07) A generation that wants to build things that matter
(04:08) 10 to 100 to 100,000: the race against China
(05:22) Hardware is about to look like software 20 years ago
(06:50) How China really plays the game
(08:38) OSC & subsidizing the supply chain
(09:43) Catching up vs. winning in the net new
(10:45) Americans as the world’s best product engineers
(11:31) Subsidizing raw materials & the Inconel problem
(13:20) Growing up with SoCal as America’s defense base
(14:31) The macro rotation back to hardware
(16:13) The Caltech wind tunnel fluke
(17:46) Designed in El Segundo, scaled in Texas
(18:13) The founding cohort of crazy people
(19:07) What’s next: biology & robotics infrastructure
(20:03) Start what seems a little crazy today
(20:23) Cheap energy & the aluminum lesson
(21:55) We’ll need 100x what people think
Abe Murray retweeted
Just signed our first cold inbound customer — maybe i should promote our new website more 🫠
rootaccess.ai
Abe Murray retweeted
🇺🇸 The Race for Hyper Techno Industrialism w/ @isaiah_p_taylor (CEO, @valaratomics) & @shaunmmaguire (Partner, @sequoia)
A conversation from the @DiscipulusVent Cohort in El Segundo.
Including:
> Why the best builders are congregating in the Gundo
> Hyper techno industrialism & the race against China
> Why hardware will look like software did 20 years ago
> How China actually plays the game
> OSC, raw material subsidies, & catching up
> The Caltech wind tunnel fluke that built SoCal hardware
> What’s next: biology, robotics, & gigawatts at a cent
> Why everyone is underestimating the hardware buildout
Highlights:
(00:00) The race for hyper techno industrialism
(01:07) Why El Segundo: touring every US hard tech hub
(02:15) You bump into great engineers in the Gundo
(03:07) A generation that wants to build things that matter
(04:08) 10 to 100 to 100,000: the race against China
(05:22) Hardware is about to look like software 20 years ago
(06:50) How China really plays the game
(08:38) OSC & subsidizing the supply chain
(09:43) Catching up vs. winning in the net new
(10:45) Americans as the world’s best product engineers
(11:31) Subsidizing raw materials & the Inconel problem
(13:20) Growing up with SoCal as America’s defense base
(14:31) The macro rotation back to hardware
(16:13) The Caltech wind tunnel fluke
(17:46) Designed in El Segundo, scaled in Texas
(18:13) The founding cohort of crazy people
(19:07) What’s next: biology & robotics infrastructure
(20:03) Start what seems a little crazy today
(20:23) Cheap energy & the aluminum lesson
(21:55) We’ll need 100x what people think
Abe Murray retweeted
do you understand? we are in the race towards hyper-techno-industrialism and we will win.
🇺🇸 The Race for Hyper Techno Industrialism w/ @isaiah_p_taylor (CEO, @valaratomics) & @shaunmmaguire (Partner, @sequoia)
A conversation from the @DiscipulusVent Cohort in El Segundo.
Including:
> Why the best builders are congregating in the Gundo
> Hyper techno industrialism & the race against China
> Why hardware will look like software did 20 years ago
> How China actually plays the game
> OSC, raw material subsidies, & catching up
> The Caltech wind tunnel fluke that built SoCal hardware
> What’s next: biology, robotics, & gigawatts at a cent
> Why everyone is underestimating the hardware buildout
Highlights:
(00:00) The race for hyper techno industrialism
(01:07) Why El Segundo: touring every US hard tech hub
(02:15) You bump into great engineers in the Gundo
(03:07) A generation that wants to build things that matter
(04:08) 10 to 100 to 100,000: the race against China
(05:22) Hardware is about to look like software 20 years ago
(06:50) How China really plays the game
(08:38) OSC & subsidizing the supply chain
(09:43) Catching up vs. winning in the net new
(10:45) Americans as the world’s best product engineers
(11:31) Subsidizing raw materials & the Inconel problem
(13:20) Growing up with SoCal as America’s defense base
(14:31) The macro rotation back to hardware
(16:13) The Caltech wind tunnel fluke
(17:46) Designed in El Segundo, scaled in Texas
(18:13) The founding cohort of crazy people
(19:07) What’s next: biology & robotics infrastructure
(20:03) Start what seems a little crazy today
(20:23) Cheap energy & the aluminum lesson
(21:55) We’ll need 100x what people think
Abe Murray retweeted
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Get the headlines and deeper analysis straight to your inbox: hardtechnewsnetwork.com
Shoutout those moving hard tech forward:
@alexnhaus, @abemurray,@JonesBrannon, @bernsteinres, @zanehengsperger, @justinmast, @YukonK9.
Abe Murray retweeted
Spending a day in a warehouse on Black Friday is enough time to tell you that there is an imbalance in workers available vs the flood of holiday demand.
Our partners have seen picking shifts and temps double overnight. Just like that.
Staffing capacity for warehousing and 3PLs should be flexible and not constrained by local labor pool availability.
That’s what we’re building at Avatar.
Abe Murray retweeted
Helicon is building factories to mass-produce composite parts domestically.
We raised a $16.5M seed led by @alley_corp, with participation from @joshbuckley, @chalfs, and other top investors.
Our first factory in LA is ramping up.
Come build with us: helicon.tech
On X now:
xitter.cf/alexnhaus/status/21125…
Helicon is building factories to industrialize composites.
We raised a $16.5M seed round led by @alley_corp (@abemurray /@JonesBrannon) with participation from @joshbuckley, @chalfs, @gokulr and other top investors.
We’re ramping production at our factory in Los Angeles to deliver against millions of unmanned systems that need to be built domestically.
We're building a world class team. Join us. helicon.tech
Team. To. Watch. 👀
Helicon is building factories to industrialize composites.
We raised a $16.5M seed round led by @alley_corp (@abemurray /@JonesBrannon) with participation from @joshbuckley, @chalfs, @gokulr and other top investors.
We’re ramping production at our factory in Los Angeles to deliver against millions of unmanned systems that need to be built domestically.
We're building a world class team. Join us. helicon.tech
Abe Murray retweeted
Helicon is building factories to industrialize composites.
We raised a $16.5M seed round led by @alley_corp (@abemurray /@JonesBrannon) with participation from @joshbuckley, @chalfs, @gokulr and other top investors.
We’re ramping production at our factory in Los Angeles to deliver against millions of unmanned systems that need to be built domestically.
We're building a world class team. Join us. helicon.tech
Digging out after 10 days in China
Will write more / share more later
Top of mind:
1 - energy is everything
2 - manufacturing is not won through cheaper humans but through excellence at manufacturing processes and built up industrial clusters around them
3 - robotics is not lost yet / needs real data at scale / this game is still open
4 - robotics hardware will be like ai models - all the money will be made in the applications and unique data sets on top of mostly commodity hardware assemblies
7 - China is more American than Europe - entrepreneurial, capitalist, big and ambitious thinking
Cars are big, roads are big, hotels are great, AC is amazing, feels wealthier than much of Europe
And much higher trust society (for them is at serious cost, but is nice too)
Final note → @fabricegrinda wrote far more eloquently about the trip here:
xitter.cf/fabricegrinda/status/2…
China is both more impressive and less advanced than you think.
I spent a week visiting its leading tech and robotics companies.
Extraordinary manufacturing scale. Brutal competition. Incredible hardware. But a huge gap between robot demos and real-world utility.
My take:
fabricegrinda.com/a-week-in-…
Abe Murray retweeted
China is both more impressive and less advanced than you think.
I spent a week visiting its leading tech and robotics companies.
Extraordinary manufacturing scale. Brutal competition. Incredible hardware. But a huge gap between robot demos and real-world utility.
My take:
fabricegrinda.com/a-week-in-…
This is a team to watch
Composite parts for western drones, made in America, more than competitive with China - what's not to like 🦾
Incredible team (and if you've met them you know this!) did this first for F1 cars, now taking best in class materials and manufacturing to scale
Going to be a wild ride 📈
Full post over here:
linkedin.com/feed/update/urn…
Abe Murray retweeted
Today, @TIME featured our self-driving lab on its 2026 Best Inventions list.
Materials will be what accelerates the possibilities of new inventions, not what slows them down.
Congratulations to the entire @RadicalAI team on this achievement...the world-changing potential of Radical AI’s self-driving lab is something we’ve believed in for a long time.
Today, a much larger audience is taking notice.
Abe Murray retweeted
Very proud of our team — well earned. If you want to join one of the fastest engineering teams around, reach out.
Today, @TIME featured our self-driving lab on its 2026 Best Inventions list.
Radical's self-driving lab discovers and develops novel materials at the speed of AI, enabling 10x more material discoveries per scientist.
By combining AI, robotics, and experimental data, our high-throughput system can unlock advanced materials for new technologies.
We are transforming how the world does science. #TIMEBestInventions
time.com/collection/best-inv…