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.@isaiah_p_taylor CEO and Founder of @valaratomics at the @DiscipulusVent Cohort

🚨 LIVE from DAY FOUR of the @discipulusvent Cohort in Gundo. The Most Important PR Advice for Hardware Founders: @ADoricko, Founder & CEO of @Rainmaker We cover: >Using X to share your mission and your real views > How posting as a human attracts zealous talent & investors >Turning big announcements into mainstream credibility

🚨 LIVE from DAY THREE of the @discipulusvent Cohort in Gundo. How VCs Should Support Their Founders During Times of Conflict: @shaunmmaguire, Partner at @sequoia We cover: >Why VCs should always have their founders' backs >Verifying the facts before going to war >Integrity as the line that earns full support

🚨 LIVE from DAY ONE of the @discipulusvent Cohort in Gundo. The Most Important Finance Advice for Hardware Founders: Andrew Kreitz, CFO & Co-Founder of @Castelion We cover: > Thinking in runway & milestones > Orienting your raise around major unlocks > Why "raise at 6 months left" is the wrong rule

🚨 LIVE from DAY TWO of the @DiscipulusVent Cohort in Gundo. How do you sell tech to legacy industries? We asked @tfeldmann, CEO & Founder of @DurinMining. His answer: Show your work. Your first prototype won't be perfect. What matters is showing customers the progress, data, and trajectory. “Slope is everything.”

🚨 LIVE from DAY TWO of the @DiscipulusVent Cohort in Gundo. @jimbelosic, Founder & CEO of @sendcutsend, on the importance of early stage hardtech founders getting hardware into the real world. A thesis is great. A plan is great. But nothing beats having something you can hold in your hands. “Make it exist, then make it good.”

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.@DiscipulusVent Fall Cohort Starts Today in El Segundo Build for America 🇺🇸 More coming soon...

If you're in LA for LA Tech Week in a few weeks (specifically Oct 14, 8pm), @zanemountcastle (@Picogrid) and I (@DiscipulusVent) invite you to join us for a Gundo bonfire. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see Gundo from the inside, so don't miss out. Register on Partiful below 👇

🇺🇸 HIRING YOUNG INDUSTRIALISTS: - 1 Fall Remote Ops Intern (Aug–Oct) - 3 Cohort Ops Leads In Person (Sept 29–Oct 8). Help us support our Cohort founders solving America's hardest problems in El Segundo. If you're mission-driven and organized, apply below.

Excited to announce a $30M oversubscribed fund. 🇺🇸 El Segundo is the world's best place to build hardtech and we're the pipeline for founders from across the world coming here to do it. Joining @tbpn later today to share more. If you're at the earliest stages of building hardtech for critical industries reach out now! Link to Axios article in thread.

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NanduX is building the next generation of sensing technology to unlock South American mining (where the majority of the world's copper and lithium is)

Fuels, chemicals, and plastics are a $6T market that powers EVERY car, plane, factory, and product in modern reality. Today, they come from oil refineries, or from corn ethanol plants that burn through HALF of America's corn supply. @DiscipulusVent founder @jared_western & the Western Chemicals team are building biochemical refineries that turn wastewater into the world's cheapest fuels to REINDUSTRIALIZE America🇺🇸

🇺🇸 EXCLUSIVE: @PalmerLuckey x @DiscipulusVent Spring Demo Day Fireside Chat. We cover Why El Segundo, Founding Anduril, Defense Tech Incentives, State of Hardtech VC, SVB Collapse, Erebor, Founder Advice, & more. Highlights: (00:00) Palmer Luckey (00:20) Why Anduril chose El Segundo over the Bay Area (01:20) The Facebook acquisition & Bay Area mercenary problem (02:43) Building across veterans, Democrats, Republicans & libertarians (03:33) How the four Anduril founders' roles have evolved (04:21) "Want to work on tech? Don't start a company" (06:02) What Palmer learned from Oculus about delegation (06:44) How not to become Lockheed or Raytheon (07:33) Why the government rewards being slow & expensive (09:25) Anduril's real failure mode: becoming Google, not Lockheed (10:21) The state of hardtech venture capital (10:55) Why ZIRP killed serious investing (12:31) The vibe shift toward energy, defense & agriculture (13:01) Erebor & the SVB collapse that almost killed Anduril (13:32) Why no American bank is actually aligned with America (15:18) How Biden accidentally saved Anduril (17:10) Palmer's one piece of advice for founders (17:38) Bonus: the One Piece anime fan edit

.@640oxford presents: PRE/INDUSTRIALIZE The pre-party to @reindsummit. Detroit. June 15th. Industrial bonfires, demos, installations, and whatever other crazy shit you can think of alongside those building the future of America. Hosted with @DiscipulusVent, @cantos, Riot Ventures, @CrucibleCap, @AcequiaCapital, @grid_cap, @trucksvc, @dugsong, & more. Located in a former wartime production stamping facility, and the home to @noxmetals & @beaconmfg. Powered by: @VulcanForms Link below:

The @DiscipulusVent Spring Cohort just wrapped up in the 'Gundo. 🇺🇸 Joined by @PalmerLuckey, @isaiah_p_taylor, @ADoricko & more throughout the week. 10 hardtech founders building for the American Interest. Companies below 🧵👇