Founder, Accepted by YC, stole $10 million from a16z (blackmail), rejected by Google (blackmail). Retired. God fearing and loving.
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Some of you don’t rejoice and dance in the streets out of gratefulness for life and it shows
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HAPPENING NOW in downtown Chicago, outside the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the historic center of onion futures trading
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.@POTUS: "It's going to all work out. You know why? It always does."
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Based. We need more startups like this.
We're thrilled to invest in Covenant, emerging from stealth after raising $250M.
The West’s long-range strike capabilities cost too much to field in quantities a real conflict can demand.
@HQ_Covenant's answer is Anthem – a low-cost, long-range, heavy-payload missile designed to be manufactured at scale. Already, Anthem has flown 250+ test flights since August 2025, with government customers under contract and production lines going up in Dallas and Germany.
We’re excited to partner with @KaufmanMic, Abby Denburg, and the entire Covenant team as they make long-range defense affordable.
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1/ In a few hours this AM a very important, very well-funded American company led by patriots will be revealed that has been in stealth for several years
It went from a napkin sketch to delivering deep precision strike capabilities for US and EU…
They are making history. 🇺🇸
Michael Kaufman is undoubtedly the most intelligent person I know, the best, and hardest working founder I’ve ever met, he possesses deep clarity and knows the precise unlock to any problem.
Thankfully I have the deep privilege to call him a close friend. He has been incredibly supportive of me.
I first met him in 2024 and learned about Covenant, their weapons and invested as soon as they allowed me to. This was my first (& certainly not last) cheque into a private startup ever.
Today they launch the brand publicly for the first time - I implore you to check it out as their technology will save many allied lives.
Today, Covenant is emerging from stealth and introducing Anthem: a heavy-payload deep precision strike capability designed for mass production, with deliveries beginning in the thousands in 2027.
We’ve raised $250 million, flown Anthem in more than 200 tests, and secured approximately $150 million in orders, including contracts with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and key international allies.
We’re building Anthem at our 105,000-square-foot production facility in Dallas, alongside factories in Germany and Israel.
Covenant is backed by @a16z, @foundersfund, @Lux_Capital, @lightspeedvp, @8vc, @aleph, and @AltimeterCap.
Deep precision strike is the biggest gap in the arsenal of the West, and we spent the last two years building Anthem to fill it.
Now we deliver at scale.
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The free world has seriously underinvested in the weapons required to deter serious adversaries.
Covenant is fixing that. I’m in Dallas, TX today to help open our new factory.
They are building the long-range missile arsenal of the United States: deep-strike weapons produced at scale in Texas. Better missiles at scale, for a fraction of the cost.
This is how America restores deterrence 🇺🇸.
Today, Covenant is emerging from stealth and introducing Anthem: a heavy-payload deep precision strike capability designed for mass production, with deliveries beginning in the thousands in 2027.
We’ve raised $250 million, flown Anthem in more than 200 tests, and secured approximately $150 million in orders, including contracts with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and key international allies.
We’re building Anthem at our 105,000-square-foot production facility in Dallas, alongside factories in Germany and Israel.
Covenant is backed by @a16z, @foundersfund, @Lux_Capital, @lightspeedvp, @8vc, @aleph, and @AltimeterCap.
Deep precision strike is the biggest gap in the arsenal of the West, and we spent the last two years building Anthem to fill it.
Now we deliver at scale.
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Today, Covenant is emerging from stealth and introducing Anthem: a heavy-payload deep precision strike capability designed for mass production, with deliveries beginning in the thousands in 2027.
We’ve raised $250 million, flown Anthem in more than 200 tests, and secured approximately $150 million in orders, including contracts with the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and key international allies.
We’re building Anthem at our 105,000-square-foot production facility in Dallas, alongside factories in Germany and Israel.
Covenant is backed by @a16z, @foundersfund, @Lux_Capital, @lightspeedvp, @8vc, @aleph, and @AltimeterCap.
Deep precision strike is the biggest gap in the arsenal of the West, and we spent the last two years building Anthem to fill it.
Now we deliver at scale.
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I think ambitious people should treat life in “seasons” rather than trying to balance everything every day.
A few years massively overallocated to work. A period getting seriously fit. A year or two nomading. Then family takes priority for a while. Then maybe at 35 you go completely insane again and spend four years building a new company, and so on.
The mistake is thinking every metric needs to stay green all the time. Most great outcomes (building a company, writing sth serious, training for an event) need uninterrupted runs, not daily moderation. Sometimes work should suffer cause you’re travelling, sometimes your social life should suffer cause you’re building, sometimes career progression should slow cause family matters more. That’s fine.
And tbh it probably makes life more fun too. You get actual chapters and completely different versions of yourself instead of spending 40 years maintaining the same perfectly optimised routine. A few intense years in one city, a weird nomad phase, an obsession that takes over your life, then something completely different. Probably much more memorable than one very long well-optimised Tuesday.
It's why I encourage everyone to think of balance in years, not days. A good life can look horribly unbalanced on some random Tuesday and still be very balanced over 10 years.
We should all stop with this modern obsession of having a perfectly balanced, optimised life (8 hours sleep, daily cardio + gym, eat well, deep work, etc.)
Most exceptional lives are heavily overallocated somewhere and any pursuit of greatness (in business, art, sport, research) requires big sacrifices.
Online gurus love selling this perfect recipe of life but reality is you only have a 24h day. No way you can sleep 8h, do 10k steps, gym, morning sunlight, read, eat perfectly, do 9h of deep work, see friends, maintain a relationship and somehow be happy through all of it.
I think a better thing for ambitious people is to think of life in seasons: a year obsessed with work, then a period focused on health, family, travel, etc. You can be massively overallocated to one thing for a while without deciding that’s what your entire life should look like. Balance probably makes more sense measured over years than every single day.
