Founder & Managing Partner at KittyHawk
Los Angeles, CA
Joined August 2008
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Funny how different the frontier looks once you know where it is.
Can’t wait to see this finally come into the world @renegadesilicon
Thirty days. Nearly 30,000 kilometers. New Mexico → Japan → New Mexico.
Sceye has completed a record-breaking stratospheric mission where they operated over Japan for more than a week and, together with SoftBank, demonstrated direct-to-device broadband, emergency communications, drone connectivity and edge computing from the stratosphere.
This milestone is deeply meaningful to us at KittyHawk. We were Sceye’s first outside investor, led the company’s first financing, and I joined the board. We believed then, and believe even more strongly now, that the stratosphere can become an essential new layer of global infrastructure.
Why does it matter? The stratosphere combines wide-area reach with proximity to Earth, enabling high-capacity, low-latency connectivity and observation at a fraction of the cost of orbit. That has enormous implications for expanding broadband access, responding to disasters, monitoring the climate and managing natural resources.
What the Sceye team accomplished is historic. Proud to be their partner and proud to have witnessed the @elonmusk like determination and persistence that founder Mikkel Vestergaard Frandsen brought to help make this vision a reality.
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There’s no shortage of buzz around space-based data infrastructure, but @Lonestar_Space stands apart through execution: it is the only company in the field to have reached the Moon and successfully stored and retrieved data there. KittyHawk Frontier is proud to have made a seed investment to support this exceptional team as it takes another step toward building the next generation of critical digital infrastructure.
Lonestar has reserved $LNST on the NYSE
We’re a leading orbital data center company offering sovereign, secure data storage and compute in space
4 missions. Deployed first data center to the lunar surface. Fully operational April 2027.
Interested to learn more or partner? Email us!
We are THE ODC company
We joined @NYSE Launch Pad @Lonestar_Space Reserved our Ticker. Goals are important. We've been to the Moon twice. Wall Street's closer. @alexwg @devontriplett21 @PeterDiamandis @ScoutVentures @TheVeteranFund
Love this company. They’ve re-imaged technology that hasn’t gotten a real upgrade in 75 years. Coming soon to an airport or enterprise near you - accelerating walkways that can reach 10mph at peak speeds with smooth acceleration and deceleration as you enter and exit. Going to change how people move and bring incredible efficiencies. Go @beltways_inc
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Real-world asset tokenization is scaling rapidly on Provenance.
The Insights tab on @artemis provides some interesting data points to back it up.
Over the past quarter, Provenance has continued to accelerate across both TVL and lending activity, with daily lending loan balances recently reaching an all-time high of $19.18B 📊
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Finally, a big name has the courage to tell it: we are nowhere near AGI.
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind and Nobel laureate for AlphaFold, put it neat and clear:
"Today's systems are nowhere near [AGI]. Doesn't matter how many Erdős problems you solve… I think it's far, far from what a true invention, or someone like Ramanujan, would have been able to do."
This is the elephant in the room that many AI enthusiasts prefer not to see, or are actively trying to hide.
Erdős problems are well defined, often combinatorial, on finite spaces. They are exactly the kind of problems on which current AI can achieve spectacular performance with a lot of compute and knowledge.
A neural network can search a huge graph of possibilities. It can recombine existing knowledge at unprecedented scale. It can discover surprising solutions inside an already defined conceptual space.
But true invention is something else.
True invention is not only solving a problem.
It is inventing new objects, new dimensions, new connections. It is inventing new problems.
From resolving to inventing there is a discontinuity that we don't know how to bridge.
We are making extraordinary tools.
But we are nowhere close to AGI.
Go @adcock_brett and a big congrats @DakinSloss and @TonyRobbins on the round! Excited to see Hark come to life!
Huge congratulations to @adcock_brett and the entire @hark_labs team on raising $700M at a $6B valuation.
What Brett and the team are building is truly incredible — a company that's thinking deeply about what people actually need from technology, not just what's possible to build.
So proud of our partners at @PrimeMoversLab for being part of this round. Big things ahead! 🙌🔥😎
True early stage venture work. Finding great humans who see the world differently and then supporting them for years. Love this @vassallo.
The Venture Capital Investment of the Decade: Cerebras
"Foundation (@vassallo) did real venture, not just capital deployment.
They found the founder early, built the relationship and incubated the company from scratch.
It was not obvious, not trendy and required conviction before the market saw it.
That is what defines a true investment of the decade." @jasonlk
The human body is just so extraordinary and complex. The magic is that is going on in our bodies every moment is almost incomprehensible.
Will Weisman retweeted
שורד השבי רום ברסלבסקי התראיין לפוקס ניוז וחשף שם לראשונה פרטים מזעזעים מהשבי שעבר בידי הג'יהאד האיסלאמי.
הוא שיתף על הרעב הכבד- שהעביר ימים שלמים עם חצי פיתה, קצת גבינה ועגבניה רקובה, ובקבוק מים קטן. הוא הוחזק בבידוד מוחלט ובאפילה ללא אור יום במשך חודשים ארוכים.
הוא מספר על מחבל ספציפי שנהנה להתעלל בו ולהשפיל אותו, למשל לירוק לו על האוכל המועט שהיה מקבל, לקשור אותו בלי סיבה, להרביץ לו בכל הזדמנות... עד שפעם אחת רום לא היה מוכן לספוג את זה יותר ופשוט השתמש בכל הכוח שנשאר בו כדי לתקוף את המחבל הזה בחזרה וככה הצליח לגבור עליו במשך 3-4 דקות עד שמחבל נוסף הגיע לשם והצליח להשתלט עליו. רום שלח את אותו מחבל מתעלל לבית חולים, אבל מה שקרה אחרי זה- זה מעגל אלימות אינסופי שרום עבר בעקבות כך, כולל עינויים קשים והתעללות מינית, עד היום יש על גופו צלקות. הם הפסיקו רק כשאיבד את הכרתו והיה על סף מוות קליני.
וככה זה חזר על עצמו גם בהמשך, גיהנום של 738 ימים עד שקיבל את החופש שלו בחזרה... ויודעים מה?
פשוט תשמעו את המסר של רום בסרטון המצורף- ככה הוא סיים את הראיון הזה וזה אומר הכל על כמה הבן אדם הזה מטורף וגיבור ואיזו רוח ישראלית בלתי מנוצחת יש בו.
רום אח שלי חביב אלבי אני גאה לקרוא לך חבר. כמה טוב שאתה כאן איתנו, אתה ניצחת בענק! והמחבלים הארורים האלה או שנשלחו כבר לגיהנום או שהם בדרך לשם, ואתה כאן תמשיך להתחזק ולהשתקם, ותמשיך לנצח אותם בכל יום מחדש!
עם ישראל אוהב אותך🇮🇱💙
Love this fireside conversation between @FutureJurvetson and @elonmusk. Leveraging business to move the world forward!
Why Larry Page said he’d leave his money to @elonmusk Elon Musk if he got hit by a bus
In this panel with Elon Musk, venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson tells a story of Google cofounder Larry Page saying he should leave all of his money to Elon Musk:
“I could give my money to a nonprofit and a lot less would get done than a corporation that’s pursuing things that are directly aligned with things I care about, like getting off of oil and colonizing other planets.”
Page believes in those missions and thinks that “a corporation endowed with the right to do that as its business purpose is the best vehicle out there.”
Jurvetson contrasts this with the approach of Bill Gates who spent the first half of his life building a gigantic for-profit company and the second half working with non-profits.
A “purpose-driven business” could offer the best of both worlds.
In fact, Jurvetson shares that the best-performing startups in his venture portfolio often have compelling missions. And it aligns well with Sam Altman’s advice that it’s easier to start a hard company than an easy company:
“The most precious commodity in the startup ecosystem right now is talented people, and for the most part, talented people want to work on something they find meaningful… An easy startup is a headwind; a hard startup is a tailwind. If people care about your success because you seem committed to doing something significant, it’s a background force helping you with hiring, advice, partnerships, fundraising, etc.”
Video source: @StanfordGSB (2013)
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World's fastest accelerator.
Pitless. Modular. Installs in a few days. No construction.
Shout out to the team at Beltways for making it all happen.
#architecture #construction #airports #innovation #venturecapital #investing #accelerator #movingwalkway #acceleratingwalkway
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No, in the sense we haven’t yet computed everything that is capable of being computed to a certain level of computational depth for a given level of energy.
But, yes, in the sense that we are a lot closer to that wall than most realise. The “island” of what we can solve is tiny and infinitesimally small compared to what is irreducible and completely inaccessible to machines.
We just keep riffing on the same highly correlated computational structures. And neural nets are just very good trawlers for patterns — spurious or otherwise.
Love this. Very creative and makes a ton of sense. Great tactic for builders.
I got a DM from a CEO yesterday who charges customers $5,000 for onboarding.
Not as a fee.. but as a deposit.
If the customer (ICP is SMB $1-5M in revenue) completes onboarding within 35 days, they get every dollar back.
If they don't, the company keeps it and uses it to fund a dedicated onboarding specialist to finish the job for them.
(don't worry they call the onboarding specialist a forward deployed engineer)
It sounded a bit crazy at first, but the results are pretty interesting.
Before the deposit, their average onboarding took 67 days with 10% churn during the process.
After, it dropped to 31 days, and 3.5% churn.
The deposit didn't just speed things up..... it filtered for customers who were serious about implementing, which is a leading indicator of long-term retention.
This year so far, 98% of customers have completed onboarding within a 30 days.
Is anyone else doing something like this with setup fees for onboarding?
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The singularity won’t be one moment. It’ll be a thousand small ones, each time AI does something we said “only humans can do.”
We crossed that line years ago. Most people just haven’t noticed yet.
Maybe Super Intelligence but my bet is that AGI is a long ways off, if even possible. And I believe that because of spending lots of time with this brilliant human @renegadesilicon. Strongly suggest following him.
