Scaling energy ⚡️ + industrial 🇺🇸 startups at @gener8tor 👉 https://xitter.cf/t.co/mkm8K5qihl
Reno, Nevada
Joined October 2008
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Most founders have no idea Nevada is doing this. ⚡
The only active lithium mine in the U.S. The Tesla Gigafactory. An industrial park larger than the city of Detroit. Reno-Tahoe is the #5 emerging data center market in the world.
Battery manufacturing growing 6x the national average. Zero income tax. Electricity roughly half California rates. And it's only a 3-4 hour drive from Silicon Valley.
We built a @gener8tor accelerator here because this is where energy companies should be building right now.
Electrify Nevada is equity-free, state-backed, and open to founders across battery tech, critical minerals, grid edge, commercial electrification, AI infrastructure, and physical AI.
One requirement: you want to build in the fastest growing energy economy in the U.S. 🇺🇸
We are open to any stage, globally. We want the best energy founders in the world building in NV.
Fall 2026 applications are open. First round closes June 30.
Comment BIG ENERGY and I'll send you the link to apply early and get a first review.
Tristan 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
Literal inventor of rechargeable lithium ion batteries AND @NobelPrize winner M. Stanley Whittingham in Reno, Nevada today discussing the future of the American battery industry ⚡️
at @unevadareno tech hub
Tristan retweeted
Calling all Northern Nevada garage builders, hard tech enthusiasts, founders, etc.
Come gather next week with @pollock, @gener8tor, and company at the Kiln in Reno.
RSVP below
app.buildcities.com/event-ca…
Let’s build NV!
Okay it’s happening:
- Added 160k square feet in Reno for our automated high volume lines and parts up to 5’x10’. Operational now.
- Added 170k square feet in Pittston PA for 1-day shipping (or faster) to the Northeast US. Landing machines and growing the team now.
- Southeast US is next (flying out next week to negotiate a lease). 3 more leases in 3 more states to sign after that. Expect massive lead time reductions across our factory network.
- Finalizing our first acquisition and working on the second and third. These are services you’ve been asking for. More coming. We’ll be able to say yes to more of your BOM.
- Welding is ramping nicely. More assembly support soon.
- More materials and capabilities for CNC machining in development now, including much smarter pricing. Increased capacity will also help us cut lead time drastically.
- Added 450 people so far this year. Hopefully double that in 2027.
- Candy and merch budgets have been tripled.
…And we’re just getting started. That’s a big part of why we raised again: to build more, ship faster, and make manufacturing easier and more accessible. I’m doing my best for ya. I love you guys.
Big thanks to @willreed at @sparkcapital , @caitlinbolnick1 at @CRV, @marksugarman at MHS, @andrew__reed at @sequoia and @matthuang at @paradigm for supporting our Series B (and the extra rocket fuel)
LFG!!!!! 🇺🇸
Tristan retweeted
I wish I were 18 today... If you ARE young and reading this, the most accomplished people alive envy your starting position. The tools are becoming free, the problems are enormous, and this time you don't need to ask for permission.
Go change the world!
I’m going to host a virtual reindustrialize startup demo day for my program in November - DM me to get on the list 🏗️
Industrial Tech startups RISE UP
Nevada is the #1 mining jurisdiction & has the only active commercial lithium mine in the entire USA + one of the largest reserves coming online soon w/ @LithiumAmericas
The future of warfare runs on batteries. America needs to be able to build them.
Yesterday, NAIA joined @ARPAE and the Virtus Innovation Center in Arlington, Virginia, to host Next Generation Batteries for Tactical Systems, bringing together battery innovators, defense officials, and industry leaders to explore how we can accelerate the deployment of these technologies.
The mission: Get American innovation into the field, faster
Come to Nevada! 🌧️
BREAKING: @RainmakerCorp, the American cloud-seeding technology startup, has signed an agreement with the Jordan Valley Authority to enhance rainfall in northern Jordan, strengthening water security in one of the world's most water-scarce countries.
rolling applications open for spring 2027
Most founders have no idea Nevada is doing this. ⚡
The only active lithium mine in the U.S. The Tesla Gigafactory. An industrial park larger than the city of Detroit. Reno-Tahoe is the #5 emerging data center market in the world.
Battery manufacturing growing 6x the national average. Zero income tax. Electricity roughly half California rates. And it's only a 3-4 hour drive from Silicon Valley.
We built a @gener8tor accelerator here because this is where energy companies should be building right now.
Electrify Nevada is equity-free, state-backed, and open to founders across battery tech, critical minerals, grid edge, commercial electrification, AI infrastructure, and physical AI.
One requirement: you want to build in the fastest growing energy economy in the U.S. 🇺🇸
We are open to any stage, globally. We want the best energy founders in the world building in NV.
Fall 2026 applications are open. First round closes June 30.
Comment BIG ENERGY and I'll send you the link to apply early and get a first review.
Solar the #1 grid additive and what does Nevada have a lot of… ☀️
The US grid plans to add 86 gigawatts this year. Here's where it's coming from:
- Solar: 43.4 GW
- Batteries: 24.3 GW
- Wind: 11.8 GW
- Gas: 6.3 GW
- New nuclear: 0 GW
The AI labs are planning for hundreds of gigawatts. Solar is the one source already produced at that scale, and most of it is made in China.
"Scaling firm power that isn't gas is much more complicated. Uprates and restarts can squeeze a little more from the existing nuclear fleet, but the real upside is new reactors."
a16z's @rmcentush on how America powers the next wave of growth: a16z.news/p/why-texas-is-mak…
Tristan retweeted
Hardware founders are my favorite founders
ATTENTION HARDWARE FOUNDERS
in 2hrs the founder of SendCutSend @jimbelosic will be giving a talk on campus.
you should RSVP if you have a question for him
luma.com/fdotinc-sendcutsend
Tristan retweeted
It’s impressive what @jakobdiepen has built in a short time
Vibes from the @DiscipulusVent demo day where I just went on stage w @isaiah_p_taylor ☢️
Let's build NV!
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