Founder, GP @GiantStepVC | deep tech
Chicago, IL
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After two hard years my mom lost her battle with cancer and my entire world feels completely crushed.
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Iβve invested millions into @ycombinator startups.
Yet I never get the invite to demo day.
Somethingβs broken.
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Dear founders - what you post on X
GPs are watching.
If you are seed or pre seed or A.
Keep it kind and professional - have an opinion but donβt burn your own bridge.
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This is how potatoes are unloaded in high volume for a potato chip factory in the midwest.
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If youβre building in hard tech.
Raising a pre-seed, Seed or series A
Letβs chat. Iβll help you take a Giant Step.
π β’οΈ πͺ¨ ποΈ βοΈ π€
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Worked hard all my life. After an 8 year long wait Iβve finally picked up that little gift to myself.
For all the hard work, blood, sweat, tears, sleepless nights, 90 hour weeks at startup back in the day.
Enjoy your ONE moment when it comes to you.
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I lost my mom to a brain tumor when I was 6.
Now my second mom. After many surgeries to remove them last year -her cancers have returned with a vengeance.
Humanity must develop an all encompassing cure to cancer. This cannot go on.
Please pray for her ππ½
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Side project : Iβm Running a major data center project in 40 min from LA. 150mw power is already onsite. We own the power station, runs on LNG. We also have oil fields pumping oil and 5m gals of water rights daily.
Weβre going to build a data center park on 1300 acres. π€π½ hmu
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If I threw food my dad would have beat my ass with his belt and a wire hanger and reminded me of the kids who donβt have enough to eat.
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@balajis is spot on this one. PR is legacy. dead.
For every billion in valuation, a tech co should spend a few million on original content, with their own editor-in-chief. Not on PR; thatβs just an interface to legacy media corporations.
Tell your own story, itβs your defense budget. Bloomberg isnβt Bloomberg without Bloomberg.
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Deep tech startups will capture the highest exit concentration the next 2 decades like never before. Many 100b++companies will emerge
Advances in energy/energy storage, semiconductor, manufacturing, space mfg, robotics, material science, longevity, sensor tech.
Accelerated.
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There are 66 years between these two photos.
We can cut the next phase down to 20 years.
Dream big - accelerate
e/acc
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Was absolutely incredible to visit and feel the energy at @valaratomics
The future is now, our nation needs companies like this, and to move fast. Very few are moving with the speed the way @isaiah_p_taylor and team are.
Isaiah also an incredible human.
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Had a great day with friends at @atomic_inc and @noxmetals
Big thanks to @aphysicist @zanehengsperger yβall are crushing
DTW π¬ ORD
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Nice attempt to create engagement bait.
We were not there to watch the spectacle of massive thrust yesterday. We just wanted to see an assembled system run minimally.
We already trust Ian with the future of thrust.
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What a day at Re:Industrialize with all of the greatest investors and founders in the game.
@isaiah_p_taylor @MollySOShea @sourceryvc @suffiyanmalikk @InterluneSpace @santiagopliego @FilArons @packyM @austinbishop @mpalank101
@AlexRoy144 @tamarackglobal @GiantStepVC @intramotev
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Iβm very sorry for all the people that didnβt invest in Varda.
You had your chance.
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today I ran my mothers cancer pathology report through @perplexity_ai deep research then @PerplexityComet reasoned based on the pathology criteria, found the most optimal clinical trials and went even further by helping me sign her up step by step. Thanks @AravSrinivas ππ½
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I am excited to announce @GiantStepVCβs participation in @VardaSpaceβs $90m Series B, with total capital raised at $145m
This allows Varda to transition from demos, to serving various publicly traded pharma and gov customers.
A new era of space utility has begun.
Three years ago, we had a wild idea to expand manufacturing to space.
Today, after we've launched & reentered the first-ever commercial spacecraft to land on US soil, we're announcing the completion of a $90 million Series B funding round -- and we're just getting started.
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Gundo peeps are great examples of ideal post ratios of intelligent + funny + serious + patriotic + unhinged + technical
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Anyone can self host, in the 2000 , I hosted my own media and web servers. No problem. Decentralization is coming !
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@ Hill and Valley
Great talks, informative and great founders / investors / policymakers on site.
+++ @tbpn live!
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Massive thanks and respect to all the organizers and support for @GiantStepVC AeroSpace Night! @Andercot @alder_riley @suffiyanmalikk @ianbrooke @ArrayLabs @founderhenry @E_Bruxxx , Waleed and the entire crew on site to help.
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I only remember him from the short circuit movies and he did brownface for that β¦.. and brown people were very confused why this brown person speaks Hindi like a white guy.
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Just looked it up. Wild. Another interesting tidbitβ¦.
βThe Taliban outlawed bacha bazi during their initial rule with death penalty as punishment, the practice saw a significant resurgence after 2001 following the U.S. interventionβ
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summoning the rain w/ @ADoricko as he takes @aaronpaul_8 and I on a tour of El Segundo
πΈ @E_Bruxxx
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Weβve been a little busy at @GiantStepVC
thanks for the post, @AshleyAPelzel !
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Everyone donβt forget we @VardaSpace also have a factory in space. Floating. Just like the rocks.
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Nobody ships as fast and as good as @perplexity_ai
Introducing Perplexity Labs: a new mode of doing your searches on Perplexity for much more complex tasks like building trading strategies, dashboards, headless browsing tasks for real estate research, building mini-web apps, storyboards, and a directory of generated assets.
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There was this one time when Peter Thiel, Max Levchin, Reid Hoffman, and David Sachs staged a coup and ousted Elon Musk as CEO of PayPalβ¦
*Which accelerated the founding of SpaceX*
Good things are likely to come of an unhinged and based Sam.
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Hard Tech is sooo back !
So glad we can finally talk about this! Fury is a high-performance, multi-mission group 5 autonomous air vehicle. It is capable of pulling 9Gs at Mach 0.95 for a tiny fraction of the cost of similarly performant fighter craft.
anduril.com/fury/
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Excited to share that @GiantStepVC participated in @GroqInc βs latest round.
Groq is building the worldβs fastest AI inference engine, powered by its LPUβ’ architectureβunlocking real-time AI at a scale GPUs canβt match.
@JonathanRoss321 @sundeep big congrats to the team !
Artificial intelligence chip startup Groq Inc. raised $750 million at a post-funding valuation of $6.9 billion bloomberg.com/news/articles/β¦
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Real Americans Re-industrialize!!!
Proudly made in the US of Motherfuckin A!!!
Tariffs donβt mean shit for the best of the best.
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People who want to eat real meat, wonβt go to lab grown meat. This was a total waste of taxpayer money to even go through the process.
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Character and Integrity on both sides - it speaks volumes about what a real person she is. Sheβs super humble - I was once standing next to her backstage enjoying skillex and a conversation about crowds with her at lollapalooza and had no idea it was her.
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To all my engineering followers who love cars
I am in this documentary featuring @LewisHamilton @therealdcf1 my friends @MaroEngel and @Vici_swarovski and more.
I share my experiences over all three episodes, enjoy on Apple TV or Prime!
tv.apple.com/us/show/projectβ¦
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Quick reminder that @VardaSpace is making a Giant Step in American History this week.
Itβs FIRST time the FAA has licensed a commercial company to land a spacecraft on U.S. πΊπΈ soil. (SpaceXβs Dragon capsule can only land in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico.) ππ°οΈ
WERE BACK.
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We asked @blakeandersonw about the long-term vision for @10x_app.
"It will evolve into a status symbol (skills passport)."
"I want Lvl.99 on the 10x app to be a hallmark of having high agency in this post-AI world."
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Remembering the time @E_Bruxxx and I brought Aaron Paul out to El Segundo to meet @WillBruey @ADoricko @cameron62s @zanemountcastle @isaiah_p_taylor and @soren_ma
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Dude youβre crazy. I know Augustus heβs one of best humans on earth.
If youβre crazy enough to think we have God like tech that can make it rain oceans, we would have turned the desserts into an oasis for people to live in by now β¦
Would be prudent not to fool your followers
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Founders! Post pics of your cars (or bicycles) when you were hustling as a founder.
Here is mine since HS. 275k mile
1997 Nissan Maxima GLE (Freddy) 1997-2014 RIP.
after my first exit I drove this car for years before I bought my first upgrade.
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Fun day. Iβve raced the track in the AMG One, at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and also Circuito do Estoril. Hoping for many more and all the F1 tracks prior to the F1 races.
Carefully pushing @MercedesAMGF1 to make that happen especially for Monaco and Singapore.
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Shows he can have some fun. He did it in high school so someone asked him to drop a few verses and he kindly obliged.
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I recently had an LP say on a co, βextremely capex intensive - big risk vs rewardβ
Me: we didnβt get to the moon trying to save money and we didnβt build the American industrial base by being risk averse. Now is the time to redefine the future and how fast we build it matters.
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Some updates @GiantStepVC is looking at a Miami HQ
Sat offices :
Chicago
El Segundo
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We didnβt raise 7.6b butβ¦..
Deployed over 3.0m in Q1 24 across a variety of early stage deep tech startups
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The century of Hard tech /// Deep Tech has begun. e/accβn
I was concerned going into 2023 that the VC crunch would hurt capital hungry hard-tech companies.
The exact opposite has happened. My hard-tech investments are doing great and raising rounds but the SaaS/Fintech investments are struggling.
Why do you think that is?
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We are delighted to announce that we @GiantStepVC have backed @zanemountcastle βs @picogrid alongside @Initialized @CredoVentures @starburst_vc @alumniventures @DominoVentures
Read more here:
techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/piβ¦
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The first @payloadspace summit + full week of seeing the spirit of builders up close was nothing short of outstanding.
I am proud to see the level of progress and the dedication of each of these teams.
On behalf of the @GiantStepVC team, @E_Bruxxx and I would like to thank you for welcoming us.
@WillBruey @VardaSpace @TopherHaddad @Albedo @ADoricko @divalbanerjee @zanemountcastle @cameron62s @Aeden6007 @xanderoltmann @bridgitmendler @itsmoislam @amlewis4 @K2SpaceCo @KaranKunjur @E_Bruxxx @TurionSpace @RyanWesterdahl
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Well done @KaranKunjur & the @K2SpaceCo team!
Exclusive: @K2SpaceCo raised $50 million in an equity round led by @altcap, as the developer of monster satellites prepares for its first demonstration mission later this year.
cnbc.com/2024/02/13/startup-β¦
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Gundo vibes in this image + SF on the bottom layer π β’οΈ π§οΈ βοΈ π@ADoricko @isaiah_p_taylor @FilArons @zekedup @zanemountcastle @hardaway_cam @soren_ma
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Last day of @reindsummit so great to hang with @MollySOShea flexin the @brexHQ swag and @beffjezos showed off the goods from his startup @extropic π₯
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We were the greatest nerds of all time in grade school. One sold his startup to UPS, and I exited to AOL but not as bigly as him.
He remains unplugged and not on the internet.
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War time vehicle secured. That is me sitting on the roof to give you an idea of the size.
ALT On the roof!
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Iβm selling a 40k sq ft data center I own in Rockford, IL next to the airport.
Built like a fortress was formerly a DoD contractor DC.
Needs raised floors, new wiring. Has 9 liebert crac units water chiller diesel gens outside with additional fuel tanks MWs of β‘οΈ
Inquire
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a class act, heβs always winning.
This year he beat my parents to it.
The fruits π were delicious.
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Today a founder shut down a very successful and much needed startup.
it derived more from internal struggles with self, and didnβt have to.
Iβve been there but never gave up. When you lead there are no excuses! here are some things that helped me gain control & success ..aπ§΅
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Wish you had won that mayoral election. Itβs time to make Chicago and Illinois great again.
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hyped to use the future of internet in style with β¦@PerplexityCometβ© β¦β¦
thanks to the team at β¦@perplexity_aiβ© and β¦@AravSrinivasβ© , Dmitryβ¦.
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